Date: August 8th-15th, 2025.
August 8-15, 2025, Tsegyalgar East
at the Vajra Hall, Khandroling, Buckland, MA
online & in-person
We are pleased to share an exciting update for our upcoming Tsegyalgar East Retreat:
Igor Berkhin will be offering live teachings via Zoom throughout the retreat!
Live Online Teachings with Igor Berkhin on The Teaching of Dzogchen: Understanding, Training, Applying.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to receive direct teachings in the America’s time zone from Igor Berkhin, Santi Maha Sangha II authorized teacher.
Afternoon Recorded Teachings from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, August 10-13, we will gather to replay teachings on Ati Yoga by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu at 4:00pm (EDT). This will replace the previously scheduled replay of Igor’s teachings on Semdzin practice.
We warmly invite you to join us online or in-person at Tsegyalgar, Land of the Dakinis, for this precious opportunity to deepen your understanding and connection to the Dzogchen teachings.
Online registrants will receive a zoom link to attend prior to the August 8th. Teachings will be broadcast at the Vajra Hall at Tsegyalgar. See Registration and Donation links below.
With joy in the Dharma,
Tsegyalgar East
In the mornings, Paula Barry and Vicki Sidley will offer Beginners Yantra Yoga and Yantra in a Chair. This course is included in the Igor Berkhin retreat, but is also available separately, both in person and on Zoom. Also in the afternoons, a course on the Vajra Dance that Benefits Beings will be offered by local Vajra Dance instructors, in person only. There may additional instructor-led practice sessions.
The Zoom link will be sent one day prior to the event to folks who have registered.
Lunch orders are now available for those who are attending in person. Lunch orders and payments MUST be received by August 1.
The retreat is for those who have received teachings and transmissions from either Chogyal Namkhai Norbu or Namkhai Yeshi. Those who never met these two teachers can individually apply for participation (see registration form comment field).
Suggested Donation: $350 Full Course | $40 per Day
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Biography:
Igor Berkhin is a long term Dzogchen practitioner. Born in the USSR, he started his spiritual practice in the 80-s still behind the iron curtain. He studied with and translated for many teachers of different contemplative traditions the most important of them being Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, a renowned Dzogchen master. He was an oral translator for Dzogchen masters such as khenchen Palden Sherab and khenpo Tsewang Dongyal as well as for a Bonpo geshe Nyima Dagpa.
Having had met his root Teacher in 1996, in 2002 Igor was authorized by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu to teach the Base of Santi Maha Sangha, a study and practice program on Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen designed by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Since 2008, he’s been one of the three senior teachers of Santi Maha Sangha the other two being Jim Valby and late Elio Guarisco.
Starting from 2010, Igor has been also teaching meditation in a non-religious format using modern context to present the practical knowledge of mind preserved in ancient teachings. His meditation course in Russian language made in 2012 on request of Yoga Journal attracted 7000 subscribers. Nowadays, Igor widely teaches online both Dzogchen and secular meditation as well as travels around the world. Most of the participants of his courses are from Russia, China, Europe, Australia, and Latin America.
After having left the Ukraine in 2014 due to the war, Igor moved first to Russia where he co-founded the first in Russia big interdisciplinary conference on awareness. In 2016 he moved to Israel where he currently lives and teaches.