Retreat Programme
19-25 February @ Colehayes Park
Kirsten Kratz with Gareth Fysk-Foskett and Julia Wallond:
“Being Touched by this World”
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13 – 20 October
Gavin Milne & Mark Ovland:
“Touching the Ground, Aligning our Life”
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4 November
Mark Ovland:
“The Reimagining of Body and Breath”
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18 March @ Harberton Parish Hall
Gavin Milne:
“Compassion”
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1 May @ Bluebell Woods, Nr Bruton
Lesley Wye:
“Celebrating May Day in the Woods”
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10 – 17 June @ The High Heathercombe Centre
Laura Bridgman & Alan Lewis:
“Exploring What Is”
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8 – 15 July @ The High Heathercombe Centre
Zohar Lavie & Nathan Glyde:
“Awakening Possibilities”
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11 Sept 2022
Gavin Milne:
“Equanimity”
17-24 Sept 2022
Rupert Marques:
“Earth in Mind”
18-22 July 2022
Vince Cullen:
“Everyday Nirvana, Every Day”
21-28 May 2022
Kirsten Kratz and Tony O’Connor:
“The Poetry of Self – The Poetry of Not-Self”
The Buddhist teachings on not-self can be easily misunderstood. The Dharma unveils unexamined ways we perceive and construct self and then believe in these fabrications.
We will enquire into how we create self, other, world; seeing their creation as a spectrum from the dense to ever more refined and subtle levels.
11-17 October
Laura Bridgman and Ajahn Jutindharo:
“Food for the Heart”
8 March 2020
Kirsten Kratz:
A Day Retreat
24 February – 2 March 2020
Sumedha and Noon Baldwin:
“Touching our Belonging”
4 – 11 October 2019
Suvaco and Mark Ovland:
“Trusting in God”
9 – 15 September 2019
Alan Lewis and Gavin Milne:
“Realising Our Inherent Value – Going Beyond the Inner Critic”
31 August 2019
Suvaco:
A Day Retreat
10 – 17 August 2019
Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde:
“A Wide and Wonderful Path”
15 – 19 July 2019
Vince Cullen:
“Everyday Nirvana, Every Day”
13 – 19 May 2019
Jaya Rudgard and Kirsten Kratz:
“The Courage to Belong”
3 March 2019
Laura Bridgman (Kovida):
A Day Retreat
20 January 2019
Mark Ovland:
A Day Retreat
19 – 21 January 2019
Gareth Fysh-Foskett and Julia Wallond:
“Deepening Roots of Refuge: A Winter Retreat”
21 October 2018
Mark Ovland:
A Day Retreat
14 – 21 September 2018
Kirsten Kratz and Suvaco:
“The Poetry of Self – The Poetry of Not-Self”
4 – 14 September 2018
Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde:
“A Wide and Wonderful Path”
18 – 25 August 2018
Suvaco and Thanissara:
“The Freeing of Human Consciousness”
In this retreat, we intend to explore the social and generational conditionings that result in the distorting and diminishing narratives that impair our ability to engage with the planetary emergency that now shapes our collective experience.
14 – 21 July 2018
Laura Bridgman (Kovida):
“What Brings You Here?”
2 – 9 February 2018
Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea:
“Tending the Holy Fire: A Practice Retreat for Lovers of Soulmaking”
6 – 13 October 2017
Kirsten Kratz and Suvaco, assisted by Mark Ovland:
“Let the beauty we love be what we do”
1 – 8 September 2017
Jaya Karen Rudgard:
“Stopping for Peace”
7 – 15 July 2017
Guhyapati and Alex Swain:
“Regenerative Activism: Sustaining Resistance”
This is not a silent retreat but there will be periods of quietude.
9 – 16 June 2017
Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde:
“Opening Awareness: The Freedom to Know Life”
22 – 26 May 2017
Vince Cullen:
“Being Human: A Hungry Ghost Retreat”
24 Sept – 1 Oct 2016
Kirsten Kratz and Suvaco:
“Within this body there is the whole universe”
16 – 22 August 2016
Laura Bridgman (Kovida):
“Meditation is Watching Nature Happening”
23 – 30 July 2016
Paul Burrows:
“Be Like a Mother”
15 – 22 July 2016
Frank Uyttebroeck:
“Mind the Heart!”
10 – 14 February 2016
Ramiro Ortega & Mark Ovland:
“Deepening in Mindfulness”
23 – 30 October 2015
Kirsten Kratz and Suvaco Bhikkhu:
“Being Intimate with All Things”
21 – 28 September 2015
Rob Burbea and Guhyapati:
“Action from Depth: an engaged buddhist training for ecological action”
This event explores how dharma-based perspectives and practices can resource life-affirming action for ecological justice.
18 – 25 July 2015
Frank Uyttebroeck:
“Mind the Heart!”
Come and join us on a path that leads to awakening the heart through training the mind. Together we will learn that freedom is possible through meeting ourselves, our relationships and our world with deepened wisdom, compassion and acceptance.
6 – 13 June 2015
Zohar Lavie:
“Resting Into Our True Nature”
An invitation to relax into an intimate relationship with the depth of our being, and to nourish a genuine kind-heartedness towards ourselves and all of life.
6 – 13 September 2014
Kirsten Kratz:
“The Gaze of Kindness and Wisdom”
Cultivating qualties of mind and heart that have the potential to heal, to nourish and inspire, are expressions of wisdom and ultimately liberate.
25 – 31 May 2014
Ken Jones:
“How to Make a Life”
All you’ll need to know to get started! Talks, meditation, small group activity, interviews, body work.
3 – 9 October 2013
Insight Meditation Retreat
An opportunity for retreatants with previous experience to develop their practice independently.