Post Summer Festival retreats
The three International Festivals are precious opportunities to receive teachings and empowerments from the Gen-las, and this experience is greatly enhanced if we can spend some time after the Festival in retreat improving our understanding of the teachings and taking their meaning to heart.
Post-festival retreats are organised by Kadampa centers around the world after each of the three International Festivals. See below for details of retreats following the Summer Festival.

Kadampa Meditation Center Spain, Malaga
9 – 16 Aug

Kailash International Retreat Center
9 – 15 Aug
Getting to Know Your Pure Self
with Gen Kelsang Sangden, Resident Teacher in Kadampa Meditation Centre Mexico and National Spiritual Director in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Nicaragua
On this special retreat you will learn everything you need for a qualified Tantric practice, the supreme quick path to enlightenment, and in this way begin getting to know your pure self. Gen Sangden will teach and guide meditations on the Heruka body mandala within the short, condensed practice called The Yoga of Buddha Heruka.

Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre
9 – 15 Aug
The Supreme Path to Enlightenment
with Gen Kelsang Ananda, National Spiritual Director for Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovenia, and the Resident Teacher of KMC Germany
Based on teachings from the Summer Festival 2026, Gen Ananda be leading a week of retreat focusing on the Heruka Body Mandala practice The New Essence of Vajrayana.
The beautiful and blessed surroundings of Madhyamaka KMC offer the perfect environment to take these teachings to heart and develop a personal experience of this practice in the company of Kadampa family and friends. Shuttle bus available from Manjushri KMC.

Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre, UK
10 – 16 Aug
From Blissful Path to Quick Path
Gen Kelsang Chokga is the National Spiritual Director for Spain and Portugal and Resident Teacher of KMC Spain
A step-by-step retreat to deepen your connection with Guru Vajrayogini and to enhance – or begin – your joyful Tantric practice. Whether you already have experience or are just beginning, this retreat will help you establish a joyful, stable daily practice, gain confidence to continue your Tantric meditation at home, and learn how to integrate it into everyday life to overcome ordinary appearances.

Kadampa Meditation Center Barcelona, Spain
10 – 16 Aug
Post Summer Festival Retreat
with Gen Kelsang Rabten, National Spiritual Director for Australasia, South East Asia & Taiwan and Resident Teacher of KMC Australia
Based on teachings from the Summer Festival at Manjushri KMC, Gen Rabten will guide a retreat offering clear and practical instructions on how to enter and progress on this joyful and swift path to enlightenment, the ultimate purpose of our human life.

Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre, Thornby
10 – 13 Aug
Journey into Bliss
Gen Kelsang Samten, Resident Teacher at KMC New York
A retreat for Highest Yoga Tantra practitioners to go beyond the experiences gained through daily practice and access new levels of understanding. Make the most of this opportunity to explore the infinite potential of your mind.
This short retreat will be based on the teachings from the International NKT-IKBU Summer Festival. This is a perfect opportunity for those who couldn’t attend the festival to receive the benefit of these fresh instructions, or for those who attended to deepen their experience.

Menorca International Retreat Center
10 – 14 Aug
The Entrance to Highest Yoga Tantra
with Gen Kelsang Rabjor, Resident Teacher at KMC Jerez
The post-festival retreat is a perfect opportunity to bring these teachings to heart. Over several days, you will be able to deepen your tantric practice through guided meditations, periods of silence, and time for inner reflection.
In a peaceful and inspiring environment, you will learn how to strengthen your connection with the most profound practices of Highest Yoga Tantra, guided by the Resident Teacher of KMC Jerez, Gen Kelsang Rabjor.

Kadampa Meditation Center Deuachen, Portugal
12 – 16 Aug
The Yoga of Buddha Heruka
with Gen Kelsang Lochani, Resident Teacher of KMC Barcelona
This retreat offers the opportunity to integrate the profound teachings of the International Kadampa Summer Festival, which will take place next summer in England, through the Yoga of Buddha Heruka — a brief and profound practice, highly blessed, containing the essence of the Tantra of the Highest Yoga.

Kadampa Meditation Center Hong Kong
14 – 16 Aug
Blissful Wisdom
with Gen Kelsang Lhachog, Resident Teacher of KMC Sydney
On this retreat, Gen Kelsang Lhachog will guide meditations on the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Venerable Vajrayogini, the very essence of Buddha’s teachings, based on the International Summer Festival 2026. It will be an excellent opportunity to gain experience in the joyful practice of Vajrayogini and to learn how to apply it to and strengthen our daily practice. With this blissful wisdom, we can then solve all our problems and be of maximum benefit to others.

Kadampa Meditation Center Mexico
14 – 16 Aug
The Supreme Path to Enlightenment
with Gen Kelsang Demo, Midwest US National Spiritual Director and Resident Teacher of IKRC Grand Canyon
Highest Yoga Tantra is a profound method for attaining enlightenment in this very life, based on the practices of Heruka and Vajrayogini.
Following the Summer Festival 2026, this weekend retreat, guided by Gen Kelsang Demo, will be a special opportunity to deepen our understanding of these teachings and strengthen our experience of the tantric path to enlightenment.