Steve’s School of Meditation and Attention Training, inside our weekend wellness retreat. Short, fun, plain-talking practices. Not robes. Not a wall stare-off.
Next weekend · 23–25 October · Rooms from £369 · Dorm bed £320 · £100 books it
If you really want to understand mindfulness
Get all your mindfulness books together.
Sit on them and meditate.
Meditation gives you a direct experience of what books can only point you to. All meditation is mindfulness training. If it has an aim (we’re not sure it does), it is to help you wake up with a mind freer of thought, and to bring that into ordinary life. In the East they call that Satori.
Your guide
Steve’s fascination with meditation and awakening has taken him on a ten-year journey. He’s lived in ashrams in India and studied with masters from many traditions.
He’ll explore with you how the quality of your attention directly shapes the quality of your state of being, with short, fun, simple guided attention training and mindful state-inducing experiences.
We all prefer different forms. One is not better than another. They all aim at the same place. At the school you’ll try several, so you can choose a practice that actually sticks for you.
This sits inside the full Burwell weekend: mindfulness teaching, yoga, Chi Kung, sound, home-cooked food and good company. Same booking as the wellness retreat.
Depending on the flow of the moment and the people in the room, you’ll enjoy several of these. Short. Practical. A bit of fun.
Explore what mindfulness and meditation actually feel like in the body, not just on the page. Meet some good people. Leave with something that can change how you live.
The Now Project is a growing mindful community. We bring people together and help each other discover a better way of living.
Builders, beauticians, barristers and bankers. Beginners welcome. Lots of people come on their own.
Reserve your placeReal words from people who came for a weekend and left with something that stayed.
“Wow! What an awesome weekend. I can’t thank you and your crew enough for opening my eyes to reality and giving me the keys to escape my self-made prison cell of the mind.”
“Can’t recommend this highly enough! This was the most amazing weekend, met the most amazing people and came away feeling so incredibly positive and calm.”
Ready when you are
Rooms from £369 · Dorm bed £320 · £100 books it
Three days / two nights at Burwell House, Cambridgeshire. Steve’s meditation training inside a full Now Project weekend.
Book your placeWant the wider picture? See the wellness retreat page. Looking for the deeper returners’ week? That’s Fullness of mind, a different path.
About meditation on the Now Project weekend at Burwell House. Same dates and booking as wellness.
Yes. Beginners are welcome, and Steve’s School of Meditation is built for short, fun, plain-talking practices, not robes, not staring at a wall for hours. You try several forms so you can find one that actually sticks. It all sits inside the full weekend at Burwell House, Cambridgeshire. Next: 23–25 October. Rooms from £369; dorm £320; £100 deposit.
Steve’s fascination with meditation took him on a ten-year journey, including ashrams in India and study with masters from many traditions. On the weekend he explores how the quality of your attention shapes the quality of your state of being, with guided attention training and mindful state-inducing experiences. You’ll sample practices such as breath mindfulness, body scan, energy-balancing breath and more, then choose what suits you. Teachers live what they teach. Same booking as the wellness retreat.
No. Lots of people arrive never having meditated properly, and that’s fine. The teaching is modern and accessible: no forced silence, not a festival, not an exclusive club. Burwell House in Cambridgeshire is within easy reach of Cambridge. Come alone if you like. Next weekend: 23–25 October. Holiday from your head, with meditation you can take home, and Tune In Tuesday on Zoom afterwards if you want company for the practice.
Same pricing as the wellness weekend, because it’s the same booking: rooms from £369, dorm bed £320, £100 to secure your place. Fully inclusive for three days and two nights: teaching, Steve’s meditation school, yoga, Chi Kung, sound, food and bed. Next dates: 23–25 October at Burwell House. You’re paying for skills and company, not a spa menu.
Depending on the room and the moment, you may meet breath practices (including ānāpānasati), body scan, whole-body breathing, anti-anxiety hand tracing, ujjayi, nadi shodhana, AUM chanting, trataka, guided inductions and more. Short. Practical. A bit of fun. One form isn’t “better” than another; the school helps you find what you’ll still do on an ordinary Tuesday. After the weekend, free Tune In Tuesday keeps the habit landing.
Relaxed and plain-talking. We won’t make you dress in robes or sit facing a wall for hours. Nothing wrong with that path, it just isn’t ours. Meditation here is mindfulness training you can feel in the body and use in ordinary life (in the East they call the clear, freer mind Satori). Warm company, home-cooked food, teachers who live what they teach. Beginners welcome; coming alone is normal. Next: 23–25 October, Burwell House, Cambridgeshire.
A holiday from your head, with meditation you can take home. Everyone deserves one, even you.
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