Year at a Glance
Upcoming guided meditation courses and retreats.
Strong Mind Toolkit
Weekly Thursdays
with Gen Kelsang Lamchen
8 week series of talks, meditations and practical take-aways that help us get mentally stronger.
Learn how to build strong, stable, states of mind and enjoy better resilience, adaptability and lasting inner harmony and balance.
How to Stop Worrying
Saturday 16th May
with Riley Cox
Half-day course of guided meditations and talks
Our worries can be endless and difficult to get under control but we can learn simple meditative frameworks to sooth worry and prevent it building up in daily life.
10:30-11:30am
Break
12:00-1:00pm
International Spring Festival
22-27 May
with Gen-la Khyenrab
Finding the Source of True Happiness
Through this empowerment we will receive the special blessings of Amitayus, the Buddha of long life, wisdom and merit. Then, based on Eight Verses of Training the Mind, Gen-la Khyenrab will explain how we can transform all the problems and difficulties of our daily life into opportunities for developing authentic love and compassion, and for finding true and lasting happiness.
Saturday 2nd June
Live Lightly
With Gen Kelsang Lamchen
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Ever wish life could be simpler? It is all too easy to feel overloaded, weighed down and anxious about what might be around the corner. Learn how to simplify your thoughts, create light and balanced ways of thinking and build practical habits for a simpler way of life.
10:30-11:30am
12:00-1:00pm
£15 for non-members | £5 under-25/low-income | free for members
Sunday 7th May
Family Class | with Gen Kelsang Lamchen
A practical meditation class for the whole family. Explore how to meditate, build a peaceful mind and find happiness from within.
10:30-11:30am
Saturday 27th June
Think Like a Meditator | with Fabio Bonfirraro
Meditation creates a stable experience of inner peace that enables us to control our mind regardless of our circumstances. When we think like a meditator we can approach life's challenges with a sense of clarity, stability and perspective.
10:30-11:30am
12:00-1:00pm
Sunday 5th July
Family Class | with Gen Kelsang Lamchen
A practical meditation class for the whole family. Explore how to meditate, build a peaceful mind and find happiness from within.
10:30-11:30am
Saturday 11th July
Inner Peace Day Retreat
with Mandy Roberts
Enjoy a relaxing day of meditations that leave us feeling deeply peaceful and learn how to carry this feeling through to daily life.
10.30am - 4pm
£20 for non-members | £10 for under-25/low-income | free for members
Saturday 18th July
Statue Filling Course | with Andy Kemp
Filling Buddha statues is a very beautiful spiritual activity that creates the cause to become ‘filled with realisations’. It is said that if we fill a statue correctly we accumulate good fortune for as long as the statue exists.
10.30 - 4pm
£20 including materials
24 Jul - 8 Aug International Summer Festival
Teachings on the Stages of the Path, Lamrim & Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments and Commentary
with Gen-la Jampa and Gen-la Sangden
*WEEK 1 Teachings on Kadam Lamrim – The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment with Gen-la Kelsang Sangden
24 - 29 July
The Lamrim instructions form the main body of Buddha’s teachings. By integrating these instructions into our daily life, we can learn how to control our mind and always keep a good motivation in our heart. This will make all our daily actions pure and meaningful and, as we experience increasingly more peaceful states of mind, we will discover the supreme happiness of enlightenment. This week will also be a perfect preparation for receiving Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments.
**WEEK 2 Heruka Body Mandala & Vajrayogini Empowerments with Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
July 31 - Aug 8
Highest Yoga Tantra is a special method for attaining enlightenment in this one short life. The very essence of Highest Yoga Tantra can be found in the practices of Heruka and Vajrayogini. Gen-la Kelsang Jampa will grant the Heruka and Vajrayogini empowerments that bestow upon us the special blessings of these Buddhas. He will then give clear and practical teachings on how to enter and make progress on this blissful, quick path to enlightenment – the ultimate goal of our human life.