Samatha Vipassana Retreat with Bhante Dhammagevesi & Hugh Poulton
Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation and Sukhita Yoga
April 24 to May 4, 2025
A 10-day Samatha Vipassana retreat with guides Bhante Dhammagevesi and Hugh Poulton to help you come into balance through a unique combination of meditation and movement.
Whether you are seeking new perspectives; wishing to digitally detox and look after your wellbeing; looking to understand more clearly the nature of mind and body and explore the path to awakening; or feel your current practice has plateaued, this retreat gives a way forward that develops calm and insight as a unified experience.
You will be learning Tranquil Wisdom (Samatha), Insight (Vipassana) Meditation, and Sukhita Yoga; practices that bring awareness to states of mind and the tension we habitually carry that creates resistance in our lives.
Morning practices of Sukhita Yoga will set your body up for a day of sitting and walking meditation and renew your connection with your vitality, give you an insight into the impact of mind states in the body and support the flow of your meditation through the retreat.
Practice during the retreat is in silence with regular opportunities to ask any questions you have either in the Yoga sessions, the evening Dhamma talks or your daily interview with the teachers.
For queries and to register, please email us at info@buddhapada.in or Call or WhatsApp on +91 8927243259
The retreat will begin in the morning on April 24 and end in the morning on May 4.
About the Guides—
Bhikkhu Dhammagavesi Thero is of Indian origin who started his spiritual journey in 2013 at Wat Pah Nana Chat in Thailand, where he stayed for 1 and a half years. In 2016 he discovered Bhante Vimalaramsi’s Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation, an approach to the Buddha Dhamma and meditation which is easy to understand and immediately effective. He took higher ordination with Bhante Vimalaramsi in 2017. He is the spiritual guide for the Samatha Vipassana Trust in India and guides regular retreats and supports and trains future monastics, students and teachers in the TWIM practice. Students find his approach encouraging and relatable and with his natural generosity towards all aspects of their learning, are able to discover a kind and loving acceptance of themselves.
Hugh Poulton first met Buddhism in the 1980s when working in Asia and for more than 20 years practised Burmese Mahasi meditation, progressively experiencing the stages of insight of that tradition. Mountaineering and yoga were also important in his life at this time; mountaineering creating demanding physical conditions to observe the impact of mind and yoga revealing a more subtle relationship to internal movement and intention. Meeting Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (TWIM) in 2008 gave new vigour to a deep process of healing that had begun with earlier practices and brought change to all aspects of his life. He learnt how to embody loving kindness and compassion when meeting tension and this encouraged balance that becoming a healthy model for daily life and one of the bases for Sukhita Yoga. Since 2008 TWIM retreats have been an integral part of his life both as a student and from 2022 as a guide with Samatha Vipassana Trust. Students are finding great benefit from his sensitivity to tension, insight and compassion which allows him to intuitively support them to re-find balance within themselves.