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Liberation in Our Hands

Pilgrimage Through the Gradual Path of Tibetan Buddhism

with Dr Miles Neale

Begins January 13*

Live Weekly Session

10 Weeks x 2 hours

8 AM BALI (JAN 14) | 7 PM EST (JAN 13) | 4 PM PST  (JAN 13)

Liberation in Our Hands

A 10-Week Pilgrimage Along Tibet’s Gradual Path

with Dr Miles Neale

Begins January 13

Live Weekly Session

10 Weeks x 2 hours

8 AM BALI (JAN 14) | 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST (JAN 13)

Traditional Tibetan shrine with a Guru Rinpoche statue and painted murals.

The Gradual Path

Liberation in Our Hands is a 10-week guided pilgrimage through the lam rim or gradual stages of the path of awakening. Long regarded in Tibet as the most comprehensive and systematic presentation of Buddhist philosophy and practice, the lam rim serves as a practitioner’s manual, a post-graduate curriculum in which each topic prepares the mind for the next level of insight and integration.

An Authentic Lineage

This year’s program centers on Pabongka Rinpoche’s classic Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand (1939), long revered for its clarity and emphasis on lived practice. It remains the definitive articulation of the lam rim approach. Dr. Miles received transmission of this text from Gelek Rinpoche in 2013 and now offers this training at a moment when our culture is passing through its own cosmic cycle of dissolution and renewal.

Historic photograph of Pabongka Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
Tibetan monk performing a traditional ritual with drum and scriptures.

Our Approach

This program presents authentic, unwatered-down Dharma in a language that is psychologically precise and accessible to our modern mindset. Its structure is systematic and comprehensive, more like a carefully sequenced University curriculum than a casual workshop, offering theory, practices, and life applications for sincere practitioners seeking genuine transformation.

Traditional Tibetan shrine with a Guru Rinpoche statue and painted murals.

A Structured Path to Awakening

Liberation in Our Hands is a 10-week guided pilgrimage through the lamrim. The graduated stages of the path to awakening. Long regarded in Tibet as the most comprehensive and systematic presentation of Buddhist philosophy and practice, the lamrim serves as a practitioner’s manual, a post-graduate curriculum in which each topic prepares the mind for the next layer of insight.

Historic photograph of Pabongka Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher.

A Teaching with Lineage

This year’s program centers on Pabongka Rinpoche’s classic Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand (1939), revered for its clarity and emphasis on lived practice. It remains the definitive articulation of the lamrim tradition. Dr Miles received transmission of this text from Gelek Rinpoche in 2013 and now offers this training at a moment when our culture is passing through its own cycles of dissolution and renewal.

Tibetan monk performing a traditional ritual with drum and scriptures.

The Approach

This program presents authentic, unwatered-down Dharma in language that is psychologically precise and accessible. Its structure is systematic and cumulative,  more like a carefully sequenced curriculum than a casual workshop offering clear guidance for sincere practitioners seeking depth, clarity and genuine transformation without shortcuts or spiritual bypassing.

Why Study Lam Rim with Us?

  • A complete, step-by-step path
    The lam rim taught as intended — systematic, integrated and comprehensive, covering topics like mentor devotion, refuge, renunciation, altruism, emptiness and more.
  • Authentic transmission, nothing diluted
    Rooted in decades of study and direct lineage transmissions by qualified masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, not watered-down McMindfulness.
  • Ancient wisdom for modern minds
    Classical teachings translated through psychology, trauma research, Jung, mythology and neuroscience — without losing rigor.
  • Grounded in real life
    Designed for modern practitioners balancing work, family, responsibilities and the challenges of attention, mental health, social justice and AI.
  • A path for this moment
    Situating the lam rim within the polycrisis and the cosmology of civilizational death-rebirth reframed as collective initiation.
  • Powerful meditative tools
    Guided Tibetan-style visualizations that work like a virtual flight-simulator to optimize learning and the nervous system.
Buddha statue on a Tibetan altar with wrapped scriptures and ritual objects.

Why Now?

Because we’re living through a civilizational death and rebirth—a collective initiation. The future is uncertain, and the road ahead will bring both challenges and opportunities, but destiny and liberation always remain in our own hands. The lam rim offers us the pilgrim's mindset and toolkit to transform adversity into advantage, trial into treasure. Now is the time to gather, turn inward, and return with an elixir for others.

About Dr Miles Neale

Dr. Miles Neale is a psychotherapist, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Gradual Path for inner and outer journeys, author of Return with Elixir and Gradual Awakening, and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy. He leads pilgrimages around the world and is based in Bali, Indonesia.

About Dr Miles Neale

Dr. Miles Neale is a psychotherapist, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Gradual Path for inner and outer journeys, author of Return with Elixir and Gradual Awakening, and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy. He leads pilgrimages around the world and is based in Bali, Indonesia.

10-Week Pilgrimage 

Stages of the Gradual Path

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Full Investment

USD $300

  • 2-hour videos x 10 weeks
  • Audio files
  • Syllabus and readings
  • On mobile device via Kajabi app
  • Bonus material in your library
  • Full refund available before the second class
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Payment Plan

USD $150 X 2

  • 2-hour videos x 10 weeks
  • Audio files
  • Syllabus and readings
  • On mobile device via Kajabi app
  • Bonus material in your library
  • Full refund available before the second class
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