The Practice of Tonglen – April
Tonglen is one of the most powerful compassion meditations to unblock our natural capacity for love. It frees our innate healing energies of wisdom and compassion to transform ourselves and the world we live in.
Tonglen is one of the most powerful compassion meditations to unblock our natural capacity for love. It frees our innate healing energies of wisdom and compassion to transform ourselves and the world we live in.
This retreat invites family carers and care professionals to take time away, reconnect with themselves and nourish mind, body and spirit.
During this Bank Holiday Weekend of Teachings with Dominique Side we will be questioning what the Buddha taught — and our own ways of thinking — to uncover fresh clarity and confidence in our spiritual path.
A retreat for experienced meditators who wants to re-charge and deepen their personal meditation practice and experience how the simple movement exercises of Kum Nye (a Tibetan Yoga) can advance our path.
With the six paramitas we can overcome our destructive emotions, which manifest as an endless cycle of suffering and see the true nature of things. This retreat focuses on exploring the six paramitas in a way that is both accessible and personally relevant to each of us.
This popular midweek workshop with David Rycroft explores how artistic activity and meditation mutually nourish each other. By alternating art and meditation, we bring freshness and ease to our meditation and allow our creative riches to emerge!
This weekend is for anyone who wishes to heal relationships with partners, family members, friends and work colleagues, some of whom may no longer be in our lives.
An introduction to meditations which offer gentle yet powerful tools to open our hearts and minds, to connect with the immeasurable treasury of love within us and to develop empathy and kindness far beyond conventional limitations.
Exclusively for parents grieving the death of a baby, child, or adult child, through any circumstances, this July we will be offering this special Facing Loss Healing Grief weekend.
The Buddhist teachings show us that, at our core, there is an expansive source of well being often described as our ‘fundamental goodness’. Understanding the mind and its true nature is the way for us to discover and experience this goodness and the wisdom we inherently possess.
Meditation doesn’t have to be complicated or difficult. Many of us can feel we are doing something wrong if our mind is full of thoughts and distractions, worries and feelings. If we can simply learn to stay present to all that arises, that is meditation!
Grief is a natural response to the ongoing loss we experience when someone close to us dies. In this retreat, using meditation and reflections, we will explore ways to be with our sorrow and to understand change and impermanence.