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Based in Clapham in South London, the London Shambhala Meditation Centre offers meditation instructi

19/09/2025

🌿 Day Retreat - The Freedom of Discipline 🌿

🗓️ October 5, 2025
⏰ 9:30 AM — 5:00 PM

When we hear the word “discipline,” we rarely think of freedom. Yet, it is the foundation of true liberation. Join us for a transformative day retreat where we’ll delve into how conscious discipline can fuel our personal growth, resilience, and confidence.

This isn’t about harsh rules or self-denial—it’s about creating a supportive structure that nurtures what matters most. Through teachings, meditation, and reflection, we will learn to embrace discipline as a gift, benefiting both ourselves and those around us.

🌟 Facilitator: Richard Danum
Richard has an inspiring background, transitioning from a law career at Cambridge to becoming a professional actor. Now specializing as an executive coach, he’s dedicated to bringing mindfulness to individuals and businesses alike.

Timings:
Arrival from 9:30 AM, sitting starts at 10:00 AM. We’ll wrap up the day by 5 PM.

✨ Embrace the freedom that discipline can bring! ✨

19/09/2025

🌿✨ Harvest of Peace & London Shambhala 40th Anniversary Celebration 🎉

📅 SEPTEMBER 20, 2025
🕝 2:30 PM — 8:00 PM

Join us for an enchanting day to celebrate the Autumn Equinox and 40 years of Shambhala London in Clapham! Experience the joy of community through meditation, delicious food, and shared memories. Whether you can join us for the whole day or just a part, we would love to see you!

Schedule:
🕒 2:30 - 3:00 PM: Arrival
🧘 3:00 - 4:00 PM: Meditation
☕ 4:00 - 6:00 PM: Tea, cake, and community sharing
🍖 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Potluck barbecue—please bring a dish to share!

Let’s celebrate together! The center will provide a big salad, breads, and some drinks. Feel free to bring a bottle to share.

📍 London Shambhala Centre

19/08/2025

🧘‍♀️✨ Cultivating Compassionate Relationships. Join us for a transformative day retreat this September! ✨🧘‍♂️

🕘 Date/Time: 06 Sept, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: London
🔗 link in bio for sign up

In our busy lives, human interaction shapes our experiences, bringing both joy and challenges. This retreat invites you to turn inward, embracing your own journey of suffering with kindness and honesty. Through guided meditations, Dharma talks, and mindful dialogue, we’ll explore how to cultivate awareness and compassion in our interactions.

Led by Rachael Cheang, an experienced teacher, the day is open to all levels. Come with an open heart and a willingness to explore!

24/06/2025

🌟 Join us for a transformative day retreat on July 6, 2025! 🌟

🕘 Time: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: London
🔗 link in bio for sign up

✨ “There’s nothing as real and direct as being present with yourself, just as you are.” - Pema Chödrön

This retreat offers an opportunity to embrace your emotions as natural expressions of body and mind. Instead of escaping feelings, we’ll cultivate awareness and relaxation, allowing emotions to arise and dissolve without judgment.

Led by David Morris, a dedicated chaplain and experienced meditation instructor, this day is about transforming reactive patterns into wisdom and inner freedom.

Let’s journey together towards deeper self-awareness and connection. 💫

26/05/2025

🧘‍♀️ M E D I T A T I O N W E D N E S D A Y S 🧘
If you are looking to simply come and meditate, join us for drop in meditation!

📅 Every Wednesday
⌚️ 1915 arrival/tea; 1945 - 2100 meditation
📍 London Shambhala Centre, SW4 6AY
Donation based, all welcome 🤗🙏

18/05/2025

📣 DAY RETREAT - How to Think in Front of a Tiger 🐅

📅 07 June, 0930-1700
📍 London Shambhala Centre, Clapham
🔗 Link in bio for further details and registration 🙏

Very few of us come face to face with a real tiger, but we all confront challenges and obstacles regularly. What is the ‘tiger’ in front of you right now?

