Home Retreats can be tailored to your needs during the pandemic. See below for an important note about the intention behind our approach to this retreat.

We provide:

• Daily live practice sessions and specially recorded teachings
• Related Dharma resources
• Support, perspective and inspiration from our team online during the live retreat
• A chance to connect with the retreat leader to ask questions about your practice.

Whether you have the time to engage with a full-on, urban-retreat style week at home – or are super occupied already with kids or work and just want some useful structure to book-end your days with a little calm and inspiration: this is for you.

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We’re trying something different for this first home retreat of 2021. We hope you can make it work for you in some way that fits your particular circumstances.

We still have plenty of advance daily content available: you can listen to Paramananda’s introductory podcast and, throughout the week, his full series of talks on the material behind this retreat.

What’s new for The Alchemical Heart, is that we’ll have two extended daily sessions of live practice. We’ve tried to set things up so that it works both for Paramananda in his location (London, UK) and people who want to attend around the world. You should find at least one session that works with your time zone, wherever you are!

1. Ideally, attendees who have more time available would come to both sessions (where that’s possible). They are not conceived of as simple repeats.

2. At the same time, the whole point of Home Retreats is to offer flexible models for intensive practice that can be tailored to your needs. We recognize that some people – for childcare, work, time zone or other reasons – may have to come to one or other session, or mix and match. That’s fine. The sessions will build up the retreat day by day, but you should be able to come to either one in a given day and still get a lot out of it.

3. Finally, for those who can’t make it to the live sessions at all, we’ll be posting the videos very soon after they finish, so anyone who needs to can do the retreat in their own time. As usual we’ll finish up with a live Q & A session with Paramananda and we hope as many of you as possible can come to that and connect with your fellow meditators and retreatants! (If not, don’t worry, we’ll share that session online too.)

Home Retreats can be tailored to your needs during the pandemic. See below for an important note about the intention behind our approach to this retreat.

We provide:

• Daily live practice sessions and specially recorded teachings
• Related Dharma resources
• Support, perspective and inspiration from our team online during the live retreat
• A chance to connect with the retreat leader to ask questions about your practice.

Whether you have the time to engage with a full-on, urban-retreat style week at home – or are super occupied already with kids or work and just want some useful structure to book-end your days with a little calm and inspiration: this is for you.

***

We’re trying something different for this first home retreat of 2021. We hope you can make it work for you in some way that fits your particular circumstances.

We still have plenty of advance daily content available: you can listen to Paramananda’s introductory podcast and, throughout the week, his full series of talks on the material behind this retreat.

What’s new for The Alchemical Heart, is that we’ll have two extended daily sessions of live practice. We’ve tried to set things up so that it works both for Paramananda in his location (London, UK) and people who want to attend around the world. You should find at least one session that works with your time zone, wherever you are!

1. Ideally, attendees who have more time available would come to both sessions (where that’s possible). They are not conceived of as simple repeats.

2. At the same time, the whole point of Home Retreats is to offer flexible models for intensive practice that can be tailored to your needs. We recognize that some people – for childcare, work, time zone or other reasons – may have to come to one or other session, or mix and match. That’s fine. The sessions will build up the retreat day by day, but you should be able to come to either one in a given day and still get a lot out of it.

3. Finally, for those who can’t make it to the live sessions at all, we’ll be posting the videos very soon after they finish, so anyone who needs to can do the retreat in their own time. As usual we’ll finish up with a live Q & A session with Paramananda and we hope as many of you as possible can come to that and connect with your fellow meditators and retreatants! (If not, don’t worry, we’ll share that session online too.)