A Cup of Tea with Your Demons and Allies: An Open Feeding Your Demons Conversation

A Cup of Tea with Your Demons and Allies is an informal online gathering rooted in Feeding Your Demons®, a method that blends Tibetan Buddhist wisdom with modern psychology to help people work skillfully with difficult experiences. It is open to anyone curious about shadow work, meditation and compassionate self-inquiry, and it is led by Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam. It is offered as a Dharma talk and daylong event through Tara Mandala.

What Happens

This is a conversation more than a lecture. Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam holds space for questions and open discussion, and together the group explores what it means to meet our demons and our allies with tenderness rather than resistance. Along the way she guides participants through a Feeding Your Demons® process, the practice at the heart of this lineage's approach to inner obstacles.

The tone is relaxed and unhurried. You are invited to bring your curiosity and, if you like, a cup of your favorite tea to hold while you listen and take part.

About Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam is a teacher in the Tara Mandala community founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She teaches Feeding Your Demons® and also leads programs on the Enneagram and the Five Buddha Families, and on Machig Labdrön's teachings on open awareness, including the Skymind path. She co-teaches with Lama Tsultrim Allione and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen, and she also contributes to the community's yearlong Heart of Buddhism study program.

Before You Go

The gathering takes place online, so you can join from wherever you are. Nothing in the description asks for prior experience or prerequisites, and the format is informal and welcoming of questions. A cup of tea is optional, though it suits the spirit of the afternoon.

Feeding Your Demons® is part of a wider set of offerings at Tara Mandala, which also include self-paced courses, multi-day online programs and longer study paths. This conversation is a gentle way to meet the practice, or to return to it, in the company of others.