Buddhafield Events for 2025 are up and ready for your perusal.... Come and check out what we're offering next year.
From meditation retreats, to family-friendly retreats, walking and wilderness retreats, retreats for people new to meditation or Buddhism, online retreats, retreat and camp from the Green Earth Awakening team, retreats exploring ritual and story-telling... and of course our festival.
Green Earth Awakening Camp Full Programme has left the nest and is winging it's way to you! Read all about it here in our newsletter...
Come and join Ratnadeva, Moksacara, Suryamani and Sanghasiha and team in Dartmoor for our summer open retreat.
How can we know ourselves in everything? How do animism and Buddhism cross-pollinate each other? We will explore these questions in the context of the global environmental crisis and the core Buddhist teachings of interconnection and compassion.
Coming together as a human community, we will be held and supported by the bountiful natural community of Frogmill - held by the gleaming eye of a raven and the magic of the hare’s breath. Through ritual, immersive practices and meditation, we will deepen our connection with the natural world and honour the intrinsic value and sacredness of all life.
Thursday 22 August 2024 to Tuesday 27 August 2024
Frogmill, nr. Throwleigh, Devon
https://buddhafield.com/animism-kinship-with-all-things-2024
As well as our main family-friendly retreats (Village 1 and 2) https://buddhafield.com/village-2-family-friendly-2024
We also offer smaller family-friendly retreats in the South-East. This fully catered retreat is held in beautiful woods near Herstmonceux in East Sussex, camping among the trees and surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of autumn.
Families as well as adults without children are welcome. There is a focus on little-and-often practice with meditation, talks, discussion groups, rituals and, most importantly, play. We explore how to weave dharma into our practice of being together.
Activities for the children are provided by the land, the imagination and the community as a whole.
For more info and bookings:
https://buddhafield.com/retreats/buddhafield-southeast-family-friendly-autumn-2024
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The Buddhafield Festival 2024 Programme has landed! Check out what we have on offer this year at one of the most cheery, smiley, friendly, most awesome festivals you've ever been to!
With Buddhist talks, workshops and mantras in our Dharma Parlour, Yoga and body work in our Yoga Village, Somatic movement and contact improvisation in our SOMA space, more meditation sessions than you can shake a vajra at, Land and Social Change area, loads of super live music, pancakes! dance space, kids and teens areas, circus, theatre, vegan food, shrines, affinity spaces, healing garden and healers, spoken word area, recovery space, sauna and spa areas and many ritual spaces.
All held under sun and stars and the natural beauty of the Blackdown Hills, Somerset. 17th July - 21st July so get your tickets very soon folks!
🌻For the Programme: https://www.flipsnack.com/6ED8D766AED/buddhafield-festival-programme-2024-hp0zeesn30.html
🚀For tickets: https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024
Did you know we have a new Buddhist Art Shop on our Buddhafield Base Project website?
With stunning posters, framed prints, greetings cards, canvas prints and wood prints - all from wonderful artists such as Aloka and Mumukshu.
All profits will go to our Base Project.
To peruse our beautiful goods - https://buddhafieldbase.com/buddhist-art-shop/
Hugs without drugs, fine without wine, fitter without bitter, laughter without the morning after (hangover), cheers without beers!
Buddhafield Festival is famous for providing a vibrant, loving, inclusive, playful space for conscious connection without the alcohol and drug-fuelled chaos of many events.
Why do conscious celebration and Buddhism go together?
Fundamentally, Buddhism is about clarity and awareness. The teachings, practices and ethics all point towards a fuller, deeper experience of life as it really is. When illusions of separation and resistance are stripped away, celebration, community and authentic living are the natural results. This is a vital path with the potential to create huge benefits and facilitate positive progress in the modern world.
Come and see for yourself.
You don’t have to be Buddhist to be at Buddhafield Festival. You don’t have to be living a sober life before or afterwards. All you need is a desire for something different and exciting – a way to connect with other humans, the planet and a sense of inner wellbeing.
See you out there.
Buddhafield Festival 2024 - 17th-21st July Somerset
For tickets and more information:
https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024
To work with us at this year's festival:
https://buddhafield.com/join-us-buddhafield-festival
For more info on why Buddhafield is a drug and alcohol free festival:
https://buddhafield.com/article/why-is-buddhafield-drug-and-alcohol-free-festival?
