Open Heart, Birmingham (2026)

07/09/2026

🍂 OPEN HEART AUTUMN RETREAT WITH AMRITA BABA 🍂
3–10 October 2026 | Porvoo, Finland & Online

Dear friends of Open Heart ❤️🙏🏻

You are warmly invited to join our Open Heart Autumn Retreat in Porvoo, Finland, guided by our head teacher, Amrita Baba.

For one full week, we will step away from the busyness of everyday life and immerse ourselves in practice, teachings, transmission, and the blessings of the lineage.

The retreat includes Rainbow Body Yoga, Immortality Exercises, Amrita Asana Yoga, Amrita Kriya Yoga, group chanting, meditation, and teachings with Amrita Baba.

✨ JOIN US LIVE IN PORVOO

The in-person retreat offers a precious opportunity to put aside phones, internet, and other distractions and dedicate an entire week wholeheartedly to Dharma practice together with Baba and the Sangha.

Live retreat fee: €650–1000 sliding scale, including full board and teachings.
There are still a few places available!

📩 Live registration: [email protected]

🌍 OR JOIN US ONLINE

If you cannot travel to Finland, you are warmly welcome to participate online and practice together with us from wherever you are.

Online fee: €150–550, depending on the chosen Yogis on Display option.

❤️ Come practice with us, receive the teachings, and spend a week dedicated to the Dharma.

3–10 October 2026 | Porvoo, Finland & Online

Online registration and further information:
https://openheartofallbeings.com/calendar/openheart-autumn-retreat-2026

07/09/2026

A heartfelt thank you to dear Amrita Baba for your time and priceless teachings during our September Online Weekend Retreat, held 4–6 September. ❤️🙏🏻

With deep gratitude, we received the blessings of our lineage Gurus through Baba’s powerful transmissions. It was a beautiful and fulfilling weekend of practice, teachings, and connection with the sangha.

During the retreat talk, Baba spoke about the need for truly dedicated and professional Western yogis and yoginis in a world that is increasingly on fire. It has long been Baba’s sincere wish to train practitioners who can devote themselves deeply to the yogic path and help spread the Dharma in the West.

During the Atiyoga session, Baba gave us a beautiful Dzogchen transmission and excellent pointers for practice. We were reminded not to chase after what feels pleasant whenever something unpleasant arises, but to remain open and present with whatever is.
Nothing needs to be excluded or rejected. Everything can be embraced and met with awareness.

Baba also taught us the Side Chakra System and Agastya’s version of Vajra Body, known as Tummo or Candali Practice, as well as new dimensions of the Vajra Breath practice.

Thank you, dear Baba, and our lineage masters Guru Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyal, and Bodhidharma, for your guidance and blessings. ❤️

Our next Open Heart Retreat will take place in Porvoo, Finland, 3–10 October, both in person and online via Zoom. There are still a few places available in person. We warmly welcome you to join us! 🙏🏻

May all beings benefit!

With gratitude,
Amrita Rani

01/09/2026

🌈 OPEN HEART SEPTEMBER RETREAT WITH AMRITA BABA 🌈
🗓 4–6 September 2026 • Online

Friday 4 September: 8–10 pm
Saturday 5 September: 3–9 pm
Sunday 6 September: 3–9 pm
Slovenia/CEST time

You are warmly invited to join us for a 2½-day online retreat with Amrita Baba, founder and lineage guru of Open Heart Sangha. 🙏🏻

During the weekend, we will immerse ourselves in Open Heart’s central practices, including Guru Yoga, Rainbow Body Yoga, Amrita Kriya Yoga and non-meditation, with teachings and direct guidance from Amrita Baba. There will also be dedicated time for Q&A.

Open Heart is a system of ta***ic meditative yoga dedicated to attaining full enlightenment (anuttara samyak sambodhi) in this lifetime.

✨ All are welcome! Previous experience with Rainbow Body Yoga and/or Amrita Kriya Yoga will help you gain greater depth from the retreat.

💛 Retreat fee: €100–300
Different fee options are available through Yogis on Display.

🌿 Register here:
https://www.OpenHeartOfAllBeings.com/calendar/online-weekend-retreat-sep-2026

Come spend a weekend immersed in deep practice and transformation under Baba’s masterful guidance.

Welcome! 🙏🏻🌈

02/08/2026

Open Heart Summer Retreat 2026
”Thank you, Amrita Baba, for yet another superb retreat filled with radiant insight and profound transmissions of our true nature.

Months of drought ended with rain showers and a thunderstorm as the retreat began. The air itself seemed charged, echoing the rumble of the river beside the Open Heart ashram.

Together, 18 practitioners immersed themselves in the Dharma as it is practiced in Open Heart. Our true nature is clarity, love, and compassion, not as abstract concepts, but as lived experience: a clear mind, an open heart, and a body infused with the nectar of our body of light.

Throughout the retreat, we practiced interrupting the momentum of samsara, not only in the mind, but in all our bodies.

We received two profound empowerments of the Divine Mother: Mahakundalini Shakti, representing the pure energies of Prana, Bindu, and Amrita, and Bhudevi (Sacred Earth), grounding the pure nature of the physical body through yogic practice and immortality exercises.

We return home with a deeper experiential understanding of the path to full enlightenment. Even brief moments of recognition leave an inner knowing that no external explanation can replace.

Deep gratitude to Amrita Baba for the teachings and transmissions, to Amrita Rani for organizing the retreat, to all the Acharyas for the morning Rainbow Body Yoga sessions, to everyone who offered Karma Yoga, and to every practitioner who shared this journey. Practicing together is the true home of the Sangha.

