Cutting Through Obstacles: Healing Chöd - A Rare Buddhist Healing Ritual

Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal mental and physical sickness, remove karmic obstacles to spiritual growth, and address human suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. You simply lie down, rest, and receive healing. Chöd is suitable for everyone, including those with physical or mental distress, whether chronic or mild.

Chöd consists of four musically compelling rituals led by Rinpoche and the monks and nuns of Zangdokpalri. The sacred sound and mantra initiate the favorable conditions necessary to pacify the causes of discord. With roots in Central Asian shamanism, Chöd is identical in essence to the teachings of Machik Lapdron, an eleventh-century female Buddhist master in Tibet.

With the support of the Dalai Lama, these Healing Chöd events are being offered in the West to raise money for a monastery-building project to benefit one of the poorest parts of India, Arunachal Pradesh, where no spiritual, educational, or artistic services currently exist. A portion of Kripalu’s proceeds from this program will be donated to this effort.

Recommended reading Tsultrim Allione, Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict (Little, Brown and Company).

Note This program has a special schedule. Commuter spaces are limited.