‘Dreaming the Real’ Online Retreat

I’m excited to be offering our fourth annual on-line retreat, running in the post-Christmas lull and seeing in the New Year.

The retreat will run for five full days from Thursday 28th December to Monday 1st January. There will be input, led meditations, and the opportunity to ask questions and talk about your practice. In the evenings there will be integrated ritual elements, including a longer evening to mark the New Year.  

The Theme:

Buddhism tells us that life is like a dream and that ‘reality’ is to be found from waking up from the dream and realizing the dreamlike, empty nature of all experiences.

Dreams can convey many things: they can be beautiful, frightening, mundane or mysterious. Like our waking life, dreams are very convincing.

In practice we want to understand what is ultimately ‘real’ while relating in a helpful way to our dream-like world of relative reality.

Mindfulness and right view will enable an intuitive sense of ‘knowing’ of our experience. We’ll look in some detail at the skandha of perception and some of the ways the mind automatically creates concepts. We bring awareness to how we create our worlds and see how we can go beyond them.  

This online retreat is for anyone who has previously participated in a week or more of retreat with me.  I will be supported by Vajrapriya.

The retreat is offered on a dana (donation) basis. I’ll say more about this during the retreat.

The sessions will run from 10.30 – 12.30, 17.00 – 18.00 and 20.00 – 21.00 GMT. There will be optional un-led groups at 16.00 on the first and last days to check-in about your practice and connect with some others on the retreat. Vajrapriya will offer an un-led sit from 07.30 – 08.15 each day.