Summer Retreats
We have two sublime retreats this summer, which can be combined into one long retreat offering the opportunity dive deep into the primordial awareness of your true nature.
Vast as the Sky,
Deep as the Ocean
Dzogchen
Summer Solstice Retreat
Jun 16,2025-Jun 21,2025
Emerson College
Forest Row
Great news, summer retreat with James Low!
We will deeply immerse into the authentic and direct expression of Dzogchen (great perfection) wisdom from Tibet with James Low, lineage holder and translator, who is able to share this spontaneous clarity that is rare and sublime.
Life is short, to share times together is a wonderful opportunity amongst the endless provocations of impermanence.
Emerson College. Forest Row
Accommodation, camping and food available with more details of how to book soon. We will send out details of how to book to ticket holders.
LINK TO BOOK
Vast as the sky, Deep as the Ocean.
Dzogchen and Mahamudra in every moment!
The focus of the retreat is on directly opening to our mind as it is. Our intrinsic presence is not created by others, by our own effort, or by circumstances.
It is not a construct and it is not, like anything we know. By dis-identifying with our constructive habits we will set them free to vanish where they are.
This reveals our own source of which, we are the non-dual display.
James Low
Summer Enlightenment Intensive
June 12-15
Wilderlands
Sussex
More details coming soon
These Enlightenment Intensives are aimed at breaking through to a profound state of awareness often called "enlightenment." There are many more correct, traditional and poetic ways of referring to this most precious and essential understanding. This naturally occurring state is read and talked about, usually, as if it lives at the end of a mystical rainbow and will never happen.
That is a shame - it is the key to life and happiness and can be experienced by anyone who takes two to three days to look deeply within, earnestly and honestly, with complete attention. You need skilful support to do this. Going it alone is life wastingly slow.
On Enlightenment Intensives "ordinary" people achieve the most profound states of consciousness. These states are not the property of monks or saints or robed lamas or holy men of the east or west. They are completely natural - but easily lost to view - unless you are deeply questioning, observing and open. You will be carefully guided in a simple technique of enquiry that produces astonishing and deeply satisfying life changing results in days.
These ecstatic, primordial experiences go to the core of life's deepest issues. Authentic presence satisfies - totally - where nothing else does. These experiencs are life itself - without them there is always some sense of failure, no matter how much money, praise, fame or love you receive.