The Buddha said spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life. Join the team and Shubhadhi and Dayagita, two life long spiritual friends, as they discuss what friendship means to them and how it has shaped their life and practice to be full of beauty and deep connection. There will be space for a short meditation and discussion in groups

Seeing through the poisons into their inherent wisdom like nature using imaginative investigation into our lived experience

Sangha works offers the chance to practice in a different way. Experiencing work as practice and act consciously with generosity.

“What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? How different would we experience the world, ourselves and others?

Come and experiment in Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extra-ordinary! We start with a check in, before choosing a task to work with as practice from cleaning the centre, to cleaning rupa’s and more...

With Dayabodhini, Chittamani and Bhadra

At this class we offer guidance and inspiration for those familiar with the three meditations taught by Triratna: Mindfulness of Breathing, Mettabhavana and Just sitting. We focus on one each week in a three week cycle. Most classes will begin with a short period of gentle bodywork which we have found enhances meditation. For those who wish, at 2pm we offer tea and time to discuss our meditation until 2.30.

The class is here 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...

At the age of 29, Gautama, the man who would become the Buddha, left his comfortable home, his loving family, his friends and all his possessions in order to seek liberation from suffering for all beings. This event became known as the Great Going Forth or Great Renunciation.

Recently, Subhuti, a senior Order member, gave a talk in which he reiterated Going Forth as an ongoing practice.

But for us in the twenty-first century, whose lives may encompass a family, caring more...

Led by Siṃhanāda 

We live in challenging times. Over the centuries, Buddhists often have. How should Buddhists respond to the serious social, cultural and political challenges that we face today?

Simhanāda shows how a Dharmic analysis offers a clarifying and empowering critical perspective on the swirling murk of secular politics, and a way to carry on going sane as the world carries on going mad. Simhanāda’s talk will be followed by a period of free more...

Sangha works offers the chance to practice in a different way. Experiencing work as practice and act consciously with generosity.

“What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? How different would we experience the world, ourselves and others?

Come and experiment in Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extra-ordinary! We start with a check in, before choosing a task to work with as practice from cleaning the centre, to cleaning rupa’s and more...

With Dayabodhini, Chittamani and Bhadra

At this class we offer guidance and inspiration for those familiar with the three meditations taught by Triratna: Mindfulness of Breathing, Mettabhavana and Just sitting. We focus on one each week in a three week cycle. Most classes will begin with a short period of gentle bodywork which we have found enhances meditation. For those who wish, at 2pm we offer tea and time to discuss our meditation until 2.30.

The class is here to more...

Arrive 5.30 for a 5.45 start. At this friendly and accessible class you will be guided into the simplicity and support of meditation. We teach two meditations, alternating each week. The Mindfulness of breathing helping us to focus and settle the mind and body.The second meditation, the Loving Kindness meditation helping us bring kindness and patient care towards ourself and others.

You will be given full instruction in the meditations and also helped with finding a comfortable more...

With Dharmamrta and Bhadra. Please note 11 – 5 Saturday. 2 – 9 Sunday . This follows on from the March weekend. Come to either or both.

What is it to be who we truly are. The ‘true individual’ is essential to a healthy spiritual community, says the founder of this movement.

A way to discover our unique path and individuality is within relationship.

We will draw on the story of the friendship between Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse to explore more...

“My hut lies in the middle of a dense forest….” – or by Trenchard Street Carpark!

Satyalila has been doing solitary retreats for 30 years, in a variety of locations from countryside cabins and caravans, to solitaries at home in the little ‘Garret Hermitage’ flat she used to occupy behind the Bristol Beacon (previously the Colston Hall) by Trenchard Street Carpark.  A few years ago she worked out that she’d spent more than a year of more...

Sangha works offers the chance to practice in a different way. Experiencing work as practice and act consciously with generosity.

“What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? How different would we experience the world, ourselves and others?

Come and experiment in Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extra-ordinary! We start with a check in, before choosing a task to work with as practice from cleaning the centre, to cleaning rupa’s and more...

With Dayabodhini, Chittamani and Bhadra

At this class we offer guidance and inspiration for those familiar with the three meditations taught by Triratna: Mindfulness of Breathing, Mettabhavana and Just sitting. We focus on one each week in a three week cycle. Most classes will begin with a short period of gentle bodywork which we have found enhances meditation. For those who wish, at 2pm we offer tea and time to discuss our meditation until 2.30.

The class is here to more...

Arrive 5.30 for a 5.45 start. At this friendly and accessible class you will be guided into the simplicity and support of meditation. We teach two meditations, alternating each week. The Mindfulness of breathing helping us to focus and settle the mind and body.The second meditation, the Loving Kindness meditation helping us bring kindness and patient care towards ourself and others.

You will be given full instruction in the meditations and also helped with finding a comfortable more...

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
– Rumi

African, sacred, uplifting and fun harmony singing and mantra with the unique and inspiring Mahasukha. We’ll have a morning of glorious 4 part-harmony songs from around the world, with accompanying infectious djembe rhythms from Mahasukha, and we’ll chant a mantra or two and make offerings in the afternoon. A joyful, meditative and devotional day guaranteed to put a smile on more...

Sangha works offers the chance to practice in a different way. Experiencing work as practice and act consciously with generosity.

“What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? How different would we experience the world, ourselves and others?

Come and experiment in Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extra-ordinary! We start with a check in, before choosing a task to work with as practice from cleaning the centre, to cleaning rupa’s and more...

With Dayabodhini, Chittamani and Bhadra

At this class we offer guidance and inspiration for those familiar with the three meditations taught by Triratna: Mindfulness of Breathing, Mettabhavana and Just sitting. We focus on one each week in a three week cycle. Most classes will begin with a short period of gentle bodywork which we have found enhances meditation. For those who wish, at 2pm we offer tea and time to discuss our meditation until 2.30.

The class is here to more...

Arrive 5.30 for a 5.45 start. At this friendly and accessible class you will be guided into the simplicity and support of meditation. We teach two meditations, alternating each week. The Mindfulness of breathing helping us to focus and settle the mind and body.The second meditation, the Loving Kindness meditation helping us bring kindness and patient care towards ourself and others.

You will be given full instruction in the meditations and also helped with finding a comfortable more...

31 May – 1 June

A fantastic opportunity to spend time with these exceptional and inspiring teachers.

An embodied and relational exploration of the four noble truths with an emphasis on developing a deeper and more authentic relationship with our direct experience of both the arising of suffering and the discovery of freedom. We’ll be paying attention to what supports an individual and collective felt sense of safety, dignity and belonging, how to work more...