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Direct Utter Simplicity

February 4th to March 3rd 2012

As the name suggests! What more could you want from a retreat? Just more and more of less and less. A radically uncluttered programme of simple living, meditation and silence. Lots of time to: Go Deep; Sit; Reflect; Walk; and Sit more. This is a month long practice retreat (with a two week option).

Bodies of Earth: Beyond Me and Mine

5th to 19th May 2012

A retreat for women with Maitrisara, Dayajoti, Padmadarshini, and Jutika. Through an intimate mindfulness of our own body and our wider body, the earth, we can realise Buddhist insights more deeply. The natural expression of these insights is care for all life.

Meeting The Wild

2nd to 16th June 2012

This is a retreat with an emphasis on meditatively inhabiting the wild landscape which surrounds the Ecodharma Centre. It is part of our Nature Based Practice and Learning series. It brings meditation and mindfulness into relationship with wilderness immersion.

Our deepest nature is untameable. Yet, spending so much time living in a world constructed in service of a humanity, this can be hard to remember. So step out of the narrow dusty world for a while and meet the wild. Immersing ourselves in direct contact with wild nature, and deepening that connection through meditation, mindfulness, and reflection, can heal the wounds of alienation that are so present in our times. This helps us to re-connect with deeper aspects of ourselves and the world we inhabit – in a way that is enriching, empowering and transformative.

Engaged Buddhist Training - empowering transformation

30th June to 14th July 2012

This is a training for people who are awake to the needs and opportunities of our times. Effective and authentic transformation of self and the world necessarily go hand in hand. So, this event brings together a team of talented facilitators to offer tools that integrate the inner dimension of change with practical skills in organising, community building, and designing effective strategies for social transformation. It brings together the best in activist education with Dharma based practice in personal and interpersonal transformation.

Bodhiyoga Yoga July Retreat

21st to 28th July 2012

This week long yoga retreat is organised and taught by two very good friends of the Ecodharma Project, Sudaka adn Sadhita. We are delighted to be able to host their Bodhiyoga events, which integrate yoga practice with Buddhist meditation and an ecological sensibility.

The Way of Mindfulness

11th to 25th August 2012

A retreat for men. A two week training in bringing the Dharma to life, with Dharmachari Kamalashila. The purpose of this training is to familiarise participants with the intensive practise of mindfulness as taught by the Buddha in the Pali Satipaṭṭhana Sutta.

Bodhiyoga Yoga September Retreat

1st to 8th September 2012

This late summer yoga retreat is organised and taught by two very good friends of the Ecodharma Project, Sudaka adn Sadhita. We are delighted to be able to host their Bodhiyoga events, which integrate yoga practice with Buddhist meditation and an ecological sensibility.

Permaculture & Deep Ecology

22nd to 29th Sept

This course explores both the practical wisdom and the theoretical underpinnings of a shift to a life-sustaining future – set within a framework of nature and dharma based learning. It draws together the practical wisdom of permaculture design, experiential nature-based learning, and the theoretical foundations of deep & radical ecology. It weaves together study, meditation, and hands on learning.

Wanderers Retreat

6th to 20th Oct 2012

Inspired by the lives of the early Buddhist practitioners and yogis, who were homeless wanderers, forest and mountain dwellers, this nomadic retreat carries us into a simple life immersed in elemental nature. Through meditation, dharma study and deep ecological perspectives, for two weeks we will wander the pathless path.

Sustaining resistance, empowering renewal

10th Nov to 18th Nov 2012

Tools for Effective-Sustainable Activism

A 10 day workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees

This workshop, in a remote and wild valley in the Catalan Pyrenees,
offers a range of tools, collective and personal, which can make our activism more effective. These methods can help us stay in it for the long haul, adding continuity to our movement building.. They can be used to ensure the collective and organisational dimensions of our activism exemplifies the values we’re struggling for. And they can help us stay inspired, nourished, & more creative in our tactical approach.

The course applies systems thinking, ecological thought and radical critical analysis to the practice of activism and the building of participatory social movements. It will bring together activists from across Europe, to share practice and re-inforce networks.

The workshop will use methods of holistic and participatory learning: cognitive, critical, emotional, and visceral. And the event will model direct democratic social forms.

Heartfood for Hardtimes: Winter Retreat

22nd Dec 2012 to 5th Jan 2013

This winter retreat will focus on the emotional resources and resilience we need to turn towards the world. We will nourish ourselves with the heartfood we need to bring forth the best within ourselves and others to meet the challenges of our times.