Retreats

GFR Retreat

The Bodhisattva Ideal

This retreat will explore the Bodhisattva Ideal and how it can be ever more fully and deeply lived out in our Order and community.

GFR Retreat

The Padmaloka Winter Retreat 2025/26: Teachings from the Lotus Born

An intensive retreat, at a potent time of year, entering into the spiritually transformative realm of Padmasambhava.

Open Retreat

Freedom to Grow: A Weekend Retreat for Fathers

On this retreat, we will explore how we can allow our minds to flourish in whatever conditions we find ourselves in our work, our families, our meditation, and our friendships. A retreat for fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, surrogate fathers, fathers-to-be and father figures!

GFR Retreat

Ritual and Devotion

On this Going for Refuge retreat, we will ponder the profundity of the Puja through studying Sangharakshita's short work Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism.

Going For Refuge Retreat

The Mythic Context

Going for Refuge requires the activation of our strongest and deepest emotions. If we are to make any real progress in transforming ourselves, we must transform our emotional life through faith, imagination and an overarching Mythic Context.

Open Retreat

Men of Colour Weekend

Join us for this weekend on ‘the eight worldly winds’. These four pairs of opposing forces can bind us tightly to mundane life. But there is a way out.

Meditation Retreat

Essential Meditation

This no-nonsense retreat focuses on the core principles of meditation, helping you work effectively, renew motivation, and inspire your practice.

Open Retreat

Great Gathering: Padmasambhava in the Cremation Grounds

This will be a weekend evoking the mystery, wonder, and challenge of the Dharma life – where will you find the cremation ground? And will you survive it?

Order Retreat

Men’s European Mitra Convenors’ Meeting 1

A retreat for Mitra Convenors in Triratna to gather and deepen their inspiration and vision.

Open Retreat

Open Festival Day

The Padmaloka festival day offers a precious opportunity for all adults who practise within Triratna to come together for a day of Dharma, puja, friendship, and meditation.

GFR Retreat

The Ten Pillars

Each of the precepts is so precious that they can be likened to ten pillars made of precious substances – diamond, gold, crystal, pearl, etc. – which provide the essential foundation for the cultivation of higher states of consciousness and the development of transcendental insight.

GFR Retreat

Going for Refuge Weekend: Initiation in the Stupa

A retreat exploring the mythic and symbolic importance of the Private Ordination ceremony in building a life dedicated to Going for Refuge.