Gaia House
Gaia House is a meditation retreat center offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. As one of the best meditation centers in the UK, Gaia House welcomes people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion.
Gaia House is a silent meditation retreat center, a sanctuary of contemplative calm set amongst the gentle hills and quiet woodlands of South Devon. Founded in 1983, Gaia House is a registered charity committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual health through meditation.
Through a year-round program of the weekend and week-long group retreats, Gaia House offers meditation instruction and teachings drawn from a wide variety of Buddhist traditions. Additionally, Gaia House caters to long-term solitary meditators and work retreatants.
Buddhist meditation retreats are an opportunity to explore and develop serenity, wisdom, and compassion through meditation and mindfulness practice in a supportive environment. All retreats at Gaia House share the common aim of Buddhist contemplative traditions: to free the mind and heart from confusion, self-centeredness, and anguish. This opportunity allows participants to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness that nurtures inner stillness and peace, insight into the nature of our experience, and the fostering of emotional resources with which to respond more fully to suffering.
Gaia House is predominantly based on the Buddhist practices of Insight (Vipassana), Loving-kindness (Metta), and Zen meditation. Despite the varieties of meditation practice, all of our Dharma teachers share an aspiration to encourage a continuity of self-awareness and experiential learning.
The teachings and practices offered at Gaia House are found in the spiritual teachings of the Buddha, who lived 2,500 years ago. Through his own deep interest in life and commitment to discovering freedom, he came to a profound realization of the understanding and practices that ennoble and liberate a human being.
Phone: +44(0)1626 333 613
Website: http://www.gaiahouse.co.uk/
Email: info@gaiahouse.co.uk
Address: West Ogwell, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6EW, England
