Red Ladder Studio

22/04/2026

Looking forward to our first Airbnb guests in the Garden House 🏡. What tips do you have? What makes an Airbnb extra special?

The Garden House

08/04/2026

Feeling blue - I leave for the UK tomorrow and it’s hard to tear myself away from all the beauty here (not to mention the to-do lists). On the other hand I get to see some pals and my family back home, but to be honest I’d rather you all came here 😉

01/04/2026

Spent the day getting the Garden House ready to photograph. We’re starting to rent it out for holidays and retreats when we don’t have our own retreats on here.

Message me if you fancy a holiday or solitary retreat. And if you are coming from abroad for a solitary we’re happy to pick you up and take you food shopping.

27/03/2026

When I was ordained almost 30 years ago, my preceptor gave me the name Vajradarshini, which means ‘she who sees the reality of things’.

The Buddhist term Yathā-bhūta-darśana, meaning ‘seeing things as they really are’, has fascinated me since then.

You’re invited to our Dharma Geeks session this Sunday where together we’ll unpack the meaning of this intriguing phrase.

In what ways are we distorting our sense of ourselves and the world? How might we see things more in accord with reality?

And the million-dollar question: how are things really?

21/03/2026

The here and now mountain

20/03/2026

A room with a view. The sauna has landed, in good time for our first guests of the season. This bit of land was full of trees recently, but the land owners have thinned them out giving us a rather nice view. The cows and horses will visit in the summer.

11/03/2026

New session of the Dharma Geeks, 29th March. We'd love to see you there.

Online workshop - Dharma Geeks is a gathering for people who enjoy thinking creatively together about Dharmic ideas as they show up in everyday life. Each session centres on a single theme, this month’s theme is seeing things as they are .

11/03/2026

The Beauty of Impermanence

Online Dharma and meditation session with Sangha Live this Sunday

“If we were never to fade away…how things would lose their power to move us. Because we will fade away, we are moved, because we are moved, we realise more deeply that we will fade away.”
– Keith Dowman

If I had to sum up Buddhism in one word, it might be impermanence. Often, it’s impermanence that brings us to the Dharma in the first place – through grief, loss and fear. But impermanence isn’t only something painful. It’s also a doorway to freedom, a doorway to insight. In this workshop, I’ll share my own explorations of the Japanese aesthetic known as wabi-sabi – a way of finding beauty in impermanence.

This session is freely-offered, but dana/donations are invited to help us meet substantial running costs and to support our teachers.

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09/03/2026

Looking forward to this, a morning of Dharma and Meditation with our friends Grevlunda yoga. If you are in the neighbourhood, do come along 😁

Vi ser fram emot ännu en träff med och varmt välkommen 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️💕