The One Hundred Handprints — Changbu Gyatsa
Troma Nagmo Healing Chö Ceremony
Saturday | July 18 | 10:00 am to 12:15 pm PDT
Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz and Online
The One Hundred Handprints Healing Practice, Changbu Gyatsa, is a Chö healing ceremony drawn from the Troma Nagmo cycle, a profound treasure teaching revealed by the great Terton Dudjom Lingpa.
The ceremony centers on one hundred handprints bearing the living imprints of our karmic obscurations, which are arranged as the five desirable objects. They are released and offered up to the wisdom Ḍākinī Tröma Nagmo, Krodikālī.
Think of her as a loving force that dissolves what no longer serves you. The ceremony gently works to clear what blocks your natural wellbeing, restoring a sense of balance, ease, and joy that is always already there within you.
Each handprint represents the weight of unresolved experiences we carry, stress, grief, illness, and the tensions that build up in body and mind over time.
During the ceremony, you lie down and rest. You will be guided through meditation with traditional melodies and visualizations. No experience is necessary, only a willingness to be present and receive.
This practice is open to all.
"If you visualize through these key points, the recipient of your offering, the Mamo Dakini, will be pleased. The recipients of your charities, the demons, will all be appeased as well. You will free yourself from inner and outer obstacles and hindrances and produce the ultimate great merit." — Dudjom Lingpa
Drubpon Pema Rigdzin (Lama Freddie) brings over thirty years of Tibetan Buddhist training to his teaching, including two traditional three-year Vajrayāna retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He serves as the Retreat Teacher for the Three-Year Retreat, Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal, and has been a lead ritual chanter and mentor with the Dudjom Ngöndro Program. A Spiritual Care Provider with Stanford Health Care, an acupuncturist, physical therapist, and researcher of ancestral healing, he serves communities in the US, Brazil, and Europe through Dharma and integrative healing. He is the co-founder of Lhamen Foundation.