Holy Island Summer Retreat 2026

The Path to Freedom: Satipatthana

Buddhist insight to untangle your life!

23-30 August 2026

Mindspring's annual Summer retreat is looking to understand why we unnecessarily cause ourselves heartache and headaches. Buddhist wisdom, dating back 2500 years, can help us untangle the knots and lead us down an easier path and this 7-day exploration shows us the way.  

The Satipatthana Sutra is an early Buddhist text designed to help meditators make sense of the tangles of their mind. It also draws on the dizzying wisdom of Buddhist psychology collected in the Abhidharma, which analyses all the building blocks of human experience. With the explicit goal of reducing suffering.

Mindsprings summer retreat draws on the beautiful Buddhist energy of the Island but you don't need to be a Buddhist to enjoy this week of retreat and exploration. You also don't need to have decades of meditation practice - beginner's mind is always…