Lift share message board
If you wish to reduce the carbon footprint of your journey, you may make use of this messaging board to arrange car/taxi shares from Newton Abbot or further afield.
- Access to the message board is password protected. However, please take steps to ensure that you are safe and that people are genuine before meeting or giving out personal information. Please check your retreat confirmation email for the password, or email info@gaiahouse.co.uk if you cannot locate it.
- Returning from Gaia House: On the last day of each group retreat there is a session especially for organising lifts and taxi shares back to Newton Abbot.
You may wish to follow our covid guidelines that will be used during your stay in the house when accepting or offering a lift. These can be found with your confirmation email. Please do not make travel arrangements until you have received a confirmation.
Leaving a Message
- Select your retreat from the list below.
- For personal and work retreats please click here. Alternatively if your retreat starts or ends on a group retreat date you are welcome to use the group’s message board.
February
9 – 13 February
Rainbow Dharma
Katrin Auf Der Heyde, River Wolton and Bernat Font
17 – 21 February
Enjoying the Path
Bernat Font and Venerable Canda Theri
26 February – 3 March
Community Dharma Leaders retreat
March
9 – 12 March
Three Views For Freedom
Anushka Fernandopulle and Jake Dartington
16 – 20 March
Meeting Life with Courage and Compassion
Kirsten Kratz and Dene Donalds
23 March
Meditation Day: Wide and Deep
Nathan Glyde
27 March – 1 April
The Brahma Viharas: Our Heart’s Innate Capacity for Love
Laura Bridgman and Zohar Lavie
April
6 – 11 April
Deep Ground Practice
Leela Sarti
14 April
Meditation Day: Healing the Heart
Mat Schencks
19 – 22 April
A Path of Connection: A Young Person’s Retreat
River Wolton, Bernat Font, Lucy Chan
26 – 28 April
Metta in Motion — Insight Meditation and Qigong
Jaya Rudgard, River Wolton
May
3 – 6 May
Insight Meditation in the Mahasi Tradition
Bhante Bodhidhamma
10 – 15 May
Contemplating the Four Elements
Katrin Auf Der Heyde, River Wolton and Bernat Font
20 – 27 May
Calm and Contented Heart: A Samadhi Retreat
Yahel Avigur and Sari Markkanen
31 May – 3 June
Knowledge from the Present Moment
Alan Lewis and Laura Bridgman
June
7 – 15 June
The Heart that Abides in Emptiness
Yanai Postelnik and Leela Sarti
21 – 29 June
The Eye of the Heart
Catherine McGee and Yahel Avigur
July
4 – 7 July
The Gentle Art of Patience
Laura Bridgman and Venerable Canda Theri
12 – 17 July
The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion
Yanai Postelnik and River Wolton
22 – 27 July
Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation
Ramiro Ortega and Julia Wallond
31 July – 4 August
Finding Freedom: The Path Of Insight Meditation
Jaya Rudgard, River Wolton
August
9 – 17 August
Empowering Kindness
Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde
21 – 26 August
Meeting Uncertainty: Cultivating A Fearless Heart
Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde and Tony O’Connor
9 – 26 August
Deep Immersion into Mettā and Insight
Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde and Tony O’Connor
30 August – 6 September
Practices of the Heart
Jaya Rudgard and Mat Schencks
September
10 – 15 September
Radical Free-ness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear
Martin Aylward
20 – 26 September
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Ingen Breen
October
1 – 6 October
The Path of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone and Mind
Martine Batchelor and Bernat Font
11 – 18 October
Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking
Kirsten Kratz and Yahel Avigur
22 – 27 October
Insight Meditation and Yoga
Yanai Postelnik and Helen Stephenson
December
2 December
Present to Life — Meditation Day
Laura Bridgman
6 – 9 December
Boundless Heart, Vulnerable Life
Yanai Postelnik
13 – 18 December
Finding Peace
Zohar Lavie
28 December – 2 January
New Year Retreat
Kirsten Kratz and Jaya Rudgard