Welcome to our programme of retreats and events held at Gaia House (Devon, UK) and online.
Our online programme is added to during the year, any new retreats will be announced in our e-news, you can sign up here to receive our newsletters.
| Code | Month | Type | Title | Course | THEME | Day retreat | Start Date | End date | No of nights | Teacher/s | Suitability | Availability | STAND | BASIC | SUP | YP | CAMP | FAB | Year |
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| 24240 | Apr, May, Jun | Online | Awakening Together: 7am Daily Meditation Self-guided 30 minute meditation | 01/04/24 | 30/06/24 | 91 | self-guided | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24229 | Apr | Online | Awakening in the World - series of four weekend retreats | 19/04/24 | 24/11/24 | 8 | Gavin Milne | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24144 | Apr | Residential | Mettā in Motion - Insight Meditation and Qigong | Qigong | 26/04/24 | 28/04/24 | 2 | Jaya Rudgard & River Wolton | All | Waiting list | 226 | 172 | 142 | 52 | 129 | 86 | 2024 | ||
| 24145 | May | Residential | Insight Meditation in the Mahasi Tradition | Mahasi | 03/05/24 | 06/05/24 | 3 | Bhante Bodhidhamma & Mark Arthur | Special criteria | Waiting list Camping spaces available | 339 | 258 | 213 | 77 | 194 | 129 | 2024 | ||
| 24237 | May | Online | Mindfulness in Action: Ethics and Feeling tones | y | 04/05/24 | 04/05/24 | Martine Batchelor | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24146 | May | Residential | Contemplating the Four Elements | 10/05/24 | 15/05/24 | 5 | Jenny Wilks & Nathan Glyde | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 300 | 200 | 2024 | |||
| 24147 | May | Residential | Calm and Contented Heart: A Samadhi Retreat (this retreat will be livestreamed) | Samadhi | 20/05/24 | 27/05/24 | 7 | Sari Markkanen & Yahel Avigur | Experience | Limited spaces | 735 | 560 | 462 | 168 | 420 | 280 | 2024 | ||
| 24233 | May | Online | Calm and Contented Heart: A Samadhi Retreat (livestreamed from Gaia House) | Samadhi | 20/05/24 | 27/05/24 | 7 | Sari Markkanen & Yahel Avigur | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | ||||||||
| 24211 | May | Online course | The Dharma in the Dynamic of Relationships – the Paramis in Action (4 week course) | y | 22/05/24 | 12/06/24 | 4 | Laura Bridgman & Martine Batchelor | All | Spaces | 2024 | ||||||||
| 24212 | May | Online course | Meditation in Motion: Qigong for Calm and Insight (3 week course) | y | Qigong | 23/05/24 | 13/06/24 | 3 | Jaya Rudgard | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||
| 24231 | May | Online | BIPOC Retreat Day: Nurturing Mindfulness, Opening the Heart, and Strengthening Community | Y | 25/05/24 | 25/05/24 | Antonia Sumbundu | Special criteria | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24148 | May | Residential | Knowledge from the Present Moment | 31/05/24 | 03/06/24 | 3 | Laura Bridgman & Alan Lewis | All | Spaces | 339 | 258 | 213 | 77 | 194 | 129 | 2024 | |||
| 24213 | May | Online | Jhanas, Insight & Dependent Origination | 31/05/24 | 10/06/24 | 10 | Leigh Brasington | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24149 | Jun | Residential | The Heart that Abides in Emptiness | 07/06/24 | 15/06/24 | 8 | Yanai Postelnik & Leela Sarti | Experience | Spaces | 840 | 640 | 528 | 192 | 480 | 320 | 2024 | |||
| 24150 | Jun | Residential | The Eye of the Heart | Soul-making | 21/06/24 | 29/06/24 | 8 | Catherine McGee & Yahel Avigur | Experience | Waiting list | 840 | 640 | 528 | 192 | 480 | 320 | 2024 | ||
