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Weekend workshops to deepen your practice

Day and week­end events

We run events on a vari­ety of themes through­out the year both for one day and the whole week­end

These are led by local and vis­it­ing teach­ers and the yearly pro­gramme varies

  • study­ing the Pali Canon
  • the Wheel of Life
  • med­it­a­tion with the body
  • form­less meditation
  • Wolf at the Door — writ­ing workshops
  • the Path of the Artist
  • ritual and devotion

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Vis­it­ing Teachers

Saddhanandi

SaddhanandiSaddhanandi sees her prac­tice mainly in terms of devel­op­ing loving-kindness and mind­ful­ness, describ­ing her­self as fol­low­ing a path of “becom­ing more deeply human”. She is also the chair­wo­man of Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre for Women in Shrop­shire. She has been teach­ing on retreats since she was ordained in 1984, estab­lish­ing excel­lent ways of com­mu­nic­at­ing to the huge vari­ety of women who come there.

Para­man­anda

Para­man­anda has taught med­it­a­tion for twenty years and is the author of two pop­u­lar books on med­it­a­tion. He was chair­man of the San Fran­cisco Buddhist Centre and has taught med­it­a­tion in set­tings from prison, hos­pices and drug rehab centres to cor­por­a­tions. He is com­plet­ing a PhD on med­it­a­tion in the workplace.

Paramananda

Wolf at the Door writ­ing workshops

Ananda and Man­jus­vara teach the Wolf at the Door writ­ing work­shops
AnandaThese work­shops use dis­cus­sion and group assign­ments to activ­ate the ima­gin­a­tion and release energy that has been locked up by years of neg­at­ive con­di­tion­ing. Some of the most import­ant ele­ments are the friend­ship, trust and com­mu­nic­a­tion which usu­ally devel­ops quickly within the group. This gives stu­dents the con­fid­ence to try things out and com­mu­nic­ate ideas without fear of being judged or cri­ti­cised inap­pro­pri­ately.
Manjusvara

Emer­ging out of the work­shops, Manjusvara’s book, Writ­ing Your Way (avail­able in the Centre’s shop) helps us to see writ­ing as a trans­form­at­ive tool in our search for whole­ness. He expertly guides us to the heart of writ­ing as well as to aspects of Buddhism, with writ­ing exer­cises that del­ic­ately weave in teach­ings on mind­ful­ness and com­pas­sion, free­dom and openness.

Dhammagita

Teaches body work and med­it­a­tion with humour, sin­cer­ity and fun. She has done extens­ive train­ing in the US with author and med­it­a­tion teacher Reg­gie Ray.

Tejananda

TejanandaTejananda has been prac­tising Buddhism and med­it­a­tion for over thirty years. He has writ­ten a book, The Buddhist Path to Awaken­ing, pub­lished by Wind­horse Pub­lic­a­tions, and taught med­it­a­tion and Dharma in many parts of the UK, Europe and the USA.

He has been part of the res­id­ent teach­ing team at Vajraloka Med­it­a­tion Retreat Centre since 1995 and became chair­man of the centre in 2001. In med­it­a­tion and Dharma prac­tice he is par­tic­u­larly inspired by the form­less med­it­a­tions of the Tibetan Mahamudra and Dzo­gchen tra­di­tions which all find reflec­tion in his Enter­ing Pure Aware­ness retreats.

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