Photo credits: Sagara Vajra Lela Rowe Photography
'Meditation is the art of getting to know one's own mind; getting to know one's own mental and emotional states; getting to know oneself more and more deeply.
'It is on the basis of this self-knowledge that we can begin to encourage the awareness and kindness that will bring a sense of richness and fulfilment to our lives, and from which compassionate action can spring.'
From 'Change your Mind - A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation' by Paramananda.
Read all about how meditation is woven throughout everything we do, from intensive meditation retreats, to meditating with your children, and to meditating at the Buddhafield Festival.
With resources to support your practice and more in our newsletter.
There are many ways you can join us at this year's festival.
Areas currently open for applications:
🌟Traders food
🌟Traders non-food
🌟Ecstatic Dance and 5 rhythms
🌟DJ's
🌟Saunas and Shower Area
🌟Workshops
🌟Site Crew
🌟Ticket Office
🌟Yoga Area
🌟Accessibility Team
🌟Kids Area
🌟Buddhafield Cafe Crew
🌟Padma Pancakes Food Crew
🌟Compliance Team
🌟Solar Power
🌟Workshop Guardians
🌟Crew Food (Before and After)
🌟Crew Food (During)
🌟Decor
🌟Walkabout Performers
🌟Peacekeepers
🌟Stewarding
Opening soon!
🌟Word-up
🌟Recycling
🌟Campaign Stalls
🌟Land and Social Change
🌟Green Crafts
Check out our webpage for more information and to apply - https://buddhafield.com/join-us-buddhafield-festival
Just want to come and freely enjoy the Buddhafield vibes?https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-festival-2024
Buddhafield has been a home from home to many families for decades; children and families growing year after year from the mossy ground of the Buddhafield. It's not surprising that people return to our events again every year to reconnect with the land, with each other and with the Buddha's Dharma.
Read our latest newsletter for news on all our family-friendly events, volunteering with the Festival, Bowerwood workdays and more... https://mailchi.mp/buddhafield/12712655
🚀Our line-up is nearly finalised! Check out our website for more info and for full details about the fabulous folk who'll be:
Inspiring us with workshops and talks, meditation and bodywork.
Entertaining and moving us with live music and DJ sets.
Enabling us to beatbox, weave baskets, do woodland crafts together, sing and play together and more.
This is a conscious, drug and alcohol-free event with an outdoor fire, chai, and singalongs under the moon. You are encouraged to bring your whole heart, a refillable water bottle for dancing, and a mug for your hot drink of choice.
See you there! 💛🌻
For tickets and more info: https://buddhafield.com/buddhafield-base-in-the-city-bristol or follow our event page to stay updated.
The bluebell retreat is back this May early bank holiday.
This fully catered event is held in beautiful woods near Herstmonceux in East Sussex, camping among the trees and surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of Spring. Families as well as adults without children are welcome.
There is a focus on little-and-often practice with meditation, talks, discussion groups, rituals and, most importantly, play. We explore how to weave dharma into our practice of being together.
Activities for the children are provided by the land, the imagination and the community as a whole.
For more info and booking:
https://buddhafield.com/retreats/buddhafield-southeast-family-friendly-spring-2024
Is it time to sort out your health, whilst funding our Buddhafield Base Project?
Why not get guidance from a holistic doctor on how to optimise your lifestyle.
Offering lifestyle medicine consultations online or from her practice in Bath, Antonia is offering sessions on a donation basis raising funds for the Buddhafield Base Project (find out more about Base here: https://buddhafieldbase.com).
Find out more about Antonia's offering here: https://holisticfamilypractice.co.uk/buddhafield-base-ambassador/
With deep gratitude to Antonia for being a Base Ambassador from all of us in the Buddhafield team
#BuddhafieldBaseAmbassador
“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013
This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What insights from beyond ourselves might arrive? In what ways might we be guided to live in interconnection with our living home if we came to the elements without knowing, without agenda, without hurry, but with humility, openness and gratitude?
We’ll explore these themes and connect as a community, with daily meditation and Dharma talks every other day. Our opening ceremony will be at 7:30pm, Sunday, 11th February 2024 and meditations will begin the next morning. After that we’ll spend two days in each element…
Earth
Water
Fire
Air
Space
Consciousness
The last two days are devoted to overview and bring it all together.
Leaders so far confirmed: Subhadassi, Lokabandhu, Singhashri, Akshayapradipa, Maitridevi and held by Amaragita.