| 24226 | Jun | Online | Awakening in the World: Self Compassion, Whole Compassion | 21/06/24 | 23/06/24 | 2 | Gavin Milne | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24239 | Jun | Online | Turning Away from Conflict and Cultivating Harmony | 28/06/24 | 30/06/24 | 2 | Tony O'Connor | Some practice experience | Spaces | ||||||||||
| 24214 | Jul | Online course | Metta and Insight | y | Metta | 02/07/24 | 06/08/24 | 6 | Zohar Lavie | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||
| 24151 | Jul | Residential | The Gentle Art of Patience | 04/07/24 | 07/07/24 | 3 | Laura Bridgman & Venerable Canda Theri | All | Spaces | 339 | 258 | 213 | 77 | 194 | 129 | 2024 | |||
| 24152 | Jul | Residential | The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion | 12/07/24 | 17/07/24 | 5 | Yanai Postelnik & River Wolton | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 300 | 200 | 2024 | |||
| 24205 | Jul | Online | Living with Illness & Loss | 20/07/24 | 21/07/24 | 1 | Zohar Lavie & Nathan Glyde | Special criteria | Save the date | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24153 | Jul | Residential | Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation | 22/07/24 | 27/07/24 | 5 | Ramiro Ortega & Julia Wallond | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 300 | 200 | 2024 | |||
| 24154 | Jul | Residential | Finding Freedom: The Path Of Insight Meditation | 31/07/24 | 04/08/24 | 4 | Ramiro Ortega & Mat Schencks | All especially beginners | Spaces | 420 | 320 | 264 | 96 | 240 | 160 | 2024 | |||
| 24157 | Aug | Residential | Deep Immersion into Mettā and Insight | mettā | 09/08/24 | 26/08/24 | 17 | Zohar Lavie & Nathan Glyde | Experience | Limited spaces Camping spaces available | 1394 | 1071 | 884 | 321 | 803 | 536 | 2024 | ||
| 24155 | Aug | Residential | Empowering Kindness (this retreat will be livestreamed) | mettā | 09/08/24 | 17/08/24 | 8 | Zohar Lavie & Nathan Glyde | All | Limited Spaces | 840 | 640 | 528 | 192 | 480 | 320 | 2024 | ||
| 24206 | Aug | Online |
(livestreamed from Gaia House) | mettā | 09/08/24 | 17/08/24 | 8 | Zohar Lavie & Nathan Glyde | All | Spaces | 2024 | ||||||||
| 24156 | Aug | Residential | Meeting Uncertainty; Cultivating A Fearless Heart | mettā | 21/08/24 | 26/08/24 | 5 | Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde & Tony O'Connor | All | Limited spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 300 | 200 | 2024 | ||
| 24236 | Aug | Online course | Well Beyond: Mining Under Dukkha | y | 28/08/24 | 25/09/24 | 5 | Nathan Glyde | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | ||||||||
| 24158 | Aug | Residential | Practices of the Heart | 30/08/24 | 06/09/24 | 7 | Jaya Rudgard, Mat Schencks & Sumedha | All | Spaces | 735 | 560 | 462 | 168 | 420 | 280 | 2024 | |||
| 24221 | Sep | Online | Illuminating the Inner Critic (weekend retreat only) | inner critic | 06/09/24 | 08/09/24 | 2 | Laura Bridgman & Gavin Milne | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | ||||||||
| 24218 | Sep | Online course | Illuminating the Inner Critic retreat and course (weekend retreat followed by 6 week course) | y | Inner critic | 06/09/24 | 17/10/24 | 8 | Laura Bridgman & Gavin Milne | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||
| 24159 | Sep | Residential | Radical Free-ness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear | 10/09/24 | 15/09/24 | 5 | Martin Aylward | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 300 | 200 | 2024 | |||
| 24160 | Sep | Residential | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Zen | 20/09/24 | 26/09/24 | 6 | Ingen Breen | All | Spaces | 630 | 480 | 396 | 144 | 240 | 2024 | |||
