Summary List of Retreats

"Doing Your Own Thing" Self Retreats are available throughout the year between the Conducted Retreats (and occasionally on weekends).

These retreats are in Noble Silence.

Click on a specific retreat for details, or browse the detailed list of retreats.

Tue 26 Oct - Fri 29 Oct Yin And Yang: A Yoga Retreat: Release, relax and restore

Fri 29 Oct - Sun 31 Oct Life Tides And Word Links: A weekend course in poetry

Tue 2 Nov - Sun 7 Nov Writing Our Ancestral Stories : Shifting the past into new futures

Fri 12 Nov - Sun 14 Nov Yin And Restorative Yoga

Fri 19 Nov - Sun 21 Nov At Ease in Mind and Body: An introduction to qigong

Fri 26 Nov - Sun 28 Nov Quiet Mountain, Clear Sky: Meditating with calmness and clarity

Fri 3 Dec - Sun 5 Dec Grounded In Space: A weekend of tai chi and qigong

Fri 10 Dec - Sun 12 Dec A Neurosurgeon Probes Wellness And Performance: Psychoneuroimmunology

Sun 12 Dec - Thu 16 Dec Shibuie - When Beauty Happens Accidentally: Sumie and Raku – Japanese brush painting and pottery

Thu 16 Dec - Thu 23 Dec Open The Heart And Still the Mind: Ending The Year With Kindness, Compassion And Joy

Thu 23 Dec - Sun 26 Dec Stalking The Moment: Being Home 24/7 - Christmas At The BRC

Wed 29 Dec - Sun 2 Jan Three Wise Medicines For Living Your Life In The New Year

Fri 7 Jan - Sun 9 Jan Time To Focus And Tune Into 2022: Gently kickstart the new year with an ashram-style retreat offering qigong (chi kung), hatha yoga, chanting and meditation and healing therapies

Fri 14 Jan - Sun 16 Jan Vipassana Meditation: How to realise ever-present mindfulness

Sun 16 Jan - Thu 20 Jan A Vipassana Retreat: The search for truth

Fri 21 Jan - Mon 24 Jan The Way Of Ubuntu: Exploring traditional South African healing

Fri 28 Jan - Sun 30 Jan Healing Qigong For Health And Vitality

Fri 4 Feb - Sun 6 Feb Rainbow Salads And Sunshine Bowls: Adopting a wholesome plant-based lifestyle

Tue 8 Feb - Wed 9 Feb Tibetan Yoga

Wed 9 Feb - Fri 11 Feb The Great Power Of Chi Kung (Qigong)

Fri 11 Feb - Sun 13 Feb Getting To Know The Birds At The BRC: 160 Birds of a feather

Tue 15 Feb - Thu 17 Feb Pathways To Tao: Chi Kung (Qigong) - Meditation - Wisdom

Fri 18 Feb - Sun 20 Feb Happy Healthy Yoga For Health And Harmony

Fri 25 Feb - Sun 27 Feb Speak Your Truth, Listen Deeply

Fri 4 Mar - Sun 6 Mar A Neurosurgeon Probes Wellness And Performance: Psychoneuroimmunology

Fri 11 Mar - Sun 13 Mar Yin And Yang: A Yoga Retreat: Release, relax and restore

Fri 18 Mar - Mon 21 Mar From Fear To Fundamental Well-Being

Fri 25 Mar - Sun 27 Mar The Healing Art Of Reiki (Level 1), Yoga And Meditation: Heal the body, relax the mind

Sun 27 Mar - Thu 31 Mar Deepening The Healing Art Of Reiki: Reiki (Levels 2 and 3), yoga and meditation

Fri 1 Apr - Sun 3 Apr A Weekend Of Kindness At The BRC

Sun 3 Apr - Fri 8 Apr Mist Rising, Rain Falling: A qigong retreat

Fri 8 Apr - Sun 10 Apr Reclaim Your Power: A journey to inner balance

Thu 14 Apr - Mon 18 Apr Open The Heart And Still The Mind: Embracing grief and gratitude with compassion

Fri 22 Apr - Sun 24 Apr World As Lover, World As Self: Finding our way home in difficult times

Fri 29 Apr - Sun 1 May Vinyāsa Yoga And Meditation

Tue 3 May - Sun 8 May Come As You Are: Secular Buddhism, Existential Philosophy And Psychotherapy. Can Buddhism effectively treat the struggles we face in life?

Fri 13 May - Sun 15 May Under The Full Moon Of May: Wesak - celebrating 25 centuries of Buddhism

Sun 15 May - Fri 20 May Beginner's Mind, Quiet Mind: Meditation Instruction And Practice for Meaningful Daily Living

Fri 20 May - Sun 22 May Releasing Ourselves From Old Stories: Stepping from the past into an abundant future by drawing on the Ancient Hawaiian practice of Ho’oponopono

Fri 27 May - Sun 29 May The Heart And Art Of Awakening - Part 1: Shift your life though presence and art

Sun 29 May - Tue 31 May The Heart And Art Of Awakening - Part 2: Going deeper

Fri 3 Jun - Sun 5 Jun The Sacred Feminine : Empowering the feminine with yoga, meditation and your astrological moon

Fri 10 Jun - Sun 12 Jun An Introduction To Mindfulness Based Living: "Knowing the present"

Fri 17 Jun - Sun 19 Jun Cultivating Mind-Heart Resonance Through Emotional Intelligence And Mindfulness

Fri 24 Jun - Sun 26 Jun Iyengar Yoga: Nudging the body into shape and health

Sun 26 Jun - Fri 1 Jul Iyengar Yoga: Deepening your practice

Fri 1 Jul - Sun 3 Jul Saying Yes To Life – Finding The Divinity Within Ourselves: How having ‘faith’ can help us live wholeheartedly in the midst of a challenging and uncertain world

Fri 8 Jul - Sun 10 Jul Gardening For Happiness: The Basics Of Gardening

Sun 10 Jul - Tue 12 Jul Ethical Investing For Sustainability

Tue 12 Jul - Fri 15 Jul An Antidote To Insecurity

Fri 15 Jul - Sun 17 Jul Traditional Hatha And Raja Yoga

Fri 22 Jul - Sun 24 Jul Anger - On The Path Of Love

Fri 29 Jul - Sun 31 Jul Finding And Keeping Your Centre: Taking Care Of Ourselves In Order To Be Of Service To Others

Fri 5 Aug - Sun 7 Aug A Weekend Of Hatha Yoga: Rekindle Your Life Energy

Fri 12 Aug - Sun 14 Aug Moving Meditation: Cultivating The Four Energies Of Tai Chi

Fri 19 Aug - Sun 21 Aug Relaxation: Opening And Relaxing The Heart And Mind

Sun 21 Aug - Wed 24 Aug Working With The Elements: Enquiry Into Ourselves And The World Around Us Through A Deeper Understanding Of Our Environment

Fri 26 Aug - Sun 28 Aug A Yin Yoga Retreat: Restorative Yoga

Fri 2 Sep - Sun 4 Sep The Body Has Something To Say: Exploring Our Thinking Bodies Through Yoga, Meditation And Therapeutic Reflection

Fri 9 Sep - Sun 11 Sep Nia - Retreat Through Dance: Curating Life As Art.

Sat 17 Sep - Mon 19 Sep A Taste of Somatics: Feeling And Healing The Body From Within

Fri 23 Sep - Sun 25 Sep Healing The Family Tree: An Ancestor And Us Writing Retreat

Sun 25 Sep - Tue 27 Sep Between First In-Breath And Last Out-Breath: The Art Of Story-telling