What we offer

Latest updates on how we are continuing our practice during the current coronavirus outbreak. Includes news of cancellations, online alternatives and dharma resources to help us navigate these difficult times.

Weekend day retreats led by experienced teachers. We feel very fortunate to have teachers come to us to share their experience.

The sitting group meets every Tuesday evening in central Bristol from 7.30 to 9.15pm. These evenings are peer led and are a good way to join with others to sustain and support meditation practice.
All are welcome. No need to book.

Our Annual Sangha Celebration Day is a day of community and friendship. It is great way to catch up with members of wider sangha, to be part of a review of the past year and contribute to further developments. We incorporate our short Annual General Meeting. All are welcome.

These popular, self-led day retreats provide a welcome day of retreat on the first Saturday of every month. The retreats are not led by a teacher and no meditation guidance is given, so they suit participants who are comfortable with a basic meditation practice.

Focusing and Insight meditation have in common a willingness to sit with one’s experience from a place of presence, acceptance, warmth and curiosity. The most significant difference between the two practices is the presence of the partner or companion and the use of spoken words in Focusing to convey one’s experience to the companion.

Our short peer-led courses introduce people to the basics of Insight Meditation – enough to get started.

We run occasional longer courses in which we invite teachers and experienced practitioners to work with us over a month to help us support our practice.

Walks tend to be on Saturdays or Sundays about once every month or two (more frequently in spring, summer and autumn), and can be anywhere within about a 40-minute drive of Bristol. All welcome.

Many women would love to practice on their own outdoors, but find deeply engrained, conditioned fears stop them. Our aim is to help women experience the peace, nourishment and joy of the woods to deepen their practice and transform nature into a place of refuge.

The book reading group meets to read together a chosen inspirational book centred around meditation or Buddhist dharma practice. At present all meetings are on Zoom.

Come meditate outdoors in beautiful, quiet, nourishing woods! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with nature, explore your practice in new surroundings and meditate safely with others.

Exploring the challenges of ageing with a little help from the dharma.

Study informs and inspires our meditation practice; meditation produces depth and clarity in understanding. We can balance our engagement with both study and meditation to optimize the cultivation of this liberating path.” (Shaila Catherine)

This group is in the process of formation.

We believe the path of awakening and the benefits of meditation should be available to anyone who wishes to practice the dharma.