About the retreat
Facilitated by UK Dharma teachers Mhairi (Vari) McLuskie and Susanne Olbrich at Kilgraston School in Perthshire, Scotland.
This retreat is an opportunity to deeply explore the teachings on love offered by Thich Nhat Hanh. What can be more important in this time of change than cultivating love and understanding for ourselves, our loved ones, the Earth and all beings?
The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person. But you can’t offer happiness until you have it yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself
— Thich Nhat Nanh
Practical Information
This is a residential retreat 17 – 20 October.
It will be held at :
Kilgraston School
Bridge of Earn
Perthshire
PH2 9BQ
The retreat will include:
– Opportunities to practice guided and silent sitting meditations, walking meditation, mindful eating and noble silence;
– Opportunities to learn from others through dharma sharing and exploration;
– Dharma teaching from UK Dharma Teachers. Set texts for reflection will be shared with you before the retreat.
– A Five Mindfulness Trainings Ceremony, for participants wishing to take – or retake – some or all of these.
For further information and how to book see our Eventbrite page.
About the Dharma Training Program
Originally the DTP was seen as a training programme for those practitioners who wanted to deepen their practice as a group. People were encouraged to sign up to all three DTP sessions in a year so that a sangha could be created amongst participants and spiritual friendships nurtured during these retreats. We would like to encourage you to consider the programme in this way in 2024 if that is possible for you.
The Dharma Training Programme operates in England over a weekend in February, a long weekend in May and a five day retreat in October. We would be delighted to welcome you at all three. Additionally, every other year there is a DTP retreat in Scotland, offering a further option.
In addition to Love is the Way, we have one other Dharma Training retreat this year:
24-28th October | Sidcot School, Somerset
Discourse on the Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion
Facilitated by UK Dharma teachers Dene Donalds and Teri West
