Dakini: Dancing with Life 2024 | Taraloka | Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women

Friday, November 1, 2024 to Friday, November 8, 2024

Retreat Team:

Shraddhasara

What would it be like to be completely free?

Look into the mirror of your mind...

The mysterious home of the dakini.

(Naropa)

The Dakini - pure openness, naked energy, red love, sensitive freedom, an ungraspable dance in the fires of transformation. Explore how this Tantric symbol of awakening can bring us into intimate connection with our body-heart-mind in meditation and ritual, living ever more authentically in the flow of life.

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There are no single rooms left for this retreat, if you'd like to be on the waiting list please email admin@taraloka.org.uk

The Dakini is a rich symbol of freedom and transformation. She is indefinable, and bursts through all distinctions -good/bad, self/other, conform/rebel -through direct contact with the reality of experience. She overflows with love for all that lives; she is naked to the exquisite vividness of life; she is potent receptive presence; she is the dance of communication.

This retreat will create the space for us to relax into being more present and open-hearted, giving us a chance to meet the dakini. We’ll evoke her with short talks and rituals, and listen for the warm breath of the dakini’s whisper in meditation and 2-3 days of silence.

Moksanandi and Jvalamalini have been dwelling on and inspired by the dakini for decades, exploring her through their individual practice and through communication in their friendship.

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £365 waged / £250 unwaged

Booking Fee:

£85.00

Paying for your retreat

Taraloka runs on generosity.

To book a retreat you pay a booking fee. This is the only charge made for coming on retreat. As far as possible, we don't want anyone's financial situation to stop them from coming to Taraloka.

At the end of your retreat, you have the opportunity to give money towards Taraloka. If you are able to donate, you are giving to another person who otherwise could not afford to come on retreat. And you are helping to give the gift of Taraloka to the women of the future.

Suggested donations

Our suggested donations (in addition to the booking fee) for 2024-25 are (waged/unwaged)

Weekend retreats (2024: £195 / 135 2025: £200 / £140)
Long Weekend (3 nights) (£225 / 160)
4 night retreats (£255 / 175)
5 night retreats (£285 / 195)
Week retreats: (£365 / 250)
9 night retreats (£410 / 290)
12 night retreats (£465/ 310)

There will be an opportunity to make your donation at the end of the retreat. Donations can be made by credit/debit card, cheque or cash.

Those who cannot afford our suggested donations are free to contribute what they can.

Running on generosity is radical – thank you for being part of that.

For more information see what does it cost and a flow of generosity