This retreat explores how the mind can support healing, drawing on meditation, compassion, and visualization practices — grounded in Alain's own experience healing from terminal cancer.
Participants will work with unconditional acceptance and loving kindness to build a healthier relationship with themselves, and will learn the Guru Rinpoche healing practice (invocation, visualization, and mantra). The retreat also introduces healing through the lens of the Four Medical Tantra, the foundation of Tibetan Medicine, with ample time to practice and absorb these teachings.
The overall approach is holistic: healing addresses the whole being — body, mind, and emotions — not just physical illness. Even if the body doesn't recover, this work can offer a profound sense of healing and greater readiness for death.
Important note: Tibetan teachers advise that appropriate medical treatment should remain the primary approach for serious illness, with spiritual practice as a complement.
Alain Beauregard
Buddhist Teacher - Physicist and Entrepreneur
Alain Beauregard is a Rigpa senior teacher as well as a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995. He is a physicist by training and lives in Montreal. Alain has been teaching healing internationally since 2011, based on his own healing story.
At the age of 46, Alain was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic bladder cancer which was inoperable and had spread to such a point that his doctors said he was incurable. In less than 3 months of receiving chemotherapy combined with working on the emotional cause of disease and doing spiritual healing practices, his cancer went into complete remission. Alain has been cancer-free to this date.
This life-changing experience inspired Alain to give public talks and workshops about the powerful tools that Tibetan Buddhism offers to deepen our perspective on illness and introduce us to a holistic approach to healing that considers our entire being, not just the body.