May all who have the merit to practice the Dharma find traditions that truly lead to enlightenment.

May all beings be free. 🙏”
- Sangita, ordained member of Open Heart sangha

22/06/2026

Welcome to our Open Heart Summer Retreat in Slovenia, led by Amrita Baba. The retreat will be held live in person in Slovenia and also online.

11–18 July 2026
Slovenia + Online

During the retreat we will practice key Open Heart methods such as Guru Yoga, Rainbow Body Yoga, Amrita Kriya Yoga, and non-meditation, with time for questions from Baba.

Open Heart is a path of ta***ic meditative yoga founded by Amrita Baba, offering a practical path to full enlightenment for modern lay practitioners.

Registration
https://www.openheartofallbeings.com/calendar/open-heart-summer-retreat-2026

16/06/2026

Dear friends,
A gentle reminder that the Rainbow Body Yoga Level 1 Online Course is scheduled for next weekend, 20–21 June 2026.

Few people have contacted me to express interest in the course, but no formal registrations have been received yet. If you would like to participate, please send your registration by email no later than Thursday, 18 June. If no registrations are received by then, the course will unfortunately be cancelled.

Rainbow Body Yoga is a profound practice from the Open Heart tradition that supports the recognition of our natural state through Guru mantras, subtle energy practices, and direct seeing. Whether you have experienced awakening shifts or simply feel called to deepen your spiritual path, you are warmly welcome.

Course Details
📅 20–21 June 2026
🕒 3:00–9:00 pm (CET)
Dinner break approximately 6:00–7:30 pm each day

Participation Fee
Sliding scale €100–200, according to your financial situation.

Please register by emailing me at: [email protected]

I would be delighted to practice with you and share these precious teachings together.

With warm wishes,
Amrita Rani

14/06/2026

Words of Amrita Sangita:
”Thank you Baba for the last satsang of this training season 🙏

This time around we had a chance to join the session in person, and feel the powerful transmission.

Through generating bodhicitta, Amrita Baba guided us through the external, internal to the secret aspect of ta***ic practices, where we connect with our innate buddha nature and our habitual mind and tendencies drop away.

Taking the practice even further with the powerful transmission, Baba pointed out the collapsing of samsara and nirvana into the one sameness, also known as One Taste.

Thank you Baba for this wonderful opportunity to meet you and for the chance to practice together 🙏

The next training season starts in August/September. In the mean time, you can join Amrita Rani ’s Thursday sessions or the July Summer retreat.

Monsoon showers of blessings to all!”

Amrita Sangita,
ordained member of Open Heart sangha

10/06/2026

We are exceptionally fortunate to have access to a ta***ic practice called the Rainbow Body Yoga (RBY), which was given to Amrita Baba from Padmasambhava. Traditionally, the highest yoga teachings were often difficult to access, requiring extensive travel, personal connections, or years of preparation. Today, ordinary people from all walks of life have the opportunity to learn RBY through an affordable online format, making authentic advanced spiritual training available to far more practitioners than ever before.

Already 28 practitioners have attained realization of emptiness through Rainbow Body Yoga. While some had undergone an awakening prior to beginning the practice, most started from an unawakened state and awakened through Amrita Baba’s method known as the Two-Part Formula.

In the Mahāyāna tradition, realization of emptiness (śūnyatā) is regarded as an extraordinarily rare attainment. Classical texts such as the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and the vast Prajñāpāramitā literature present the direct realization of emptiness as a profound breakthrough that liberates one from the fundamental causes of suffering. Against this traditional backdrop, the results reported by practitioners of Rainbow Body Yoga are especially noteworthy, as they suggest that a clear and effective method can help sincere practitioners progress through the stages of awakening in a direct and systematic way.

As practitioners deepen their training in Rainbow Body Yoga, they can practice with confidence, knowing that the method provides a clear and systematic path toward successive awakenings. Through sustained practice, one gradually learns to recognize the mind’s selfing mechanism with increasing precision, seeing through ever subtler forms of identification. In this way, the process of awakening continues to deepen, culminating in the realization of emptiness itself, a realization that Mahāyāna Buddhism has long regarded as one of the rarest and most precious attainments on the spiritual path.

08/06/2026

Words of Kripa: ”Sitting at Birmingham airport glowing and with a heart full of gratitude for a wonderful and profound in person weekend retreat with Amrita Baba and dear fellow practicioners, meditating together for the benefit of all our friends and all sentient beings.

Lived time spent together is so precious, it allows us to learn, to grow and in the essence to give and recieve nothing but love.

Thank you to Bhole Baba James Ferguson for hosting us, thank you Amrita Baba for guiding us, sharing your powerful teachings and and lightening up our immortal being.
Thank you friends for you being there and sharing chats, laughter and your beautiful presence🙏🏻.”

Amrita Kripa,
ordained member of Open Heart sangha

03/06/2026

There is still time to join this special retreat with Amrita Baba, starting this Friday in Birmingham and online.

Open Heart Birmingham Retreat
Secrets of Bone Marrow Washing
5–7 June | In-Person & Online

Bone Marrow Washing is a rare internal practice traditionally attributed to Bodhidharma. Through Baba’s transmission and guidance, this profound method becomes accessible, enjoyable, and deeply transformative. The practice offers a unique opportunity to purify and refine the body’s subtle energetic system and tissues while bringing fresh insight into the unity of body and mind.

The retreat is open to both beginners and experienced practitioners. Whether you join in person or online, you will be fully included in the shared field of practice.

If you feel called to participate, you are warmly welcome.

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https://openheartofallbeings.com/calendar/birmingham-weekend-retreat-jun-2026

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