Dharma workshops and retreats
Online and in real life
The Vajra and the Bell: A residential retreat
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - This retreat is designed to cultivate a deep-seated confidence in our true nature and inherent ability to awaken. We’ll emerge confident that our everyday lives are full with opportunities for deep insight and inquiry.
Everyone is an Artist: A residential retreat
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - Being an ‘artist’ isn’t about learning to paint or write. It’s about engaging with the world as an artist would. Dharma practice is similar, it’s about engaging creatively with whatever life presents:
Everyone is an Artist: A residential retreat
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - Are you someone who values creativity, no matter what form it takes? If so, then the Creativity and Dharma retreat is perfect for you. "Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive." - Rick Ruben
A Modest Awakening: A residential retreat
A wabi-sabi retreat in the Netherlands. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic, which finds beauty and truth in our simple, ordinary experiences. The Dharma teaches that everything changes, nothing is ever complete and real satisfaction seems always out of reach. These are the harsh truths of human life. And yet… there is a beauty in being human.
Looking for beauty, finding freedom - An wabi-sabi online day retreat
What’s the one thing you want more time for in your life?
Time for Dharma practice?
Time for creativity?
Choose both with this online/offline day retreat.
The Here and Now Mountain: Residential Retreat
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - Enlightenment is the state of 'being awake'. But how exactly do we wake up from our own illusions? The Buddha referred to these illusions as 'fetters', and described how they bind us to suffering. He also showed us that we, like him, could see through them, one by one.
The Two Truths: An online day retreat
The more I practice with others the more I come to the conclusion that you have to start with the Two Truths. Without understanding the meaning of ‘conventional truth’ and ‘ultimate truth’ it’s impossible to understand the other teachings.
How to make notes you’ll use forever
Informal Online Workshop. Aren’t creative people are the opposite of organised? Well, yes, sometimes they are. But then, sometimes being more orderly in your life might lead to the creative and dharmic breakthroughs you long for.
Being Undone, The Path of The 10 Fetters
An online day retreat, meeting on Zoom. Frustratingly, Buddhism doesn’t offer many answers to the obvious question, why are we not already enlightened? How did we come to be so painfully separated from reality? The teachings on the fetters offer us one answer to that question.
Everyone is an Artist: A Creative Dharma Retreat
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - Are you someone who values creativity, no matter what form it takes? If so, then the Creativity and Dharma retreat is perfect for you. "Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive." - Rick Ruben
The Here and Now Mountain
Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK - Enlightenment is the state of 'being awake'. But how exactly do we wake up from our own illusions? The Buddha referred to these illusions as 'fetters', and described how they bind us to suffering. He also showed us that we, like him, could see through them, one by one.
Everyone is an Artist
4-Week Online Course - Artists and meditators have the same longing, to open their minds to new perspectives. The opposite of being creative is to be stuck in a habitual rut. If you’re tired of always doing the same things and expecting to get new results, this course is for you.