The Taste of Freedom 2024 (a retreat for women of colour) | Taraloka | Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women

Sunday, June 9, 2024 to Sunday, June 16, 2024

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Come and join a community of women of colour for a week of practice. Deepen and refresh your meditation and mindfulness practice through exploring the simple yet profound meditation teaching of the Anapanasati Sutta, which the Buddha taught as a path to liberation and awakening. Combining mindfulness of breathing with a series of simple contemplations, this teaching shows how mindfulness practice can help us to develop calm and insight while freeing our hearts and minds.

*Please read and ensure you are able to comply with Taraloka's COVID 19 precautions incuding around travel BEFORE booking your retreat. *

During the retreat there will also be opportunities to look at how both our external conditions and our experiences as women of colour may impact on our lives and how we can work with these in our meditation and in everyday life. The retreat programme will include meditation (sitting, standing, walking and lying down), talks, discussion, reflection, chanting and ritual. There will be periods of silence including an extended period for more than a day. There will also be a daily work period and plenty of free time to go for walks or have chats and tea with others on the retreat.

The retreat will be led by Bodhilila, together with Maitrinita and Aryarakshita, both longstanding friends of hers, each with a strong meditation practice and a commitment to creating supportive spiritual spaces for POC to practice together.

This retreat is for those who are familiar with the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana meditation practices who have a lived experience as people of colour.*

*All women of colour are welcome including those of African, Carribean, Asian, Indigenous, Latinx, Arab/Middle Eastern heritage, along with those who are biracial, multiracial and of mixed heritage and anyone identifying as non-white.

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £365.00 waged / £250 unwaged

Booking Fee:

£85.00

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.

Suggested donations

Our suggested donations (in addition to the booking fee) for 2023-24 are (waged/unwaged)

Weekend retreats (£195 / 135)
Long Weekend (3 nights) (£220 / 155)
4 night retreats (£250/ 170)
5 night retreats (£280/ 190)
Week retreats: (£360/ 245)
9 night retreats (£405 / 285)
12 night retreats (£460 / 305)

Our suggested donations (in addition to the booking fee) for 2024-25 are (waged/unwaged)

Weekend retreats (£195 / 135)
Long Weekend (3 nights) (£225 / 160)
4 night retreats (£255 / 175)
5 night retreats (£285 / 195)
Week retreats: (£365 / 250)
9 night retreats (£410 / 290)
12 night retreats (£465/ 310)

There will be an opportunity to make your donation at the end of the retreat. Donations can be made by credit/debit card, cheque or cash.

Those who cannot afford our suggested donations are free to contribute what they can.

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