Retreats

Dreaming The Path: A workshop exploring dreams and Dharma practice Led by Arthabandhu

Sunday 13 September 10am – 4:30pm

Dreams are often an overlooked part of our lives. We may rarely speak about them or give them much attention. Yet within the Buddhist tradition, dreams are seen as an opportunity for spiritual growth, and even a path towards awakening. This workshop explores how reconnecting with our dreams can open us to deeper levels of energy, creativity, and self-understanding. As part of the workshop, we will introduce the practice of lucid dreaming—learning to become aware within the dream itself—and explore how this connects with Buddhist Dream Yoga.

Through simple practices and shared exploration, we can begin to rediscover the richness of our dream life and engage with it as a meaningful path of transformation. Open to all over 18.

Adhisthana September 2026

Friday 25 September – Friday 2 October

Join Shakyapada and Mahasraddha for a great week at Adhisthana as part of the big Summer Sanghas gathering. Adhisthana is our our main retreat centre in Hereford. Find out more at Adhisthana.org

In 1976, Sangharakshita gave a series of public talks, collectively entitled Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow.

Under four headings – A Method of Personal Development, A Vision of Human Existence, A Nucleus of a New Society, and A Blueprint for a New World – he shared his vision of what the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order had to offer.

From the first of these talks, Sangharakshita tells us:

Perhaps it would be best to assume that nobody really knows anything about Buddhism in the West, and that perhaps we do have to make … a completely fresh start, to take, as it were, a completely new look at Buddhism. And this, we may say, is what the FWBO was founded for in 1967, and what it tries to do. It tries to take a completely new look. It tries to make a completely fresh start… It exists, we may say, to cut the Buddha’s teaching down to its absolute essentials and to make those essentials relevant to people’s lives.

This is an opportunity to experience a full retreat together with your friends from the sangha. We will stay together for groups during the retreat but we will also have an opportunity to meet lots of people