Gaia House

Lovely silent retreat here. Feel relaxed and more whole after returning home. Thank you!

I went to Gaia house for a silent retreat over a long weekend. Absolutely fantastic. Such a sense of serenity and calm. The leaders and staff were just amazing, and super helpful. Guided meditation spaces, walking meditation spaces, beautiful grounds. Room and catering facilities were also great. The food was especially nourishing and delicious. Would recommend a retreat in general, but Gaia house is now my go to place for this. If you're on the fence, just go for it.

I am so grateful for my silent meditation retreat experience at Gaia House. Vegan food was delicious, the rooms were clean and bright, and the surrounding area was beautiful. The staff was helpful and even organised a taxi at the end. I would recommend taking enough warm clothing, especially during cooler months

Excellent experience highly recommended. Well managed, fascinating historic building(s), wonderful grounds with an impressive kitchen garden and top quality food. The plane tree on the front lawn is also a sight to behold!

This was a four day silent retreat and my first ever retreat. This was also my first ever attempt to meditate. I can't claim I was totally successful, but I do now have a foundation to build meditation into my busy life outside of Gaia House. And I claim that as a big success. Everyone was lovely, as you would expect. And the meals were way better than I thought they would be. A wonderful place of peace, calm and contemplation.

Went to this coffee shop for the first time today and the genuine warm welcome and connection was amazing. I was so impressed with all the community work and inclusion work. So much more than just a cafe. Highly recommend 👌

I enrolled in a 5 day silent meditation retreat Mon-Fri, the first one I had ever done with Gaia. Unfortunately there was a small outbreak of Covid and I started to feel unwell and had to return home on the Thursday, once back I tested positive. Up until that point I enjoyed the silence and meditation retreat, not quite sure about the type of Buddhism they deliver, it's aimed at a western market and didn't have the ethos of Tibetan Buddhist beliefs of which I've been practicing for 20 years. The location and house itself is set in such a picturesque part of Devonshire, rolling green hills with many different footpaths which I took full advantage of in the first few days of my stay. The vegetarian/vegan food they provided was absolutely top draw restaurant quality!! You're required to do one hours work per day to help out with the general running of the House and garden's, I was assigned gardening which I thoroughly enjoyed. If you need to revive and escape from society for a short while Gaia House is definitely worth a visit, if you seriously want to get into Buddhism I would suggest get into a more traditional practice such as Tibetan or Zen. Gaia is run more as a business, each course will cost you dearly and it's all designed to pull you in ready for the next one. Namaste 🙏🌏

Had a retreat experience here. The house and grounds are stunning and really well kept, and food is delicious. If you're even only slightly into meditation / Buddhist philosophy you have to come for a retreat here.