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SUMMARY:Day of Mindfulness - With our new Scottish Dharma Teachers
DESCRIPTION:It is 23 years since our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh offered a retreat at St Andrews on the invitation of the Wild Geese sangha. \nSince then\, the Scottish sangha has blossomed\, and we now have the extraordinary good fortune of welcoming two new dharma teachers who were ordained at Plum Village in March of this year: Lindsay Lumsden (Touching the Earth Sangha\, Aberdeenshire) and Jane Ellen Combelic (Northern Lights Sangha\, Findhorn). \nAt this Day of Mindfulness\, they will share with us the insight Gathas they were inspired to write as part of their ordination\, Gathas which illuminate key aspects of their learning and inspiration on the path. \nThis is a chance for the Scottish sangha to come together in a central location to mark a major step in our evolution and to enjoy our communal presence and practice. Our friends outside of Scotland are also welcome to join in the celebration. \nWe will have a ‘Pot luck’ lunch so please bring along your favourite vegan dish to share. \nAlso please take along a cushion/matt/blanket for sitting on the floor and/or for deep relaxation.  We will collect Dana to cover costs for the hire of the hall and for the teachers travel expenses/livelihood. \n  \nSending a smile your way \nPaloma Gay Blasco (Poppy Seed Sangha) \nJane Dallas Ross (Dear Green Sangha) \nGustaf Rydevik (Wild Geese Sangha) \nThian Wehmeyer (Edinburgh Wake Up Sangha) \nMargaret McLean (Inverness Sangha) \n  \nContact Us\nIf you have any questions\, please email Gustaf at  gustafrydevik+DoM@gmail.com
URL:https://plumvillage.uk/event/day-of-mindfulness-scot-teachers/
LOCATION:North Muirton Community Centre\, Argyll Rd\, Perth\, PH1 3BZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Day Of Mindfulness,Retreat
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SUMMARY:Earth Care Sangha - Online
DESCRIPTION:Earth Care Sangha – A Sangha For Our Times\nWe have to wake up together — Thich Nhat Hanh \nMany of us are aware that we live in times of great peril for life on Earth but also of great promise for change. It is easy to be overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness\, despair and sorrow for what is being done to the Earth. But by practising together we can make a positive difference\, and strengthen our resilience and joy. In response to our individual and collective need to do something\, Earth Care Sangha is offered. \nIn small Dharma sharing groups we can explore our feelings and speak openly in the company of others who share our concerns\, safe in the knowledge that we do this without judgement or conflict. We hope that by sharing freely in this way\, we can help each other find concrete ways to transform and heal\, cultivate joy\, and strengthen our understanding of interbeing with Mother Earth. \nGrounded in the Plum Village tradition\, and with close links to the Earth Care Steering Group\, Earth Care Sangha is truly a sangha for these times. We invite you to join us\, enjoy the practices\, and help shape its future. Let’s wake up together! \nPlease email earthcare@plumvillage.uk with any feedback\, questions\, suggestions or offers of help. \n\nEarth Care Resources\n\nDownloadable resources for holding your own Earth caring sangha meeting\nAdditional Earth Care Resources\n\n\n  \nPhoto by NASA on Unsplash \n  \n\nGuided Meditation: The Four Elements | Sister Chan Duc
URL:https://plumvillage.uk/event/earth-care-sangha-2-2/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Engaged Practice for Peace - Online
DESCRIPTION:Let us offer the world the best flowers and fruit of our practice\, lucidity\, solidity\, brotherhood\, sisterhood\, understanding and compassion. \nLet us give rise to the determination to look deeply into the nature of fear\, anger\, hatred\, and violence and to give rise to the eyes of compassion \n– Thich Nhat Hanh \nMany are deeply affected by ongoing violence in Ukraine\, The Middle East\, and continuous conflicts around the world\, which are causing great suffering. How can we support those who are in distress and also take gentle care of our own strong emotions? \nYou are warmly invited to join us as we take refuge for an hour of peace\, and the precious opportunity to practise with friends in the wider Sangha\, breathing together\, listening deeply\, sharing what is in our heart. \nWe know that mindful breathing is a concrete way to bring the practice of peace into our life\, and help us defuse strong emotions\, and establish solidity\, calm and concentration in our mind and heart.  We must take good care of our self before we can be there for others. \nPlease join us for a guided meditation\, a reading\, music and Dharma Sharing. \nHosted by members of the Plum Village UK sangha.
