Trikāya
Heart Essence of Enlightenment
How to Get Started in Trikāya
The advice from our ancient masters is that “The Path is the Goal”. The goal of enlightenment can seem impossible to comprehend or to attain. Because of this we are advised to focus on the Path itself as the goal. Practicing in this way is fulfilling because we always feel that we are already in the fruit of practice. There’s no “one right way” to get started in your Trikāya path of practice. Our system of practice can be entered in many different ways. We encourage you to find the way that is right for you. You may choose to attend the live online courses, cohorts or in-person retreats that pique your interest. Or study in your own pace with the pre-recorded courses. These can be found in the full course schedule. Or you may be looking for a more structured way to approach your learning in Trikāya. Both ways are fine. If you would like a more structured way of learning, then take a moment to familiarize yourself with the different ways to begin engaging with Trikāya’s teachings and practices explained below. Choose one or more staring points and begin creating your Path.
Get Started with Healing, Empowerment & Self-Discovery
Attend the online courses, in-person retreats and cohorts organized into specific themes of self-development as your entryway into Dharma practice.
Preliminaries of Practice & Conduct
Get started
Working with Emotions on the Path
Emotional Alchemy & Inner Healing
Body, Mind & Spirit as a Living Teaching
Awakening to View
Self-Discovery Through Jyotish Astrology
Light on the Path
"Entering the Stream"
This is the traditional way of beginning Dharma practice. Entering the Stream gives a progressive method of learning and practice wherein each step builds upon the previous step, thus creating a solid foundation, overview and understanding of the teachings, practices and path. It is recommended that you first take the Preliminaries of Trikāya, followed by the Foundations of Trikāya. Though some students who are more ambitious and have a bit more time on their hands will engage with Preliminaries, Foundations and Kundalinī Hatha Yoga simultaneously, while they prepare to attend the next offering of the Entering the Stream In-Person Retreat, and that’s ok too.
Six Realms, Inner Power & the Map of the Self
Expanding the View
A Journey into Mantra, Ritual & Tantric Practice
The Path of the Heart
Sacred Study in the Indo-Tibetan Tradition
The Sacred Library
Warriors Art
Introduction to Warriorship
5 Ways to Realization
Within Trikāya there are 5 complete and unique, yet interrelated paths of practice and teachings. Each of The 5 Ways to Realization are 5 approaches to practice and the path that are capable of taking you from rank beginner in the Dharma to the ultimate experience of your own True Nature – that of Buddhahood.
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Upcoming In-person Retreats
Foundations of Awakening
AUG 15-16, 2026,
AUG 14 Satsang Evening
VITORIA, BRASIL
$190 -$211
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.
Way of Water:
Daśamahāvidyā
Retreat
AUG 18-23, 2026
VITORIA, BRASIL
$960
The Daśamahāvidyā are a collection of Ten Wisdom Goddesses or Dakinīs found in Indian Tantra. Each dakinī is a fully enlightened deity and therefore able to guide the practitioner beyond the mire of their karmic mind, energy and body into the sublime experience of liberation while living.
Way of Fire:
KHY Level II
NOV 5-16, 2026
PORTUGAL
$ 2470
In Level II you’ll re-create your body-energy complex as a potent container (kumbha) of the powers of wind, fire and water. The purpose of the Level II training is to learn and master the techniques and control of your mind and physiology necessary from which to launch into the Bliss of Fire in Level III wherein you will learn the final practices of Kundalinī Hatha Yoga – Mahākumbhaka.
Upcoming Live Online Teachings
Into the Mystic: Going Beyond Your Personal Psychology
June 2 & Sept 22 (2026)
Tuesdays, 9:00am-11:00am
Maine, USA Time
$105/ 2 Classes
This course will examine the transition from our initial psycho-mental engagement with the path into a more “mystico-centric” or “mystic-erotic” sentiment and way of practice that takes us the rest of the way to our Essence.
The Direct Path of Kashmir Śaivism – The Vajra Way
Sept 12, Oct 24, Nov 28 (2026)
Saturdays, 9:00am-12:00pm
Maine, USA Time
$135/ 3 Classes
In these three classes we will examine The Vajra Way. Vajra Marga in Sanskrit means “Lightning-Bolt Path,” which describes a specific branch of Śakta-Śaiva Non-Dual Tantra (popularly known as Kashmir Shaivism) that is a non-progressive “path” to realizing one’s Nature.
Daoist Dream Yoga - Part 1
Dec 5 & 6 (2026)
Saturday & Sunday,
9:00am-12:00pm & 2:00pm-5:00pm
Maine, USA Time
$263/ 2 Classes
This weekend’s classes are the first installment in a series that will present traditional orthodox Daoist teachings and practices on the subject of dreaming as a way to cultivate the Dao.
Ongoing Practioner Cohorts
Way of Fire Cohort
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:30 (Maine, USA time)
Includes prerequisites. View details in ‘Learn more.’
Way of Water Cohort
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:30 (Maine, USA time)
Includes prerequisites. View details in ‘Learn more.’
