Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.

(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the distinct expressions and paths of hedonic, eudaimonic, and nibbanic happiness, it's relationship to pleasant abiding, our deepest values, ethical conduct, and release.

(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of interdependence, it's relationship to interconnection, the fundamental importance of intentions and reflection in awakening, and what really brings happiness.

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(Gaia House) Interrupting the causes of Dukkha, and the significance of feeling tone. Guided meditation - recognising that which takes us away, and the feeling tone. Intimacy with the neutral object. Informal practice: flexible awareness - finding what is appropriate: opening awareness, and contact with other sense doors, simplifying with the breathing.

(Gaia House) Radiating loving kindness - the ocean behind the heart

(Gaia House) How meditation works. Understanding how key links in ‘dependent arising' are interrupted, as we practice

(Gaia House) Coming to the senses - directing our attention to the experience of bare ‘contact'. Guided meditation - contacting a neutral object in formal meditation, with bare awareness. Informal practice - simplifying, coming back to the body, and contacting the other senses.

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(Gaia House) Helen: Yoga harmonizes the inward and outward looking mind through developing awareness. Gavin: the significance of the breath / breathing in the Dharma.

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