URL:https://plumvillage.uk/event/engaged-practice-peace-2-2-3-2/2026-10-27/
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SUMMARY:The Creator Inside - Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:At this season of Samhain (Halloween)\, when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted\, we turn to our ancestral roots – blood\, spirit and land – to acknowledge influences that feed our creativity. \nWe are all naturally imaginative\, creative and curious beings. This three-day online retreat is for anyone who wishes to get in touch with that vital energy. \n“In each one of us is an artist” — Thich Nhat Nanh \n  \nAs we grow up we can develop a belief that it is only professional writers\, painters or musicians who can make work that is considered worthwhile. This retreat is for rediscovering the freedom in creativity that exists in us all. \nPerhaps we need to be even more creative in finding ways to negotiate a world in which we are being manipulated. The digital revolution and the use of AI is causing more and more separation from our creative selves. Scientists and researchers now agree that having outlets for creativity is essential in maintaining our mental and physical wellbeing. \nWe all have the capacity to express ourselves. Through words\, dreams\, thoughts\, and actions. Over the three days we will enjoy exercises and games to develop writing\, drawing\, making\, and storytelling\, focusing on spontaneity\, imagination and what is important to each of us. \nWe will also offer talks\, meditation practice and group sharing\, along with space for being offline and outside. \nRetreat Leaders\nSarah Hymas\n \nSarah (Dharma name True Sharing of Benefits) is a writer\, maker\, facilitator and collaborator whose work circles her personal\, cultural and environmental ecologies. Her focus begins where she stands\, then grows outward\, upward\, down and in. Published in print\, as audio work and artistbooks. \nHer work as a mentor and coach spans decades of working with writers\, artists and other creative practitioners\, and has been specifically channelled through online and in-person creative programmes. Sarah draws on Buddhist philosophies\, Nonviolent Communication\, and the principles of permaculture design to explore how individual creativity intersects with larger systems. \nSarah’s individual and collaborative work is presented in print\, multimedia exhibits\, dance videos\, lyrics\, pyrotechnical installations\, stage\, improvised opera\, and in site-specific audio walks\, soundscapes for performance\, and participatory sculptures from found objects. \nSarah’s work has been recognised with a Hawthornden Fellowship\, AHRC funding\, ACE awards and commissions from The National Oceanography Centre and national arts organisations. Her publications include melt (Waterloo Press\, 2020)\, shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Second Collection Prize\, the hispering\, which won the Black Sunflowers Poetry Prize in 2020\, and artistbooks such as Lune (2013)\, runner-up in the Sabotage Awards\, and Recovery\, housed at the National Poetry Library. \nHer mentoring practice spans years of coaching writers\, artists and other creative practitioners\, and has been specifically channelled through the online and in-person creative programmes of the Imaginarium\, which she founded in 2016. Through both one to one and group work\, Sarah supports the unfolding of the creative process from imagination to manifestation\, celebrating curiosity\, uncertainty and collective wisdom. \nTeri West\n \nTeri has been a student of Thay’s since 1988 and is a founding member of the North Devon Sangha. She is a storyteller\, singer\, musician\, part-time poet and sometime clown. Teri was ordained into the Order of Interbeing in 2000\, receiving the Dharma name ‘True Door of Virtue’ (chan duc mon) and the Lamp Transmission as a Dharma teacher in 2016. \nTeri has pursued various occupations since leaving home as a teenager. By her mid-40s she began working as a professional storyteller and singer and as a member of an improvising clown group in the Nose to Nose school of clowning. She currently takes to the stage at every opportunity\, using song to take a Dharma message into the unlikely environment of the world of cabaret. She has co-led with nose to nose facilitators several ‘Clown and the Art of Mindfulness’ residential retreats for Plum Village UK and between 2018-20 three sold-out weekend courses at the European Institute for Applied Buddhism in Germany. \nTeri was fortunate enough to be invited to Plum Village in 1988 as a guest\, with friends of Thay who had worked with him in the ’70s on founding a charity for Vietnamese refugees. \nThe 1988 experience was powerful; Teri bought ‘Breathe\, you are Alive!’ which\, together with ‘The Miracle of Mindfulness’ brought Buddhism into a grounded\, practical form that Teri could relate to\, having previously read somewhat intellectual\, complicated theories. She has been a student of Thay’s ever since\, working on organising retreats\, particularly those that welcome families\, founding the thriving Westcountry Sangha. \nPractical Information\nSchedule\nThu 29 Oct 6 PM: Retreat begins\nSun 1 Nov 4 PM: Retreat ends \nPricing\nWe are offering tiered pricing to allow accessibility. Please pay as much as you are able to to support this retreat. \n£150 – Generosity\n£75 – Standard\n£30 – Supported \nAll surplus\, after Sarah’s travel to Devon and meeting Plum Village UK’s costs\, will go to the Order of Interbeing Bursary Fund. \nWe If you are unable to pay the Supported rate\, please get in touch as some bursary places may be available. \nRefunds\nWe can offer a full refund minus the Ticket Tailor fee for cancellations made up to two weeks before the retreat. After that no refund is available other than in exceptional circumstances – please contact the organisers if you feel this applies to you. \nRetreat Schedule\nYou can download a copy of the retreat schedule here \n\nPARTICIPANT AGREEMENT \nPlease read the Participant Agreement carefully. It is important that you understand and agree to these fully. \nImages by Sarah Hymas
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