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.
Anapanasati simply means ‘mindfulness of in and out breathing’. The anapanasati sutta describing the practice, is a remarkable teaching. It’s the longest meditation instruction in the Pali canon. It’s the source text of our familiar Mindfulness of Breathing practice, and extends the practice, using the breath as a doorway into deepening experience of the satipatthanas – body, feelings, mind and Dhammas – taking, as Bhante says , mindful positivity into the whole range of human experience.
On this meditation retreat we’ll explore in our own experience the central sixteen verses of the sutta, where the Buddha describes a practical progressive path from the first contact with the breath, to the elements of dhayana, contemplation of the laksanas and the realisation of Nirvana. In simple and accessible language, the sutta brings together samatha and vipasana practice, and speaks simultaneously and accessibly to all levels of meditation experience and skill.
Dhammarati has been studying and practising the approach to anapanasati described in the sutta for twenty years.
Covid-secure requirements
We are no longer asking each retreatant to take a lateral flow test before travelling to Rivendell, but we are asking that they bring a test with them in case they fall ill whilst here.
We want those that come to Rivendell to be confident that we are making their stay here as safe as possible.
Concession information
Rivendell has a concessionary rate available for most of its retreats. If you are in need of further financial assistance to help enable you to come on retreat here, please do consider writing to our office team via bookings@rivendellretreatcentre.com explaining your circumstances.
Cancellation policy
All deposit amounts are non-refundable and non-transferable in all circumstances.
If you wish to cancel your place on a retreat, we require a minimum notice of 4 calendar weeks before a retreat is due to take place.
If you cancel more than 6 calendar weeks before a retreat is due to take place you will receive a refund of all but the deposit amount, if you have paid in full.
If you cancel between 6 and 4 calendar weeks before the retreat is due to take place and we can't replace you, you will be required to pay half the total cost of the retreat.
If you cancel less than 4 calendar weeks before the retreat is due to take place then any refund will be at Rivendell’s discretion, depending on the circumstances.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you need to cancel, as there may be other people waiting for a place on the retreat to become available. The refund amount will still depend on whether we can fill your space.
Prices for this event are: £399 - £379 (Conc)