Useful Links

Web Links to other Meditation Centres, Buddhist organisations, information etc:

• Gaia House has three sister organisations:
  • Insight Meditation Societybased in Massachusets, USA.
    • (this includes the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies).
  • London Insight Meditation offers day retreats, workshops, courses and more.
  • Oxford Gaia House run day-long retreats.

• The Sharpham Trust, here in Devon, provides opportunities for meditation, yoga, and shorter retreats.
• Bristol Insight Meditation Group also run day-long retreats and a weekly sitting group.
• Sheffield Insight Meditation Group -  retreats run by Gaia House  teachers, Sangha Days and bi-weekly sitting groups 
• The Satipanya Buddhist Trust run retreats in Powys, Wales, in the Mahasi tradition of Theravadan Buddhism.

• Amaravati Buddhist monastery in Hertfordshire follows the Thai Forest tradition of Buddhism.
• Chithurst monastery in West Sussex – a branch monastery of Amaravati.

• Moulin de Chaves Meditation Centre in South-West France.
• Solitary Meditation Retreats in Portugal.
• Beatenberg Meditation Centre in Switzerland.
• Nirodha organises a sitting meditation group and insight meditation retreats in Helsinki, Finland.
• Spirit Rock in California, USA.

• Sanghaseva offers opportunities for socially-engaged Buddhism.
• You can find out about the work of Buddhist prison chaplains through the organisation Angulimala.
• The Karuna Institute, on Dartmoor, here in Devon, runs courses in Core Process Psychotherapy – informed by Buddhist teachings – and also runs occasional retreats.
• Find out about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
• Exeter University: Postgraduate training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapies and Approaches.
• Buddhanet provides a world-wide directory of Buddhist organisations.
• Network of Engaged Buddhists.
• The very exciting, UK based, Mindfulness in Schools Project.

• Tricycle Magazine is a quarterly magazine about meditation and Buddhism published in the USA.
• Dharma Seed offers free downloadable Dharma talks.

Media Articles about Meditation or Gaia House:

• A Daily Telegraph newspaper article on Gaia House (Oct 2009)
• A Guardian article on the benefits of meditation (Jan 2010)
• The above article refers to a Mental Health Foundation report published in early Jan 2010
• A further Guardian article in the analytic vein of the ‘Comment is Free’ section (Jan 2010)
• A New York Times article about the aftermath of attending a retreat at the Insight Meditation Society (Aug 2010)
• A review by the ‘Queen of retreats’ website

YouTube videos with Gaia House teachers:

A 30-minute documentary about Stephen Batchelor’s work, entitled ‘Buddhism without Beliefs‘, can be seen in three parts:

• One 
  
• Two
• Three

Martine Batchelor on YouTube, gives meditation instruction, focusing On the Breath and On the Body, or looks at two essential aspects of Insight Meditation: Concentration and Enquiry.

(Please note that while reasonable care is taken, Gaia House is not responsible for the content of external, linked websites.)