Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger

This moment is calling us to truth—truth about ourselves, our inner pain and our systems of violence, our inner lack and our economies of scarcity. More profoundly we are being called to truth about our relationship to death and dying, and to face our grief, anger and rage. 

Over the course of six weeks in this new online practice and study group, Lama Rod Owens will guide us through the core meditation practices from his best-selling book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger. He will lead us in an exploration of our relationship with anger and our individual and collective trauma, inviting us to deeply come to know our rage and to accept it -- and learn how to use the wisdom contained within anger as ground for our liberation.

In this new iteration of the Love and Rage course, you will have opportunities to deepen your personal relationship to the practices in the book while connecting with other participants. We've refined the course to have more opportunities to work with each practice and explore ways to make them your own. There will be a practice leader throughout the entire course to support you deepening an honest and personal relationship to the practices.

This course is open to both beginners and those who are already familiar with meditation.

Course Themes:

Understanding Anger and Rage. This course will introduce a new understanding of rage, how to notice and call anger to consciousness in order to better identify our emotions and foster a liberatory relationship to our anger.

Embodiment. We will explore how to work with pain and how trauma impacts the body. I'll share ways to hold space for our discomfort and ways to release it. So that the body can be a point of liberation when we work with trauma and identify pain within the body.

Grief Support. Both individually and collectively right now, we need support around our compounded grief. This course will introduce practices to help us move from fixation on pain to skillful mourning. When we actually begin to mourn and grieve, that mourning actually helps us to experience a spaciousness within our experience.

Happiness and Acceptance. Together we will focus on cultivating a deep acceptance for everything that arises in and around us while learning to love our anger. This sets the ground for us to have a restorative relationship to the great challenges we face collectively in the pandemic and the greater social-political climate.

Self-Care as Self Preservation. In addition to presenting a new framework for understanding our relationship to self-care, I will share and demonstrate ways to incorporate self-care as a form of self-preservation within our own lives and work.

What You Will Learn:

• How to work with anger and rage for transformation and change
• Compassion-based processes to manage cumulative trauma
• How to be more embodied and bring awareness to the physical, mental, spiritual, and energetic aspects of ourselves
• Ways to hold space for and take care of our pain
• What self-care really looks like and how to integrate it into your daily life
• Somatic practices for stress management and healing
• Practices to connect and engage with our ancestors in order to ground ourselves during difficult times and enrich our self understanding
• Non-judgemental acceptance of what life presents
• How to be loving, open and vulnerable... but still fierce!

Other Benefits:

• Opportunities to join weekly live group sessions with Lama Rod and the Love and Rage Teaching Team
• Over six hours of recorded video and audio that help integrate the teachings into everyday life
• Opportunities to connect with others and discuss these issues on a private community platform
• A 35% discount coupon for Lama Rod's book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger (both e-book and paperback formats, shipping is limited to the US).
• A place of refuge to work with the difficult emotions arising from the circumstances of our time.

Course FAQs:

When are the live sessions? 

Live sessions are on Fridays from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET from February 4th - March 11th, 2022, as well as on Wednesdays, February 2nd - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET. All times are United States Eastern Time Zone.

What if I can't attend the live sessions? 

All live sessions will be recorded and posted on the course platform for you to watch later.

Is there a refund policy?

Full refunds are available prior to the start of the course on January 31st, 2022. Once the course has begun we are not able to issue refunds.

Is there financial assistance available? 

Through the support of those who give at the Pay it Forward level, we have a limited amount of scholarships available. Email [email protected] if you are in need of financial assistance. If you are able to contribute to our ability to offer scholarships, your generosity by choosing the Pay it Forward supports our ability to offer more financial support.

Do I need to read the book?

It would be helpful, but not required to read the book while participating in the course.

How long will the course materials be available once I register? 

All course modules will be available indefinitely.

If I participated in a previous online Love and Rage Online Course, is it worth it to sign up for this Love and Rage Course?

Definitely. Besides getting a chance to go deeper and be in community again around these practices, we've found each cohort brings a different perspective and flavor to the course. Each live session with Lama Rod will incorporate new material and timely, relevant context for these teachings.

Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama, or Buddhist teacher, in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered one of the leading voices in a new generation of Buddhist teachers. Lama Rod holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation and author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger.

Feedback from previous Love and Rage Online Course participants:

"This course was just what I needed at the right time! Having the opportunity to be in live conversation with Lama Rod and learn from him has been invaluable to deepening my practice and self-understanding. This course has been a treasure, a gem that will remain with me."

"Magic - I am experiencing the most difficult period of my life and these teachings were invaluable.  I experienced insights like holding intense pain within joy and touching earth that were completely new to me.  Lama Rod offers profound teachings in a way that demystifies them in an accessible way."

"The course provided a space to go deeper and really internalize and embody the content from the book. It's easy to just read it from an intellectual place, but I didn't want to do that, and the course helped me process it not just mentally but also in an embodied way, and that was very helpful."

"It has felt like connection I have never felt before, and the finding of tools I had always hoped for. A coming together of seemingly conflicting parts, and a strength to keep looking."

"It has helped me deepen my love and compassion practice and given me more tools to resource myself through difficult times so it's been really amazing for me."

"This course has been life-changing for me. I feel included and like there is space for me. I have been able to heal my stagnations and scary places in my body through the practices."

"I'm very grateful for the practices in the course, especially the Homecomings. I'm finding it a powerful way of connection and acceptance of my journey through life. Much appreciation for the spaciousness to hold all the contradictions and paradoxes that flow through my body, mind and heart. I have much to do to accept and allow my rage, but thank you Lama Rod for the practices and normalization of all feelings."

"Lama Rod's humor and wit were so refreshing. His wisdom helped me feel more spacious and grounded and I've developed more clarity in emotional language and experience because of this course."

"This course has been life changing on multiple levels."

"Having the opportunity to be in live conversation with Lama Rod and learn from him has been invaluable to deepening my practice and self-understanding. I appreciated hearing about the various practices and chapters in the book directly from Lama Rod. This course has been a treasure, a gem that will remain with me."

"I am so grateful. Lama Rod has answered questions I didnt even know I was asking and longing to hear answers for."

"I took this course primarily to work with anger but what I found while doing the course was that what I needed most were the practices of calling in my circle of care to support me - to take refuge, and the practices for mourning. Partially "right thing at right time", partially just things I hadn't thought I needed that it turns out I sorely did. Both of those practices have felt transformative to both my existing practice and to my outlook/perspective on life."

"It has truly allowed me to take the time to integrate some wisdom, to create some spaciousness within, and get to know myself more, and how I can interact with the world with more agency."

"The experience has been so insightful and loving. It's helped me work through a lot of unprocessed experiences and emotions at a time when I've generally felt really depleted. I had been unsure if I could commit to anything else. But I am so glad I did. So grateful for this experience."

"The course was an anchor. The material met me where I am, and helped me recognize that the work I've been doing the last several years is deeper in my bones than I knew. I am deeply grateful to Lama Rod and his team for facilitating this course because it has deepened my skills and bolstered my spirit."

"I'm so grateful for a truly beautiful, affirming experience!"