Awakening to the Breath
With Vessantara and Advayasiddhi
October 16 - 23, 2026
Meditation on breathing is used in many ways in Buddhist tradition: for developing awareness, relaxing deeply, healing the body, becoming sensitive to energy, opening the heart, and developing insight into how things are. During this week, we shall explore using the breath in all these ways, inviting ourselves to become more alive and awake.
The retreat will be largely in silence, with presentations from Vessantara and Advayasiddhi, guided meditations, meditation reviews, ritual and puja.
RETREAT CATEGORY: TRIRATNA INTENSIVE
To attend this retreat you will need to have been regularly meditating for at least two years and regularly attend retreats, a centre or a group within the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community. You must also be comfortable with extended periods of sitting meditation, Buddhist devotional practice and spending most of the retreat in silence.
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About the Leaders
Vessantara
Vessantara has been ordained since 1974, and is one of the best-known meditation teachers in Triratna. He has taught around the world, and led hundreds of retreats. He has spent years in personal meditation retreat, including a 3-year retreat in France. He is the author of several books, including The Breath and The Heart in Windhorse Publications' series […]
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Advayasiddhi
Advayasiddhi is a meditation and Dharma teacher living in Denmark. She loves meditation and loves sharing its deeply transformative powers on retreats. She met the Dharma under the Bodhi Tree in 1997, and has since then dedicated her life to explore how to wake up in the lives we have here and now. For the […]
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