Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre

buddhist retreat centre for women

Embodying Freedom 2025

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Embodying Freedom 2025

25 Apr - 2 May 2025
Led By: Singhashri, Jayasuri, Sripakshini, Erika Chalkley
For: Mitras

Life includes both suffering AND liberation. In a world racked with suffering, how do we meet life with curiosity and conviction, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings? Explore what liberation feels like through an embodied and relational approach to moment-by-moment experience of both tension AND release.

***This retreat wishes to especially welcome non binary mitras practising within the women’s wing of the movement. We will be paying careful attention to the creation of inclusive conditions, particularly in the area of gendering through our use of language.***

Please note that during this retreat a new office will be being built (on the opposite side of the carpark to the retreat centre). There will be some noise.

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The Buddha taught that life includes both suffering AND liberation. In a world racked with suffering, how do we meet ourselves and each other with curiosity, courage and conviction, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings?

Explore what liberation feels like through an embodied and relational approach to meditation. Together we’ll descend into our moment-by-moment somatic experience of both places of tension, stuckness, or resistance AND sensations of release, softness, and openness.

Collectively we’ll get curious about:

  • What supports a sense of safety in the body and helps with nervous system regulation
  • Our vision for liberation for ourselves and others and our intentions for practicing
  • How our unique social conditioning shows up in our practice and how we relate to what’s happening now
  • Embodiment as a radical act
  • The role of beauty and joy in opening to ourselves, one another and the world
  • How a creative response to fear, grief, shame and anger can support our efforts towards collective liberation
  • The co-created and interconnected nature of experience and reality

Through teacher input, guided meditations, individual and group enquiry, group exercises, mindful movement, chanting and ritual, one-to-one practice reviews, and four full days of silence.

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £365 waged / £250 unwaged

Booking Fee: £85.00

Single Rooms: No single rooms currently available on this retreat. Please email to go on single room waiting list.

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Paying for your retreat

Taraloka runs on generosity.

To book a retreat you pay a booking fee. This is the only charge made for coming on retreat. As far as possible, we don’t want anyone’s financial situation to stop them from coming to Taraloka.

At the end of your retreat, you have the opportunity to give money towards Taraloka. If you are able to donate, you are giving to another person who otherwise could not afford to come on retreat. And you are helping to give the gift of Taraloka to the women of the future.

We have suggested donations as these reflect the basic income needed to make a retreat viable. However, they are only suggestions. It is genuinely fine to give ten times these amounts, nothing, or anything in between.

Running on generosity is radical – thank you for being part of that.

For more information see what does it cost and a flow of generosity