Retreats & Courses at Land of Joy
Land of Joy offers a range of introductory, next step, advanced and secular retreats through most of the year. Please click on any retreat of interest to learn more about it and book your place.
Personal retreats or private stays are also possible depending on availability. Please click here for more details
Please be aware retreats might be cancelled up to two weeks prior to the event due to lack of numbers or other reasons. It is also possible they will be re-arranged if we have the chance to host a high lama, so please keep this in mind when booking transport.
September
With Paula Chichester: 18th – 24th September – this will be offered as an online course
The Vajrayogini Completion Stage Retreat is now open to anyone who has received the VajraYogini empowerment from a qualified master. The meditations and exercises will be based on the 6 Yogas of Naropa teachings of Lama Thubten Yeshe that Paula received in 1983.
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The Vajrayogini Completion Stage Retreat is now open to anyone who has received the VajraYogini empowerment from a qualified master. The meditations and exercises will be based on the 6 Yogas of Naropa teachings of Lama Thubten Yeshe that Paula received in 1983.
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October
With Andy Wistreich: 10th – 17th October – this will be offered as an online course
This retreat is for those who have either attended the July 2019 Yamantaka retreat at Land of Joy, or for others who are accepted following application, by the retreat leader. Either way you will have received the Yamantaka empowerment and be familiar with the generation stage sadhana, ideally having completed the enabling retreat.
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This retreat is for those who have either attended the July 2019 Yamantaka retreat at Land of Joy, or for others who are accepted following application, by the retreat leader. Either way you will have received the Yamantaka empowerment and be familiar with the generation stage sadhana, ideally having completed the enabling retreat.
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With Roy Sutherwood: 24th – 31st October – Places Available
This practical meditative retreat will provide new perspectives on the way that we cause harm to ourselves and others through acting out of misguided, exaggerated and fantasised ideas about human nature, existence, events and physical things.
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November
With Paula Chichester & Lou Beaumont: 7th – 8th November – this will be offered as an online course
We all know the wonderful feeling that comes when someone sincerely offers to help us with no expectation of return; or when we see people genuinely giving their time and money to make a better life for another person or a whole group of people. We also know how good it makes us feel when we freely share our time and resources with others —when we are kind. Kindness makes us happy.
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With Paula Chichester: 13th – 20th November – this will be offered as an online course
Glorious White Tara is the healer of all ills and giver of long life. This beautiful practice will be the foundation for a retreat focused on experiential meditations that will introduce the tantric sadhana and mantra recitation as a healing method.
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