A residential retreat in Glastonbury, U.K.
Five days of teachings, embodied practices, and community
with Lama Rod Owens & Friends
Sept 26th, 2025 - Oct 1st, 2025
Sliding Scale and Installment payments available
Seasonal change is a call to us all. The invitation is to remember the wisdom of the natural world, the wisdom of cycles and change. Autumn is the season of celebrating the harvest that was planted and tended to during the Spring and Summer.
This is the season where we gather our harvest in preparation for the coming of Winter. Autumn is also a time to remember and honor the light and the blessings we receive. As we prepare for the approaching dark, we allow darkness to teach us about balance, rest, and silence.
In our resting and silence, we slowly begin to reap the most important harvest of all - our collective freedom.
Join Lama Rod Owens & Friends for Autumn Moon: Gathering Freedom, a community retreat where we will experience practices and teachings to harvest what we have personally seeded and prepare to rest and reflect on balance, surrender, and stillness as Winter approaches.
Our time together during this community retreat, will invite us through rest-centered iterations of:
- Meditation
- Movement
- Love and compassion practices
- Ancestor practices
- Earth based rituals and practices
- Group dialogues and discussions
- Laughter and Joy
- The werk and the work of getting free
If you have any questions about this retreat or about your registration, please contact [email protected].
Registration Options
(select the tuition below that best matches your ability to pay)
To apply for the retreat, fill out the form HERE.
Standard Ticket: £495 total (£99 per night):
£198 at time of registration followed by 3 monthly payments of £99
Pay it Forward: £600 total (£120 per night):
£240 at time of registration followed by 3 monthly payments of £120
Supported: £350
We have a limited number of supported spaces (£350) available if these prices are not accessible to you. We continue to do our best to maintain financial accessibility; please fill out the form HERE to be added to the wait list, and we will reach out should more spots open up.
Register for both retreats (The Dharma of Spring Awakening & Autumn Moon) and receive a 10% discount!
Limited spaces.
To do so, fill out the application above and indicate you seek to apply to both retreats.
Both Retreats - Standard: £890 total (£89 per night)
Both Retreats- Pay it Forward: £1080 total (£108 per night)
Important Information
The Retreat Container: A Space of Supportive Silence
Meals
Room Allocation and Registration Process
Accessibility
FAQs
Where is the retreat?
The retreat venue is called Earth Spirit Retreat Centre, and is a 25 minute drive via Taxi from Castle Cary Train Station. If catching a train, please ensure your selected train stops at Castle Cary as not all trains do. A train from London Paddington takes approx 1hr 45mins.
Taxi information and additional travel details will be provided after registration.
Can I travel to the retreat by car?
The venue is accessible via car and there is plenty of parking.
Further details on travel and arrivals will be sent following registration.
Dietary requirements
Should you have any questions around allergy and dietary requirements, please contact us at [email protected].
How will I communicate with the teachers in the space of supportive silence?
You will be invited to communicate with teachers and retreat coordinators using a written note system. Spaces each day are scheduled for an opportunity for questions with teachers, and discussions with yogi affinity groups, during which silence may be broken, if you wish.
What happens when all the retreat spaces are full? Is there a waitlist?
After initial tickets have sold out, we will open our waiting list. Registration for the waiting list will not require immediate payment.
Individuals on the waiting list will be invited to share their room sharing preferences and access needs. If you are on the waiting list, and your accommodation needs match a room that becomes available, we will get in touch so you can complete payment and confirm your space.
Do you offer refunds if I can no longer attend the retreat?
Should there be COVID-19 related travel restrictions preventing Lama Rod Owens traveling to the UK, the retreat will be postponed to a later date and all yogis will have the option of receiving a refund or their funds being held for the future date.
If you cancel more than 8 weeks before the retreat start date, the cancellation fee will be 50% of your deposit.
If you cancel between 8-4 weeks before the retreat start date, the cancellation fee will be 75% of your deposit.
If you cancel 4-2 weeks before the retreat start date, the cancellation fee will be 50% of the total retreat cost.
If you cancel less than 2 weeks before the start date, we cannot offer a refund. Your registration payment will go towards further supporting those unable to pay the full amount.
Any applicable cancellation fees can be partially waived in exceptional circumstances.
Do you have any advice on choosing my registration option?
If you are able to meet your monthly outgoing costs with spaciousness, we invite you to lean in and consider this opportunity to be a benefactor to our community. This Pay-It-Forward option allows those who have the material means to support those who would not otherwise be able to attend due to financial constraints.
The generosity of those who register at a Pay-It-Forward rate allows us to offer a limited number of supported spaces. We freely invite anyone who needs this support to choose this option and contact [email protected] to request a booking link. We are mindful that even the supported rate cost of the retreat remains inaccessible to some, and we continue to consider ways of resourcing and support for our community. Please note, when contacting us for a Supporter space you are not expected to provide details about your financial situation if it is uncomfortable for you.
Access Information
For information about the venue and accessibility, please visit this link and contact [email protected] with any questions.
Your Teachers
At the end of the retreat you will be invited to offer donations to teachers in recognition of the generosity of their time and teachings.
Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.
A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets.
Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.
Stay tuned for announcements on the teaching team.
