Residential Retreat

This retreat is an opportunity 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.  

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.  

This retreat will include both Metta and Vipassana, and focus on the benefit of vipassana practised with a kindly mind. Guidance will be given for both practices in meditation sessions and talks as well as in individual meetings with a teacher. Both new and experienced meditators are welcome.

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.

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 […]

In his first formal discourse the Buddha introduced the middle way as the central theme of his teaching. How is this to be understood? The middle way is not mere moderation, but the dynamic recognition that there is no fixed position in our experience, no where we can land and cling to. This teaching points […]

The focus of this retreat is on realistic and practical understanding of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation with an emphasis on personalising the practice and using it in everyday life.  

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 […]

Our practice is based on mindfulness, which emerges from the continuity of awareness. How can we maintain continuous awareness? By remembering that we are already aware. We do not need to generate awareness. When we “try” to be aware, our effort is based on our desire to be someone different, to have something different. But if […]

This retreat will include both Metta and Vipassana, and focus on the benefit of vipassana practised with a kindly mind. Guidance will be given for both practices in meditation sessions and talks as well as in individual meetings with a teacher. Both new and experienced meditators are welcome.