This retreat draws inspiration from the Mahayana Trikaya (“three body”) teaching that points to who we actually are via three simultaneous dimensions of reality: 

• Nirmanakaya: coming home to presence within this body, this world
• Sambhogakaya: befriending the dynamic flow of feeling and energy, and the relational dimension of being
• Dharmakaya: opening to the luminous, boundless dimension of awakened being

We will delve into poetic themes of “coming home” and “belonging” as an emotionally engaging and relational approach to insight that allows:

• Respect and appreciation of core human needs – belonging, safety and dignity
• Holding of the tension between our ideals and our current (often messy) experience
• Healing the illusion of separation and the habits of dualism
• Learning to feel sensations of belonging at the levels of self, community, place, world and to express compassionately responsive activity
• Deepening of mindfulness and metta as practices capable of helping us see the true nature of reality

This retreat will include meditation, movement (somatics), music, chanting and ritual, exercises and discussions, teacher input and practice reviews. This is a silent meditation retreat. Participants should expect to go into silence on the first full day, and come out of silence on the last full day.  

The retreat is suitable for people with at least six months regular meditation practice and who have attended at least one full week retreat before. For more information, read the retreat information sheet. 

If we dive deep enough into the sea, we reach a depth where the body is no longer buoyant enough to float nor heavy enough to sink. We remain suspended, hanging in deep blue space, able to move in any direction without the least bit of friction. 

This place is called the doorway to the deep and it promises to open us to our true nature, our deepest potential when freed from afflictive mental states that bind us to suffering, by either taking us back to the surface or pulling us under. From this place we discover a more creative response to life, full of awareness, love and transformation. 

This retreat is suitable for those who have a regular meditation practice and who regularly attend retreats. You will also need to be comfortable with extended periods of sitting meditation and periods spent in silence.

For more information, please read the retreat information sheet.