Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre

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Mindfulness: Be Here Now 2025

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Mindfulness: Be Here Now 2025

2 - 5 May 2025
Led By: Mahamani, Viryamala
For: Open To All

The practice of mindfulness can be deeply nourishing, calming and liberating. It is like coming home to ourselves. Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Buddha described mindfulness as ‘clear and radiant’ and as ‘stillness, simplicity and contentment’. He saw it as a deeply human quality of unlimited potential and which can bring meaning and happiness to our lives. Yet we do not need to be Buddhist nor interested in Buddhism to benefit from mindfulness.

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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This retreat is suitable for newcomers to mindfulness meditation, and for those wishing to take mindfulness deeper. Mindfulness practices can help us to develop a serene, alert, focussed state of mind, in which we can get beyond the usual chatter in our heads and start to listen to our deeper inspiration and wisdom. On a retreat, beyond the busyness and pressures of our daily lives, we can give ourselves space and time to go deeper into our experience, and allow clearer perspectives to emerge on what is truly important to us in our lives.

Sitting meditation including the Mindfulness of Breathing practice will be fully taught, supported by gentle bodywork, activities to explore bringing mindfulness into our daily lives, small discussion groups, presentations, and some time for ourselves: to relax, let go and appreciate sitting quietly or walking in the landscape.

There will be some silent periods, which offer us the opportunity to let go more deeply, and to become more aware of ourselves, each other and our environment, without the need for words.

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £225 waged / £160 unwaged

Booking Fee: £65.00

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