Day Retreats and Residential Retreats
Spring Sangha Retreat
Padmasambhava and his teaching on Faith
Friday 16 May – Monday 19 May
Join us on our extended Spring Sangha Retreat for a long weekend of living, meditating and practising together in near-perfect conditions. Taravandana and Shakyapada will be leading this retreat and together will be exploring the life of Padmasambhava and studying one of his most important teachings - on sraddha or faith.
Our new retreat venue - Barmoor - is a stunning Arts and Crafts house standing in a quiet location on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors near Hutton-le-Hole. This retreat is open to everyone who is a regular sangha member from York and Scarborough.
Adhisthana
International Summer Sanghas Retreat | Invoking Padmasambhava: The Precious Master | Bhante 100
Sunday 24 August – Sunday 31 August
Led by Subhuti + team
This is going to be a large international gathering in the big marquee and the stunning surroundings of Adhisthana. It is primarily a camping (or camper vanning) retreat. Members of our sangha are invited to join these celebrations around Sangharakshita's 100th Birthday and learn more about the life and practice of Padmasambhava. There will be no official York party but why not team up with friends and make your own way there? Booking is direct with Adhisthana.
Costs will be as follows: Standard £330 | Concession £265 | Financial Assistance £210 (payment includes a non-refundable and non-transferrable deposit of £70).
Day Retreat
Being with Being - an Exploration of Awareness and the Six Senses
Sunday 29 June 10:30am – 4:30pm
Underneath the chattering mind there is a rich and vast world of sensations and feelings just waiting to be explored. If we can engage with this world then we really begin to change our normal meditation routine into something so much more profound and mysterious. This deeper experience leads to more stable, less reactive, and more contented mental states and moves us closer to a deeper sense of the way things really are. During this Day Retreat Shakyapada will be guiding us in an exploration of present-moment Being, experiencing the six senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, feeling and thinking and reflecting on the true nature of these senses.
Open to all those over 18 who have been meditating for at least six months and who have a regular meditation practice.
Autumn Sangha Retreat
Kshitigarbha - Rescuing beings from from the hell realms
Friday 3 October – Sunday 5 October
Join us on our Autumn Sangha Retreat for a long weekend of living, meditating and practising together in near-perfect conditions. Mahasraddha and Shakyapada will be leading this retreat which will feature the Bodhisattva Kshitigarbha.
Open to all over 18 who are part of the York or Scarborough sanghas. Our new retreat venue - Barmoor stands in a quiet location on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors near Hutton-le-Hole.