• £459.00 – Full price for women
  • £399.00 – Concessions price for women
  • £459.00 – Full price for men
  • £399.00 – Concessions price for men

Date & Time Details: Starts 16th October 7pm - Ends 23rd October 10am

TRIRATNA INTENSIVE: for regular meditators with 2 years+ experience of retreats, centres or groups.

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Awakening to the Breath

With Vessantara and Advayasiddhi

October 16 - 23, 2026

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Meditation on breathing is used in many ways in Buddhist tradition: for developing awareness, relaxing deeply, healing the body, becoming sensitive to energy, opening the heart, and developing insight into how things are. During this week, we shall explore using the breath in all these ways, inviting ourselves to become more alive and awake.

The retreat will be largely in silence, with presentations from Vessantara and Advayasiddhi, guided meditations, meditation reviews, ritual and puja.

RETREAT CATEGORY: TRIRATNA INTENSIVE

To attend this retreat you will need to have been regularly meditating for at least two years and regularly attend retreats, a centre or a group within the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community. You must also be comfortable with extended periods of sitting meditation, Buddhist devotional practice and spending most of the retreat in silence.

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Leaders

Vessantara
Vessantara has been ordained since 1974, and is one of the best-known meditation teachers in Triratna. He has taught around the world, and led hundreds of retreats. He has spent years in personal meditation retreat, including a 3-year retreat in France. He is the author of several books, including The Breath and The Heart in Windhorse Publications’ series on The Art of Meditation. This is the only retreat for non-Order members that he will be leading this year.
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Advayasiddhi
Advayasiddhi is a meditation and Dharma teacher living in Denmark. She loves meditation and loves sharing its deeply transformative powers on retreats. She met the Dharma under the Bodhi Tree in 1997, and has since then dedicated her life to explore how to wake up in the lives we have here and now. For the past 15 years she has been involved with retreats in various places around UK and Europe, using a friendly and down-to-earth teaching style. She has a particular link with Vajraloka Retreat Centre, where she teaches regularly and since 2020 has also been involved with a…
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