The Habit Alignment Key (HAK) Retreat is a profound, unique, and innovative retreat experience created by Tenzin Ösel Hita to facilitate deep insight and awareness into our inner and outer environments.
Combining Buddhist wisdom with current scientific thinking, we will discover our intricate relationship to ourselves and the ever-changing interdependent world. The HAK provides the potential for our minds to become more flexible, understanding, open, happier, and productive. Collectively the HAK experience will help us transcend conventional perspectives, leading to a deeper understanding of reality and our place in it. We will be well nourished at all levels and have the tools to change and improve habits aligned with our true nature and aspirations.
Tenzin Ösel Hita, is a radical freethinker, humanitarian, documentary filmmaker, musician, father, friend, lifelong student, and former 21st-century Buddhist monk.
When just 14 months old, Ösel was formally recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe, the revered Tibetan yogi, scholar, and teacher. Today, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), which Lama Thubten Yeshe and his main disciple Lama Zopa Rinpoche founded in the early 1970s, comprises an international family of thousands of students and a network of more than 160 centers, projects, and services. The FPMT was under the spiritual direction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche until Rinpoche’s passing in early 2023. Ösel served on the FPMT board of directors from 2008 to 2013. He continues to attend teachings and supports the organization by sharing love, experience, and knowledge with the FPMT family around the world.
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“There is no separation between me and the FPMT,” says Ösel. “We are all working together in many aspects and fields. Humanity is our office.” Ösel was enthroned as the reincarnation of Lama Yeshe in March 1987. In 1991, when he was six years old, he entered Sera Je Monastic University in southern India, where he lived and studied until he was 18 years old. Ösel then made the decision to leave monastic life to explore modern ways of living and thinking. Ösel continued his education, graduating from high school at St. Michaels University School, a private boarding school in British Columbia, Canada. After high school, Ösel attended university in Switzerland, studying Western philosophy, human rights, the French language, and art. Ösel furthered his interest in film by moving to Madrid and studying for a degree in Film Direction, Direction of Photography, and a Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking at the International School of Audiovisual Media. Ösel has also taken communication courses at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. From California, Ösel went to the University of Hawaii, where he studied financial and organizational behavior. Ösel returned several times to continue his Buddhist philosophical studies at Sera Je Monastery with his beloved teacher Geshe Gendun Choephel, who passed away in 2016. Ösel continues his studies today, placing an emphasis on seeking non-traditional learning and creative experiences. “We are all one family and we are sisters and brothers,” says Ösel. “Never forget this. Starting with yourself. You are your best friend. You have to live with yourself all your life, so make the most of it. Don’t be hard on yourself. Just relax. Love yourself. Enjoy your own company without depending on external agents, such as intangible concepts—surreal and intoxicating idealizations which add more samsara on top of the samsara we already have. Be present, and don’t be dissatisfied, because the main cause of dissatisfaction means that you are not living in the moment. Or—live in the moment. This moment. It is always the same moment. Agree?”
Born and raised in Chicago, Tom Truty spent years living in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Portland, before returning to his hometown. After many years dabbling in mediation and Buddhism, Tom began serious study of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism in 2001. He engaged with Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) study program in 2005. Tom served as FPMT’s Director of Education Services for over ten years, taught both Buddhist and secular meditation. and created online education courses for Wisdom Publications. He now serves as CEO and Board member of Tenzin Osel Hita’s not-for-profit organization, Universal Clear Light, as Executive Assistant to Tenzin Osel Hita, and as a HAK Retreat coordinator and presenter. A vegan and conscious consumer for many years, Tom has written for several vegan publications and helped produce vegan events, promoting compassion for all sentient beings.
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Enrique “Kiké” Mantecon de la Cruz was born in 1973 and grew up in the Batán neighborhood of Madrid, Spain. He completed a tourism degree at the Vox Institute in Spain, approved in 1994 and revalidated in 1997, acquiring the title of Business and Tourist Activities Technician.
Since he was four years old when his grandfather Enrique taught him that we will all die one day, Kiké has been interested about life beyond death, about the meaning of death, and the importance of life on Earth. This developed his interest in the afterlife, paranormal phenomena, ancient civilizations and ancestral cultures, shamanism, temples and places of power, and ancient religions. Kiké worked in tourist entertainment and public relations in hotels, and as a tour guide. After a trip to Russia in 1995 and several trips to India, he gradually deprogrammed himself and left a “formal, normal, and socially correct” mental scheme. Since then, he has traveled the world in search of astronomic conjunctions, ancient cultures and religions, and the most important telluric power points of the Earth. In 2003, Kiké wrote a book,“Tibetan Land on the Tomb of the Cat,” and gave talks and conferences exposing the ideas and experiences narrated in the book. Meanwhile, he continued learning English, French, and German, and basic notions of Tibetan and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Since 2006, he has been working with Tibetan lamas, translating and helping them as much as possible on their world peace tours to raise funds for their monasteries. Over 25 years, Kiké has been searching, visiting, and sharing in 70 countries about the cultural traditions, tribes, religions, and philosophies of the world, learning and reading hundreds of books about ancient civilizations, ancient mythology, and Earth’s mysteries. Kiké has studied Ayurveda in Kerala, India, in three different schools since 2012, and now directs a school of Ayurvedic therapy, providing courses, teachings and therapies, and organizes an association called AyurvidaIbiza. In 2003, Kiké wrote a book,“Tibetan Land on the Tomb of the Cat,” and gave talks and conferences exposing the ideas and experiences narrated in the book. Meanwhile, he continued learning English, French, and German, and basic notions of Tibetan and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Since 2006, he has been working with Tibetan lamas, translating and helping them as much as possible on their world peace tours to raise funds for their monasteries. Over 25 years, Kiké has been searching, visiting, and sharing in 70 countries about the cultural traditions, tribes, religions, and philosophies of the world, learning and reading hundreds of books about ancient civilizations, ancient mythology, and Earth’s mysteries. Kiké has studied Ayurveda in Kerala, India, in three different schools since 2012, and now directs a school of Ayurvedic therapy, providing courses, teachings and therapies, and organizes an association called AyurvidaIbiza.
In 2003, Kiké wrote a book,“Tibetan Land on the Tomb of the Cat,” and gave talks and conferences exposing the ideas and experiences narrated in the book. Meanwhile, he continued learning English, French, and German, and basic notions of Tibetan and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Since 2006, he has been working with Tibetan lamas, translating and helping them as much as possible on their world peace tours to raise funds for their monasteries.
Over 25 years, Kiké has been searching, visiting, and sharing in 70 countries about the cultural traditions, tribes, religions, and philosophies of the world, learning and reading hundreds of books about ancient civilizations, ancient mythology, and Earth’s mysteries.
Kiké has studied Ayurveda in Kerala, India, in three different schools since 2012, and now directs a school of Ayurvedic therapy, providing courses, teachings and therapies, and organizes an association called AyurvidaIbiza.