Online Retreats

The Awakening Body - Online Retreat! An online weekend of embodied meditation and inquiry with Tejananda and Balajit Our mind - all our conceptual faculties - is not what, or […]

Online weekend retreat with The Buddhist Centre (Live) Earlier this year we explored how the Buddha's teaching in the Shorter Suññata Sutta establishes emptiness in a very direct and experiential […]

  Body Heart Mind Awake – taking the  backward step This is my first 'personal' online retreat, exploring the title I've given to my website. Mind is usually taken to […]

The well-known metaphor of ‘a finger pointing at the moon’ is itself a pointer to something essential in dharma practice. It suggests ‘don’t mistake the finger for the moon’.  But […]

    A weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation  In my online retreat earlier in the year, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. […]

Deep emptiness is nothing other than compassion, leading to the end of suffering. In the retreat on “Compassion and Emptiness” we explore the teachings that Bhikkhu Analayo highlights in his […]

  We will start by clarifying a crucial distinction - that between mind and body. Mental contents, such as thoughts and images, cannot awaken. Our conceptual mind is not what, […]

On this retreat, I will be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views […]

‘Wings to Awakening’ is a poetic rendering of ‘bojjhaṅgā’ - seven ‘limbs’ or factors that support bodhi - awakening. The bojjhaṅgās are highlighted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as crucial to […]