Courses
We run courses online and in person at beautiful venues across Europe.
Through study of the original texts and meditation practice, we help you to integrate the ancient teachings of the Buddha into your life, in all its myriad dimensions
We offer online and in-person short & long courses and retreats. You can read here about the different formats.
Teachers Christina Feldman, John Peacock, Akincano Weber, Martine Batchelor, Bernat Font, Jaya Rudgard, Yuka Nakamura, Christoph Köck, Antonia Sumbundu, & River Wolton are the core faculty of Bodhi College, with visiting teachers.
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Online
Community Mentoring Programme: Warm Heart, Cool Head
In this group mentoring programme, we will explore boundless friendliness (metta), joyfulness, compassion, and equanimity - not as four separate practices, but as qualities that gently flow into and strengthen…
TeachersChristina Feldman
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
Online
In search of the pleasant life: Buddhism and Epicureanism
In this course, John & Bernat will further elaborate on the connections, similarities as well as differences of Buddhism and Epicureanism. What did each thinker—the Buddha and Epicurus—understand to be…
TeachersJohn Peacock, Bernat Font
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
In-person
Mindfulness of Body – a Qigong and Insight Meditation Retreat
Over five days, we'll work through the Kāyagatāsati Sutta, one of the Buddha's most complete teachings on embodied awareness. We'll treat it as a living map for practice rather than…
TeachersJaya Rudgard, River Wolton
LanguagesEnglish
LocationThe Nightingale Centre
Online
Community Mentoring Programme: Turning the Mind to its Roots
Over four weeks, this programme is devoted to teachings that orient the mind to practice, to finding resilience and to specific forms of radical awareness and of ‘turning the mind…
TeachersAkincano Weber
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
In-person
Samadhi – Cultivating the Collected Mind
By application only this course is designed to give access to a longer retreat (over a month) to people who are engaged in in their day-to-day lives and may not…
TeachersChristina Feldman, Antonia Sumbundu
LanguagesEnglish
LocationITC Naarden, Holland
Online
The Dukkha of vulnerability
Not offering a way to avoid pain, but a way to meet it: with steadiness, compassion and clear understanding. This programme brings some of those teachings into view, in a…
TeachersChristina Feldman
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
In-person
Meeting experience and change creatively with presence and wise compassion
During this study and practice retreat, we will explore the connections between mindfulness of or presence with the four bodily elements and presence with feeling tones (vedanā).
TeachersMartine Batchelor, Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna
LanguagesEnglish
LocationITC Naarden, Holland
In-person
Committed Practitioners Programme
The current 2025-26 round is now ended. A new 2028-29 round will be open for applications in spring 2027. A core programme of Bodhi College the CPP is a longer,…
TeachersAkincano Weber, John Peacock, Christina Feldman, Martine Batchelor, Jaya Rudgard, Yuka Nakamura, Christoph Köck
LanguagesEnglish
LocationITC Naarden, Holland
Online
Uncovering the roots of the teachings
A four-part series exploring the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthāna Sutta). A core framework for deepening practice and enriching teaching. The series will be offered in English, with simultaneous translation into…
TeachersChristina Feldman, Martine Batchelor, Bernat Font, Christoph Köck
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
Online
Contemplating the Early Teachings: exploring the Suttas from the Pali canon
In this programme we will reflect on a selection of suttas (discourses) from the Pali Canon. The suttas can provide context for the path we are on, inspire us and…
TeachersChristina Feldman, Antonia Sumbundu, Jaya Rudgard
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
Online
Islands of Sanity: online community in a chaotic world
Bodhi College would like to invite you to an online sangha event we have created for our community. To come together and be in presence and connection. A time of talks…
TeachersAkincano Weber, Christina Feldman, Martine Batchelor, Christoph Köck
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline
Online
Not Your Typical Course on Mettā
Mettā practice isn’t always straightforward. Bernat will emphasize a range of approaches in this course, appealing both to the complete newbie and to the seasoned meditator who feels blocked in…
TeachersBernat Font
LanguagesEnglish
LocationOnline