Join us for a day retreat where we’ll explore how meditation can help us stop running away from our fears and start to make friends with them. Let’s learn to “think in front of the tiger.” 🧘‍♀️✨

Led by Jane Hope, a founding member of the London Shambhala Meditation Centre, who has taught across Europe, the UK, North America, and Ukraine.

Ready to face your ‘tiger’? Join us! 🌈💪

04/05/2025

🌅 Synchronising Body and Mind: A Morning of Meditation and Movement 🌅

Join us on Saturday, May 24, for a transformative workshop with Jim O’Neill, Julien Diaz, and Jonathan Lewis.✨ Together, we will explore the powerful connection between body and mind through guided meditation and movement practices.

For years, our trio of dedicated teachers has worked to help individuals cultivate a confident and joyful relationship with themselves. As Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche beautifully stated, wellness arises from the ability to “synchronise body and mind.”

👉 This workshop is for everyone, regardless of age, physical fitness, or meditation experience.

📅 24 May, 0930-1200
📍 London Shambhala Meditation Centre, Clapham
🔗 Link in bio for further details and registration

✨ Come as you are; leave feeling refreshed and connected! ✨

26/03/2025

📣 DAY RETREAT - The Noble Eightfold Path - Wisdom
📅 29 March, 0930 - 1700
🔗 Link in bio for further details and registration

The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal summaries of the Buddhist teachings and is often broken down into three summaries.

Guided by Llew Watkins, this retreat will focus on the third of these, wisdom (Prajna), exploring how we can develop deep and discriminating knowledge about who we are and our relationship to the world.

This is an in person event hosted at Shambhala London, Clapham Common.

The retreat days are open to people in the early stages of exploring the spiritual path as well as those who have already studied this material to some extent. Anyone interested in attending, who has not yet begun to meditate, is welcome to do so following attendance at one of our Wednesday night open meditation sessions. There, one can receive an introduction to meditation practice.

12/06/2023

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The difficulties in our lives and the world can lead us to become bitter or defensive. We may even spiral down into anger or depression. Developing compassion can help us to overcome all these and to connect with the greatness within each of us. That greatness includes our innate capacity for courage, fearlessness, forgiveness and love.

In this retreat, Anam Thubten will offer talks and meditation guidance based on the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on compassion. He feels strongly that the world right now needs compassion to meet all the challenges we are confronting individually and collectively.

04/06/2023

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Even though Buddhism began more than 2500 years ago, its wisdom and practices are relevant to our lives now more than ever. In these times the world is going through tectonic shifts socially, politically and spiritually as well. Anxiety, fear and all forms of mental issues are on the rise due to various factors such as climate crisis and social media. All this can cause a great deal of confusion.

Anam Thubten will talk about Buddhism’s answer to embracing all these difficulties and finding equanimity, compassion and even transcendence amidst everything that is unfolding in today’s world.

Suggested Donation
£10 (£7 concession). All donations are split between Anam Thubten and Shambhala London.

We don't want cost to be a barrier so if anyone is in financial hardship, please feel warmly invited to attend and donate what you can afford.

Please register to help us with planning around number of people attending.
Any questions please email eventcoordinator@shambhala.org.uk

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16/12/2022

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Instead of our usual drop-in meditation evening we will come together to acknowledge the Winter Solstice, when we have the shortest day and longest night.

We will meditate together by candlelight and share a meal. All are welcome, please feel free to bring along friends and family! If you would like to bring your children they are more than welcome and we will do some fun child-friendly activities during the meditation.

Please bring food/drink to share. There is no fixed cost but donations will go towards keeping the Centre open next year.

Schedule:
7.15pm Arrival
7.45pm Candlelit Meditation with Instruction
8.15pm Pot Luck Meal

Please get in touch with Katrina if you have any questions:
eventcoordinator@shambhala.org.uk

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16/12/2022

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The centre has a rich programme of offerings, from drop-in sessions, beginners meditation instructions, to foundational and advanced learning.
See the website for more information.
We look forward to seeing you.

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Monday	7:30pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday	7:30pm - 9:30pm
Wednesday	7:30pm - 9:30pm
Sunday	10:30am - 12:30pm

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Website

http://www.shambhala.org.uk/

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