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Description
Building our Practice Community
Continuing the sangha we started in January 2022 and continued in 2023, this year we will also invite you to come and join us via Zoom for half an hour on the new and full moon of each month.
Inspired by the ancient tradition of observance of the Uposatha days, these gatherings offer an opportunity to support and encourage one another in renewing our commitment to practice.
We’ll lead a simple forgiveness meditation and take the refuges and precepts in the traditional way, have a brief sit, share another reflection, and dedicate the blessings of our practice
The sangha started with an Introduction to Uposatha Sangha gathering on Sunday 2 January 2022 (the new moon). We introduced the texts and practices, and had some time to meet, meditate and reflect together on our relationship to tradition, and to ritual, and how to make use of these times together.
To access an audio recording of this session, please click here.
Here you can also download the text used during the ceremony here.
You can read feedback and experiences from participants who attended the sessions here and an interview with Jaya Rudgard about the sangha here.
Once you have registered for the Uposatha Sangha you will receive a link which works for all sessions.
There is no need to attend regularly or let us know whether or not you are coming each time: you can just turn up whenever you are able to join us and either or two of us will be there.
We look forward to seeing you and to supporting our practice together!
Event Details
Schedule:
Our meetings will be at 7-7.30pm GMT/8-8.30pm CET (BST (British Summer Time) from 8th April to 22nd June included). Dates will follow the lunar calendar so the day of the week will vary: please see the list of dates and times until June 2024 below.
Full and new moon dates for the second half of 2024
Schedule:
July 5th Friday (New Moon)
July 21st Sunday (Full Moon)
August 4th Sunday (New Moon)
August 19th Monday (Full Moon)
September 2nd Monday (New Moon)
September 17th Tuesday (Full Moon)
October 2nd Wed (New Moon)
October 17th Thursday (Full Moon)
November 1st Friday (New Moon)
November 15th Friday (Full Moon)
December 1st Sunday (New Moon)
December 15th Sunday (Full Moon)
December 30th Monday (New Moon)
Suitability:
Open to all - new and experienced practitioners alike
Cost:
These gatherings are being offered freely, but for those who wish there will be an opportunity to offer Dana.
Teachers:
JAYA RUDGARD began meditating in the 1980s and practised for eight years as a nun in the Thai Forest tradition
YUKA NAKAMURA has practised Buddhist meditation in different traditions since 1993, has a PhD in Developmental 
River Wolton began attending Insight Meditation retreats in 2000, and subsequently helped to establish Sheffield
BERNAT FONT teaches with a combination of scholarly rigour, everyday examples, and a playful sensibility. He met 
Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg began practising Buddhist meditation and studying the Dharma in the 1990s. Since 2007, he has been a regular participant in Akincano M. Weber's meditation and study courses in Cologne, and