Birth of The Warrior - Shambhala Weekend Retreat

This weekend looks at how to recognise the habitual patterns that have covered over our wisdom and gentleness. We can be afraid of our brilliance and afraid of fear itself. This can mean we lose ourselves in habits of behaviour and interpretation that distract us from our tender-heartedness.

We explore the possibility that by moving past our habitual ways of relating to things, we can begin to work directly with our fears. By being tender, we can meet life's challenging moments with courage and confidence instead of distractions and self-aggression

By relating to fear through meditation, we begin to appreciate that there isn't actually anything fundamentally wrong with us. We are good, just as we are, right here and now. We can discover and cultivate the bravery necessary to embrace our innate worthiness.

More info on the Shambhala Weekends Series here.

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."  - Pema Chödrön

"Taking off our armour, our ego, feels like a crisis because it is a crisis. A fixed identity crisis" - Pema Chödrön

What the weekend involves:
•    Meditation Instruction
•    Time to Meditate
•    Talks
•    Discussion groups/pairs
•    One-on-one meetings
•    Regular breaks
•    Lunch and tea

For further information please email: [email protected]

The Teachers

Rachael Cheang has been meditating since 1997 and has studied with many different spiritual groups and Buddhist teachers. She first joined Shambhala in 2014 and is currently a trustee of the London Centre. She has an MSc. in Mindfulness and Compassion and has recently completed a PhD researching the effects of mindfulness for people with alexithymia and autism. In 2019, she had a systematic review published about the effects of mindfulness on empathy and compassion in children and adolescents. She is a British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) registered teacher, a qualified Tai Chi instructor since 2013. She lives in Northampton with her husband and their four teenagers.

David Morris lives in London where he works as a chaplain in healthcare, with responsibility for staff wellbeing at a hospital. He writes, records and performs songs under his own name and with bands, and spends a lot of time fantasising about living somewhere more rural and rugged, like Cornwall, where he grew up. He has studied religions academically (at the School of Oriental and African Studies) and has been on a Buddhist journey since his teens, mainly with Shambhala for the last decade. He spent 9 months on retreat as a monastic at Gampo Abbey in 2018/19, and looks to Pema Chodron as a teacher alongside Anam Thubten. David is a Trustee of the London Shambhala Meditation Centre and has held various volunteer roles there in the past before becoming a teacher and meditation instructor.

Payment Terms and Conditions
Please register and pay in full on registration, ensuring you click on the relevant price option to go through to PayPal where you can also pay by credit/debit card. Cancellation up to 1 week before the programme will receive a full refund, after that there will be a £20 fee charged for cancellation up until two days before, after which no refund is granted.

The early bird registration fee of £100 is available until two weeks prior, after which time the fee will be £120. A concession fee of £60 is available for those earning below £25,000 per annum and a concession fee of £50 is available for those earning below £20,000.  Please contact [email protected] to arrange a concession.