Upcoming Retreats

Our next retreat is Spring 2025

Our retreats are a fantastic opportunity to delve into stillness, deepen and refine your knowledge of the work and go back home feeling nourished and refreshed.

Spring and Autumn Retreats

Our Spring and Autumn retreats are held at the Cardy Net House, a beautiful grand design, on the shores of Largo in Fife, only an hour’s drive from Edinburgh. This private, contemporary house is situated on the beach front with stunning views out over the sea and is the perfect setting for deepening into the work.

Our week long retreats combine all aspects of the Gathering Essence work including seated meditation, standing and sitting forms. We are in silence for several days to enhance and enrich the meditative dynamic of the group, allow more space for you to connect in and be present with what’s arising. 

The retreats are an incredibly valuable process which give folk the space and supportive environment in which to clear unprocessed energies and emotions, sharpen your meditative skill base and consolidate a clearer understanding of the work. There is ample time between teaching sessions to rest, relax, and slow down.  

We’re very fortunate to have used this stunning venue for many years and our students have appreciated many of the Cardy Net House’s special features during this time; the large secluded garden, the open log fire and comfortable sofas, the wooden veranda from which to watch the sun rise and the long sweeping beach right on our doorstep. 

For more information please get in touch.

Spring Retreat 2025

26th April - 3rd May

£1045

Our retreats are suitable for Gathering Essence students at Levels 2 and 3

Gathering Essence offer a limited number of supported places to those in financial need. If you feel you could benefit from this please get in touch (in confidence).

We also have a retreat fund. If you feel you’d like to support people to attend retreat and are in a position to do so we warmly accept donations for this fund.