Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - This retreat is an invitation to look closely at how experience takes shape—how we see, feel, and make meaning of the world around us. When we begin to see the extent to which we are creating our world, we can begin to choose—consciously and creatively—to shape a world of beauty and meaning.
Brighton Buddhist Centre, UK - A day retreat exploring mirror-like wisdom: how the mind reflects everything with perfect clarity, without holding on to what it shows. Morning meditation and teaching on perception and emptiness; afternoon out with cameras exploring mirrors and reflections in the world.
Dhanakosa Retreat Centre, UK - 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.
Online Retreat - 5 days to review and reset your life for the coming year - Every year, in that bardo-like week between Christmas and New Year, I feel torn — part of me wants to be on retreat, part of me wants to spend the time looking back over the year that's been and start dreaming about the one ahead. This year we are combining both to create The Winter Bardo, an online retreat, and we'd love you to join us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.”
Online retreat Frustratingly, Buddhism doesn’t offer many answers to the obvious question, why are we not already enlightened?
How did we come to be so painfully separated from reality? The teachings on the 3 fetters offer us one answer to that question.