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The Winter Bardo
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden In the farming world, January is when the fields lie fallow — rest and recuperation, as essential as planting and harvesting. This retreat offers that same pause: a chance to turn inwards and sit with where your life — and your practice — is heading.
Offering the Mandala
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden We can see our lives as a mandala: a pattern arranged around a central value. Over these days, we'll each ask — what is at the heart of my life now? What do I want to place there? What needs to move to the outer edges? Our lives are an ever-changing pattern. It's time to build a life we love, while holding it all lightly.
Beauty and Insight
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden 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 both our inspiration and our practice.
Five Kinds of Confidence — A Retreat for Lesbians
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden Drawing on the mandala of the five Buddhas, we explore how each one represents a different aspect of confidence. On this retreat we'll explore specifically what it means for us, as women, to discover and stand in our own confidence.
The Ten Fetters Retreat
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden Enlightenment is the state of being awake. And the Ten Fetters are ten illusions or beliefs that keep us from waking up. The Buddha showed us how—like him—we can see through these illusions, breaking the fetters one by one.
Everything Matters - The Wabi-sabi Retreat
Red Ladder Studio, Southern Sweden Rooted in Japanese culture, wabi-sabi invites us to cherish the fleeting, the worn and the understated, and to find magic in everyday rituals: a cup of tea, the turning seasons. Impermanence, insubstantiality and suffering are cracks in our world, letting in light. Through them we glimpse three doorways: signless, wishless, and open.
Autumn gardening retreat
The Guesthouse, Southern Sweden Our gardening retreats weave together mindful work, meditation, and Dharma study. On this retreat we'll draw inspiration from the Zen tradition, especially Dogen, with its emphasis on work as a spiritual practice.
Beauty and Insight: A retreat on perception
The Guesthouse, Southern Sweden The arts offer us new and surprising windows on the world. Alongside Dharma teachings and meditation, we’ll be exploring what art, film, poetry, and music can reveal about the nature of perception.
Open practice week
The Guesthouse, Southern Sweden Our open practice week is a blend of collective retreat, a solitary, and a holiday! You’re welcome to come on your own or with friends, and you’ll have the freedom to create your own rhythm and programme. You’re welcome to join for anything from 3 nights to the full week.
Living with Ease: A Midsummer Retreat on the Four Noble Truths
The Guesthouse, Southern Sweden Midsummer is a special time of year here in the South of Sweden. The landscape is filled with wildflowers, the garden is at its peak and the long light evenings make the days seem endless. We'll come together in the midst of all this beauty to reflect on the Buddha’s first teaching — The Four Noble Truths.
Spring Gardening Retreat
The Guesthouse, Southern Sweden Our gardening retreats weave together mindful work, meditation, and Dharma study. On this retreat, we’ll take inspiration from the Buddha, who often taught the Dharma through images and metaphors drawn from the natural world.