A Steady Heart in Turbulent Times:
Bringing Emotions to the Path of Awakening

Where: Bud Werner Memorial Library, Steamboat Springs, CO or Online via Zoom
When: September 12th - 14th 2025

When the world seems threatening and chaotic, we are called to respond with as much clarity and balance as we possibly can. For this, we need understanding and skill as we navigate our inner life and the world altogether.

While our emotions may delight or challenge us at times, when examined, we find them to be fleeting and unreliable. On a subtle level, the emotions often obscure the abiding peaceful awareness that lies at the very heart of each of us. During this weekend retreat, we’ll discover how to use the energy and richness of our emotional life as the golden thread along the journey to awakening. We’ll learn to bring emotions to the path as the basis for inner peace and equanimity, as a source of radiant compassion, and finally, as brilliant wisdom.

This program is open to anyone, experienced meditators and beginners alike.

Tim Olmsted has been a student of meditation for the past 50 years. For twelve of those years, Tim lived in Nepal and worked as a psychotherapist. There he studied with many of the greatest Buddhist teachers of our time, including Mingyur Rinpoche’s father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Tim served as director of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is the founder and president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation. Tim is one of the four founding Instructors of Mingyur Rinpoche’s worldwide meditation community, Tergar International.

The weekend will consist of periods of meditation, teachings, and discussion.

Please join us in-person if you are able and online if you are not.  We have scholarships available and some help available for housing, if needed.

Teaching Schedule

There will be community events Friday am to Sunday evening for those who arrive a bit early or stay through Monday. We will NOT have Monday night sangha on September 15.

Friday 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 9am-5pm

*This program builds through the weekend - Tim strongly encourages participants to come for the entire time. The entire event will be recorded and available to attendees soon after the event.

Program Registration:

In-Person - Friday night through Sunday, including after-party: $190

Online - Friday night through Sunday: $110

*Please note we have scholarships available if you need assistance to attend. Please contact Tricia at treasurer@steamboatbuddhistcenter.org.

*We hope to have some reduced cost housing for those in need. If interested, please contact Susan at membership@steamboatbuddhistcenter.org.

*Any other questions, please contact Marchele at info@steamboatbuddhistcenter.org.