Retreats

Open Retreat

Great Gathering: The Meaning of Spiritual Community

We will explore the meaning of a spiritual community as consisting of individuals who are fully committed to spiritual development, which means development in the direction of Enlightenment.

Open Retreat

Men’s Open Retreat: Illuminations from the Guru’s Heart

What teaching do we need to take to heart and practise right now? Join us on this retreat as we answer this question by exploring the life and teachings of Padmasambhava, the vajra guru.

GFR Retreat

Going for Refuge

A retreat exploring the centrality of the of the Three Jewels in our lives.

GFR Retreat

Awareness of Reality: The Five Reflections

A retreat that penetrates deeply into these ageing, illness, death, separation, and the law of karma through meditation and reflection; dwelling on what the Buddha taught about them.

Open Retreat

London Weekend: Becoming a Buddha - Development, Surrender, Discovery, Emergence

Looking at the four myths of the spiritual life.

Order Retreat

Kalyana Mitrata: The Great Love of a Bodhisattva

We’ll explore the qualities that enable us to become kalyana mitras and bring about the maturation of the heart.

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

Fathers’ Retreat: Freedom to Grow

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.