Friday 13th March till Thursday 19th March 2026
Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka are joining forces to offer another wonderful embodied opportunity toward collective liberation.
Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a gently held space to go deeper into experience and practice.
Led by Balajit, Singhashri, and Viveka
Who’s it for?
An online reatrat for those with at least 6-months meditation experience.
What’s it about?
The Buddha taught that life includes both suffering AND the potential for liberation. In a world racked with suffering, how do we meet ourselves and each other with curiosity, courage and conviction, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings?
Explore what liberation feels like through an embodied and relational approach to meditation. We’ll get familiar with moment-by-moment experiences of both tension, stuckness, and resistance AND release, softness, and openness, as well as the different parts of ourselves showing up through these experiences.
Collectively we’ll get curious about:
What supports a sense of safety, dignity, and belonging in the body and helps with nervous system regulation
Our vision for liberation for ourselves and others and our intentions for practicing
How our unique social conditioning shows up in our practice and how we relate to what’s happening now
Embodiment as a radical act
The role of beauty and joy in opening to ourselves, one another and the world
How a creative response to fear, grief, shame and anger can support our efforts towards collective liberation
How to deepen into a direct experience of the impermanent, insubstantial nature of experience as a gateway into qualities of the awakened mind
The co-created and interconnected nature of experience and reality
Through teacher input, guided meditations, individual and group reflections, mindful movement, neurosensory exercises, chanting and ritual.
Dana- Supporting our work
Events like this one are only possible because of the generosity of those who attend and can give. Please give what you can and only if you can. Those who give the maximum amount (or more!) make it possible for others with less financial resources to attend.
Suggested donation for the whole retreat:
£175 / $230 / €205 for the whole retreat, or drop in for £35 / $45 / €40 per day.
Who we are
Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka
Balajit
Balajit (he/him) has been leading retreats and events across the UK for around 15 years. For several years he lived and worked at Vajraloka Retreat Centre in North Wales.
He is currently based in Birmingham, where he mixes Buddhist teaching responsibilities with work as a trauma therapist. He has studied the newly emerging psycho-biological approaches to trauma work- and is qualified in Somatic Experiencing, NARM therapy and SHEN Therapy.
In the past few years, Balajit has been exploring correspondences between these emerging approaches and the canonical Dharma, as aids to becoming more embodied and the arising of the bodhicitta.
Singhashri
Singhashri (she/her or they/them) is a queer, Latinx-American dharma teacher and writer. They teach mindfulness and compassion as means to awakening to love, beauty and truth and have committed their life to supporting collective liberation for all and the joy and freedom found there. They teach at various retreat and urban centres across the UK, Europe and the USA, and support a number of projects aimed at creating greater diversity and inclusion within Buddhist sanghas and the secular mindfulness field. They currently live in London with their partner.
Viveka
Viveka (she/they) has worked for social, racial, economic, environmental and gender justice and civil rights for 30 years as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, coach and somatic coach. She specializes in guiding leaders and organizations through transformational processes: race equity and liberation culture change and strategy, team building and coaching, vision and strategy, leading innovation and change and working with conflict, leadership transition, and alliance building.
Viveka was chair of the San Francisco Buddhist Center for 15 years, until 2015. She still serves on the board, and leads meditation and Dharma retreats in the Bay Area and around the world.