| 24226 | Sep | Online | Awakening in the World: Awakening into the Web of Life | 27/09/24 | 29/09/24 | 2 | Gavin Milne | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24161 | Oct | Residential | The Path of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone and Mind | 01/10/24 | 06/10/24 | 5 | Martine Batchelor & Bernat Font | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 200 | 2024 | ||||
| 24162 | Oct | Residential | Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking (this retreat will be livestreamed) | 11/10/24 | 18/10/24 | 7 | Kirsten Kratz, Yahel Avigur & Juha Penttilä | Experience | Spaces | 735 | 560 | 462 | 168 | 280 | 2024 | ||||
| 24234 | Oct | Online | Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking (livestreamed from Gaia House) | 11/10/24 | 18/10/24 | 7 | Kirsten Kratz, Yahel Avigur & Juha Penttilä | Experience | Save the date | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24163 | Oct | Residential | Insight Meditation and Yoga | 22/10/24 | 27/10/24 | 5 | Yanai Postelnik & Helen Stephenson | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 200 | 2024 | ||||
| 24235 | Oct | Online | In this Fathom-Long Body: Living with the Challenges of Embodiment | 25/10/24 | 28/10/24 | 2 | Tony O'Connor | Special criteria | Save the date | ||||||||||
| 24164 | Nov | Residential | November Solitary | 01/11/24 | 29/11/24 | 28 | Yanai Postelnik, Kirsten Kratz, Laura Bridgman & Juha Penttilä | Experience | Waiting list | 2100 | 1624 | 1344 | 487 | 812 | 2024 | ||||
| 24165 | Nov | Residential | November Solitary - first two weeks | 01/11/24 | 15/11/24 | 14 | Yanai Postelnik, Kirsten Kratz, Laura Bridgman & Juha Penttilä | Experience | Waiting list | 1148 | 882 | 728 | 265 | 441 | 2024 | ||||
| 24230 | Nov | Online | Embodying the Dharma | Y | 02/11/24 | 02/11/24 | Christina Feldman | All | Save the date | 2024 | |||||||||
| Nov | Online course | An Introduction to a Thoroughly Relational Dharma this programme is being co-hosted with Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) | y | 10/11/24 | 24/11/24 | 3 | Gregory Kramer | All | Spaces | ||||||||||
| 24166 | Nov | Residential | November Solitary - second two weeks | 15/11/24 | 29/11/24 | 14 | Yanai Postelnik, Kirsten Kratz, Laura Bridgman & Juha Penttilä | Experience | Waiting list | 1148 | 882 | 728 | 265 | 441 | 2024 | ||||
| 24226 | Nov | Online | Awakening in the World: Living and Liberating Who You Truly Are | 22/11/24 | 24/11/24 | 2 | Gavin Milne | All | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24238 | Nov | Online | Jhanas, Insight & Dependent Origination | 22/11/24 | 02/12/24 | 10 | Leigh Brasington | Experience | Save the date | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24167 | Dec | Residential | Meditation Day: Present to Life | y | 02/12/24 | 02/12/24 | 0 | Laura Bridgman | All | Spaces | 0 | 43 | 0 | 13 | 22 | 2024 | |||
| 24168 | Dec | Residential | Boundless Heart, Vulnerable Life | 06/12/24 | 09/12/24 | 3 | Yanai Postelnik & Julia Wallond | All | Spaces | 339 | 258 | 213 | 77 | 129 | 2024 | ||||
| 24169 | Dec | Residential | Finding Peace | 13/12/24 | 18/12/24 | 5 | Zohar Lavie | All | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 200 | 2024 | ||||
| 24217 | Dec | Online | The Call to the Beloved | 13/12/24 | 15/12/24 | 2 | Laura Bridgman & River Wolton | Experience | Spaces | 2024 | |||||||||
| 24170 | Dec | Residential | New Year Retreat (this retreat will be livestreamed) | 28/12/24 | 02/01/25 | 5 | Kirsten Kratz, Jaya Rudgard & Bernat Font | Experience | Spaces | 525 | 400 | 330 | 120 | 200 | 2024 | ||||
| 24207 | Dec | Online | New Year Retreat (livestreamed from Gaia House) | 28/12/24 | 02/01/25 | 5 | Kirsten Kratz & Jaya Rudgard | Experience | Save the date | 2024 |