Land of Joy

Land of Joy Land of Joy is affiliated with the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition). Copyright © 2014 Land of Joy, All rights reserved.

☸️ Buddhist Retreat Centre since 2014
🤝 Gelug Tradition - affiliated with FPMT
📍 Northumberland National Park
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he Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation, and community service.

Such a simple teaching. Such a profound shift. 🪷When we turn our attention outward - genuinely, wholeheartedly toward th...
11/06/2026

Such a simple teaching. Such a profound shift. 🪷

When we turn our attention outward - genuinely, wholeheartedly toward the wellbeing of others - something unexpected happens. The happiness we were searching for begins to find us.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us that cherishing others is not a sacrifice. It is the very source of our own joy. 💛

May we carry this with us today, in small acts of kindness, in patient listening, in a warm smile offered without agenda. 🙏

Upcoming Retreat Opportunity: 🌿 Mindful Movement with Body & BreathWith Lou Beaumont | Friday 28th – Sunday 30th AugustS...
10/06/2026

Upcoming Retreat Opportunity:
🌿 Mindful Movement with Body & Breath
With Lou Beaumont | Friday 28th – Sunday 30th August

Sometimes the path back to stillness runs through the body.
This gentle, nourishing retreat invites you to slow down and reconnect - with your breath, your energy, and your own natural rhythm. Through the complementary practices of pranayama (yogic breathwork) and qigong (mindful movement), you'll explore how breath and movement can work together to harmonise the body, calm the mind, and open a grounded pathway into meditation.

No experience needed. No performance required. Just you, your breath, and the beautiful stillness of Northumberland. 🌳

Over the weekend you'll explore:
🌬️ Pranayama practices to energise and calm
🤲 Gentle qigong to release tension and invite flow
✨ Awareness of subtle energy within and around the body
🧘 Simple, accessible meditation rooted in embodied presence
Each session is slow-paced and spacious - room to move, breathe, and rest at your own rhythm.

Whether you're new to these practices or returning to deepen your experience, you are warmly welcome. 🙏

🔗 Register here: https://landofjoy.co.uk/mindful-movement-2026/

Upcoming Retreat: 🌿 How do we live well - not just in grand gestures, but in the small, quiet moments that make up a lif...
08/06/2026

Upcoming Retreat: 🌿

How do we live well - not just in grand gestures, but in the small, quiet moments that make up a life?

Teacher François Schick invites us into a gentle yet profound exploration of the second pāramitā: ethics and morality. Together, we'll look at how ethical conduct nurtures inner peace, how our choices ripple outward through the law of karma, and how timeless teachings can be woven into the fabric of everyday life - our words, our actions, our relationships.

This retreat is for everyone. Whether you're new to Buddhist practice or have walked this path for years, you are warmly welcome. If you're longing to pause, reconnect with what matters most, and discover how integrity can bring steadiness and ease to modern life, this weekend is for you.

✨ Guided teachings & reflections
✨ Practical wisdom for daily life
✨ Space for silence and contemplation
✨ A warm, supportive community

🔗 Register through our website: landofjoy.co.uk

Ready to take flight on your spiritual journey? 🪽The Buddhist path to awakening is often compared to a bird with two win...
05/06/2026

Ready to take flight on your spiritual journey? 🪽

The Buddhist path to awakening is often compared to a bird with two wings: Wisdom and Bodhichitta (compassionate intention). To truly soar toward enlightenment, we must develop both in harmony.

Join us at Land of Joy from July 3rd–11th for a transformative retreat led by Ven. Mary Reavey. Together, we will explore the Lam Rim - the graduated path to enlightenment - focusing on turning intellectual concepts into a living, felt experience through meditation.

✨ What to expect:
A deep dive into the two "wings" of practice.
Guided meditations to move beyond the intellect.
A supportive environment to integrate these teachings into your daily life.

Don't miss this opportunity to strengthen your practice and cultivate a heart of wisdom and compassion.

Register here: https://landofjoy.co.uk/two-wings-of-wisdom-bodhichitta/

🌿 Something special is coming to Land of Joy this summerLife moves fast. The to-do lists pile up. Somehow, the people we...
04/06/2026

🌿 Something special is coming to Land of Joy this summer

Life moves fast. The to-do lists pile up. Somehow, the people we love most can feel the furthest away.

This August, we're creating space for something different. 💙

🏡 Land of Joy Family Retreat

Friday 31st July - Monday 3rd August
With Olivia & Louise

A long weekend to slow down, reconnect, and remember what matters most - together.

