Sometimes the best meditation space has canvas walls, birdsong, and a wood-burning stove.
Everyone is an Artist
An in-person creative meditation day
“Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive.”
The retreat is built around one simple, surprising idea: we don't see the world as it is — we see it as we are. What we notice, what we miss, what moves us, what we resist — all of it is shaped by habits of mind we rarely question. Buddhism has been onto this for 2,500 years, and it turns out to be remarkably practical.
Once you start to see how you're constructing your experience, you have more choice in how you respond. Having a creative approach to life is like being an artist — it's about meeting what arises with openness, curiosity and imagination.
We'll spend this day together in our quiet gardens surrounded by mature trees and open meadow — the kind of place that naturally allows you to slow down and open your eyes.
The day includes teaching, meditation, qigong, good conversation, and a vegetarian lunch.
Open to everyone — whether you're new to meditation, have been practising for years, or are simply wish to unlock a more creative response to life.
10.00 - Arrive and introduction
10.45 - Why we see things the way we do: talk and meditation
12.30 - Vegetarian lunch
13.30 - Responding creatively to life: talk and walking meditation
14.30 - Qigong and final led meditation
15.15 - Fika and time for questions
The teaching will be in English with Swedish translation if needed and any questions can be asked in Swedish.
July 26th · 10.00–16.00 · Near Lövestad
Small group — just 8 places
Cost 900 SEK - Including lunch and a fika
To book your place email us at info@redladderstudio.com
For friends coming from further away we may be able to provide overnight accommodation. Get in touch.
Please note: Unfortunately we are unable to cater for special diets or food allergies at the moment.
Your hosts are Vajradarshini — a British Dharma teacher living in the south of Sweden and Dhammasiri — a Swede and a long term Buddhist practitioner and recently qualified qigong teacher.
Our home, The Guesthouse (named after Rumi’s poem), is a place for creative, down-to-earth Dharma practice. From here, we run retreats and workshops, we also teach internationally, both online and in person.
We look forward to meeting you.
Lunch in the gardens