Blog

Suryavana, Retreat Centre, Spain

its a bit early in the month but I want to write. We have just started an Ordination training retreat for Men with a wonderfully international mix of guys from England to Ireland to France to Venezuela to Mexico to Argentina to Catalonia to la Comunidad Valenciana, where we live locally! One of them soon to be Ordained. How exciting! These Spring retreats have been a feature of my life in Spain for many years, since I first moved down to Valencia nearly 20 years ago. Once held in Guhyaloka now we run them in Suryavana.

greetings, 

Spring is arriving. The nights are still really cold, dropping to minus 2 the other day. There is that impulse to verdant green and lots and lots of little flowers everywhere. We have planted out a vegetable garden with potatoes, onions, leeks, some strawberries and sage and some more delicate Italian peppers. It will be the sixth growing season on this spot ! Fortunately the hard graft of digging the plot over was done by Angel and his tractor in about 20 minutes! 

Gracias a las compañeras de este finde en Suryavana. Un retiro/formación explorando el maravilloso arte de Yin yoga. Un paso más a la Libertad para todas. 

Hi all, a short message from me. I have had a couple weeks at the end of the year with a little more space, an opportunity to reflect back on the year and get into some report style writing! I have written three pieces, a shabda letter last month, a letter to the WIndhorse Trust and a Directors report. For anyone interested I do post most material up onto Suryavana website blog and to the Suryavana page on buddhist centre online. 2025 has been a good year on the whole. We can say that.

This class is for everyone. Thanks for your dedication and support 2025. Love & life to you all.
https://youtu.be/4OdFxOQb1T4?si=TJxEZfYQUibaD-NF

Send me a message and I will send the zoom link. 
 

Wednesday 24th December 2025. 6-7pm Uk time. (19-20h Spain time)

Centro de Retiros Suryavana

Todos necesitamos un respiro de la vida cotidiana de vez en cuando. Un respiro así puede ser refrescante y revitalizante. Suryavana nos abre las puertas al mundo budista, ofreciendo una nueva perspectiva de la vida. Suryavana no es solo una casa rural, es un templo budista en plena naturaleza, amplio e inspirador.

Suryavana Retreat Centre

All us need a break from our everyday lives from time to time.
Such a break can be both refreshing and revitalizing.
Suryavana opens the portal into the Buddhist world, offering a new perspective on life and living.

Hi all. We just had a really “full-on” run of activities leaving me a little “Frito”. “Fried”. If you had spoken to me Sunday morning at 8am when we were preparing breakfast for our guests I would have been in a very different mood to now. Six events one after the other with a few days to recover in between each event. Padmashalin did a great job of running the kitchen. We were blessed by a couple of young volunteers, “making lighter work with many hands”. The extra challenge was that nearly all the groups were new non-Triratna folks, that rent out Suryavana.