Rivendell retreat, August 2007

November 2nd, 2006

August 17th for one week, with Jim Tarran

Rivendell Retreat Centre, High Hurstwood, is a very special place. This impressive Victorian house with its beautiful grounds and woodlands sits nestled in the heart of real English countryside. The land has an ancient feel to it and High Hurstwood itself offers many lovely walks through pristine fields, meadows and copses.

The house is run by a dedicated team of Buddhist practitioners and teachers and is an offshoot of the Croydon Buddhist Centre, which runs it. Because of its use throughout the year for meditation, art and yoga retreats the building has a very special feel to it, one could say that the building resonates with a rich and calming silence.

There is a small Buddhist library and bookshop, two lounge rooms and comfortable dorm-style bedrooms. The retreatants help out with some of the running of the retreat so everyone will have a turn at cooking or washing up for each other, which further gels and settles the group.

The retreat activities – yoga, meditation, mantra, pranyama – will all be held in the Shrine Room, with its beautiful Thankas (devotional paintings) and rupas (3-D representations of Buddhas and Bodhisatvas), and the evening meditations especially, with lit candles and incense, seem to natural conduce to absorption and tranquillity.

This is the ideal week break away in the Summer near to home means that it can also be a carbon friendly retreat. Jim’s teachings are supported by the harmonious steady atmosphere. The warm August days and the serenity of the gardens will help to soothe and calm your nerves to a fulfilling and nurturing inner space that will leave you refreshed and nourished.

Book early as these retreats are always extremely popular!

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