Introduction
Retreats are precious gifts we can offer ourselves. They are a great way to deepen our path of practice in a safe and supportive environment. Away from distractions and the business of daily lives, temporarily retreated from habitual relationships and devices, the mind and heart has the potential to find peace, healing and freedom. Regular retreat practice supports daily life practice and it supports our engagement in the world from a place of balance and wisdom.
Courses allow for delving deeper into specific practice themes such as the topic of emotions, engaging in an ongoing exploration and putting insights into practice. There is the opportunity to share experiences in a held space, to ask questions and to try out new ways of relating.
Refreshing Confidence
Gaia House, Devon, UK
Residential retreat at the beautiful Gaia House retreat center in Devon with Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde and Mark Ovland. Exploring how assurance in our capacity for transformation grows with the deepening of practice.
Liberating Ways of Looking
Gaia House, Devon, UK
Residential and livestreamed retreat at Gaia House with Kirsten Kratz and Yahel Avigur. We will discover how experience is shaped and co-created by our ways of relating to what is unfolding in our inner and outer life.
Your Own Refuge: November Solitary at Home
Online
A unique opportunity to grow our independent practice with this online retreat with Jaya Rudgard, Juha Penttilä and Monica Antunes. This online solitary retreat offers a supportive space for committed individual meditation practice at home.
February Solitary Residential Retreat
Gaia House, Devon, UK
A new retreat at Gaia House, the February Solitary is a fully Residential Retreat wiith Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde, Mark Ovland and Monica Antunes. This retreat offers a rare and precious opportunity for extended and uninterrupted practice in silence and stillness.
Meeting Life with Kindness and Compassion
Gaia House, Devon, UK
A fully Dana retreat, residential and livestream, with Kirsten Kratz, Mark Ovvland and Monica Antunes. We'll explore ways of relating that are liberating and we'll see that life isn't just "given to us", but that each moment is shaped—to some extent—by the way that we relate.
Previous retreats & courses
The Heart of Awakening
Gaia House, Devon, UK
A residential and livestream retreat with Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde, Mark Ovland and Monica Antunes, in the beautiful Gaia House retreat centre. This retreat combines the practice of Mettā to open the heart and understanding Dependent Origination which reveals how distress arises from reactive grasping and rejecting.
Liberating Ways of Looking
Gaia House
Residential and livestreamed retreat (hybrid) at the beautiful retreat center Gaia House, UK. In this annual ‘Ways of Looking’ Retreat we will inquire into Buddhist teachings as liberating ways of looking. With Kirsten, Yahel, Juha and Monica (online)
Unequalled Radiance
Gaia House
Touched yet deeply rooted, pliable yet not distorted, flexible yet reliable, equanimity is radiant ease. Join us for a beautiful journey of developing equanimity in this retreat at Gaia House with Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde, Mark Ovland and Monica Antunes.
The Nature of Awareness
Beatenberg retreat Center, Switzerland
Retreat in Switzerland in Beatenberg. In this retreat we will explore the nature of awareness, or consciousness, which is at the heart of sentient life.
The Eye of the Heart retreat
Gaia House
Brahma Viharas and Soulmaking retreat in the beautiful Gaia House retreat Center. With Catherine McGee, Juha Pentilla. It will also be livestreamed and Yahel Avigur will join online.
Generous Joy
Gaia House
Online retreat With Yahel Avigur and Monica Antunes We are happy to invite you to a weekend retreat at Gaia House focusing on joy and generosity.
Letting In
Online retreat with Gaia House on the five recollections that the Buddha encouraged us to contemplate often. In this retreat we explore radical ways of practicing these that inscribe them on the path of liberation.
An Open Path
Gaia House, Devon, UK
A residential and livesteam retreat in beautiful Gaia House with Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde and assisted by Mark Ovland and Monica Antunes (online). This is a unique opportunity to explore the links of dependent origination in a fully experiential way and find the freedom that comes from understanding.
Emotions et Libération en Relation
Centre de Méditation Bouddhique Vimalakirti, Rue Henri-Frédéric Amiel 10, Genève
Dans ces 4 séances, nous allons explorer les émotions dans la pratique méditative et dans nos relations, accompagné par des réflexions proposées par Charles Genoud dans son livre "Méditations Bouddhistes, au-delà de l'inquiétude et de la quiétude" (2017) .