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Buddhist Meditation Retreats, Online Classes & Study Programmes in the UK
Samadhi is a UK Buddhist wellbeing charity offering meditation retreats, live online classes, and Buddhist study programmes for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced practitioners.
Our retreats run across the UK at beautiful locations in Wales (Gwynedd, Powys, Monmouthshire, Swansea and Carmarthenshire), Devon, Lincolnshire, and London. Whether you’re looking for a relaxed introduction to meditation, a silent retreat, or an immersive seven-day meditation course, we have a programme to suit you.
Alongside our retreats, we run free weekly online meditation classes and live-streamed Buddhist teachings you can join from anywhere in the world. Our study programmes, including The Buddha’s Path, a modular, donation-based course, offer a practical, jargon-free route into Buddhist practice.
As an LGBTQ-led, non-sectarian charity, we’re committed to making Buddhist practice genuinely welcoming and inclusive. We draw on the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, guided by contemplative science, psychology and neuroscience, while remaining open to practitioners of all backgrounds and traditions.
Whether you’re coming to meditation through stress, anxiety, or curiosity, or you’re a seasoned practitioner seeking community and depth, we hope you’ll find a home here.
Upcoming Retreats
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Talks & Workshops Around the UK
Find out what really constitutes true well-being and, based on this understanding, pursue it.
The Samadhi Podcast
Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Breathing for RelaxationThis is a guided mindfulness of breathing meditation, designed to help you relax and release tension and stre…
Navigating People PleasingIn this episode, David explores the roots of people pleasing and how it ties into Buddhist teachings on attac…
Guided Meditation - Navigating the World's Darkness with Our LightIn this meditation, David guides us in a compassion practice through the metaphor of a candle flame in darkne…
The Story of the Anger-Eating DemonIn this episode, David shares the classic Buddhist parable of the 'anger-eating demon' and some ways of inter…
Guided Meditation - Starting Your Day RightThis is a guided meditation designed to help you start your day with mindfulness, a sense of grounded presenc…
Four Aspects of Patient-AcceptanceIn this episode, David explores kshanti, or patient-acceptance, a pivotal concept in Buddhism. This approach …
Guided Meditation on Patient-AcceptanceThis is a guided meditation on patient-acceptance, which accompanies the previous episode 43. Using the power…
Beyond Regret - Four Steps to Purifying Past BehavioursIn this episode, David explores the transformative wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of the Four Oppone…Online Courses
Habits of Happy PeopleFour days on the habits that actually make a life happier, with David and Manu Oromith: the practices, the te…
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water - the Five Elements of Daoist Qi GongNine weeks of gentle movement for health with Dan Brierley, on the five elements with earth at the centre.
Already Free: Meeting Life Through the Heart of Mahamudra and DzogchenThe Mahamudra and Dzogchen approach: noticing the awareness already present in whatever arises.
Attachment, Love & RelationshipsWhere ordinary affection turns into clinging, and the contentment and equanimity that let love be given witho…
Motivating the "Lazy" Practitioner WithinLaziness in the Tibetan sense is anything that blocks practice, not just idleness. Three sessions on its clas…
Letting Go of the Past: Guilt, Resentment & AcceptanceWhy it is so hard to let go or to forgive, and the practices that make it possible.Blogs & Articles
Mindfulness vs meditation, what’s the difference? A Buddhist perspective
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Meditation Retreats in Wales – Your Complete Guide for 2026
- By David Oromith
LGBTQ+ and Buddhism: A Queer Friendly Path
- By David Oromith
What to Expect on a Meditation Retreat (and Why It’s Not as Scary as You Think)
- By David Oromith
Free Sunday Morning Meditations
The Need for Greater Self-CompassionThe session opens with a self-compassion practice: we recall a real difficulty, then offer ourselves the same…
Working with MoodsIn twenty minutes of mindfulness of breathing we count the breath down from seven to steady a busy mind, foll…
Three Habits for a Happier LifeIn the loving kindness practice we move outward from ourselves to a loved one, a stranger, a difficult person…
Dealing with Feelings of RegretIn the meditation we use slow breathing and full body awareness to settle body and mind, releasing whatever i…Keep Up To Date
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