STARTING JANURARY 22ND 2027
FRIDAYS 12 -  2 PM EST | 9 - 11 AM PST

Ati Yoga (Tibetan: Dzogchen) is the most simple, direct, and profound path to reveal the sky-like nature of our own mind which is clear, vast, and unobstructed by the clouds of afflictive emotions.

In this year-long meditation-focused immersion, students will be guided through the steps of Ati Yoga practice as taught by Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, the 12th Century father of Tibetan Medicine and originator of the Yuthok Nyingthik set of spiritual practices. 

Each week students will be given instruction on the practices, beginning with Guru Yoga, progressing through the Dzogchen special preliminaries (Inner and Outer Rushen) and the actual preliminaries of training body, speech, and mind with Vajra Posture, the Hung Syllable, and mind investigation. The year will finish instructions on Kadak (Primordial Purity) and Trekchö (Cutting Through Hardness).

Guided practice sessions will be an integral part of this program, providing students with the time to familiarize themselves with and deepen the connection to the practices in a supported group online setting with regular opportunities for questions and discussion. The mixture of live and pre-recorded classes ensure that there is time for both engaged question and response as well as very focused instruction sessions without distractions or interruption. 

  • Immerse in this unique Dzogchen cycle with a balanced mix of live & pre-recorded classes with Lama Justin along with a weekly Friday Community Sit

  • All classes are recorded and available to review for one year following the course, so students may follow the course as a self-paced program if time zones or other circumstances prevent one from attending live.

  • Two additional week-long retreats, Rushen and Trekchö, online streaming is included with your course. While the opportunity to join in person at the Yangti Yoga Retreat Center in Buckland, MA, with online streaming also available

  • Students who have completed this program three or more times may pursue a Yuthok Nyingthik-based dark retreat under Lama Justin’s close supervision

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

Spiritual Director & Founder

Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an internationally renowned vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer and chaplain. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. He has been a frequent contributor to various Buddhist magazines and journals and has been a collaborator with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and other cultural institutions. With over thirty years of Buddhist practice, Justin is ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa and is a ngakpa, a lay tantric yogin in the Nyingma tradition of the Yuthok Nyingthik lineage. He has worked professionally as a hospice chaplain, was the head chaplain and Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for New York City Department of Correction, and the chaplain for Hart Island, New York City’s Potter’s Field. He is currently the chaplain for the Shelburne Falls/Buckland Fire Department. Lama Justin has spoken widely at colleges and universities across the United States and is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist and Ati Yoga practice in the West.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome & Details

    2. Course Syllabus | Downloadable

    3. Student Walktrough: How to use this course

    4. Zoom Link

    1. Zoom Link | Ati Yoga Community Sit

    2. Community Sit Details

    1. What is Ati Yoga

    2. Yuthok Nyingthik Ngondro instruction and review

    3. Yuthok Nyingthik Ngondro | *Pre-Recorded*

    4. Yuthok Nyingthik Ngondro | *No Class*

    5. Karma Chagme Yuthok Guru Yoga

    1. Karma Chagme Yuthok Guru Yoga | *Pre-Recorded*

    2. Outer Guru Yoga | *Pre-Recorded*

    3. Outer Guru Yoga | *Pre-Recorded*

    4. Inner Guru Yoga | *Pre-Recorded*

    5. Inner Guru Yoga

    6. Concise Guru Yoga

    1. Introduction to the practice of Rushen

    2. Outer Rushen

    3. Outer Rushen | *Pre-Recorded*

    4. Outer Rushen

    5. Outer Rushen

    6. Inner Rushen | *Pre-Recorded*

    7. Inner Rushen

    8. Inner Rushen | *Pre-Recorded*

    1. Inner Rushen | *Pre-Recorded*

    2. Introduction to the technical Ati Yoga Preliminaries Striking the Vital Points: resting Body, Speech and Mind

    3. Training the Body: Vajra Posture | *Pre-Recorded*

    4. Training the Body: Vajra Posture

    5. Individual Practice Session | *No Class*

    6. Training Speech: 1st Technique | *Pre-Recorded*

    7. Training Speech: 2nd Technique

    8. Training Speech: 3rd Technique | *Pre-Recorded*

    9. Training Speech: 4th Technique | *Pre-Recorded*

    10. Training Speech: 4th Technique | *Pre-Recorded*

    11. Training the Mind | *Pre-Recorded*

    12. Training the Mind | *Pre-Recorded*

About this course

  • Fridays 12 - 2pm EST + Friday Community Sit
  • $1200 | One Year Program + Two Retreats Included
  • Live Zoom & Pre-Recorded Classes with Recordings Provided

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