Pricing (excl. Accomodation & Meals)
CHF 390.–
Retreat costs are excl. accommodation and meals. You can make your room inquiry on our website after the registration for the event is completed. It is only possible to inquire about a room for this event once you have completed the registration process for the event. Single rooms are booked out for this event !
For the room request, please have your registration order number ready, which you received in the confirmation email after your registration was completed.
This residential retreat is part of the three-year mindfulness, compassion and embodiment based training, designed and delivered by the Nalanda Institute of New York, starting in September 2023 and spanning over three years.
The opening retreat introduces the neuropsychological framework and transformational methods of embodied contemplative practice, exploring how this profound methodology can help catalyze and accelerate the transformation of trauma into psychosocial wellbeing at the individual, interpersonal, institutional and societal levels. Dr. Nida Chenagtsang will co-guide the opening retreat, alongside Joe Loizzo, the Founder and Director of the programme, and German-speaking scientist and Dharma teacher, Diego Hangartner.
The residential retreat is open to external participants who are interested in learning firsthand from some of the most renowned Dharma teachers of our time. You will learn how to integrate contemplative practices and Buddhist psychology with contemporary psychotherapy, and current neuropsychology.
There will be the option to join the full curriculum if you are interested after joining the residential retreat. In that case, the fee of the residential retreat will be refunded to you.
Important: participants taking part in the full Nalanda CPP programme don’t need to register for the residential retreat – you can just book accommodation here >
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD is a Harvard-trained contemplative psychotherapist, Buddhist scholar, and author with over four decades experience integrating Indo-Tibetan mind science and healing arts into modern neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and clinical research. He is founder and director of the Nalanda Institute, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a clinician in private practice in Manhattan. Joe is the author of numerous scholarly review articles on contemplative neuropsychiatry and psychotherapy. He is the author of the comprehensive textbook, Sustainable Happiness: The Mind Science Of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration. He is executive editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation, a groundbreaking collection of essays by pioneers of the fast-emerging and highly promising new field of contemplative psychotherapy.
Diego Hangartner,PhD, PCC is a clinical pharmacologist and certified coach (PCC), using neuroscientific, performance and clinical scientific insights, combining them to strengthen mental fitness and wellbeing. He spent many years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India, studying, translating and publishing several Tibetan works, and organized many large events with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Asia, Europe and the USA. Diego was COO of Mind and Life Institute in the US and co-founder and director of Mind and Life Institute in Europe until 2015. Today, he continues his research and teaching with the Max Planck Institute, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, and is a lecturer at the Business School of the University St.Gallen. He is the Co-Director of the Contemplative Psychotherapy Program Switzerland.
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang was born in Amdo, in Eastern Tibet, and studied Tibetan Medicine at Lhasa Tibetan Medical University. His extensive research, publication and teaching on the spiritual healthcare system of Tibetan Medicine, the Yuthog Nyinthig Vajrayana tradition, has sparked a revival of interest in its rigorous contemplative approach to embodied mental and spiritual well-being. Dr. Nida is the Co-Founder and Medical Director of Sorig Khang International and Co-Founder of the International Ngakmang Institute, established to preserve and maintain the Rebkong Ngakpa yogic culture within modern Tibetan society. Fluent in English and now living in Rome, Dr. Nida trains students in Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig spiritual tradition in over 40 countries around the world.