Programs
Start Your Week Well - Monday Morning Online Sitting
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 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
Deepening Practice 28-Day Retreat
with Patrick Kearney, Emma Pittaway and Robyn Gibson
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. 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.
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
The Middle Way - Two week retreat
with Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor
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 […]
Long Weekend Retreat
with Michael Dash
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.
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 […]
Remembering Awareness - Nine-day retreat
with Patrick Kearney and Emma Pittaway
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 […]
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. 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.