Maine, USA | June 16 - 19, 2025
Entering the Stream
This retreat is an in-depth transmission of the Foundation Teachings and Practices of Trika
Mahāsiddha Yoga.
This retreat will focus on the outer & inner levels of the 12 Stage View Teaching and on crafting your unique path within the 5 Ways by utilizing tools of spiritual aptitude typing. This is a great way to make a real connection to the lineage, its teachings, practices and the fruit of the path. It will also quicken the path for someone new to Trika Mahāsiddha Yoga.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Authentic and essential oral-teachings and practices from TMY’s unbroken lineage, providing you with a foundation of experiential wisdom of the great Yogins of India and Tibet. These pith oral instructions are used to guide your practice path.
- Kuṇḍalinī Hatha Yoga: Start each morning with meditation and yoga to learn the key principles that distinguish the yoga of the Mahāsiddhas from other yoga systems.
- 12 Stage View Cycle of Teachings: Contrary to popular belief, stable realization of one’s True Nature doesn’t occur in one momentary flash of “awakening”. The spiritual path has clearly defined stages everyone must traverse before attaining sustainable realization, thus preventing backsliding. The 12 Stages cover the entire journey from ignorance of our True Nature to actually becoming that Ultimate Potential inherent in all human beings - that of the Rainbow-Light-Body or Wisdom-Light Body. Receiving the 12 Stage View Teaching helps you identify your current stage of development, what’s next on the path, and the key instructions on how to transition from each stage to the next.
- The Practices and Teachings on Present, Presence and Real Time: What are the varying degrees of present moment awareness? What is the relationship between intellect- mind, awareness-mind and enlightened-mind? How are Presence and Flowing-Presence different than merely being “present”? You will be led through the process of discovering the different levels of awareness through specific solo and group TMY teachings and practices.
- Practitioner Typing: You are unique. The Mahāsiddha path recognizes this and teaches you how to customize the standard practices and sequencing on the path to enable you to attain the highest possible fruit in one lifetime. Unique typing technologies and teachings on the various practitioner types will help you discover the type of practitioner you are and how to craft the path that best suits you.
DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE
7:00 – 8:00 - Kundalini Hatha Yoga Class
8:00 – 9:00 - Breakfast (*please bring a breakfast with you each day)
9:00 – 12:00 - View Teachings and Meditation Practice Sessions
12:00 – 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 - View Teachings and Meditation Practice Sessions
ACCOMMODATIONS & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
You will need to organize your own accommodation, transportation and meals during the retreat. Please check out the resources below to help plan your stay.
DATES & LOCATION
June 16 - 19, 2025
Northport, Maine, USA
The exact address will be sent to you after completing your registration.
COURSE FEE
$420 USD*
*At checkout, use the full name, e-mail, and mailing address of the person registering for the retreat. (Payment details do not have to match.)
For 20% off teaching fees, enroll in 3 or more In-Person Retreats from the 2025-2026 schedule.
20% off Retreat PackageAbout the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens)
Dharma Bodhi began practicing yoga at seven years of age. In his teens he moved into practices of Chan Buddhism and Daoism received through his Chinese martial arts teachers in New York. After completing his chiropractic degree he studied in an Oral-Practice Tradition of Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, taking initiation into one of the Daśnami Orders of practice from India. In 1996 he complete ācārya training under his Śaiva gurus. This training emphasized traditional Kundalinī Hatha Yoga and a progressive system of Meditation, along supportive studies in ritual/pūjā and yoga texts. Since graduating as a Śaiva ācārya, he took refuge with a great master of Bönpo Dzogchen meditation, and studied with him by taking multiple trips per year to his monastery in India for a period of 8 years. He studies both Dzogchen meditation & yoga (trul khor), and Dzogchen preliminary and advanced texts. Both his Śaiva and Dzogchen masters gave him the task of teaching these systems stripped of the unnecessary aspects of the cultures and languages they are found in. His Dzogchen master also gave him the task of translating two Tibetan texts. One of which is finished and the other is in process. He now lives with his wife, Sahaja Dakinī, and their two children in rural Maine, USA. He is developing a practice hermitage in the wilderness of Maine and a European teaching center on the border of Italy and Switzerland.
