SENDA LOTO
Pema (Tib. Loto) is a meditation teacher and yogi with more than 15 years of deep practice in Tibetan Buddhism, especially in the Dzogchen tradition. He has trained with some of the most respected teachers of our time, including H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ponlop, and his root teacher, the yogi Loppon Jigme Rinpoche.
Pema’s path to the Dharma began with a series of devastating losses. In his childhood, he lost both parents, and shortly after, everything they had left him was stolen by other members of his family. This betrayal and pain deeply marked his early years. During his adolescence and until his mid-twenties, music became his refuge and a new mask, and for a time he lived as a professional musician with some success. But inside, the pain and questions about the meaning of life continued to grow. Depression became present. The silence under the noise became louder and louder, revealing what was not real.
One night, standing on the edge of a window on a seventh floor in Berlin, on the verge of ending his life, something opened. In an instant, he saw the true nature of the mind: that all thoughts and emotions—whether pleasant or unbearable—are projections without essence, empty and fleeting. That moment pulled him away from the abyss and guided him towards a life of authentic search and confrontation with reality as it is.
He gave away his belongings, left behind the world he knew, and embarked on a path of practice and retreat. From hermitages in the Himalayas to South American jungles, he trained with wild yogis and compassionate teachers, spending long periods in silence, solitude, and study. Little by little, his mind found peace. The pain was transformed into fuel for a deeper reality. And the Dharma ceased to be just a teaching to become a lived truth, stripped of all pretense.
Today, Pema lives in retreat and shares his space and practices with those seeking liberation and to be genuinely real. His teachings are direct, practical, and free of the masks of spiritual pretensions. He does not offer theories, but tools born from his own experience, guiding others to dance with life as it is.
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