An Embodied Path of Compassion and Essential Self-Esteem
Tara, a female Buddha of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism, invites us to see everything in our experience as part of the path. Uncertainty, fear, anger, courage, love—each can be a doorway to deeper awakening.
This course invites you into a living relationship with this understanding. Chandra Easton introduces the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tara in a clear and accessible way, guiding new and experienced practitioners alike toward the recognition and embodiment of awareness as courage, compassion, clarity, and steadiness.
Through meditation, mantra, visualization, and reflection, you’ll explore Tara practice as a mirror for recognizing your own awakened capacities by working through the body, breath, voice, imagination, and awareness.
Learn Tara practice in a grounded, experiential way, and discover a source of healing wisdom you can return to again and again.
Meet your teacher Chandra Easton and learn how Tara practice will help you befriend yourself, awaken inner wisdom, and build confidence.
What You’ll Experience
In this in-depth 4-part course, you’ll learn how to:
✓ Cultivate essential self-esteem
Welcome every part of yourself as belonging on the path.
✓ Work skillfully with fear and anxiety
Navigate transitions with greater ease through Tara practices.
✓ Learn Tibetan deity practice
Recognize your natural awareness and embody awakened qualities.
✓ Develop fierce compassion
Learn how to use clear boundaries without shutting down or hardening.
✓ Trust yourself confidently
Act wisely and live with grounded presence.
Course Structure & Module Highlights
Each module includes two lessons: a teaching and a guided practice.
MODULE 1
Green & White Tara: Foundations of Embodied Practice
LESSON 1: Introduction to Tara & Essential Buddhist Teachings
LESSON 2: Guided Meditation on Visualizing Tara’s Qualities + Green Tara Mantra Meditation
Explore Tara’s origin stories, symbolism, and historical lineage alongside essential Buddhist teachings. Learn how Green Tara helps transform fear and anxiety, and how White Tara offers healing and longevity. Includes a complete guided visualization and mantra practice you can return to daily.
MODULE 2:
Becoming Tara: Deity Practice
LESSON 1: Embodying Tara’s Qualities Through Meditation & Mantra
LESSON 2: Guided Tara Embodiment Based on the Ninth Tara
Enter the heart of deity practice through a full Green Tara sadhana. Learn how visualization, mantra, and dissolution support the release of fixed self-concepts and the embodiment of awakened qualities. Explore protection practices and compassionate action rooted in clarity rather than strain.
MODULE 3:
White Tara, Longevity, and Compassionate Action
LESSON 1: White Tara, Longevity, and Compassionate Action
LESSON 2: Guided Practice: A Journey with Tara
Work with White Tara (Marici) and practices related to longevity, transitions, refugees, animals, and cultural continuity. Learn a flexible “journey with Tara” practice for insight and guidance, bridging visionary experience with daily life.
MODULE 4
Bringing Tara’s Healing Into the World
LESSON 1: Bringing Tara’s Healing Into the World
LESSON 2: Learning the Melody for the 21st Tara Mantra
Focus on integration: bringing Tara practice into relationships, boundaries, service, and ordinary moments. Learn how short, frequent practice supports sustainability, how to work skillfully with fear, and how devotion can be joyful and creative. The course concludes with a melodic chanting practice that celebrates voice, embodiment, and heart.
The Course Begins on Feburary 2nd | Save $25 with Early Enrollment
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Receive a clear guide to Tara practice, with repeatable practices that support integration into everyday moments.
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This course is about helping us to see how we can welcome all aspects of ourselves home, see the essential wisdom within these different parts of ourselves, befriend ourselves, and to have what I like to call “essential self-esteem”.
Chandra Easton
About Your Teacher
Chandra Easton is a dharma teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts who has been teaching Buddhism and Hatha Yoga since 2001. She studied Buddhism and the Tibetan language in Dharamsala, India, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-translated Sublime Dharma with B. Alan Wallace.
In 2015, Chandra was recognized as a Vajra Teacher (Dorje Lopön / Vajrāchārya) by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche at Tara Mandala Retreat Center. Committed to bringing forth the voice of the empowered feminine in Buddhism, she teaches nationally and internationally, develops programs for Tara Mandala, and co-founded the 21 Taras Collective.
Chandra is also the author of Embodying Tara, which explores the twenty-one manifestations of Tara as pathways to awakening innate wisdom.
Course Features
When you enroll, you’ll get lifetime access to:
Four in-depth teaching modules in over 3 hours of lessons
Guided mantra, visualization, and embodiment practices
Chanting practice with original melody
Journey with Tara Guided Journaling Practice & Integration Practice
Reflection questions for deeper study
Downloadable audio recordings and PDF transcripts
This Course Is For You If…
- You have an existing interest in Buddhism, meditation, or contemplative practice, and want to deepen or refresh your relationship with it
- You’re curious about deity practice and want it taught in a way that is clear, grounded, and practical
- You’re experiencing feelings of fear, uncertainty, and anxiety, and want guidance and support working with the energy of those emotions
- You’re drawn to compassion practices, whether you’re working with burnout or overgiving, or simply want a more embodied and authentic connection with yourself and others
- You’re navigating difficulty or transition and want practices that help you meet life with more steadiness and openness
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You feel called to live your practice more fully—in relationships, creativity, service, and daily life
The Course Begins on Feburary 2nd | Save $25 with Early Enrollment
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