Residential Retreat
Introduction to Metta - Weekend
with Venerable Virañani and Tara Frances
Two Week Metta Retreat & Introductory weekend
with Venerable Virañani and Tara Frances
Two Week Metta Retreat
with Venerable Virañani
The Way of Insight
with Patrick Kearney
Long Weekend Retreat
with Tara Frances
This retreat is an opportunity the to develop an experiential understanding of Insight (Vipassana) and Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation in a supportive environment, and explore how these practices can support you in daily life. The retreat is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.
Six-day Retreat
with Lesley Lebkowicz and Malcolm McClintock
This five-day retreat will include both Metta and Vipassana, and focus on the benefit of vipassana practised with a kindly mind. Malcolm was first authorised to teach by the late Mahasi Sayadaw himself. This will be his first, long-awaited formal offering as a teacher.
The Way of Mindfulness
with Patrick Kearney and Emma Pittaway
28-Day Retreat
with Patrick Kearney, Emma Pittaway and Robyn Gibson
Patrick teaches satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness, in the lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw. He emphasises the cultivation of a felt continuity of awareness by tracking the elemental flow of experience that lies beneath our habitual concepts and reactions. As we become intimate with what is already present we discover the radical simplicity of the practice, […]
Eight-day Retreat
with Lesley Lebkowicz and Malcolm McClintock
This retreat will include both Metta and Vipassana, and focus on the benefit of vipassana practised with a kindly mind.
Easter Retreat
with Tara Frances
This retreat is an opportunity the to develop an experiential understanding of Insight (Vipassana) and Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation in a supportive environment, and explore how these practices can support you in daily life.
Two-week Retreat
with Sayalay Bhadda Manika
As it is taught in the tradition of the late Mahasi Sayadaw of Myanmar, Vipassana meditation consists of continuous mindfulness in sitting meditation, walking meditation, and all general activities. During sitting meditation one's awareness is directed to the most prominent physical or mental object of observation, beginning with the rising and falling movement of the […]
Foundations of Buddhism & Meditation
with Danny Taylor
Friends on the Path: The seven factors of awakening
with Jill Shepherd
Two week retreat
with Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor
Two Week Retreat In this retreat we will practise mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken […]
Metta for Vipassana
with Venerable Virañani
The practice of loving-kindness (mettā bhāvana) aims at the cultivation of a loving, benevolent attitude towards all living beings. Since the time of the Buddha, this form of meditation has been used as a practice in itself, and as a support for the development and deepening of insight (vipassanā bhāvana) This retreat is ideal for […]
Eight-day Retreat
with Lesley Lebkowicz and Malcolm McClintock
This retreat will include both Metta and Vipassana, and focus on the benefit of vipassana practised with a kindly mind.
Nine-day retreat
with Patrick Kearney
Nine-day Retreat In this retreat we will practise mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken for […]