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On retreat, we have the opportunity to contact what is most vital and profound in ourselves and to experience a life that expresses this. Whether through study, meditation or the company of friends, a retreat is where you can take your practice deeper.

5 Sep
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7 Sep
2025
5 Sep
2025
GFR Retreat
Going for Refuge Weekend: The Liberation of the Heart
A retreat exploring the importance of metta, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity, faith and devotion in our training for ordination.
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7 Sep
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21 Sep
2025
7 Sep
2025
Meditation Retreat
Brahmaviharas: Gateways to the Sublime
This retreat explores the profound heart wish of the four Brahmaviharas; a set of meditation practices that have the power to utterly transform our emotional lives and relations to others.
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2 Oct
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5 Oct
2025
2 Oct
2025
Order Retreat
3-Day Dharmachari Retreat: Wandering the Way of Perfect Wisdom
For a few days let’s join the Bodhisattvas and ‘wander without a home’; let’s play in the Greater Mandala, the treasure revealed by Urgyen Sangharakshita
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5 Oct
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10 Oct
2025
5 Oct
2025
Order Retreat
Men’s European Mitra Convenors’ Meeting 3
A retreat for Mitra Convenors in Triratna to gather and deepen their inspiration and vision.
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10 Oct
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12 Oct
2025
10 Oct
2025
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.
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12 Oct
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17 Oct
2025
12 Oct
2025
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.
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17 Oct
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26 Oct
2025
17 Oct
2025
GFR Retreat
Going for Refuge
A retreat exploring the centrality of the of the Three Jewels in our lives.
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7 Nov
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14 Nov
2025
7 Nov
2025
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.
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14 Nov
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17 Nov
2025
14 Nov
2025
Open Retreat
London Weekend: Becoming a Buddha - Development, Surrender, Discovery, Emergence
Looking at the four myths of the spiritual life.
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22 Nov
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29 Nov
2025
22 Nov
2025
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.
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5 Dec
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14 Dec
2025
5 Dec
2025
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.
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19 Dec
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2 Jan
2026
19 Dec
2025
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.
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