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Meditation retreats at The Barn - stay in kindly community


Our popular meditation retreat venue in the Buddhist tradition is where up to 11 people join together living in community for 3&4-night, 6-night, 10-night retreats, including a variety of themed retreats - scroll on to see them all.

You'll be staying within a friendly atmosphere of fellowship, sitting together in daily meditations and mindfully tending our organic vegetable gardens.

You'll have your own single room, you'll get to eat produce from what's grown on the land here and you'll also get time to explore the wonder of the beautiful and contemplation-inspiring Sharpham Estate. 

 

Second time there and it continues to deliver! The coordinators are brilliant at creating a sense of community and peace. The setting is incredibly beautiful and allows for an deep immersion with nature

                      - Barn retreatant
 

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VIDEO: Retreats at The Barn

Get a feel for our retreats at The Barn, where you live in community, meditate daily & work on the land.

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6-night meditation retreat

6-night retreat at The Barn with meditation, community, sharing, sitting together and tending the land

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10-night meditation retreat

10-night retreat at The Barn, offering a longer stay with daily meditation together and tending the land

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3&4-night meditation retreat

Try a shorter version of our regular meditation retreats, with a lower cost but the same community, sitting, sharing & work on the land

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Give back to The Barn: work retreats

Join us for working and practising in community for our work retreats at the Barn.

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Women's retreat: The Sangha of Sisterhood

An edition of our popular 6-night Barn retreat, especially for women.

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Living with Illness - 6-night Barn Retreat

Exploring how mindfulness and compassion can help us face the demands and challenges of illness.

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A Place to Belong

Exploring the Dharma to find a deep sense of inner belonging and to understand insights into interconnectedness.

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Men's retreat: Being in Brotherhood

An edition of our popular 6-night Barn retreat, especially for men.

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LGBTQ+ retreat: Ease of Being

A chance to bring our whole selves together - often impossible in a heteronormative culture - in a meditative, Buddhist environment.

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Tending the Garden - Barn gardening retreat

A Barn retreat focused on gardening - with longer silent periods too

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Young people's retreat

A lower-priced version of the 6-night Barn Retreat for people aged 18-30.

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Ageing and Awareness

On accepting and finding joy in our later stages of life, recognising the joys and challenges of growing old.

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Earth In Mind

Connecting mindfulness, The Dharma & the natural world - when the world urgently needs our care. With Rupert Marques.

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Venerable Canda

Encourage loving kindness to develop, opening your heart to well-being, calm and insight. With The Venerable Canda.

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Engaged Buddhism

How to cultivate mindfulness whilst actively engaging with ecological & social issues of our time - but without suffering burn-out

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Transforming the Inner Critic

Through meditation and inquiry exercises we will contemplate the inner critic and how it affects our capacity to trust and open.

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Making Less The Suffering

Explore letting go of suffering to move towards greater freedom. With Ajahn Jutindharo.

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The Four Immeasurables

Dedicated to the exploration and development of the brahmaviharas, the four beautiful qualities of the heart and mind. With Jenny Wilks.

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Spend Christmas at The Barn

Experience the peace of the Barn Retreat over Christmas with 5 nights of simplicity centred on meditation in the Buddhist tradition.

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Spend New Year at The Barn

Experience the peace of the Barn Retreat as you see in a New Year on a meditation retreat.

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Which retreat is best for me?

Compare Sharpham Trust retreats and find out the differences between each one here.

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If you would like to know more about the information on this page, please contact:

Name: The Barn Team
Tel: 01803 732661
Email: [email protected]
Address: The Barn Retreat Centre, Lower Sharpham Farm, near Totnes, Devon, TQ9 7DX