Vitoria, Brasil | Aug 15-16, 2026
Foundations of Awakening
An Introductory Retreat with Dharma Bodhi
A weekend immersion in the essential teachings of the authentic nondual Dharma tradition — with Dharma Bodhi.
At Chakra, in Brazil, Dharma Bodhi offers a weekend retreat dedicated to the foundations of the authentic nondual Dharma traditions of Trika Mahasiddha Yoga. Based on the Preliminaries of TMY program, this gathering transmits the essential teachings of view and contemplation that form the basis of the spiritual journey within the tradition.
Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, participants will be introduced to central themes such as: the Nature of the Base, Dharma, impermanence, suffering and its causes, the self, the Three Bodies, the stages of awakening, the correct motivation for practice, the foundational contemplations, and the principles of integration that support an authentic path.
More than an introductory course, Foundations of Awakening is a living immersion in teachings, practice, and presence — a rare opportunity to receive, in person, the foundations of a deep and transformative nondual path, in an atmosphere of beauty, inwardness, and inner openness.
DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE
- Saturday 8h to 17h
- Sunday 8h to 18h
ACCOMMODATIONS & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
You will need to organize your own accommodation, transportation and meals during the retreat. Please check out the resources below to help plan your stay.
DATES & LOCATION
Aug 15 - 16, 2026
Vitoria, Brasil
The retreat takes place at A CHAKRA.
COURSE FEE
$190 USD*
*Food is not included
**At checkout, use the full name, e-mail, and mailing address of the person registering for the retreat. (Payment details do not have to match.)
About the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens)
Dharma Bodhi began practicing yoga at seven years of age. In his teens he moved into practices of Chan Buddhism and Daoism received through his Chinese martial arts teachers in New York. After completing his chiropractic degree he studied in an Oral-Practice Tradition of Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, taking initiation into one of the Daśnami Orders of practice from India. In 1996 he completed ācārya training under his Śaiva gurus. This training emphasized traditional Kundalinī Hatha Yoga and a progressive system of Meditation, along with supportive studies in ritual/pūjā and yoga texts. Since graduating as a Śaiva ācārya, he took refuge with a great master of Bönpo Dzogchen meditation, and studied with him by taking multiple trips per year to his monastery in India for a period of 8 years. He studies both Dzogchen meditation & yoga (trul khor), and Dzogchen preliminary and advanced texts. Both his Śaiva and Dzogchen masters gave him the task of teaching these systems stripped of the unnecessary aspects of the cultures and languages they are found in. His Dzogchen master also gave him the task of translating two Tibetan texts. One of which is finished and the other is in process. He now lives with his wife, Sahaja Dakinī, and their two children in rural Maine, USA. He is developing a practice hermitage in the wilderness of Maine and a European teaching center on the border of Italy and Switzerland.inī, dedicate their time to raising their family, personal practice and teaching the Oral-Practice Tradition of the Mahāsiddhas to small groups of students.