With ticket options to suit everyone from full event to pay as you go.
To book your place and for updates: https://buddhafield.com/at-home-with-the-elements-voices-of-the-rain-2024
Hope to see you there!
Come and join the Anuruddha Project
15th April - 8th August 2024
The Anuruddhas were a group of friends living and practising together in the Buddha's time. When the Buddha visited them, he was very moved by their harmony and compassion, as they had made living together a deep part of their practice.
The Anuruddha Project aims to follow this example, providing a place for people to come together to practice deeply together. This is an opportunity to join and help create a small community that will spend four months together learning about the ways of Buddhafield and ways of Buddhism.
The aim of the project is to equip the successful candidate with a set of skills and provide them with a set of connections that will enrich their lives significantly, opening up new avenues of exploration that will be extremely wholesome, relevant and, potentially, very profound.
The course will last for four months and will be mainly embedded - though not exclusively- within Buddhafield events.
Read more in our newsletter:
https://mailchi.mp/buddhafield/12703503
And apply through our website:
"Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013
This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What insights from beyond ourselves might arrive? In what ways might we be guided to live in interconnection with our living home if we came to the elements without knowing, without agenda, without hurry, but with humility, openness and gratitude?
We’ll explore these themes and connect as a community, with daily meditation and Dharma talks every other day. Our opening ceremony will be at 7:30pm, Sunday, 11th February 2024 and meditations will begin the next morning. After that we’ll spend two days in each element…
Earth
Water
Fire
Air
Space
Consciousness
The last two days are devoted to overview and bring it all together.
To book your place and for updates: https://buddhafield.com/at-home-with-the-elements-voices-of-the-rain-2024
Hope to see you there!
And he's off! Trev's remarkable trek has begun!
You can still support him and follow his progress here.
Raising funds for our Buddhafield Base Project, Trev will walk an incredible 350miles through the Scottish wilderness starting in Milngavie, North of Glasgow and ending in the northwestern-most point of mainland Scotland. He'll be alone and fully self supported aiming to complete his trek in 3 - 4 weeks.
This morning he had already completed 25 miles with views of Loch Lomond in the distance, braving the Scottish elements. Trev you're a super hero
Inspired by Trevor? You too can help raise much needed funds for the Buddhafield Base Project, contact us to let us know your ideas and we can help support you
Only 10 days left to buy your Community Shares and become an active member of the Buddhafield Base community!!
Come and ask us all about it at the Festival - you can find us at the base stand...
Buy shares from as little as £250
Why invest?
- Help create a hub where we can work out how to be together in this changing world and creatively approach the challenges we all face.
- Sustain Buddhafield for future generations to enjoy the fruits of practice and our events.
- Further our educational and support aims that resource individuals and communities.
- Create stronger bonds within the Buddhafield community and give us a chance to expand.
- Allow us to employ people for more time to further the community aims.
- Support growing ethical enterprise opportunities that help to meet people’s core needs.
- Create more volunteering opportunities so people can connect with Buddhafield year-round.
- Look after around 70 acres of land and use it to exemplify living simply and harmoniously. This will also help to further these aims on the existing Buddhafield land.
For more details on how your investment can help shape Buddhafield's future - check out our website: https://base.buddhafield.org.uk/share-offer/ or come and see us in the field!
Buddhafield Festival 2023 Full Programme out now!!
With Workshops, Meditation, Yoga and Body work, Dance, Ritual, Buddhist talks, Land and Social Change, Spoken Word, Live music and DJ's, Green-crafts, Healing Gardens, Kids Area, Teen Area, Somatic movement all under a canopy of trees, sun and stars.
https://www.flipsnack.com/6ED8D766AED/buddhafield-festival-2023/full-view.html
Buddhafield is an alcohol and recreational drug free Festival which helps to create a different vibe from your standard festival. As a community, practising conscious connection together, we can create a truly loving, life affirming space, immersed in the beauty of the Somerset countryside.
Less than 3 weeks away until we'll be in the field! 12th-16th July
Tickets are getting low now so please get yours soon to avoid missing out on a legendary festival! With love and see you in the field. 💛🌻
Liberation Through Imagination 🌈This year's Festival Dharma Offerings in the famous Dharma Parlour. Come raise your consciousness under the canopy with talks, workshops, meditation, ritual and celebration. Read the highlights in our newsletter.
Full Programme out soon! 👀
