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.

Fri 21 May - Tue 25 May Come As You Are: Secular Buddhism, Existential Philosophy And Psychotherapy. Can Buddhism Effectively Treat The Struggles We Face In Life?

Fri 28 May - Sun 30 May Under The Full Moon Of May: Wesak

Fri 4 Jun - Sun 6 Jun An Introduction To Mindfulness Based Living: "Knowing the present"

Fri 11 Jun - Sun 13 Jun Radical Acceptance - Exploring the first fetter in the Buddha's teaching: Personality or Identity View

Fri 18 Jun - Sun 20 Jun Writing To Move On: An experiential writing workshop for those in need of new ways of being, seeing and doing

Fri 25 Jun - Sun 27 Jun Iyengar Yoga: Nudging the body into shape and health

Sun 27 Jun - Fri 2 Jul Iyengar Yoga: Deepening your practice

Fri 2 Jul - Sun 4 Jul Mindfulness Skills For Challenging Times

Mon 5 Jul - Thu 8 Jul Rejuvenating The BRC: A family retreat with children in mind

Fri 9 Jul - Sun 11 Jul Gardening For Happiness: The Basics of Gardening

Fri 16 Jul - Sun 18 Jul The Roots Of Sacred Drumming: Exploring natural rhythms

Tue 20 Jul - Fri 23 Jul Yin And Yang: A Yoga Retreat: Release, relax and restore

Fri 23 Jul - Sun 25 Jul Circles of Compassion: Reconnect with self and others in a socially-distanced world

Fri 30 Jul - Sun 1 Aug Moving Meditation: Cultivating the four energies of tai chi

Fri 6 Aug - Sun 8 Aug Saying Yes To Life: How we can live wholeheartedly in the midst of a challenging world

Mon 9 Aug - Thu 12 Aug "Written In The Stars": The Basics Of The Ancient Art Of Astrology

Fri 13 Aug - Sun 15 Aug A Weekend of Hatha Yoga: Rekindle Your Life Energy

Mon 16 Aug - Thu 19 Aug SoulCollage® : "Know Yourself - And You Will Conquer The Universe..."

Fri 20 Aug - Sun 22 Aug Finding And Keeping Your Centre: Taking care of ourselves in order to be of service to others

Fri 27 Aug - Sun 29 Aug A Yin Yoga Retreat

Fri 3 Sep - Sun 5 Sep Yoga Mind, Body And Breath: A journey of self-discovery

Fri 10 Sep - Sun 12 Sep “You Can’t Fill The Hole In Your Heart With Food”…And Other Things - Jan Chozen Bays Mindful Eating: The hidden gifts of our compulsions

Fri 17 Sep - Sun 19 Sep A Taste of Somatics: Feeling and healing the body within

Thu 23 Sep - Sun 26 Sep Zen Pen: A Writing, Being And Meditation Retreat

Sun 26 Sep - Tue 28 Sep The Rough Writing Road: Keeping a journal

Fri 1 Oct - Sun 3 Oct Deepening Your Emotional Intelligence Through Mindfulness: Gaining insights into your emotional intelligence for resonant relationship

Fri 8 Oct - Sun 10 Oct Yinsight Yoga: Yin Yoga And Mindfulness Meditation

Tue 12 Oct - Fri 15 Oct Stand Like A Tree To Power Up Your Chi

Fri 15 Oct - Sun 17 Oct The Myth Of Writer’s Block: Exploring the relationship between negative thought patterns and creative flow

Fri 22 Oct - Sun 24 Oct Under The Rose-Apple Tree: A weekend of meditation practice

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

Wed 3 Nov - Sun 7 Nov Writing Our Ancestral Stories : Shifting the past into new futures

Fri 12 Nov - Fri 19 Nov Letting Go Into Flow

Fri 19 Nov - Sun 21 Nov At Ease in 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

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

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

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