A retreat for those who have a regular meditation practice led by Singhashri and Balajit in collaboration with Rivendell Retreat Centre.
This retreat will draw inspiration from the wonderful Mahayana Trikaya (“three body”) teaching that points to the multidimensional nature of our being.
Through deepening into mindfulness, we become more intimate with our moment by moment experience. Practising together we can deepen into curiosity and openness revealing mysterious rich depths to our being. Healing the illusion of a fixed separate self, opens us to a realm full of qualities, including a profound sense of coming home and belonging. A communication unfolds as these qualities percolate into being, into our relationships, our communities and lives.
This retreat will feature a mix of meditation, simple mindful movement, ritual, exercises and discussions, input and practice reviews.
If friendship in community is the whole of the spiritual life, here’s your chance to go deeper in your own practice in the supportive company of others.
Retreat Leader Bios
Balajit
Balajit (he/him) has been leading retreats and events across the UK for around 15 years. For several years he lived and worked at Vajraloka Retreat Centre in North Wales.
He is currently based in Birmingham, where he mixes Buddhist teaching responsibilities with work as a trauma therapist. He has studied the newly emerging psycho-biological approaches to trauma work- and is qualified in Somatic Experiencing, NARM therapy and SHEN Therapy.
In the past few years, Balajit has been exploring correspondences between these emerging approaches and the canonical Dharma, as aids to becoming more embodied and the arising of the bodhicitta.
Singhashri
Singhashri (she/her or they/them) is a queer, Latinx-American dharma teacher and writer. They teach mindfulness and compassion as means to awakening to love, beauty and truth and have committed their life to supporting collective liberation for all and the joy and freedom found there. They teach at various retreat and urban centres across the UK, Europe and the USA, and support a number of projects aimed at creating greater diversity and inclusion within Buddhist sanghas and the secular mindfulness field. They currently live in London with their partner.