VIRTUAL EVENT Tibetan New Year 2025: Celebrating the Serpent’s Wisdom and Renewal

Tibetan Losar 2025: Year of the Wood Snake

Celebrating Tibetan New Year with Spirituality and Culture

Join us for a virtual morning of cultural immersion as we celebrate Tibetan Losar, the Tibetan New Year, marking the Year of the Wood Snake. This special online event will offer a blend of traditional Tibetan practices and guided activities, allowing you to welcome the new year with hope, health, and prosperity from wherever you are. The celebration will be led by Dr. Chock Tenzin Monlam, an expert in Tibetan traditions and spirituality.Join us for a virtual morning of cultural immersion as we celebrate Tibetan Losar, the Tibetan New Year, marking the Year of the Wood Snake. This special online event will offer a blend of traditional Tibetan practices and guided activities, allowing you to welcome the new year with hope, health, and prosperity from wherever you are.

Program:

9:00 - 10:00 AM:

FIVE PRANAYAMAS

For Physical and Mental Health

Let us learn the five pranayamas for a healthy and happy year 2025! Dr. Chok will discuss topics such as breathing mechanisms;

natural breathing patterns; what prana is; types of pranas and where pranas are located location and their functions; the direct relationship between body postures and pranas; what pranayama is; and then learn benefits and practice each of the five pranayamas.

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM SANG SÖL ; HOISTING PRAYER FLAGS

Celebrating Losar: Tibetan New Year

Dr Chok will briefly explain what sang söl (incense offering ceremony) and meaning of the prayer flags.

As part of our Tibetan Losar celebration, we invite you to participate in the sacred tradition of prayer flags—where names and blessings are carried by the wind, spreading peace, health, and prosperity into the world.

Even if you cannot attend in person, you can still take part in this meaningful ritual. Submit the names of yourself, loved ones, or intentions you wish to send into the new year. Our team will inscribe them onto a prayer flag on your behalf, and during the ceremony, they will be hoisted in the museum’s garden alongside others.

Hoisting the Prayer Flags

Once all names are written, we will gather to hoist the prayer flags outside, allowing them to carry our noble intentions into the world. This symbolizes the spread of peace, happiness, good fortune and blessings for the year ahead.

Join us in spirit for the Sang Söl incense offering ceremony, a sacred Tibetan ritual of purification and renewal. Even if you cannot attend in person, you can still take part in this powerful tradition from wherever you are.

At the designated time, light incense in your own space, set an intention for the new year, and join us virtually as Dr. Chok leads the Sang Söl prayer rites. This ritual is meant to cleanse negativity, invite blessings, and offer prayers for a prosperous and harmonious year ahead.

By participating remotely, you align your prayers with ours, contributing to a shared moment of spiritual connection and renewal.

As we step from the Year of the Wood Dragon into the Year of the Wood Snake, we invite you to join us in celebrating Tibetan Losar, a time of renewal, reflection, and spiritual prosperity. This sacred transition marks not only the turning of the lunar calendar but also an opportunity to align ourselves with the wisdom, resilience, and transformation symbolized by the Wood Snake.

Through ancient rituals, prayer flag offerings, and traditional Tibetan practices, we gather to cleanse the past, set intentions for the future, and welcome the new year with open hearts. Join us for a morning of culture, mindfulness, and community as we embrace the blessings of Losar together.

This event is free and open to the public, made possible by the Department of Cultural Affairs as part of the larger program, Global Resonance: Voices for Unity in a Contemporary Society. Please note that this reservation is for online attendance of the program. If you wish to attend the event in person, this is not the correct link. This virtual session is offered to reach a wider audience, including those unable to attend in person due to space constraints at the museum. Reservation is highly recommended.