If you are new to Makhanda / Grahamstown and would like to find out more about meditation at the centre, please do stop in. We don’t update this web page […]

This year was again very full, with three 8 week MBLC courses. Our Tara Rokpa Therapy group also received visits from Edie Irwin, Trish Swift and Jayne Pillosoff. The end […]

2017 was a busy year for us, with two eight week Mindfulness Courses run as well as three Tara Rokpa Therapy weekends and a Lucid Dreaming retreat. We also maintained […]

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“You need to begin to explore another way to write, to build awareness to write from…To create from joy, to create from wonder, demands a continual discipline, a great compassion…it […]

Well, it’s been a really busy year for our little centre, which has included another 8 Week Mindfulness Course, and retreats with Ken Holmes, Charlie Morley and Tingdzin. We also […]

Ken Holmes’ Course in Tibetan Buddhism Tuesdays 19:00 – 20:00 from 25 February A number of people attending the weekly mindfulness meetings have expressed an interest in learning more about Tibetan Buddhism and for this reason […]

Weekend meditation retreat in the Karoo with Antony Osler Last year during festival, Antony Osler spoke about his book Zen Dust, and some of his experiences as a ZenBuddhist monk, a human rights […]

Mindfulness Training: what is it? Mindfulness training teaches us how to settle our minds. While the mind is unsettled, it is distracted, often missing out on what is happening in the present, and […]

Ken Holmes is one of the great teachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the world today. The Grahamstown Buddhist centre first hosted Ken and his wife Katia in 2010, and Ken […]