Retreat Reports

Read reports on their retreat experience written by past participants of many of our residential Chan retreats. 

Read about the retreat experience from the inside

These reports can give you a flavour of their meditation retreat experience as told by many different people, helping you to decide whether or not to try out residential Chan meditation practice for a few days.

Select from the following different types of retreat

We offer predominantly silent retreats in a variety of formats, including our traditional format Chan retreats, our silent illumination retreat and our investigating koans retreat. We also offer our Western Zen Retreat which was constructed by John Crook and which includes adaptations to engage the western mind in the retreat process. Sometimes we offer other more general buddhist retreats, including Mahamudra on several occasions in the past.

• Western Zen Retreat
• Silent Illumination Retreat
• Koan Retreat
• Other Chan Retreats
• Other Retreats