Greatist.com, a New York City-based website covering health and fitness, has chosen Lama Surya Das as #32 among the 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness for 2011, for services to Happiness.

You can read the article here.

Lama Surya Das has two teaching events scheduled in Orange County, California in the New Year.

His topic is "CATCHING YOURSELF BEFORE THINGS CATCH YOU: The Secrets of Tibetan Mindfulness".

For full details, please click on the following links:

Friday January 20th (evening presentation)

and

Saturday January 21st (one day retreat)

Secure online registration for these events is now live at this link (or follow links on event pages).

Lama Surya Das will offer an evening presentation at the Neighborhood Community Center in Costa Mesa on Friday, January 20th; and a one-day retreat at the same location on Saturday, January 21st.

The topic for both teachings will be
CATCHING YOURSELF BEFORE THINGS CATCH YOU:
The Secrets of Tibetan Mindfulness

Further notice will appear here as soon as online registration and additional details for the event are available.

Regrettably, this Sunday's outdoor meditation practice and group picnic/social has been cancelled and will not take place, due to adverse weather forecast: cloudy, showers and temperatures in the low 50s. We'll re-schedule when the weather warms up again. Meanwhile our regular Tuesday evening meetings will of course continue, as will special events from time to time.

By the way, don't forget that the clocks will fall back tonight, giving everyone that very welcome extra hour of rest!

Lama Surya will teach a Friday evening talk and Saturday one-day retreat on the weekend of January 20th and 21st in Orange County. Please save the dates and watch for detailed annoucements.

Tricycle Magazine's Book Club is hosting a discussion with Lama Surya of his new book, Buddha Standard Time. You can join the discussion here.

Tricycle has also posted a video introduction to this event recorded by Lama Surya.

Lama Surya spoke at Buddhafest in Washington DC the weekend of 9/11.

You can watch part 1 of his talk here on Tricycle.

Lama Surya has a new podcast available on the web -

Dzogchen 101: The Five Great Perfections

Sounds True are hosting a series of one-hour live interactive video teaching sessions with Lama Surya Das online, starting tomorrow: Thursday, July 21 at 5 pm Pacific Time.

Further sessions will be held on Thursday July 28th and Thursday August 4th, at 5 pm until 6 pm Pacific Time in each case.

This is a great opportunity to connect with Lama Surya online and to ask questions.

More information is available by clicking here.

With regard to the earlier announcement that Lama Surya might be teaching in Southern California in early August, this visit has now been postponed due to scheduling issues. As soon as further information is available regarding his next visit to the area, it will be posted here.