Bruce Tift
Psychotherapy · Vajrayana
Embodiment · Kindness · Curiosity
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In-person retreat · February 26–28, 2027 · Drala Mountain Center
Everyday Awakening
Open Essence, Unceasing Radiance
Most spiritual practice is organized around a future attainment. Dzogchen turns attention to what is already here. Over a weekend at Drala Mountain, we'll investigate the cognizance present during bliss and clarity, but also during contraction, self-absorption, fear, avoidance, and ordinary confusion.
RegisterWhat we'll practice
Pranayama and Tibetan yoga to settle the body
Shamatha and vipashyana meditation
Dzogchen practice for finding openness in everyday experience
Community dialogues about how practice meets relationships, therapy, and self-care
Online cohort · Enrolling now
Everyday Awakening
The inseparability of openness and everyday life
We train in recognizing the Dzogchen view without abandoning honest personal work — until ordinary life and awakened mind are seen as seamless and inseparable.
Learn moreCohort Format
Weekly pre-recorded class
Live weekly Q&A with Peter and occasional guests
Weekly peer pod, grouped by time zone (Europe-friendly)
Three-month season, optional renewal
Begins September 15, 2026
Courses
01 Everyday Awakening A three-month practice cohort Enrolling · Autumn 2026 02 Dark Retreat The Primordial Spaces of the Body Concluded · Spring 2026 03 Tummo Foundations Posture, breath retention, and visualization converge. Next cohort · Autumn 2026 04 Radiant Forms, Empty Reflections The luminous and fluid nature of deity yoga Next cohort · Autumn 2026 05 Deep Rest The physiology and practice of genuine rest Next cohort · Autumn 2026
Guest teachers
Monthly sessions with leading scholars, clinicians, and yogis
Each teacher holds a living relationship to psychotherapy, Dzogchen, dream yoga, or yoga nidra, and makes it usable inside a contemporary life.
Lopön Chandra Easton
Tibetan Buddhism · translation
Andrew Holecek
Dream yoga · dark retreat
Michael Taft
Tantric view · open awareness
Kelly Boys
Yoga Nidra · NSDR
Jonny Miller
Nervous system · resilience
David Germano
Dzogchen · Tibetan studies
Michael R. Sheehy
Kālacakra · Jonang lineage
Free lecture series · Live online
Approaching
the Dark
Three scholar-practitioners map, across the Kālacakra and Dzogchen systems, the historical lineages, the phenomenological terrain, and the preparation that responsible engagement with dark retreat requires.
Learn moreThree lectures · Three voices
Andrew Holecek Kagyu
David Germano Dzogchen
Michael Sheehy Kālacakra
Voices
Featured voice
“We live in a society where convenings, virtual and otherwise, for practitioners, scholars, and scientists are critical. To see The Field pulling together this kind of community is exciting, and I'm glad to be part of it.”
Michael Sheehy Professor, University of Virginia “Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence.”
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH Integrative Family Medicine, Asheville “Strong recommendation for Peter — he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner.”
Charlie Awbery Founder - Evolving Ground “One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received. Peter is the real deal — pragmatic, with a personable, approachable style.”
Matthew T. Phillips Senior Cloud Engineer “Connecting with Peter has opened new doors and enriched my 35 year practice. His love and respect for the Vajrayana is magnetizing.”
Craig (Ogmin) Turtle Hill Sangha “The world needs more people like Peter — broadly and deeply trained, able to present esoteric knowledge in a practical way, and teaching from a perspective of compassionate presence. Thank you for your work!”
Marie Ramos Qi Gong Instructor “He has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. A thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended.”
Jenny Burkhardt Biomedical Engineer “Peter McEwen helps those who are new to Vajrayana practices understand the ancient practice through an accessible modern lens, without diluting the teachings. A rare and precious gift!”
Christin Chong Buddhist Chaplain 
The practice
Experiences of openness can be genuine and consequential: the usual sense of being a separate and problematic person relaxes, and life becomes immediate, spacious, and unexpectedly ordinary. Yet the patterns shaped by our history remain with us, organizing how we meet conflict, vulnerability, responsibility, and change. At The Field, we learn to let these truths live together, returning again and again to immediate embodied experience amid the ordinary demands of relationship, work, money, and love.
Human practices
We come into conscious relationship with our present-moment experience, our present capacities, and the circumstances of our lives, meeting what arises with kindness while discovering where greater freedom is possible.
What we offer
Lineage-based methods that build awareness, kindness, and an intimate relationship with your own experience. They settle attention and soften reactivity while developing capacities that outlast temporary relief.
Who we are
Veteran meditation practitioners committed to propagating mind-training methods that ease unnecessary suffering, with support for those balancing work and family commitments.
On method
Practice is growing the capacity to stay with whatever is already present. States pass, but the capacity for intimate, present contact with your own aliveness is what remains.
Recent media
The Mirror of Darkness
Andrew Holecek on how the phenomenology of darkness shares territory with the bardos and the dream state — why the Tibetan tradition treats these as deeply related methods.
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The View from the Dark
David Germano places dark retreat within the larger world of Dzogchen scholarship and practice. Drawing on decades of work on the Nyingma and Bön lineages, he brings the historical, textual, and philosophical context that makes darkness practice intelligible without flattening its complexity.
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Preparing for the Dark
Michael Sheehy on the Jonang Kālacakra tradition's distinctive practices of dark retreat. Drawing on his lifetime of work with the Jonang and research across historical scholarship, phenomenology, and cognitive science, he discusses the contemplative exercises used to prepare Kālacakra practitioners for darkness.
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Practicing Tummo
On Deconstructing Yourself with Michael Taft — embodied immediacy, navigating disturbing experiences, and cultivating open awareness.
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Talking Deity Yoga
Devotion, stability in groundlessness, and the ontological status of deities in the Vajrayana tradition — the union of emptiness and vivid appearance.
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Tech & Meditation, at LinkedIn
Lauren Camera-Murray and Peter McEwen on working with vulnerable feelings in the workplace, and the value of accessibility and trust.
Watch →Free live workshop
Meeting Difficult Emotions
Emotional intensity as immediate, embodied experience
In this 90-minute session, Peter McEwen teaches a practical method for working with difficult emotions through body, breath, and attention.
View the deckYou'll learn how to
Use reactivity as a cue to return to immediate experience
Work with intensity in brief, manageable intervals
Stay with a feeling without requiring it to change or resolve
Learn to work from choice instead of compulsion