Calendar of upcoming events and retreats – Bristol Insight Meditation

Below is a list of upcoming retreats and other events. Some are regular events and you will see the next session below. At the bottom of the page you can view details of past Teacher-led retreats.

Jul

Tuesday evening sitting group

Please note we have replaced our meetings at the Quaker Meeting House with an online Tuesday sitting group. Please see our Supporting our Sangha Online page for further details and the Zoom link.

Aug

Self-led day retreats

The July and August retreats will continue in their popular Zoom format. We hope to return to our Bristol venue in September. Watch this space for updates………

Aug

Sangha walk – Severn Peninsula

The next sangha walk on Saturday 14th August, led by Jill Bird, will be an exploration of the Severn Peninsula near Stroud in Gloucestershire. Cont………

Sep

Enriching Life with Kirsten Kratz

Wisdom teachings encourage us to look deeply and with love into our experience, with all its complexities, challenges and contradictions. When we approach our existence with kindness and courage, innumerable facets of this human heart are gradually unveiled. Cont…….

Nov

Descending into the Mystery with Andrea Hosfield

Where do you find yourself in the unfolding swirl of 2021? And what does your ‘practice’ look like and feel like in a world that appears to be shedding its boundaries and belief systems in profound and disorienting ways? Cont….

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Jan

A day with Suvaco – living in the time of Covid

Suvaco trained in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah for 17 years as a Buddhist monk and currently teaches meditation as part of the teaching staff at Gaia House, Devon. He is also a registered UKCP Core Process psychotherapist.. Cont.

Mar

Power Mindfulness – A led Day Retreat with Venerable Canda

Mindfulness has many benefits to our health and wellbeing. Looking at mindfulness in the context of the Buddha’s teachings, opens up the path to experiencing its full power and how it awakens our potential as human beings. Cont…….

Apr

Easter Sangha Walk – Long Ashton Circular Walk

The walk will start at the Long Ashton community centre car park on Keedwell Hill. We will head north up Keeds Lane and then in a westerly direction through open fields with a lovely open view towards Nailsea and the Severn Estuary……Cont.

May

Sangha Walk – Pensford and Stanton Drew Stone Circles

The next Bristol Insight sangha walk will be a Bank Holiday walk to Stanton Drew Stone Circles on Monday 3rd May. This is a re-scheduling of the walk that had to be cancelled last December due to lockdown rules….Cont.

May

Resilience and the Art of Happiness – finding resource within the circumstances of our lives

As human beings our lives include joy and difficulty. Given the changing nature of experience, what kind of happiness is possible for us? Can we discover sources of wellbeing and resilience that are available to us regardless of current circumstances? Cont…….

May

Sangha Walk – Lower Wye Valley

The next sangha walk, again on a bank holiday Monday, will be along the spectacular Lower Wye Valley. This is a favourite walk of mine, introduced to me by my friend Steve Onyett in 2007. We previously did it as a sangha walk in February 2018…Cont.

Jun

Nature meditation

The Buddha found enlightenment under a tree. We can’t promise this, but our nature meditation events do offer peace, joy and a sense of refuge. We practise in some beautiful woods just outside Bristol…..Cont.

Jul

Pilgrimage to the Holy Cross Church, Kilgwrrwg, Monmouthshire

The next sangha walk on Sunday 4th July, led by Jill Bird, will be through the rolling hills of the Monmouthshire countryside with views across valleys and across to the Black Mountains. The walk is a pilgrimage walk that takes in three ancient churches…..Cont.

Jul

Boundless Heart – Vulnerable Earth: Dharma practice in the ecological and climate emergency.

Unfortunately this retreat is now cancelled.