2-days of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen | Refresher
Inner Fire Practices
Key Information:
Location & Date:
Location: East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002, Australia
Date: 24th^ - 26th November 2025
Attendance Requirements:
This Retreat is open to students with prior experience of Inner Fire Teachings.
Applications to be reviewed.
In-person & non-residential Retreat.
See FAQs for further information.
Participant Contribution:
Your support, financially and through practice, directly influence the preservation and integration of these precious teachings in the indigenous Tibetan regions of Nepal and in Australia. It is your sincere support that builds an equitable and sustainable pathway between the Mustang Region of Nepal and the West.
This retreat is 100% volunteer based and all donations go directly to support, preserve and revitalise the precious Bön traditions and lineage teachings of the Mustang Region.
Completely Tax Deductible Donations^:
$350 for Inner Fire Refresher Course led by Geshe Sonam
*15% discount will automatically apply at checkout for participants who also select / attend the 3-Part Practices of Tibetan Bön Retreat earlier in the week.
*A Payment plan is available via Klarna at checkout with no individual turned away due to financial hardship.
^All donations are fully tax deductible.
Application & Bookings
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Retreat Description:
Inner Fire Practices of Bön
The Tibetan Bön practices presented here will be a detailed refresher of the inner fire practices, inner channels and chakras as outlined in the Bön tradition. In this retreat, students will be reminded of the detailed set of Inner Fire instructions designed to clear energetic obscurations of the body in order intensify the clarity and luminosity inherent of primordial awareness.
These vivid energy practices are developed upon the foundations of "Trekchö” (See: Tibetan Bon Practices) and are designed to refine and stabilise awareness beyond the conceptual mind.
The intention of “Tummo” (Inner Fire) practice is to clear physiological and conceptual blockages that interfere with recognising the Minds natural luminosity & emptiness, the essential point of Bön. Through a series of visualizations intending the mind on the energy channels, chakras and winds, a more lucid connection between mind and body is established. Whilst, there are varying degrees of intensity with which Inner Fire can be performed, this is an advanced energy practice that requires students to be suitably prepared to receive the full benefit. Before progressing, students should have a strong foundation in the Preliminary Practices of Bön & One-Pointed Concentrated Evenness, and have been introduced to the natural state.
It should be noted that Trekchö (thoroughly-cutting-through) practice of dzogchen is the foundational view and has been designed to cut through all mental obscuration preventing realisation of the minds natural state. It is a students capacity to rest evenly in concentrated, non-dual awareness; clear and luminous, that serves as the basis for “Tummo” (Inner Fire) practice. It is this way to avoid practitioners engaging this work from the conceptual mind which invites a subject-object, doer-doing differentiation rather than experienced as simply luminous emptiness.
This retreat is grounded and authorised in the A Krid Dzogchen (pronounced “Atri”) Lineage of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen and is a one-thousand-year-old compendium of the middle path to liberation in Bön. This root text is the gateway to a series of expanded texts, including the ‘Self-Arising Three-fold Embodiment of Enlightenment, that refine the skills that ultimately lead to full awareness of mind.
Chapter 8 is covered from the text: ‘The Pith Instructions for the Stages of the Practice Sessions of the A-Tri (A Khrid) System of Bön Dzogchen Meditation’.
Book 8 is covered from the text: ‘Self-Arising Three-fold Embodiment of Enlightenment of Bön Dzogchen Meditation’. This text is an extensive commentary on the A Khrid Bön Great Completion practice of the Bru rGyal ba tradition by Shar rDza Rinpoche.
These texts are available for purchase here and will be available for pick up at the commencement of the next retreat.
Enlightened Dakini: Tukje Kundrol
Closely linked to the practice of Tummo, Her compassionate & protective nature serves as support to overcome inner obstacles along with connection to long life and good health.
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The Bön Mustang Foundation Australia has been established with the primary intent to support, preserve and revitalise the precious Bön traditions and lineage teachings of the Mustang Region. This organisation is 100% funded on a volunteer and donation basis with all funds going to the direct support of The Children’s Hostel in Mustang, Nepal and for the continued development of The Shenten Thagye Ling Monastery at the request of H.H the 33rd Abbot of Menri Monastery.
