Upcoming course · Begins Autumn 2026
At the heart of deity yoga is a radical reframing: generating a luminous form in place of the familiar self. Through breath, visualization, and the always-available field of open awareness, we learn to meet our hangups and neuroses as expressions of open, loving awareness.
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Radiant Forms, Empty Reflections is an experiential 8-week training in deity yoga — a choreography of form and emptiness, staged identity and luminous reality.
Taught in a modern, pragmatic style, the course guides you through a progressive series of practices that work with breath, visualization, and the always-available field of open awareness. Whether you're new to these methods or a seasoned practitioner, you'll learn to integrate them into daily life in ways that support greater presence, authenticity, and compassion across your relationships, work, and sense of purpose.
This course is for those who have tasted awakening, or at least glimpsed the view, but still feel subtly exiled inside the body. You may know yourself as open, luminous awareness, yet feel bound by a localized sense of self. Deity yoga targets this felt discrepancy. These aren't visualizations for escape — they are precision methods for dissolving the illusion of fixity.
Curriculum
Many practitioners receive initiations into deity yoga but lack direct guidance on how to operate the practice day to day. This course addresses that gap. We break down the structure of a sādhana — step by step — with live commentary and instruction on each component.
This is not just about receiving transmission; it's about developing the confidence and fluency to practice with clarity and ease. Discover how to safely harness the transformative potential of Mahāyoga while grounding your practice in the non-dual view of Dzogchen.
Deity yoga is not escapism, and not self-affirmation with incense. It's a method for inviting open awareness into the scene of your life, precisely as it is. The goal is not transcendence but full-spectrum coherence: to hold spaciousness and appearance, tenderness and precision, embodiment and unreality, without flinching.
We use the symbolic form of the deity as a kind of anti-escape — a deliberate replacement of our habitual, tight identity with one that is more porous, more alive, and more attuned to the field of awareness itself. This is not about becoming divine. It is about recognizing that you already are, and learning to tolerate the implications.
The course draws from traditional methods within the Nyingma lineage, weaving Dzogchen instructions and Generation Stage techniques from the Longchen Nyingthik. These methods are engineered to deconstruct fixation while training the subtle body to serve realization.
We work from two foundational texts: the Essence of the Two Accumulations — the elaborate outer practice from Tārā's Profound Essence, revealed by Tertön Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa and arranged by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé — and the Heart Jewel: The Sādhana Practice of the Three Roots Combined into One (Tsasum Drildrub) by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.
Course details
An 8-week training beginning Autumn 2026. We meet live on Zoom every Wednesday at 5:00 PM Pacific, with optional Saturday office hours to support European time zones — a chance to bring questions, deepen the practices, and metabolize the paradoxes they evoke.
All sessions are recorded and shared via the course platform, alongside pre-recorded tutorials and printed materials.
Two foundational sādhanas from the Nyingma lineage: the Essence of the Two Accumulations, and the Heart Jewel (Tsasum Drildrub).
Connect with fellow practitioners through The Field Discord and Circle. We learn by teaching one another.
Those who have glimpsed the view but still feel bound by a localized sense of self. No specific cultural or religious affiliation is required — only curiosity and a willingness to practice.
Peter teaches practitioners balancing the demands of work and family, the dizzying array of commitments modern life asks for. In a culture that prizes output, meditation gets quietly folded into self-optimization. He works the other way: practice as a means of meeting immediate experience, discomfort and all, as a reliable source of well-being.
Since 1993 he has studied under Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok, Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche, and Bruce Tift, and has completed the traditional three-year retreat. Grounded in three decades of training, he brings Vajrayāna into direct conversation with the realities of modern life.
A rare choreography of form and openness for those ready to recognize humanity not as a disguise, but as the vivid display of wakefulness. In deity yoga, we don't discard the mask — we learn to wear it consciously, as ritual expression.
The work isn't maintaining states. It's noticing that we keep mistaking the self for something to manage, idealize, improve, or accept. This course invites a slower move: learning to stop treating the self as an object at all.
As long as we treat identity as something to manage or repair, we reinforce the split we're trying to heal. This course offers a way to stay with contradiction without collapsing it into a story or a fixed self.
Breath and visualization expand your capacity to stay with what is hard to hold. These methods train a nervous system that can hold charge, clarity, and contact without defaulting to collapse or dissociation.
When insight feels distant or stale, this course reawakens imaginal practice. Not as fantasy, but as a precise way to engage the architecture of self: breath, form, sensation, and the symbolic codes that shape experience.
We don't override or analyze. We enter into relationship with embodied immediacy, meeting difficult states with radical kindness and turning anxious feelings into doorways instead of threats.
If your practice feels fragmented, this course helps you root it in a coherent, sustainable rhythm through breath, image, and awareness. Not just impactful, but alive. Methods you can inhabit.
Yes. All sessions are recorded and shared via the course platform, alongside pre-recorded tutorials and printed materials.
We meet live on Zoom every Wednesday at 5:00 PM Pacific, and offer optional Saturday office hours to support European time zones. Recordings are available for anyone who prefers asynchronous practice.
Whether you're new to these methods or a seasoned practitioner, the course is structured to meet you. It assumes ongoing personal practice in some form and a willingness to work with breath, imagery, and sustained attention. Sanskrit and Tibetan terms are introduced as we use them.
Many practitioners come with initiations but without day-to-day guidance — this course addresses that gap, breaking down the structure of a sādhana step by step. If you're unsure whether the course fits your situation, reach out before enrolling.
Engagements to meet you where you are.
An entry into the vivid grammar of deity yoga — structured, alive, and imaginal. Cultivate somatic immediacy and nervous system stability while examining the historical dramas that shape identity. These patterns are not bypassed; they are made workable.
Includes
For practitioners ready for close guidance and tailored refinement. A high-contact container for those who wish to stabilize visualization practice, fine-tune energetic posture, or garner personal feedback. Four seats are available.
Everything in Practitioner, plus:
For students with genuine financial need. Includes full access to the course, all recordings, and community support via The Field Discord and Circle. Private sessions and direct messaging are not included. Designed to offer dignity, not discount. Available as four payments of $160 via payment plan.
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A daily practice that supports open-hearted awareness and unconditional embodiment.