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Countryside Away Retreat: Meditations for Mental Freedom

Fri 6 – Sun 8 Nov · Nagarjuna KMC, Northamptonshire

Countryside Away Retreat: Meditations for Mental Freedom

About This Event

Take a real break from daily life to come on a meaningful, relaxing weekend retreat at the beautiful Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre in Northamptonshire. Through guided meditations and inspiring teachings, Kadam Lucy will share Buddha’s profound wisdom teachings — a liberating understanding of reality that enables us to let go of our fears, anxiety, and limiting beliefs. This retreat will help us to experience the spacious, blissful quality of reality, discovering within us an endless source of peace and freedom that we can bring back into our daily lives. Everyone is welcome — no experience needed.

Teacher

Kadam Lucy James

Kadam Lucy James

Resident Teacher

Kadam Lucy James is the Resident Teacher of KMC London. She is a senior teacher of Kadampa Buddhism, has taught extensively in the UK and USA, and helped set up many thriving meditation centres since 1981. She is a leading expert in meditation and is regularly invited to teach courses around Europe and the United States. For many years, one of her main jobs was to help with the editing and production of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's books, and she has engaged in extensive meditation retreat. Kadam Lucy is appreciated for her deep wisdom, vast knowledge, lucid mind, and inspiring yet practical presentation of Buddha's teachings and meditations. She is very skilled at explaining how to make these teachings immediately effective in our busy modern lives to help both ourselves and everyone around us.

Retreat Venue

Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre

Thornby Hall Naseby Road Thornby, Northamptonshire

NN6 8SW

Venue website

Your weekend

Timetable

Friday · Arrival

Friday, 6 November 2026

  1. 3pm

    Registration opens

  2. 6pm

    Supper

  3. 7:30pm–9pm

    Session 1

Saturday · Retreat day

Saturday, 7 November 2026

  1. 9am–10:30am

    Session 2

  2. 11:45am–1pm

    Session 3

  3. 1pm

    Lunch and walk

  4. 4:30pm–6pm

    Session 4

  5. 6pm

    Supper

  6. 7:30pm–8:45pm

    Session 5

Sunday · Final day

Sunday, 8 November 2026

  1. 9am–10:30am

    Session 6

  2. 11:30am–1pm

    Session 7

  3. 1pm

    Lunch