Shirley Lunn Yoga and Sound Healing

27/08/2025

25/07/2025

Wonderful!

23/06/2025

The best news - we now have a home for Plum Village practice in the UK. The purchase has just been finalised - soon you will be able to visit this beautiful place in rural Gloucestershire to practise mindfulness in the Being Peace Practice Centre. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us in reaching this. milestone. The world needs peace more urgently than ever and this is an important step on the path to greater kindness and compassion for ourselves, for each other and for all living beings, including our precious planet.

We're VERY HAPPY to be able to tell you that the purchase of has now been made and will become the 🥳🎊🎉🥳🎊🎉
Over the weekend the Trustees confirmed contracts have now been exchanged!
We offer much to you all as supporters near and far who have offered much encouragement as well as financial help to bring this about.
Your and has brought us to this moment.
As we look towards the next stage of set-up work, renovations, and preparation for opening, your continued support and engagement will be essential in helping this vision blossom.
for being there.
If you want to learn more please join the this Sunday at 7pm UK time. Sign up for updates from our website if you don't receive them already. https://beingpeace.uk/

We look forward to sharing this amazing adventure

09/04/2025

Alma Twist is brilliant, everyone should see her

08/04/2025

An historic moment for the Plum Village community in the UK - we have reached our target to secure the beautiful Abenhall estate and realise Thay's aspiration for the Being Peace Practice Centre. This is a massive achievement and we are so grateful to everyone who has helped us to reach our goal.

Thanks to your incredible generosity, love and collective energy over the past weeks, we have reached the £1 million fundraising target!We are now closer tha...

24/03/2025

A lovely weekend mindfulness course following the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Highly recommended by me!

20/03/2025

Update - space now filled . Friends on the Path Sangha, Staines have one place left for our next day of mindfulness on Saturday 12th April. An opportunity to practise sitting meditation, moving and eating mindfully, deep relaxation and dharma sharing. No charge to attend. If anyone is interested, please send me a private message with your email address and I'll send you more information.

20/03/2025

Save the date!

18/03/2025

Fantastic news - we are nearly there - I can’t wait to see the Being Peace Practice Centre open in Abenhall. Thank you so much to all our wonderful supporters.

Did you hear the at our last night?
😁 not only do we have another month for this current campaign
😁 we also have a pledge from a long-standing community member offering to match all donations up to £500,000! 🙌🙌🙌
As said last night
😁 we are on the cusp of bringing this to fruition
We are now over halfway towards our million pound goal thanks to this generous pledge, as well as the many other donations that have come in over the past month.
😁 Thank you everyone who has donated and spread the word.
Let's keep going to bring this vision into reality!

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27/02/2025

I’m going to this retreat - who would like to join me? 🪷

16/02/2025

Good morning, yoga lovers! Just a reminder that although schools are having a half term holiday, our yoga classes continue - see you on the mat tomorrow morning at 9.15 in Woodthorpe Methodist Church, Edinburgh Drive, Laleham. Drop-ins welcome, £10 per class.

16/02/2025

Even in a Time of Intolerance

“We all have a part in shifting the story.”
—Joy Harjo, 23rd US Poet Laureate

There is, in an overfull classroom,
a woman teaching not only history,
but compassion. There’s a barista
making hearts in the foam
of every cappuccino she serves.
There’s man helping another man
on crutches as he struggles to cross
the icy street. There’s a library room full of women
chanting about praying for their enemy.
There are students raising money
to help those with breast cancer and AIDS.
Two girls are laughing for the joy of laughing
’til their faces are tear-streaked
and their ribs and bellies are sore.
There’s a poet who pours courage and music
into every word she shares with the world.
And another woman hears those words
and thinks, “Me. That poet is talking to me.”
This is how we change the world one kind act,
one true word, one long laugh at a time. Because
now, that woman is ablaze with wondering:
What is my part in shifting the story?

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer