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"Alfoxton Park felt enchanted - alive with birdsong, wild deer, ancient trees and starry skies." - Jack
"Alfoxton Park felt enchanted - alive with birdsong, wild deer, ancient trees and starry skies." - Jack
We offer a variety of retreats and workshops designed to nurture the mind, body, and spirit. Whether you seek inner harmony through music and mantra, connection with nature, or a hands-on experience cultivating both the land and your inner growth, we have something for everyone.
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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Meditation can have a huge effect on our emotional states, stress levels, clarity of mind and relationships with others. In our classes, held in Holford Village Hall, members of the Alfoxton community teach a variety of meditation techniques centred around mindfulness of breathing and loving kindness.
Every Tuesday 12-1pm
Join Jayaraja to explore the skills and principles of Mindful Communication. Learn how to live with greater warmth, authenticity and integrity. How to stay in touch with your needs and values in turbulent and tricky times. How to increase confidence and compassion in your interactions with yourself and others.
18 October 2025
Using the ground-breaking methodology of Family Constellations, get disentangled from life-long patterns that don’t serve you anymore by seeing all the people and elements which relate to it.
27th-28th September 2025
An uplifting day of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. A joyful, meditative and devotional experience guaranteed to put a smile on your face and uplift your heart and soul. Beautiful harmonies, beautifully simple, simply magic!
29th November 2025
2026, so far*
2026, so far*
*Stay tuned, more to be revealed in the coming weeks
We will use theatre games and exercises to open our voices and bodies to create a strong group connectedness and to learn to trust our spontaneous and creative impulses both individually and as a group.
17th-19th April 2026
Deepen our connection with the true value of all living beings through discussion, contemplation and experience.
23rd-27th April 2026
Learn to work with nature, acquiring tools for change in a changing world. Move from concern to action by learning to create resilient homes, gardens and communities.
Weekends in May - September 2026
An uplifting spring weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration.
8th-11th May 2026
On this long weekend we will explore the relationship between Buddhism and animism. How does coming home to the world, and our place in it, connect with coming home to our true awakened nature?
21st- 25th May 2026
This silent meditation retreat sits at the heart of our programme. Held in 50 acres of ancient woodland and led with grace and insight by the inimitable Paramananda, this retreat offers ideal conditions to quieten the mind and dive deep into your meditation practice.
6th-19th June 2026
An uplifting spring weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration.
28th-31st August 2026
A Mindful Communication retreat. Learn how to live with greater warmth, authenticity and integrity by exploring the skills and principles of Non-Violent Communication.
5th-11th September 2026
Alfoxton Park House is a big old mansion set in 50 acres of ancient woodland. The house itself is being renovated, and we are currently functioning as both a building site and a retreat space. This has been the basis on which a thriving and diverse community has been built, with the multiple purposes of renovating the buildings, nurturing the gardens and land, and hosting retreats, workshops and cultural events.
Past Events
Past Events
Land & Heart: Tree Care with Olivia Haywood-Smith
Land & Heart: Tree Care with Olivia Haywood-Smith
The first in our Land & Heart series of retreats, offering an opportunity to integrate work and practice through nature connection. Spend time immersed in a wild landscape and help restore the ecology of the land of Alfoxton Park by maintaining and protecting our young trees.
3rd - 7th March 2025
Moving into Stillness with Harriet and Dhibhajana
Moving into Stillness with Harriet and Dhibhajana
Explore how we can find grounding and stability through movement and bodywork. Guide your mind into a place of more effortless stillness and deepen your meditation practice.
18th - 21st April 2025
Soulful Singing and Mantra - Spring with Mahasukha
Soulful Singing and Mantra - Spring with Mahasukha
An uplifting spring weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration.
2nd - 5th May 2025
Buddhism and Deep Ecology with Sanghasiha and Guhyasakhi
Buddhism and Deep Ecology with Sanghasiha and Guhyasakhi
Deepen our connection with the true value of all living beings through discussion, contemplation and experience.
9th - 12th May 2025
Land & Heart: Cultivating Growth with Olivia Haywood-Smith & David Trillo
Land & Heart: Cultivating Growth with Olivia Haywood-Smith & David Trillo
12th - 16th May 2025
The second in our Land & Heart series of retreats, offering an opportunity to integrate work and practice through nature connection. Spend time with your hands in the soil, directly helping us to restore and maintain the heritage walled garden of Alfoxton Park.
A Gesture of Awakening with Paramananda
A Gesture of Awakening with Paramananda
1st - 13th June 2025
This silent meditation retreat sits at the heart of our programme. Held in 50 acres of ancient woodland and led with grace and insight by the inimitable Paramananda, this retreat offers ideal conditions to quieten the mind and dive deep into your meditation practice.
The Resonant Body: Music and the Dharma with Ben Sellers, Paramananda and Manidhara
The Resonant Body: Music and the Dharma with Ben Sellers, Paramananda and Manidhara
15th - 20th June 2025
Explore how meditation and buddhist teaching can ground and inspire creativity, how music-making can be an access point to insight, and how we can collectively use music to support ritual.
Singing the Land, re-Wilding the Voice with Briony Greenhill
Singing the Land, re-Wilding the Voice with Briony Greenhill
28th - 29th June 2025
A vocal improvisation weekend with Briony Greenhill. Use improvised singing as a delightful way to connect with the more -than-human world, and see what happens when the voice is invited to express itself without a pre-set song.
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation with Jayaraja
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation with Jayaraja
15th - 18th August 2025
An opportunity for those new to the word of Buddhist meditation to spend a weekend learning core meditation practices to support and nourish ourselves in the fast-paced modern world.
Soulful Singing and Mantra - Summer with Mahasukha
Soulful Singing and Mantra - Summer with Mahasukha
22nd - 25th August 2025
An uplifting summer weekend of beautiful part-harmony soulful singing and mantra led by the inspiring Mahasukha. Release endorphins, raise your vibration and awaken to new energy, faith and inspiration.
Living from the Heart with Jayaraja and Merlin
Living from the Heart with Jayaraja and Merlin
1st - 7th September 2025
A Mindful Communication retreat. Learn how to live with greater warmth, authenticity and integrity by exploring the skills and principles of Non-Violent Communication.
Alfoxton and Poetry Retreat with Dhivan
Alfoxton and Poetry Retreat with Dhivan
11th - 14th September 2025
William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived at Alfoxton in 1797–8, near their friend Samuel Coleridge, and in that year each of them wrote some of their finest work, attuned to landscape and imagination. In this retreat we will re-trace the friendship and feeling behind the well-known poems.
Land & Heart: Harvest Retreat with Olivia Haywood-Smith
Land & Heart: Harvest Retreat with Olivia Haywood-Smith
18th - 24th September 2025
The final in our Land & Heart series of retreats, offering an opportunity to integrate work and practice through nature connection. Join us as we mindfully pick, forage, chop and preserve, letting go of the scarcity mindset and moving into the realm of abundance, gratitude and gifts.
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