Building a Buddhaland

Join us! for the Young Person’s retreat day this Spring where we will be exploring the Four Samgrahavastus. These describe four practices we need to gather and strengthen a healthy spiritual community: generosity, kindly speech, beneficial activity and exemplification. These practices are relevant at every stage of one’s spiritual development; so whether or not you are a newcomer or an old hand, if you are looking for a teaching that is practical more...

We continue to explore the imaginal figure of Ratnasambhava, focussing on the image of the jewel. What symbolism does this image hold and how can we bring this into our process and practice?

Cost:
This class has no set charge. Instead we ask for your donations to help keep our class and Centre running. We have guidelines for donations of between £7 (unwaged) and £14 (waged) per class. It is based on your own felt sense of what you can afford. This allows everyone to more...

During this term, up until April, we will be exploring the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. The tradition of mindfulness in spiritual practice is well established. But what is mindfulness and where does it lead? How can we learn to develop this quality, especially in a world that so often seems to pull us in a different direction?

In 2023 we will be exploring mindfulness through traditional Buddhist approaches but we will also be using innovative techniques to more...

Our beginners classes are a great way to sample meditation for the first time or to get refreshing support and clarity to help you set up a regular practice.

Full instructions will be given including how to sit comfortably in a chair or on cushions on the floor. We’ll introduce our meditation practices, one each week – either the mindfulness of breathing which develops calm, focus and wholeheartedness, or a loving kindness (metta bhavana) meditation which develops emotional more...

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Thursdays

My name is Claire-Louise and I have been teaching Scaravelli inspired hatha yoga classes in Bristol since 2006. 

I see yoga as more of an art form than a form of exercise. If we can engage our curiosity whilst moving with the breath, then yoga  is like experimenting with the melody, tone, volume and pitch of the body. 

In this way our practice can become more like a meditative dance more...

This month we look at deepening our meditation experience by viewing it through the lens of an unfolding of conditions:
-the experience of being hindered in meditation is one of being caught in a reactive mind (going in circles with our thoughts and experience).
-letting go and relaxing out of these hindrances to end the cyclic patterns.
-moving towards being absorbed in meditation by bringing in our creative mind to find more freedom.

With guest teacher Prajnamati more...

In the fourth of a series of Going Deeper meditation mornings on going deeper into the system of meditation practice, we look at going deeper into just sitting practice, exploring this as a practice of receptivity to sense experience, with an open attentiveness receptive to whatever is perceptible without attending to any sensation in particular, and from this receptive space recognizing the quality of sensitivity in the awareness itself.

With Prajnamati.

Suitable for more...

Tonight we are going to draw the sun from our hearts, to warm ourselves and our thoughts.

We will be focusing on meditation for the evening as well as doing puja (ritual). Continuing to explore the radiant figure of Ratnasambhava, who embodies the symbol of the sun, we reveal further jewels around the Buddha Mandala.

With Singhamanas.

For those who have completed an intro course at any time.

The life in our centre is beginning to flourish after more...

During this term, up until April, we will be exploring the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. The tradition of mindfulness in spiritual practice is well established. But what is mindfulness and where does it lead? How can we learn to develop this quality, especially in a world that so often seems to pull us in a different direction?

In 2023 we will be exploring mindfulness through traditional Buddhist approaches but we will also be using innovative techniques to more...

Our beginners classes are a great way to sample meditation for the first time or to get refreshing support and clarity to help you set up a regular practice.

Full instructions will be given including how to sit comfortably in a chair or on cushions on the floor. We’ll introduce our meditation practices, one each week – either the mindfulness of breathing which develops calm, focus and wholeheartedness, or a loving kindness (metta bhavana) meditation which develops emotional more...

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Thursdays

My name is Claire-Louise and I have been teaching Scaravelli inspired hatha yoga classes in Bristol since 2006. 

I see yoga as more of an art form than a form of exercise. If we can engage our curiosity whilst moving with the breath, then yoga  is like experimenting with the melody, tone, volume and pitch of the body. 