We'll explore simple ways to bring more kindness into your home, tools for navigating life's challenges with a steady heart, and practices that strengthen the bonds that make your family uniquely yours. All set against the peaceful woodlands, open skies, and gentle wildlife of our Northumberland sanctuary.
No rush. No noise. Just your people, the land, and a little more space to breathe. 🌳

All are welcome — whatever your family looks like. 🙏

🔗 Register here: https://landofjoy.co.uk/family-retreat-2026/

✨ Falling in Love With the Future ✨Friday, June 19th – Monday, June 22ndWith Paul WielgusWhat if the future wasn't somet...
03/06/2026

✨ Falling in Love With the Future ✨
Friday, June 19th – Monday, June 22nd
With Paul Wielgus

What if the future wasn't something to fear, but something to fall in love with? 🌿

Join us at Land of Joy for a beautiful, relaxing, and deeply meaningful gathering held over the luminous days of the Summer Solstice.

As the sun reaches its peak, we invite you to:
🪷Re-root in the wild stillness of the land.
🪷Unplug from the urgency of daily life.
🪷Reclaim your connection with yourself, others, and the living world.

Spend four sun-warmed days immersed in soft rhythms and soulful celebration. This is your invitation to slow down, breathe, and step into a future rooted in presence and joy.

✨ Limited spaces available: https://landofjoy.co.uk/falling-in-love-with-the-future/

🙏 A heartfelt thank you to all who joined us for The Bridge from Shamatha to VipassanaWhat a gift it was to sit together...
02/06/2026

🙏 A heartfelt thank you to all who joined us for The Bridge from Shamatha to Vipassana

What a gift it was to sit together, to steady the mind, and to begin - or deepen - the journey toward seeing reality as it truly is.

Thank you for showing up with openness and sincerity, and thank you for the quality of your presence. The stillness you cultivated here doesn't end when the retreat does - it will travel with you, into every moment of daily life.

We hope the bridge between calm abiding and insight continues to reveal itself to you, step by step, breath by breath. 💙

🌕 Saka Dawa Düchen Today, on this most auspicious of days, we are overjoyed to share a milestone with our beloved commun...
31/05/2026

🌕 Saka Dawa Düchen

Today, on this most auspicious of days, we are overjoyed to share a milestone with our beloved community.

We have reached our £16,000 Laying the Foundation target! 🎉

This is thanks to your generosity, your prayers, your trust in this vision. We are also deeply honoured to have received a $16,000 matching grant from the FPMT - a tremendous blessing and vote of confidence in this project.

✨ We are now opening our next phase: Building the Structures - £24,000.
We are already more than halfway there, with £17,206 raised! - just £6,974 stands between us and this next milestone. Structures will be purchased in June, with ground breaking in July.

On this day - when every act of generosity is multiplied 300 million times - we warmly invite you to be part of something truly beautiful: the creation of a space where countless beings will find refuge, practice, and transformation.

🔗 Learn more and donate here: https://landofjoy.co.uk/building-retreat-huts-together/

As you practice today, please dedicate the merit to all those who will one day find awakening within these walls. 🙏

"We do whatever we can, with whatever wisdom we have, and dedicate it all to the benefit of others." - Lama Thubten Yeshe 💙

Saka Dawa Duchen is one of the great holy days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, commemorating the three most profound ...
30/05/2026

Saka Dawa Duchen is one of the great holy days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, commemorating the three most profound events in Shakyamuni Buddha's life: his birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. On this most auspicious day, the karmic weight of every action - positive or negative - is multiplied by 300 million times. It is an invitation from the universe itself to turn our hearts, our energy, and our time toward virtue.

We encourage you to make the most of this extraordinary day. In keeping with Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice for merit-multiplying days, we suggest the following practices:

🙏 Take the Eight Mahayana Precepts Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts on a holy day is one of the most powerful practices we can engage in.

📿 Recite the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels Lama Zopa Rinpoche especially recommends the recitation of the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels on merit-multiplying days. Even a single recitation, offered with a sincere and open heart, carries incalculable benefit for yourself and all beings.

🌿 Meditation on Bodhichitta and Emptiness Saka Dawa Duchen is a precious time to sit quietly and turn the mind inward. Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages practitioners to focus their meditation on bodhichitta and on emptiness, the ultimate nature of all phenomena. Even a few minutes of genuine practice, offered with pure motivation, ripples outward in ways we cannot fully imagine.

💛 Acts of Generosity Giving is one of the six perfections, and on a day when merit is multiplied so extraordinarily, generosity becomes a gateway to liberation, for giver and receiver alike.

Please visit FPMT for additional practice resources: https://fpmt.org/edu-news/saka-dawa-duchen-2026-sunday-may-31/

The greatest obstacle to our happiness isn't out there in the world - it lives within the mind itself. 🙏Lama Yeshe's wo...
30/05/2026

The greatest obstacle to our happiness isn't out there in the world - it lives within the mind itself. 🙏

Lama Yeshe's words cut straight to the heart of the path: recognising self-grasping as the true source of our suffering is not discouraging, it is deeply liberating. Because what arises from the mind can be released by the mind.

This Saka Dawa, may we each find the courage and clarity to look inward, and to make that strong determination. 💙

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