Middle Way Society Retreat

This retreat provides the opportunity to combine hill-walking with other integrative practice (including meditation, and some discussion or arts activity in the evenings). It is suited to anyone with a reasonable level of fitness, who enjoys walking, and would like to put it into a wider context of practice with like-minded people. It will be …

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This weekend is an opportunity to share the appreciation and creation of poetry in the context of wider practice. Participants will have the chance to share some of their favourite sources of poetic inspiration, and to work on their own poetry as a form of practice. Along with poetic discussion and workshops, there will be …

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The Middle Way approach can both arise out of meditation experience, and help us to shape meditation practice. There is probably no better way of recognizing how absolute assumptions lie in wait for us at every turn than to meditate - for every distraction, every hindrance, assumes an absolute viewpoint. We think we have the …

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At Tirylan House, we’re in the process of creating a forest garden: that is, a sustainable and low-input garden designed to produce food for the retreat centre using a diverse mixture of mainly perennial plants. Some of the plants (trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials) produce food directly, but many of them have a range of …

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