with Ani Tenzin Choyang
Overview
Dreams have fascinated every culture since the dawn of human self-awareness, from Indigenous Australians to the Ancient Greeks, from the heirs of Freud and Jung to contemporary dream researchers. While most traditions use dreams to decipher the secrets of the psyche, connect with the spiritual realm, or prophesy the future, the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition teaches a powerful yoga of lucid dreaming meant to help transform our unconscious minds and bodies into Buddhahood. Within the embodied contemplative science and practice of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras, dreams are used as a vehicle for transforming our ordinary trauma body into an extraordinary magic body that enables us to live a life of fully awakened altruism.
In this in-person daylong retreat, one of the first women doctors of Tibetan philosophy and psychology, Venerable Ani Choyang, unpacks the art and science of dream yoga based on the traditional teaching of the Six Yogas of Naropa as well as her own work with leading dream researchers.
Join Ani-la to explore this ancient practice which begins with lucid awareness in sleep and offers an opportunity to transform our dream life into a path of deep meditative transformation and awakening.
Venerable Ani Choyang is just completing her degree, and is also a leading scholar within the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative led by Geshe Negi of Emory University. Today, the Jangchub Choeling Nunnery serves a community of 340 nuns and is evolving into an International Women’s Center — a hub where nuns and women from local and global communities learn, retreat, and grow together.
This event is co-hosted by Tibet House US and the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.
Details
Instructor: Ani Tenzin Choyang
Schedule: Saturday, October 24th, 2026 from 10am to 4pm ET
Location: In person at Tibet House US (22 West 15th Street, NYC)