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A meditation retreat centre based on the Buddhist tradition, on the stunning Sharpham Estate in the beautiful Devon countryside of South West England.
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https://eepurl.com/cIxbbz Listed in 'Eight of the best retreats in Britain and Europe' Simon Horsford, Sunday Telegraph, February 2011. Set in a stunning hillside location overlooking the River Dart, The Barn Retreat Centre has been a friendly retreat centre for 25 years. It is a place where people are given the opportunity to reconnect with themselves and with nature in a tranquil, supportive environment. Through a mixture of mindfulness practice, teacher-led inquiry and working meditation in our organic garden, retreatants develop a practice of mindfulness for everyday life.

23/12/2025

If YOU'VE benefited from going on retreat, and you'd like to help others of low-income to have the same experience, please consider giving to our Bursary Fund.

Each year, Bursary Fund donors help others - like Laura in this video - to transform their lives, access nature-mindfulness and access Sharpham Trust retreats - including at The Barn.

If you are able to help, visit our website and search "make a donation". Thank you. 💚

22/12/2025

Tag someone you think would LOVE to come on a meditation retreat...

Recent retreatant:
"I attended a 'Being and Belonging' retreat here...and it was really lovely. This place is the ideal antidote to harsh, stressful modern lifestyles. It is a very nurturing place which embodies loving-kindness. Whatever you may experience, good or bad, you will be supported, and the sense of community is wonderful"

17/12/2025

Need some new purpose in 2026?

We're regularly seeking people who want to deepen their practice in community and support retreatants staying at The Barn. Here, Martha describes her experience as a Volunteer Retreat Coordinator at The Barn.

If you're interested in giving service with us, get in touch!

10/12/2025

Discover The Barn and our retreats and find community, clarity and comfort

08/12/2025

Here's one way to deepen meditation practice after you've stayed at The Barn.

Lots of people tell us that they find it difficult to maintain the practice once they're out from under our roof. Is that true for you?

01/12/2025

Lovely review from a recent Barn participant:

"The Barn is an incredibly special place, not just for its warm and cosy accommodation, or for the stunning location and land it is on, but for the magic that happens during the retreat. I have been on two now and did not expect my second visit to be as special as my first, but it truly was. I feel time has paused, held in a beautiful bubble for a whole week, feeling nourished on multiple levels, to go back into the world with a fuller heart and more compassion for myself and others. I can't recommend the Barn retreats enough"

17/11/2025

"Superb. The setting is stunning, the structure is the right amount of practice and personal time and the coordinators do a fantastic job of holding the space and bringing serenity.

If you are new to the world of Buddhism and retreats then this is the perfect place to start, like slipping into a warm bath: gentle and nurturing"

- recent testimonial

04/11/2025

One more space left on this retreat, beginning 9 November...😮‍💨

17/10/2025

It’s with sadness that we share that Nimbus - one of the Barn’s beloved cats alongside Cirrus - has died. 💔

Nimbus was a long-standing and cherished member of the Barn community whose presence was keenly felt during retreats over the last 15 years - he would accompany us to morning movement in the vegetable garden overlooking the valley, join us on meanders up to the polytunnels, stretch out in the grass behind the Barn, offer a cherished cuddle. The experience of a lap being ‘chosen’ by Nimbus was an oft-repeated highlight of a retreatant’s week.

I you've got your own memories and pictures of Nimbus, we'd love to hear them, either here or via email.

Read more in our obituary and see more pictures and video of Nimbus there too - see links in Comments 👇

24/09/2025

Meditate on AND within our beautiful, natural setting on our Touching the Earth retreat, which aims to connect us more deeply to the nature that we ARE a part of.

17/09/2025

🌼LIVE-IN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY!

Live & learn at The Sharpham Trust in 2026, on a training volunteer placement - that gives you a qualification too - in our no-dig gardens.

Former garden trainees at Sharpham said this:

"It's the best thing I've ever done in my life and I really mean that"

"We've learned how to grow food in a way that helps to mitigate climate change and grow in an adapting climate"

"It's been life-changing. I came here feeling quite confused with general life and Sharpham helped me to realise that I just love being outside. I love nature, I love wildlife and just being in the moment".

🌱LEARN MORE & APPLY via the link in Comments👇👇👇

03/09/2025

If you want to develop more compassion, connect more with nature or others, if you are a newbie to or well-practised with meditation and Buddhism, we have retreats for you.

Tasha, Barn manager, explains more about a clutch of new retreats running from now, that help you explore different aspects of your practice, refining our 6-night standard retreat.

Address

The Barn Retreat Centre, Lower Sharpham Barton, Ashprington
Totnes
TQ97DX

Telephone

+441803732661

Website

https://www.sharphamtrust.org/barn

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