Mindfulness retreats for everyone

Explore the wonderful possibilities that mindfulness and meditation has to offer.

Meet some wonderful people and you’ll learn something that can transform your life.

Retreats held throughout the year.

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Back at Burwell - March 2025 mindfulness retreat

Spring is such a positive time – after many months of darkness the light returns and everywhere is bursting with new life and blossom

It’s five years since our last retreat at Burwell House and the mass hysteria of 2020, when three weeks to flatten a curve, became two years to crush the human spirit.

The Now Project continued under cover and we held some illegal mindfulness retreats in the woods, we met online and did our best to hold a vibe and spread peace and love. It was fun being a partisan bringing a spark of light to the darkest wave of unconsciousness to consume humanity in my lifetime. In truth, we had a great time, met some amazing people and enjoyed some rebellious mischief but it did nearly kill The Now Project

We weren’t able to work openly for nearly 2 years and we had to start again. Steve and I breathed some life back into the project and despite threats to lock us down again at Christmas 2021 we took the plunge and held a 4-day retreat in Glastonbury. 

That led to 3 fantastic years at the Redfield Centre . What a lovely bunch of people they are, we did about 40 retreats there the Project grew from the ashes. But it’s spring now and The Now Project is bursting into blossom. 

It seems like a Karmic coincidence that last weekend we came back to Burwell almost on the 5th anniversary of the retreat we were unable to in 2020. We are back stronger and better and the long winter has only helped to awaken millions, never in history have more people been ready to make this shift and our doors are open to welcome friends past and new 

It would be lovely if you could join us – we’ve still got a few spaces left for our Mindfulness for Awakening retreat and new and improved mindfulness and meditation retreats in May June and July.

The Now project is better than ever, and we’ve attracted the most incredible people to the team. when you meet Chris, James and Connie, you’ll know what I mean. – we are blessed

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We start our retreats getting to know one another and getting an understanding of what has brought our guests to our cosy retreat home in the Suffolk countryside. Each weekend brings us a diverse group from all walks of life. Some arrive with real struggles that they are looking to overcome, others are simply curious to know more about Mindfulness and meditation and then we have a good few who really don’t know why they find themselves in a room of strangers on retreat!

And this is the great thing about our retreats, there is no tick list of reasons as to why you might benefit from a weekend in the woods with us! But by the end of the weekend there’s a good chance you’ll know why you came.

Let me share with you my personal experience of going on my first retreat. Back in early 2013 I met Adrian and he was working with me on a 1 to 1 basis, helping me overcome an addiction and the underlying causes of my destructive behaviour. He mentioned that I might enjoy coming on retreat and since the work we were doing was having such a profound affect on my life I didn’t have cause to doubt his recommendation. So I booked myself on a retreat for later that Summer. As the weekend approached I was excited and nervous; this was the first time I’d done anything like this and I didn’t know anyone apart from Adrian (and I’d only ever met him via Skype!) so this was me stepping well out of my comfort zone… and doing so clean and sober!

I arrived on the Friday feeling a little like a lost child to be honest, however it took hardly any time at all for me to feel ok about being there. The warmth of the team, including Jason’s beaming smile, Paul’s calming presence and the sense of safety within their care settled me so that I could start to really open up. Not once did I feel vulnerable in letting my mask drop. It was so refreshing to be able to just be truly authentic. Every talk Adrian gave spoke volumes, every interaction with the team and the other guests had something to offer me. I think over the course of the weekend I experienced every emotion going as I was given the space and safety to explore what is within me. I cried like a wailing banshee and laughed like laughing buddha! It challenged me, it softened me, it stirred the very essence of my being and by the time I left on Sunday I felt so much love for life and it was to be the first of many retreats!

Now I work on our retreats as part of our fantastic team and I get to witness first hand the power of Mindfulness and meditation. When someone arrives on Friday nervous, scared even, and in a place of real suffering and then over the course of the weekend I watch the weight of the world being lifted from their shoulders it is a real honour. In the same way it is to see those guests who arrive simply because they are curious leave on Sunday learning something far more profound than they could ever have anticipated.

Our retreats give you a chance to learn a better way of living, to take home Mindfulness ‘tools’ to help you along the way. They aren’t about intellectual understanding but are experiential – we hold a mindful space for you to explore what living mindfully can offer.

So part from the fact that the food is great, the location is idyllic and the company is pretty good too I would say that going on retreat can be truly life changing and we have hundred’s of guests that would agree.

