Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women
It's a bit later than usual to allow us to transition onto a new website, but we'll be all up and running and ready to take bookings on Monday 23 September.
If you need a single room, don't book online but email the office by Sunday 6th October. We'll contact you back about the success of your request by 20th October.
Here's what's on offer in 2025.
Mandarava - storyteller, artist, puppeteer and Dharma practitioner talks to Maitrisiddhi about her creative journey and her upcoming Taraloka retreat, 'Stories of Wisdom, Stories of Life' Header image: Machig Labdron by Amitajyoti
Ren Young started meditating five years ago, and came on retreat for the first time in 2020. Here's their story.
Q: Why did you get interested in meditation in the first place?
Ren: "Well, I’d just had a massive change in my life. For twenty-seven years I’d been married and raising a family, but then my marriage broke down – irreparably - and my kids had grown up. So I became a person who was kind of lost. I didn’t know who I was any more – I didn’t know what my job was or who I was in the world.
Never been on retreat before?
We are recruiting for our Operations Team in 2024. If you're an Order Member or Going for Refuge Mitra, why not try something completely different?
Try for a year—see if you like it
Taraloka is recruiting!
In addition to practising Buddhism and Meditation, Kamalagita is a parent and has spent many years as teacher. In this interview, she speaks about her book The Mindful Teacher's Handbook, and about her experience from her life as a practitioner, teacher and trainer. She offers practical solutions for how people with relentlessly busy lives can find moments of peace and deep resourcing.
Camille is volunteering at Taraloka for six months, and she wrote a beautiful piece for her Sangha back home in France. You can read the original version here, or the English version below...
Thirteen women braved driving rain-showers, high winds and steep places to do three pujas and climb the second highest mountain in Wales – and they raised £4,557 for ‘Tiratanaloka Unlimited’! Thanks to everyone who took part, and everyone who gave money! Here are some comments from those on the event.
‘Exhausting, fulfilling, really satisfying – I loved doing pujas outside! It was so beautiful!’ – Alice (London)
This is the seventh in a series of stories behind the shrines around Taraloka, and the women whose generosity, care and love have made Tara's realm what it is.
