Expansion and Stillness
21st - 24th November 2025
Is stillness empty? What is it? When in our practice we can move beyond the activity of the thinking mind, is this a void? Or perhaps a space full of energy, potential, joy?
We will explore all of this, find out and question our assumptions around meditation and stillness. Each meditative pathway has its own teachings regarding the ending of the attachment to the Self.
Is this therefore taking us to a nihilistic place where nothing has meaning or purpose, where everything becomes ‘empty’? Or is this stillness, this awareness, this consciousness, full of light and wonder, bursting with potential?
This retreat will speak to you if your meditation practice is important to you and needs the
fuel from a focused few days.
Schedule
Friday 21st November
15:00 - 17:00 Arrive & Settle in
17:00 - 20:00 Training
20:00 Dinner
Saturday 22nd November
06.30 - 08:00 Sit
08:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 Training
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch, swim, rest, personal training
15:00 - 18:00 Training
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Training
Sunday 23rd November
06.30 - 08:00 Sit
08:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 Training
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch, swim, rest, personal training
15:00 - 18:00 Training
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Training
Monday 24th November
06.30 - 08:00 Sit
08:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 Training and finishing up around 3pm
Cost
£555 Residential Single with meals (linen & towels provided)
£510 Residential Shared with meals (linen & towels provided)
£420 Non-residential with meals
£311 Non-residential without meals
£450 Camping with meals
£341 Camping without meals
Concession fee (only 25% of total participants)
Only apply in absolute need please
Your space is secured by £180 deposit (non-refundable)
To book, contact us through the button below or email Emma at bonhays.calendar@gmail.com
Fabiano, cranial osteopath
Each retreat with Sophie at Bonhays opens a new chapter in my experience of myself and my relationship with my body.
What is most inspiring is that as an osteopath I may have felt these experiences on others but to feel and be able to replicate them in my own body is empowering.
There a few things that help this happen, the beautiful nature of the surroundings, the delicious food, but most specially, how nurturing and caring Sophie’s approach to the internal arts is. Love every moment of the journey.