Compassionate Freedom
April 17 - 27, 2025

Buddhism often poses a seemingly paradoxical question to us: How to be truly happy and free, yet have the ability to meet suffering intelligently and care deeply for all beings? On this intensive meditation retreat we will explore and deepen our understanding and experience of personal liberation and how that is possible right here in our moment to moment experience. At the same time, we will also explore how opening our hearts and deepening our compassion are an intrinsic part of the path to awakening, and how it is possible to deepen this through meditation practice with the support of…

Dhyana Through the Body
August 22 - 29, 2025

Accessing dhyana (jhana), or absorption, seems to be very natural for some people, and a complete mystery to others. Dhyana is well worth cultivating as a way of deepening shamatha (mental tranquillity) as well as for the sheer psycho-somatic pleasure that some of these states afford. On this retreat, we’ll be suggesting approaches that people have found to be helpful and effective for entering into dhyana. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches, and some of what the tradition has to say about dhyana. We’ll proceed on the basis of asking ‘What, in our experience, is…