Dear Friends,
We hope this letter finds you well and looking forward to spring after a profound and inspiring year-end retreat with the “Ripa Awareness Meditation” method guided by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche. We are very happy to share with you the blog created by Michèle Beran in which you will discover the highlights of the Winter Retreat, as well as the RAM and Sadhana instructors’ training that followed.
With the Tibetan New Year and Losar just beginning, we take this opportunity to send you our most sincere wishes for health, joy and prosperity. Spring 2019 will bring us many opportunities and events to deepen our practice, to serve our Teachers and to strengthen the bonds with our Sangha brothers and sisters! We are pleased to send you the 2019 Special Event Program with all of the activities and events from the Ripa Teachers and our collaborators. Particular attention is given to the Nyung Nay retreat which will take place during Easter in the gracious presence of Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche. This will be a great opportunity to meet again during the Easter holidays and to fulfill the wish expressed by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche at the end of his personal retreat this past year, so that the ritual of Nyung Nay retreat becomes a flagship practice at the RIC Center in Europe.
We wish you Tashi Delek! and hope to welcome each of you over the coming months at the Ripa International Center!
Your RIC Team
February 9 at 10:30 AM
Losar Festivities
Lhasang Fire Puja to celebrate the start of the Tibetan New Year, followed by a Momos lunch.
Weekend, April 6 – 7
Sound Yoga
With Mahaut Aeschlimann
Weekend, April 13 – 14
Tai Chi Workshop and Mantra Singing
With Dechen Shak-Dagsay
Easter Retreat, April 17 – 21
Nyung Nay Retreat
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Déchen Rinpoché
Weekend, May 10 – 12
Medicine Buddha:
Teachings & Empowerment
With Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Weekend, May 31 – June 2
Retreat: Inner Peace Keeping
With Amandine Roche.
Pentecost Retreat, June 7 – 10
Silent Residential
Vipassana Retreat
With Patricia et Charles Genoud
Weekend, June 15 – 16
Sagadawa – Festival Weekend
with Sangha members and special invitees
Summer Retreat 2019
1st Module: July 20 – 26
Training the Mind in Compassion and Loving Kindness Meditation
With Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Open to all
2nd Module: July 27 – August 2
Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
3rd Module: August 3 – 10
Enriching Gesar Drupchö
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul RinpocheThrough using specific yoga poses we will prepare the body and use powerful BBTR (
Fall Events
Weekend, October 5 – 6
Meditation Workshop:
Ripa Awareness Meditation
With Geneviève Hamelet
Weekend, October 12-13
“Mindful parenting”
With Lienhard Valentin
Retreat October 18 – 25
“Straight from the Heart”
With Saki Santorelli
Regular activities
NEW! Weekly Meditation Sessions:
Beginners on Tuesday and Advanced on Thursday
Ripa Awareness Meditation
With Saki Santorelli
March 9 -10 2019
May 4 – 5 2019
July 6 – 7 2019
Gardening Weekend
With Nadya Graui
First Sunday of Each Month at 11:00 am
Medicine Buddha Practice
Organized by Padma Ling Switzerland