Useful Links
Retreats
- Gaia House (www.gaiahouse.co.uk) offers a programme of silent retreats all year round, mostly within the Insight Meditation tradition
- The Barn Retreat at Sharpham (www.sharphamtrust.org/The-Barn-Retreat) offers weeklong retreats combining meditation, gardening, and community living
- Dhamma Dipa (www.dipa.dhamma.org) offers vipassana retreats in the S.N. Goenka tradition on a donation basis
- Ekuthuleni (www.ekumeditation.com) is a rustic retreat place in France that offers retreats on a donation basis
- SanghaSeva (www.sanghaseva.org) offers “Meditation in Action” retreats in India, UK and Israel-Palestine
- Eco Dharma (www.ecodharma.com) offers retreats rooted in ecological consciousness and empowering social action, in the Catalan Pyrenees
- High Heathercombe Centre (www.highheathercombecentre.org.uk) is a beautiful venue on Dartmoor used by Freely Given Retreats and other organisations
Other
- Ken Jones Zen (www.kenjoneszen.com) – explore haiku, Everyday Buddhism, socially engaged Buddhism and more at Ken Jones’s personal website
- DANCE (www.theDANCEwebsite.org) – the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement is a hub used to explore possible Dharma responses to climate climate
- Sacred Economics (sacred-economics.com) explores the ideas of Charles Eisenstein and the return of a gift economy
Guided Meditations
- Chris Finn: Mindfulness of body, sounds, and thoughts (22 mins) (right click this link to download)
- Chris Finn: Body Scan (30 mins) (right click this link to download)