2025 retreats

The first in our Land & Heart series of retreats, offering an opportunity to integrate work and practice through nature connection. Spend time immersed in a wild landscape and help restore the ecology of the land of Alfoxton Park by maintaining and protecting our young trees.

Using the ground-breaking methodology of Family Constellations, get disentangled from life-long patterns that don’t serve you anymore by seeing all the people and elements which relate to it.

Explore how we can find grounding and stability through movement and bodywork. Guide your mind into a place of more effortless stillness and deepen your meditation practice. 

An uplifting spring weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration. 

Deepen our connection with the true value of all living beings through discussion, contemplation and experience.

How might meditation with an ancient oak and making contact by means of beauty, love and gratitude lead us towards a deeper understanding of the nature of creativity and of Buddhahood? Explore through meditation, nature connection, play and ritual. 

This silent meditation retreat sits at the heart of our programme. Held in 50 acres of ancient woodland and led with grace and insight by the inimitable Paramananda, this retreat offers ideal conditions to quieten the mind and dive deep into your meditation practice.

Explore how meditation and buddhist teaching can ground and inspire creativity, how music-making can be an access point to insight, and how we can collectively use music to support ritual.

A vocal improvisation weekend with Briony Greenhill. Use improvised singing as a delightful way to connect with the more -than-human world, and see what happens when the voice is invited to express itself without a pre-set song. 

A weekend spent immersed in nature with a group of fellow travellers exploring, sometimes together, sometimes alone, the mysteries of nature and psyche.

An opportunity for those new to the word of Buddhist meditation to spend a weekend learning core meditation practices to support and nourish ourselves in the fast-paced modern world. 

An uplifting summer weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration. 

A Mindful Communication retreat. Learn how to live with greater warmth, authenticity and integrity by exploring the skills and principles of Non-Violent Communication. 

William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived at Alfoxton in 1797–8, near their friend Samuel Coleridge, and in that year each of them wrote some of their finest work, attuned to landscape and imagination. In this retreat we will re-trace the friendship and feeling behind the well-known poems.

The final in our Land & Heart series of retreats, offering an opportunity to integrate work and practice through nature connection. Join us as we mindfully pick, forage, chop and preserve, letting go of the scarcity mindset and moving into the realm of abundance, gratitude and gifts.

Using the ground-breaking methodology of Family Constellations, get disentangled from life-long patterns that don’t serve you anymore by seeing all the people and elements which relate to it.