Welcome!
Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre and charity offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
Click here to view our 2024 calendar of residential retreats and online offerings.
We will be adding some more online retreats and courses throughout the year and will update you via our e-news. Sign up here to receive regular email updates.
You can apply for personal retreats and work retreats in 2024.
Online Retreats & Courses
Join us for self-guided meditation 7am each day — Awakening Together
(1 April – 30 June)
- Skill in Calm and Happiness – A short introduction to Samadhi practice (4 week course) with Yahel Avigur & Sari Markkanen (starting 14 April)
- Awakening in the World: Establishing the Timeless Refuge of Awareness with Gavin Milne (19 April)
- Mindfulness in Action with Martine Batchelor (4 May)
- Calm and Contented Heart – livestreamed from Gaia House (20-27 May) with Saria Markkanen and Yahel Avigur — save the date!
- The Dharma in the Dynamic of Relationships (4 week course) with Laura Bridgman and Martine Batchelor (22 May – 12 June)
- Meditation in Motion (3 week course) with Jaya Rudgard (starting 23 May)
For a full online listing, please click here.
To access the noticeboards for online retreats, please click here.
Online Dharma Hall this week
Thursday, 11.00 am — Mat Schencks
Saturday, 5.00 pm — Nathan Glyde
Sunday, 9.30 am — Andy Wimbush (CDL)
News/Jobs
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- We have work retreat spaces starting 19 or 26 May until 16 June and during July (2- 4 weeks long). Work retreats are a great way of combining meditation practice with daily activity and offering your work as service to others on retreat (5 hours a day), it’s also very affordable option to be on silent retreat and receive the support from our meditation teachers regularly. For more details visit the work retreat page.
- We have one open position in our residential team, if you are interested in offering your work as service to those who are on retreat at Gaia House, living in community and developing your Dharma practice, this could be for you. To read more about our residential community click here.