With Charlotte Elliott: Friday 26th until Sunday 28th April (FULLY BOOKED – WAITING LIST AVAILABLE)

Tired, stressed and need to reconnect with yourself and with nature?

This secular retreat offers an opportunity to explore meditation and mindfulness practices in a calm, peaceful, and supportive environment.

With Lynne Knight: Friday 17th until Sunday 19th May (ONSITE ONLY)

None of us wants to suffer. We want to experience fulfilment, health and genuine happiness. We want to live in a peaceful, just and stable society, in a beautiful and flourishing world. And yet difficult, painful situations arise, causing mental and physical suffering in our lives, in our communities and in our world.

Is there an answer?

With Paul Wielgus: Friday 24th until Monday 27th May (ONSITE ONLY)

The essence of this Spring Bank holiday nature experience is Connection to your self – to others – to your essential nature – to Your Ecological Self. A Key focus of the retreat will be the discovery of our capacity to find and cultivate joy through all of these connections.

With Venerable Mary Reavey: Friday 7th until Friday 14th June (ONSITE ONLY)

In this retreat we will explore the Nature of Karma and how it influences our everyday experience. Understanding Karma can directly increase our happiness and reduce our suffering in this life and help us deal with the inevitability of death.

How we deal with death is an expression of our wisdom, courage and compassion. Exploring the Buddhist approach, highlighting wisdom and methods, can lead to embracing and owning our own death.

With Ondy Willson: Friday 21st until Sunday 23rd June (ONSITE ONLY)

Join Ondy Willson — an experienced practitioner and international teacher of mindfulness and Buddhist psychology, but also Mum, Nanna and Maverick — to find out how we can gain insights into life’s eternally discombobulating questions. And not necessarily by changing our belief systems or trying to be something we’re not! With warmth and wit, she talks no-nonsense, ego-busting self-discipline.

With Ray Furminger: Monday 1st – Saturday 6th July (ONSITE ONLY)

An experiential meditation retreat working with the ways of generating a positive motivation for our daily practice.

With Lou Beaumont: Friday 12th – Sunday 14th July (ONSITE ONLY) – FULLY BOOKED – WAITING LIST PLACES AVAILABLE

This will be a weekend course of gentle movement & breathing helping us to connect with our subtle body. Combining these movements with mindful attention we can experience quite naturally how to rest our mind in this expansive energy.

With Dr Liza Weber: Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th August (ONSITE ONLY)

Aimed at all levels, Liza’s ‘Tasting “Kum Nye”: Tibetan Yoga, Massage, and Visualisation’ course is meant as an introduction to a series of Tibetan yoga exercises and massage techniques that will guide participants on a journey to deep relaxation. Drawing on the sacred symbolism of Tibetan Buddhist iconography, the course is designed to enrich participant’s understanding of “Kum Nye” exercises with visualisation techniques. After all, “Kum Nye” is as much a yoga of the mind as it is the body. Suitable for beginners and experienced yogis alike, the course upholds Tarthang Tulku’s teachings that there is no one or ‘right’ way to perform the exercises.

With Güzin Yener: Friday August 9th – Sunday 11th August. (ONSITE ONLY)

This will be a short 2 day retreat open to all Buddhist practitioners, however those attending will have ideally been initiated into tantra (at any level), as well as be familiar with six session guru yoga and deity yoga.

With Güzin Yener: Monday August 12th – Friday 23rd August. (ONSITE ONLY)

The aim of the retreat is to co-support practitioners in gaining confidence and experience on their path to actualising Kurukullā as a yidam. There will be shared discussions and Q&A’s in an open and inclusive way to provide a safe space to strengthen our individual practice.

In order to attend this retreat you must have taken the Kurukullā empowerment and/or that of another highest yoga deity with the same level of vows, commitment and samaya.

With Olivia & Louise: Monday 26th – Wednesday 28th August (ONSITE ONLY)

This is a chance for your family to spend precious time together while exploring ideas to develop positive thoughts and attitudes both within your family dynamic and beyond.

With Venerable Mary Reavey: Dates Friday 6th until Sunday 15th September (ONSITE ONLY)

Are you curious about Buddhist practice, but don’t know where to begin? Have you attended Buddhist teachings and feel they could be useful for you but don’t know how to meditate on the subjects you’ve studied or how to apply them to your life? This retreat will answer these questions and more.

With Linda Noble & Cristian Fischer: Dates Tuesday 24th September until Thursday 10th October (ONSITE ONLY)

This retreat is open to anyone who has taken the Kalachakra initiation, regardless of whether or not they have experience in Kalachakra practice, as it’s a great way to learn to practice the Kalachakra tantra.

With Venerable Mary Reavey: Dates Sunday 13th until Sunday 20th October (ONSITE ONLY)

Shamatha is the method to sharpen and balance the mind. This mind is then applied in Vipassana to reveal the wisdom of the Nature of Reality. These teachings and practices reflect the clear and precise teachings of Lama B. Alan Wallace. We will review the main points in relation to developing Shamatha on the Breath.

Vipassana meditation utilizes the skills of Shamata within the process of enquiry. In this retreat we will directly question our lived experience within the framework of the Three Marks of existence and the Close application of Mindfulness.

With Paula Chichester: Dates Thursday 24th until Monday 28th October (ONSITE & ONLINE)

Healing Mind, Spirit and Body- Growing Towards Wholeness in Love

An open heart is well-being. Our presence of well being helps everyone one we meet.

With Paula Chichester: Dates Friday 1st until Tuesday 5th November (ONSITE & ONLINE)

Glorious White Tara is the healer of all ills and giver of long life. This beautiful practice will be the foundation for a hybrid retreat focused on experiential meditations that will introduce the tantric sadhana and mantra recitation as a healing method. White Tara is a favorite of our teachers so we will be dedicating the power of this practice to the long lives of our gurus.

With Paula Chichester: Dates Saturday 9th until Wednesday 13th November (ONSITE & ONLINE)

Medicine Buddha is an ancient, powerful meditation practice to heal the wounds of our body, mind and spirit —personally and globally. In this workshop, we will balance the five elements in the body/mind, using meditation and physical exercises interspersed with discussions on how to heal ourselves and others. The meditation will integrate recitation and imagination with periods of resting in the nature of mind.

With Marina Brucet Vinyals: Dates Monday 25th November until Wednesday 4th December (ONSITE ONLY)

The Vajrasattva practice acts at many levels, from purifying the mind from negativities and ignorance, to help healing inner bounds, emotional hindrances, and difficult experiences with which we struggle. It clears the way and lays the ground for practice, both psychologically and spiritually.

In the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of Vajrasattva is one of the preliminary practices, which are traditionally done before engaging in long retreat. This retreat is a wonderful opportunity to purify and clear the mind with the practice and mantra of Vajrasattva.