Why, in these challenging and over-stimulating times, longer retreats can leave us more comfortable in our skin, more creative and able to wisely contribute Our teacher Jaya Rugard shares how two weeks can make all the difference In a week’s time, lucky me, I’ll...
Uposatha Sangha New and Full Moon 2025 – Change of Format After three years of being led by our wonderful Bodhi College Teachers, the Uposatha Sangha New and Full Moon gatherings are taking on a new format. They are becoming community offerings coordinated by...
Dear friends, The end of this year will mark two years since we launched our fortnightly Uposatha Sangha, where we meet on zoom on the new and full moons to take the refuges and precepts together. Our whole Bodhi College team – Jaya, Yuka, Chris, River,...
Our extended programme for committed practitioners has just opened its doors for applications. Over a year and a half, this gives you the opportunity to turn your interest in the Buddha’s early teachings, into deep understanding. Helping you to embed the...
By Melani Sampson, BFM participant 2018-19 I live in the UK and work as a psychotherapist, both in the National Health Service (NHS) and my own private practice in London. In the NHS I deliver a slightly adapted Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for patients...
Caroline Hoffman shares her experience of participating in Bodhi College’s Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) halfway through the programme. By Caroline Hoffman, Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) participant I came on the CPP course after a...
By Christina Feldman, Bodhi College Teacher Akincano and I recently launched the first of the CPP modules in the Netherlands with an engaged and lively group from six countries. I am reminded again of what a rich and valuable programme this is with participants...
“A wonderful development opportunity for established mindfulness-based teachers…” “Attending the Mindfulness Teacher Development Programme has been an invaluable experience. It offered me a structure and supportive community within which to...
by Stephen Batchelor There is a tendency within the Buddhist world, particularly in the West, to see study as merely an inessential adjunct to “practice.” This reflects how much of the Western Buddhist community is still carrying the legacy of the 1960s, which was an...
