TIBETAN SOUND HEALING JOURNEY: Awakening Bodhicitta through Meditation, Mirth & Music - Sponsored by Tibet House US
With Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, LARAAJI and Arji OceAnanda
October 29 - November 2, 2025
Through the skillful use of chant voice, gong tone performance, celestial zither, intuitive voice, gentle percussive sound textures, and nature sounds, a richly supportive atmosphere will be created as an outer setting for deep inner connection and meditative release opportunities, resulting in a light wonderful feeling of natural flow that will illuminate your deeper sensitivities and leave you ready to face your life’s challenges with greater grace and equipoise.
The main retreat offerings include:
- Daily Tibetan yoga and meditation
- Authentic healing Chod practice
- Healing Chod practice is a sonically supported spiritual path that “cuts through” obstacles, negativity and self-delusion, while relying on Feminine Wisdom energy to purify body, mind and spirit. Combining all the powerful elements of Tibetan Buddhism in a single practice, it brings about a direct experience of one’s inner brilliance and original wisdom. It also helps the practitioner accumulate merit.
- Tibetan fire puja
- Through traditional Tibetan Fire Puja ceremony, one makes offerings to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas firstly, and then to the protectors and very high spiritual gods/goddesses. Offerings are made to all sentient beings as well as an offering to demons and hungry ghosts in order to release any negative karma. It is like paying a karmic debt while the fire devours all that is humbly offered in the spirit of release. A dedication to world peace is an overall objective, through the transformation of lesser energies.
- Sonically-supported meditative trance work
- Celestial music immersion is a means of relaxing into our stillness in a safe space. This experience of being bathed and held lovingly by the sounds flowing through the presenters allows for a rich meditative opportunity of resultant connection, peace, and bliss.
- Open-hearted therapeutic laughter yoga
- Laughter yogic release therapy is an opportunity to be expertly guided through an interactive, musically supported laughter release session that will help deliver us into our deeper relaxation and healing inner stillness. We will be guided in using our own voice tone and laughter as vehicles for internal energy medicine and positive psychology. The sessions will include a deeply supportive sonic immersion experience to enhance individual inner alignment and integration of our inner child and adult persona.
- A full ambient musical concert evening with Laraaji and Arji.
- We also include a few periods of stillness and silence to accompany us as this mystical mountain journey unfolds for our own inner connection and release.
- 3 – 6 pm Check-in
- 6 – 7 pm Dinner
- 7:30 pm Welcome, Healing Chod Practice with Music (Lama Lhanang, Laraaji, Arji)
Thursday, October 30
- 7 – 8 am Tibetan Yoga (Lama Lhanang)
- 8 – 9 am Breakfast
- 10 am Bodhicitta Part 1: Developing Great Compassion (Lama Lhanang)
- 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
- 1:30 – 4 pm Free Time for Hiking, Spa Treatments, Private Healings with Lama Lhanang 1:30-3:30 only, Dewa Spa), Private Sessions with Arji & Laraaji (Tara Sanctuary)
- 4 pm Talk & Book Signing on “The Beginner’s Guide to Karma” (Lama Lhanang)
- 6 – 7 pm Dinner
- 7:30 pm Sound Bath: Entering the Celestial Dream Realm (Laraaji and Arji)
Friday, October 31
- 7 – 8 am Tibetan Yoga (Lama Lhanang)
- 8 – 9 am Breakfast
- 10 am Bodhicitta Part 2: Developing Great Compassion (Lama Lhanang)
- 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
- 1:30 – 4 pm Free Time for Spa Treatments, Private Healing with Lama Lhanang (Dewa Spa, 1:30-3 only) Private Sessions with Arji & Laraaji (Tara Sanctuary), Hiking, etc.
- 3:30 p.m. Talk & Book Signing on “The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners” (Lama Lhanang)
- 5:30-6:15 pm Dinner
- 6:30 pm Traditional Tibetan Fire Puja (Lama Lhanang) weather permitting**
Saturday, November 1
- 7 – 8 am Tibetan Yoga (Lama Lhanang)
- 8 – 9 am Breakfast
- 10 am Bodhicitta Part 3: Developing Great Compassion (Lama Lhanang)
- 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
- 1 – 3 pm Free Time for Spa Treatments, Private Healings with Lama Lhanang (Dewa Spa), Hiking, etc.
- 3 – 5 pm Laughter Yoga and Sound “Playshop” (Laraaji and Arji)
- 6 – 7 pm Dinner
- 8 pm Concert Performance: Into the Peace Garden (Laraaji and Arji)**
Sunday, November 2
- 7 – 11 am Check-out of Guest Rooms
- 7 – 8 am Tibetan Yoga (Lama Lhanang)
- 8 – 9 am Breakfast
- 10 am Talk & Book Signing on “The Buddha in You: A Beginner’s Guide to Buddhism: from Karma to Nirvana” (Lama Lhanang)
- 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch & Departure
*Please note that the schedule is subject to change at any time.
About the Leaders
Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Lama Lhanang Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher of the Nyingma Longchen Nying-Thig order who has studied with many revered masters from different lineages. Born and trained in Northeast Tibet, he practices from an unbroken lineage with warmth, humor, and deep compassion. He is known for his joyful presence, heartfelt wisdom, and ability to make […]
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LARAAJI
Laraaji is a musician, mult-instrumentalist, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. Laraaji’s experiments and exploratons with the open-tuned electric autoharp/zither began with a gentle nudge from his divine guidance. In 1976, in […]
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Arji OceAnanda
Arji "OceAnanda" Cakouros is a Sound Healer, Musician, Usui Reiki Master, & Dreamwork Teacher with a private counseling/healing practice based in Niskayuna, NY. Since 2008, she has enjoyed the deep joy and honour of collaborating with Blissmate Sw.Laraaji NadaBrahmananda “LARAAJI”, in many venues worldwide, offering Healing Sound events and Laughter Immersion experiences, as well as […]
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