Retreats & Programme
Rooted in the the buddhist teachings, especially the Forest meditation tradition of Ajahn Chah, we are inspired by nature, inner and outer. We offer meditation and eco retreats with many ways to explore and open.
Our retreats are holistic, helping us to be present and connected in body and mind, re-minding us of our intimate links with the natural world, and nourished also by sustainable living.
Small and simple can be beautiful and a great support for meditation, for feeling the richness of presence and what is already here.
The 2024 retreat schedule is below.
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Daily Life activity Retreats
Meditation & active daily life practice with the centre residents.
Outside of formal retreat times, Ekuthuleni is also open for people to come to stay to join in a schedule of meditation & daily life practice. This includes day to day chores & activities we run to maintain the center as a sustainable & contemplative place.
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Skillfully Navigating the Stormy Seas
10th – 15th July
Silent Meditation Retreat with Ayya Brahmavara a bhikkhuni of the forest tradition, & Noon.
Come home to this body and mind to ground and resource ourselves in order to be able to skilfully navigate the stormy seas and many challenges that present themselves in our life, the life of all beings around us and globally.
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Sacred Chanting & Embodied Meditation
23rd to 27th July
With Janna Ferret & Noon
Gospel, African spiritual chants, mantras... meditation guidance, dhamma talks, silent walking. This is not a singing course, no need to be singer!
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LGBTQI Retreat
15th to 20th August
With Noon & Tisara
Meditation, Friendship & Activity for our hearts, bodies & minds.
Meditation, making natural clay walls, clay sculptures, times of silence, times for community connecting.
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Meditation, walking & poetry retreat
6th to 12th September
Yatra with camping in the High Pyrenees near mountain lakes & hot bathsWith Noon
This meditation retreat will be a "Yatra": a meditative walking retreat, with dhamma talks, guided & silent meditation times, poetry sharings, community life together in a friendly campsite by a river & time to breathe the fresh air of the high mountains.
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Deep Rest Retreat
28th September to October 4th
With Jaya Ashmore
Silence and finely tuned meditation instructions in an atmosphere of welcome help us drop out of our programmed ways of operating. As we fall more in touch with our direct experience, we may be surprised by many things: how busy the mind is, how rich our innate capacities already are, how simple and important to meet what we had avoided, how sweet to touch aliveness beyond ideas.
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Tuesday Online Meditation
Every Tuesday at 7.30pm French time, guided meditation via Zoom with Noon or Sumedha
Invitation link below - please join us if you can!
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/885573144
Meeting ID: 885 573 144