In this way our practice can become more like a meditative dance more...

“Embodied Wisdom: Qigong & Somatic Meditation”

A morning of Qigong and somatic meditation to resource and to connect to our true nature.

Through sitting, standing and mindful movements, we learn how to align the body to promote a relaxed alert state, regulate and calm the mind, meet and let go of blockages to presence and connect with emptiness.

When we reach a ‘Qi state’ we are fully present, connected and receptive to our spiritual more...

We will continue our exploration of the Buddha Mandala that communicates the qualities of the awakened perspective.

On this evening we will explore Ratnasambhava, the jewel born, through meditation and puja. This week we be exploring the wisdom aspect of Ratnasambhava.

The specific wisdom of Ratnasambhava is the wisdom of ‘sameness’. The Buddha mind sees the distinctiveness of all things, their individuality and uniqueness, but it more...

During this term, up until April, we will be exploring the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. The tradition of mindfulness in spiritual practice is well established. But what is mindfulness and where does it lead? How can we learn to develop this quality, especially in a world that so often seems to pull us in a different direction?

In 2023 we will be exploring mindfulness through traditional Buddhist approaches but we will also be using innovative techniques to more...

Our beginners classes are a great way to sample meditation for the first time or to get refreshing support and clarity to help you set up a regular practice.

Full instructions will be given including how to sit comfortably in a chair or on cushions on the floor. We’ll introduce our meditation practices, one each week – either the mindfulness of breathing which develops calm, focus and wholeheartedness, or a loving kindness (metta bhavana) meditation which develops emotional more...

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Thursdays

My name is Claire-Louise and I have been teaching Scaravelli inspired hatha yoga classes in Bristol since 2006. 

I see yoga as more of an art form than a form of exercise. If we can engage our curiosity whilst moving with the breath, then yoga  is like experimenting with the melody, tone, volume and pitch of the body. 

In this way our practice can become more like a meditative dance more...

For those who have completed an intro course at any time, are members of the Sangha (community) and are able to do 50 minute unled meditation sits.

50 min sit, 20 min walking, 40 min sit unguided.

Join Narajadhi and friends for a silent and simple evening of practice.

Every third Friday of the month.

Our Centre runs on generosity and the majority of our income is from donations. We don’t have fix rates for our classes so income isn’t a more...

More exploration of the southern realm of Mamaki and Ratnasambhava with meditation and ritual. Facilitated by Narajadhi

Please donate here for the classes you attend. We rely on your gifts to run the centre and to share meditation and Buddhism with the people of Bristol.

During this term, up until April, we will be exploring the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. The tradition of mindfulness in spiritual practice is well established. But what is mindfulness and where does it lead? How can we learn to develop this quality, especially in a world that so often seems to pull us in a different direction?

In 2023 we will be exploring mindfulness through traditional Buddhist approaches but we will also be using innovative techniques to more...

Our beginners classes are a great way to sample meditation for the first time or to get refreshing support and clarity to help you set up a regular practice.

Full instructions will be given including how to sit comfortably in a chair or on cushions on the floor. We’ll introduce our meditation practices, one each week – either the mindfulness of breathing which develops calm, focus and wholeheartedness, or a loving kindness (metta bhavana) meditation which develops emotional more...

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Thursdays

My name is Claire-Louise and I have been teaching Scaravelli inspired hatha yoga classes in Bristol since 2006. 

I see yoga as more of an art form than a form of exercise. If we can engage our curiosity whilst moving with the breath, then yoga  is like experimenting with the melody, tone, volume and pitch of the body. 

In this way our practice can become more like a meditative dance where the more...

28th – 30th April. Arrival from 4:30pm on Friday, dinner at 6:30pm. Departure 3:30pm Sunday.

***Now fully booked! Waiting list available***

The Wheel of Life

On the weekend we will be looking into the Tibetan Wheel of Life, a  rich and colourful symbol of the human condition.  It reflects, as in a mirror, both our obstacles and our potential to overcome them.    And we meet a series of Buddhas, each bearing gifts and showing us more...