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The Winter Bardo | 23–30 Jan
A quiet, cosy retreat for the depths of winter — a chance to turn inwards, press pause, and take stock of where our lives and our practice are heading. Offering the Mandala - 4 day retreat | 5 – 9 May
There's a traditional Buddhist ritual in which you create a mandala representing your whole life, then offer it up and let it all go. On this retreat we'll explore that same paradox: wholehearted engagement and open-handed release — building a life we love, while holding it all lightly. Beauty and Insight | 29 May – 5 June
Artists and meditators are both feeling their way into the hidden truths of the world. Each day of this retreat we take one artist and draw out the Dharma at work beneath the surface — letting it feed our inspiration, and our practice. 5 Kinds of Confidence — The Lesbian Retreat | 12–19 June
Based on the mandala of the five Buddhas, we ask: what are the five aspects of confidence found in their wisdoms? What does it mean for us as women to discover and stand in our own confidence? The Ten Fetters | 28 August - 4 September
Ten illusions keep us from waking up — the Buddha showed that each one can be broken, one by one, opening the way to freedom. We'll explore this through reflection and insight inquiry, drawing on the poet Rumi's images of awakening. Everything Matters - A path of wabi-sabi Dharma | 18 - 25 September
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in things that are impermanent, incomplete and imperfect. Yet these aspects of life, known in Buddhism as the lakshanas, are the very things that can lead us to freedom.
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