2024 EVENTS
The Silence | a gathering in stillness
Date: Every Sunday.
Time: 19:00 to 19:25 London/UTC+1 (entry from 18:45, door closes at 19:00).
Location: Online via Zoom.
Facilitator: Andō.
Details: The Silence is an online contemplative space, held weekly for a small, but growing community of participants. A silent practice space for those of all faiths and none, bring your practice of silent sitting, meditation, contemplation, and silent prayer, to practice in a group setting.
Registration: For full details of this weekly event and to get the Zoom link please visit this page.
Meditation clinic | a one hour pop-up workshop
Date: Sunday 16 June 2024.
Time: 16:00 to 17:00 London/UTC+1 (entry from 15:45, door closes at 16:00).
Location: Online via Zoom.
Facilitator: Andō.
Details: A one hour group session, where Andō will answer questions and share practical approaches to a meditative practice. If you’ve begun learning to meditate already, or you’re yet to begin, or if you’re an experienced practitioner experiencing difficulties in your practice, then you’re definitely going to find benefit in this session. Bring your questions on meditative practice and together we will explore the answers.
Registration: Bookings are no longer available for this event.
Silence for beginners | a one hour semi-silent retreat
Date: Saturday 8 June 2024.
Time: 16:00 to 17:00 London/UTC+1 (entry from 15:45, door closes at 16:00).
Location: Online via Zoom.
Facilitator: Andō.
Details: The peace that you are seeking is already here. Discover the innate peace within through this exploration of interior silence. This one hour retreat offers an opportunity to explore the nature and benefits of meditative silence. We will spend some short periods of time in silence, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Registration: Bookings are no longer available for this event.
Further online events are coming in 2024, please subscribe here or follow elsewhere for updates. Live links to events will be shared above. Here are just some of what I may be sharing this year.
One day | one day silent immersion (one day one to one and group retreats)
Spend a day with | one day retreat series (with great contemplatives of all faiths)
Quiet notes | spiritual journal writing (one day workshop)
Lectio | lectio across and beyond traditions (one hour workshop)
Small silences | contemplative poetry (one day workshop/retreat)
Before words | poetry as meditation (one hour workshop/retreat)
Silence, tea & poetry | poetry and meditation (one hour event)
Ikebana dreams | poetry reading event and book launch (one hour event)
A quiet garden | meditative ambient soundbath (one hour event)
2022/2023 EVENTS
No events were held during 2022 to 2023 due to illness.
2021 EVENTS
Sacred Poetry
Location: Online at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
Date: November 2021.
Facilitators: Andō and Zenju Earthlyn Manuel.
Details: Exploring the sacred within poetry, the focus of this retreat is to engage wisdom poetry as spiritual guidance. It is therefore important that you have real experience of a sustained meditation/ contemplative practice to serve as a resource for the discussion and activities that will be shared by the facilitators.
The activities and conversations will be drawing from your source of insight through meditation practice, not just from your experience with writing or reading and enjoying poetry.
Registration: Bookings are no longer available for this event.
2020 EVENTS
The Poetry of Silence
Location: London.
Date: 13 January 2020.
Time: 19:00 London/UTC time.
Facilitator: Andō.
Details: An evening of silence, tea and poetry with Andō.
Join us in this rare opportunity for a gathering with contemplative poet, author and silence facilitator Andō in the UK.
Andō is a qualified Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, and has devoted her life full time to the spiritual path since 2012, studying and residing in the communities of masters of Zen and Advaita. Also a spiritual director, since 2017 Andō has also studied the paths of Sufism, Christian contemplatives and mystics of all faiths, seeking out the common root of all faiths.
A student of tea, she loves to share the experience with others in silence.
Andō will lead us in silence, with traditionally served teas of China and Japan. She will then share a quiet talk on the poetry of silence, followed by selected readings of her own Zen poetry and that of the masters of Zen, Ch'an, Daoist and Sufi poetry.
Registration: Bookings are no longer available for this event.