Retreat Calendar

Retreat Rates
  • £882.00 – Full Rate
  • £728.00 – Concessionary Rate
  • £0.00 – Retreat Team members only

Date & Time Details: The retreat starts on the first day at 6.45pm with the evening meal and finishes at about 9.45am on the last day.

Suitable for: Triratna Order Members Only

Trikaya Embodied Awakening **Order Retreat**

With Viveka

August 15 - 29, 2026

**Please note that this retreat starts on a Saturday**

Body like mountain… Breath Energy like the ocean’s waves… Heart Mind like the Sky.

These 11 th century Vajrayana verses, sung by Dakini Niguma, are known as the “Three Naturals”
They offer profound guidance for awakening to our essential nature, pointing to three simultaneous dimensions of being—the Trikaya.

  • Nirmanakaya: coming home to presence and belonging within this body, this world
  • Sambhogakaya: befriending the dynamic flow of feeling and energy and the relational dimension of being
  • Dharmakaya: opening to boundless awakened heart and mind

You are invited to directly experience the Three Naturals and a relational approach to insight.
The samatha practice centers on the three Mahamudra ways of resting: Non Distraction, Non Doing, and Non Fabrication. The vipashyana practice uses open awareness to deepen recognition of the simultaneity of form and emptiness through direct embodied experience of the ever-present Trikaya. Embodiment and awakening interweave through accessible Tibetan Energy Yoga in Milarepa’s tradition, illuminating our spiritual anatomy—the central channel and chakras—alongside somatic movement. Collective and individual practice inquiry will be offered.

Immerse yourself in abundant silence and the wildness that holds us all. Together we’ll warm the heart through ritual, music, chanting, and song—co-creating the conditions for liberation and the collective arising of bodhichitta.

Leader

Viveka
Viveka (she/they) is co-founder of Triratna’s Total Immersion longer sangha meditation retreats and has led many month-longs. Her practice has been deeply nourished by meditating in the mountainous wilds of Northern California and Wu Tai Mountain in China. Their teaching is healing and trauma-informed, creating a welcoming atmosphere that holds a diversity of peoples. Viveka’s meditation instruction emphasizes curiosity and compassionate fearlessness as she coaches meditators to trust their capacity and the awakening process. She was certified as a somatic coach at the Strozzi Institute for Somatics in 2022 and has since been training groups in embodied transformation. Ordained in…
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