Retreats
A retreat is a chance to step out of everyday life and create space to rest, reset, and reconnect with yourself. Away from routine demands and distractions, it offers the time and support to slow down, gain perspective, and return with a clearer mind and a more grounded sense of wellbeing
On a retreat, you can expect a gentle balance of guided practices, reflection, mindfulness, and time in nature or stillness. It’s not about doing more, but about doing less with greater awareness giving yourself permission to pause, breathe, and come back to what truly matters.
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Lilasuri is collaborating with Karen and Si to bring you a series of retreats called Nature of Compassion and Awakening the Heart. Details below. Have a question about the retreats? Please contact Lilasuri or you may find an answer in our Retreat FAQ's and Testimonials document
Meet Lilasuri Your Retreat Facilitator
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Lilasuri has been attending retreats for over 16 years and has been leading retreats for the past eight, often with other mindfulness professionals, including leaders in the field Vidyamala Birch OBE. She is a qualified Breathworks and MBSR mindfulness teacher, trainer, supervisor, and nature connection guide, and founder of Wild Awake Mindfulness, working with individuals, communities, and organisations to deliver workshops, training, events, and retreats.
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An ordained Buddhist with nearly two decades of practice, she gives talks and leads Buddhist festival days and attends retreats at least 3 times a year to ensure her teaching is grounded in ongoing, lived practice. She is a northern lass, who has a grounded approach to practice, held with care and sensitivity, for the benefit of all beings.
Nature of Compassion In-person Retreats
Lilasuri has teamed up with Karen Welsh to bring you Nature of Compassion, a series of immersive day and weekend retreats in Brinscall, Chorley, Lancashire.
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Meet Karen Welsh
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Karen has been teaching mindfulness and compassion-based courses since 2015, training in multiple approaches including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion. In 2024, she completed sound therapy training and now offers sound baths alongside her teaching.
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Karen brings these modalities to workplaces, communities, and her LGBTQ+ community. Passionate about self-compassion, she has spent years deepening her practice through retreats and learning with compassion teachers. As an MBSR supervisor and retreat facilitator since 2022, she combines research-based tools with lived experience to help others navigate life with greater kindness, connection, and care.
The Spring Day Retreat
Saturday 111th April 2026 10.00-4.30pm
Embrace the rhythm of Spring with a relaxing day retreat. Through gentle movement, guided meditation, breath-work, yoga nidra/ sound bath for deep rest, self-kindness and nature connection activities, we will explore how to trust our intuition as we move into a season of new growth.
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Come together with Lilasuri, Karen and like-minded people and share a delicious homemade lunch. Leave the day feeling lighter, calmer, and grounded, with practical ways to carry ease into everyday life.​​
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Cost is £75 including a homemade lunch, refreshments and all activities
Fully Booked, Waiting List Available
The Spring Weekend Residential Retreat
Returning to Simplicity
Friday 15th - Sunday 17th May 2026
Embrace the rhythm of Spring with a relaxing 2 night residential retreat at the grand and homely Brinscall Hall set amongst the beautiful Lancashire countryside.
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Life can be busy, complex, and demanding and it is easy to lose ourselves in the constant doing, decision-making, and stimulation. This spring residential mindfulness retreat offers a safe space to step out of complexity and return to simplicity.​
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Guided by the theme of simplicity of body, speech, and mind, the retreat offers a simple structure of meditation, gentle mindful movement, yoga nidra, sound bath, nature connection, delicious homecooked meals, and periods of silence to help the body and mind reset and settle.
Suitable for new and experienced practitioners seeking rest, clarity, and a chance to come back to themselves amid the complexity of life.
Cost is £340 including accommodation, breakfast, homemade lunch and dinner, refreshments and all activities
Awakening the Heart Online Retreats
Wild Awake is working in collaboration with Si Brown from Awake Here and Now, to bring you Awakening the Heart, a series of online retreats run throughout the year.
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Meet Si Brown
Si is an Awakening practitioner and Buddhist with over 25 years’ experience in meditation and guiding others on the path. With a strong foundation in trauma-informed practice, they offer clear, heartfelt guidance to help people awaken the heart and live more enriched, fully felt lives.
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Having worked with hundreds of individuals and groups, Si compassionately supports people to release unhelpful conditioning and move toward greater freedom and ease. Known for simplicity and authenticity, they share teachings that are accessible, deeply transformative, and rooted in connection, presence, and ease. They have over 150 videos on Awakening on their Awake Here & Now YouTube channel.
Awakening the Heart Online Day Retreat
Saturday 20th June 2026
1-8pm (UK/BST) 8-3pm (EST)
A nourishing day of meditation, reflection, group connection, and teachings to help you reconnect with the heart.
Led by Lilasuri and Si, experienced practitioners with over 40 years of combined experience in Buddhist practice and awakening work, the day will be held with deep care, warmth, creativity, playfulness and integrity.
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You will learn practical tools to soften habitual clinging, awaken compassion, and cultivate greater freedom, ease, and aliveness in your everyday life.
This is a foundational day retreat which will be followed by a going deeper online weekend retreat in Autumn.
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Cost is £50 which includes the day retreat, recordings of the talks and meditations and additional resources.
