Trikāya
Practitioner Cohorts
What are Practitioner Cohorts?
In ancient times, spiritual practitioners lived with their teachers.
This proximity provided a rich and engaging environment for deeper openings, essential transmissions, pith teachings and specific cues to refine and augment one’s view and approach to the path and practice.
In modern times, it has become much more difficult to live near our teacher. We intermittently join for retreats whenever we can, but the time spent on our own outside of formal retreats can give way to challenges, especially in the early phases of the path.We often lose our inspiration, discipline and/or clarity of view when away from the teacher-student environment– which ends up impeding our overall momentum towards actualization and mastery of the path.
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By meeting regularly online, these cohorts will serve as a way to maintain continuity of contact between the teacher and students to provide supplemental guidance and continuity.
It is not possible to receive the full knowledge of any area of spiritual study by merely attending occasional teachings or retreats.To receive the full transmission of your path, more regular contact time with the teacher is needed. Dharma Bodhi has stated that the main ingredient missing in the life of the modern practitioner is an adequate amount of contact time with the teacher.In his years of intensive training, Dharma Bodhi traveled extensively in search of contact with the masters of the authentic Mahāsiddha traditions, and his life was often strained or uprooted over and over again in the process.Not to mention, he lost many work and family opportunities in the effort to maintain contact with his masters.
He knows all too well the struggle it can take to get to the teachings and retreats, and what a toll it can take on your finances, work, family, and overall stability.This creates an unnecessary and obstacle-laden environment of inner conflict that paradoxically opposes your Path, often leaving you with the feeling that you’re at best making minimal progress and at worst destabilizing your life and slipping backwards.
Therefore, Dharma Bodhi and Sahaja Dākinī devised practitioner cohorts to help you create a stronger connection to the lineage masters, and to provide a rich source of continuous nourishment accessible from your own home.Trikāya’s goal is to provide you with an accessible, authoritative and affordable support system enabling you to attain stable Realization of your True Nature in this very lifetime, as promised by the Mahāsiddhas themselves and the traditions they founded.
To meet this goal we are very pleased to offer the Practitioner Cohorts as an opportunity to increase your knowledge, have access to ongoing individual guidance and to regularly receive the Blessing Waves of the Masters through gathering together for community practice.
We look forward to serving you on your Path.
May All Beings Benefit!
Sarva Mangalam!!! (All Auspicious!)
Cohorts meet for 1-2 hours, 6 times per year
Join cohorts with a yearly subscription...
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cohort.
$180 / year
*Averaging $30/ class
*Cohorts meet 6 times per year.
*Must meet required pre-requisites for access to the advanced cohorts.
*Recordings will be available for 1 month in our community platform, if you are unable to attend live.
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Join ALL cohorts.
$360 / year
*As little as $10/ class
*Cohorts meet 6 times per year.
*Must meet required pre-requisites for access to the advanced cohorts.
*Recordings will be available for 1 month in our community platform, if you are unable to attend live.
Join for $30/mo for 12 months
Special Cohort Series:
These class series provide structured, progressive teachings, rather than open Q&A.
*Recordings are kept permanently for ongoing study and integration.
**Open to all — no prerequisites required.
Sacred Romance Cohort
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:30 (Maine, USA time)
No pre-requisite required.
Direct Meditation Cohort & Trikāya’s Home for Daoist Cultivation
Thursdays, 14:00 - 15:00 (Maine, USA time)
No pre-requisite required.
Ongoing Q&A Cohorts:
These cohorts provide a responsive and interactive learning environment, offering regular guidance, clarification, and refinement of your practice.
*Recordings are available for one month.
**Some cohorts have pre-requisite.
Progressive Meditation Cohort
Thursdays, 14:00 - 15:00 (Maine, USA time)
No pre-requisite required.
Way of Fire Cohort
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:30 (Maine, USA time)
Pre-requiste: Attendance at a KHY - Level 1 or 2 Online or In-Person Retreat
Way of Water Cohort
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:30 (Maine, USA time)
Pre-requiste: Attendance at one of the following-
• Tantrik Pūjā - Level I (online or in- person)
• Daśamahavidya Retreat (In-person)
• Rudi's Kriya Yoga Retreaat (In-Person)
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.
