Post-festival retreats

Connect with your Inner Wisdom and Confidence

With Kadam Morten Clausen, National Spiritual Director for Eastern USA and Resident Teacher of KMC New York City

Based on teachings from the Fall Festival at Spain KMC, Kadam Morten will guide participants through practical teachings on how to cultivate mental clarity, inner confidence, and a meaningful connection with wisdom in everyday life. This retreat will place special emphasis on introducing the Migtsema practice, a simple yet powerful mantra traditionally used to strengthen wisdom, compassion, and positive intention. This practice naturally helps calm the mind, focus the heart, and bring greater depth to meditation.

Our Real Heart Jewel

Gen Kelsang Demo, the Midwestern US National Spiritual Director and the Resident Teacher at the International Kadampa Retreat Center Grand Canyon.

During this special retreat Gen Demo will guide meditations on how to develop and improve our faith in our Spiritual Guide seen as one with Je Tsongkhapa and on the practice of Migtsema, the special mantra and prayer of praise and request to Je Tsongkhapa.

Post–Fall Festival Retreat – Remain in Your Heart

with Gen Kelsang Tonglam, National Spiritual Director of East Asia and Resident Teacher at KMC Hong Kong

To awaken and increase our potential for inner peace and lasting happiness, we need inspiration, positive mental energy, clarity, and special wisdom. We can obtain all these conditions through the sublime practice of the Heart Jewel, the Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa.

Our true heart gem – The power of faith

with Gen-la Kelsang Sangden, Resident Teacher of KMC Mexico and Deputy General Spiritual Director of the NKT.

The Migtsema is a very special prayer. During this retreat you will have the great opportunity to develop and deepen your faith in your Spiritual Guide.

Post Fall Festival Migstema Retreat

with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, retired General Spiritual Director of the NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre.

After receiving the blessing empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa and special instructions on how to develop and improve our faith in our Spiritual Guide and Je Tsongkhapa as one, and the practice of the Migtsema prayer from Gen-la Dekyong at the Fall Festival at KMC Spain, we can engage in a few days gentle retreat on assimilating this wonderful practice deeper into our life.

Our Real Heart Jewel

with Gen Kelsang Rabten, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia National Spiritual Director and Resident Teacher at the Kadampa Meditation Center Australia.

Based on teachings from the Fall Festival at Kadampa Meditation Center Malaga, Spain, Gen Rabten will guide meditations on how to develop and deepen our faith in our spiritual guide, considered to be one with Je Tsongkhapa. We will also deepen our practice of the Migtsema Prayer, the special mantra and prayer of praise and request to Je Tsongkhapa.

Our Real Heart Jewel

With Gen Kelsang Lochani, Resident Teacher of KMC Barcelona

Following the Fall Festival 2026, this weekend retreat will be a special opportunity to deepen our understanding of the teachings on Je Tsongkhapa and strengthen our faith in the Spiritual Guide.
Guided by Gen Kelsang Lochani, we will focus especially on the practice of Migtsema, the supreme method for increasing our faith and creating the causes to attain enlightenment quickly and safely.

Our Real Heart Jewel

with Gen Kelsang Norden, Resident Teacher at Compassion KMC, Newcastle, UK.

On this short post-festival retreat, Gen Kelsang Norden will guide us through the main meditations of the Heart Jewel practice, allowing us to contemplate and meditate on the meaning of the teachings we have just received at the festival and focusing on the Migtsema prayer.