All that’s required to get the most out of a retreat is an open mind (although a good dollop of a sense of humour and fun will help too!).

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And so I had to mindfully sit with my excitement for the August bank holiday weekend to come along! But what I also had to sit with was a noisy mind up to it’s usual tricks of trying to stop me going, coming up with all sorts of stories as to why I didn’t belong there as a team member. It would take more than that to stop me though and so I set off to a sunny Thornham Magna with a sense of wonder, excitement and open to whatever arose.

The weekend did indeed see the return of many familiar faces – some who we hadn’t seen in maybe 1, 2 or more years and so began one of the treats of the weekend – witnessing the power of this work. You could see the transformation in some of these faces, I reckon some looked younger than the last time we saw them! It was also an honour to meet new faces of some brave explorers – it’s not easy turning up to a retreat in the middle of the countryside and often at the end of a stressful week at work or challenging journey through Friday traffic!

We had intended to have lots of spaces in the programme for the weekend but as is often the way with plans, it wasn’t quite like that! Each morning was started with Qi Gong and for this we were blessed with Marcus as our teacher. Marcus is a wonderful teacher and the fact that nearly every guest was up early to take part every morning says it all. It opened us all up ready for our day of exploring the spiritual depths to mindfulness! Each day included some wonderful talks from Adrian, it was great to sit back and listen and feel the waves of realisation flutter through us all. Jason treated us all to some fun yet challenging workshops using movement and his trademark raspberries to destroy ego’s and embrace our inner child. In Paul’s School of Meditation we were shown some mind blowing meditation techniques – one which I can personally say was utterly amazing, Holotropic Breathing – it’s not for the faint hearted or anyone wanting to hold on to any mind identified stories of themselves!

In between our busy schedule and delicious meal times we enjoyed the space we had created, shared experiences, laughed a lot, cried some, got a bit of Reiki from Paulette and met each other in the moment with an open-ness, warmth and love that was a true blessing and a treat!

As a member of the Now Project team I was honoured to be there and hugely grateful that our first advanced retreat went so well. But what really blew me away was what this retreat did for me on a personal level… it’s timing was impeccable (thank you universe!) and the shifts I experienced within those 3 days are beyond words!

So thank you to all our wonderful Now Project family – to the guests who had me in a state of awe on more than one occasion to my ‘team mates’ who never fail to fill me with love and gratitude.

Sophie xx

Here’s some photos from the weekend

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Here’s a few photos from the weekend

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Beyond The Self

Mindfulness and world transformation

Friday 26 – Monday 29 August (Bank holiday weekend)
at The Now Project Centre For Mindful Living, Gislingham Road, Thornham Magna, Suffolk IP23 8HH

A three day event for anyone already practising mindfulness and seeking to explore the spiritual depth of mindfulness, the nature of consciousness, awakening and the liberation of humanity.

Many of us are drawn to mindfulness to find relief from some form of mental or physical suffering, and of course it’s really helpful for that, but when you have been practising for a while you discover that mindfulness is about so much more. As your thinking quietens, you identify less and less with the thoughts in your head and in that space of mindfulness you begin to uncover a depth to yourself and a depth to reality that you could not perceive before. This is the spiritual dimension and when it comes into focus there is a shift in understanding and all life takes on a profound new meaning.

This three day event is for anyone already practising mindfulness and who wants to explore the spiritual dimension to mindfulness. We’ll explore how, with mindful awareness, we can transcend the intellect, overcome the limitations of our conditioning, step out of the web of illusion and access higher levels of intelligence. We’ll explore how to tune into the collective human consciousness and ultimately the consciousness behind all creation and how through each and very mindful interaction we can spread the energy of mindfulness and ultimately bring a new world into being.

We have an amazing weekend lined up for you; mindfulness, meditation, chi kung, dynamic meditation, mindful walking mindful eating, and even a mindful rave to ensure that you remain in a deep state of mindfulness for the duration of your stay. We have pulled together some of the best mindfulness teachers going to bring their own unique approach to mindfulness teaching. By popular demand we welcome back Marcus a Chi Kung master with nearly 30 years experience to share his insights and understanding and to introduce you to the metaphysical aspect of chi kung. As always the team will be on hand to help with your practice, answer questions and most importantly help hold you in a deep state of mindfulness. The best vegetarian food and the teaching in collaboration with the gorgeous natural beauty of our location gives us all the ingredients for an amazing weekend.

Are you as excited as us!?

LOVE IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER

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Here’s some photo’s from the weekend:

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