Would you like to live and work at Taraloka?
Posted on Wed, 11/10/2023 - 11:31
Taraloka offers a unique context for women to live a full-time Dharma life, for being of service to others and for personal and collective transformation.
Taraloka News
Could you be our next kitchen manager?
Posted on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 16:38
Taraloka is recruiting!
"Mindfulness sounds all well and good, but my life is just so hectic. What can I do?"
Posted on Fri, 07/07/2023 - 12:44
In addition to practising Buddhism and Meditation, Kamalagita is a parent and has spent many years as teacher. In this interview, she speaks about her book The Mindful Teacher's Handbook, and about her experience from her life as a practitioner, teacher and trainer. She offers practical solutions for how people with relentlessly busy lives can find moments of peace and deep resourcing.
Diary of a Taraloka Volunteer
Posted on Tue, 27/06/2023 - 15:14
Camille is volunteering at Taraloka for six months, and she wrote a beautiful piece for her Sangha back home in France. You can read the original version here, or the English version below...
Pujas with Altitude raises £4,557 for 'Tiratanaloka Unlimited'
Posted on Sun, 30/10/2022 - 17:10
Thirteen women braved driving rain-showers, high winds and steep places to do three pujas and climb the second highest mountain in Wales – and they raised £4,557 for ‘Tiratanaloka Unlimited’! Thanks to everyone who took part, and everyone who gave money! Here are some comments from those on the event.
‘Exhausting, fulfilling, really satisfying – I loved doing pujas outside! It was so beautiful!’ – Alice (London)
The Shrines of Taraloka: Answering the call
Posted on Sat, 08/10/2022 - 16:15
This is the seventh in a series of stories behind the shrines around Taraloka, and the women whose generosity, care and love have made Tara's realm what it is.
Midsummer Longing
Posted on Fri, 24/06/2022 - 10:20
And shall I ask at the day's end once more
What beauty is, and what I can have meant
By happiness? I cannot bite the day to the core.
Dancing with Life with the Dakinis
Posted on Sun, 29/05/2022 - 17:52
The Dakini - pure openness, naked energy, red love, sensitive freedom, an ungraspable dance in the fires of transformation. On a retreat from 15th - 22nd July we will explore how this Tantric symbol of awakening can bring us into intimate connection with our body-heart-mind in meditation and ritual, living ever more authentically in the flow of life.
"I couldn't climb a mountain!"
Posted on Mon, 18/04/2022 - 10:02
Mahamani, who is part of the retreat team at Taraloka, writes:
"I’ve been reflecting a lot lately the wrong views I hold about myself which both constrain and limit me as well as define how I relate to other people. If I am not sufficiently aware of them, they can really catch me out.
Here may there be peace: reflections on the crisis in Ukraine, and beyond
Posted on Sun, 13/03/2022 - 12:30
Faced with immense suffering in the world, what does the Buddhism have to offer?