Arriving: The retreat will begin with dinner at 6pm. You’re welcome to arrive from 4pm onwards.
Departing: Events which are longer than a week will finish with a clear-up after breakfast, so departure will be around 10:30-11am. For events shorter than a week, they will finish after lunch and a clear up around 2:30-3pm. Events longer than a weekend but shorter than a week, often finish after breakfast, but this can vary, so check the event end time displayed on the website.
Bed Linen: Unless travelling from overseas, we ask you to bring your own bed linen (single sheet, duvet cover and two pillowcases), especially for events shorter than a week. Bringing your own bed linen helps us to save a lot of electricity and water by reducing how much laundry we do. We will of course provide linen if you don’t bring your own.
Accommodation and Accessibility: Adhisthana is largely accessible and most communal areas are on the ground floor or reached via lift. Rooms are almost all twins, with some for four or five people, and one dormitory which we try to keep to a maximum of 8. We have five single rooms – three ground-floor, accessible ensuite rooms, and two upstairs, one with an ensuite. We allocate these on a first come, first served basis to those with physical or health-related needs. Please contact the office in advance if you need a single or accessible room and to discuss any accessibility needs. On larger events, single rooms will only be allocated on grounds of medical or other serious need, so we are able to accommodate as many people as possible who would like to come on retreat here.
Emergency Contact: We would ask you to not use your mobile phone or other electronic devices during the event to avoid disturbing other retreatants or the resident community, and to preserve the atmosphere of the retreat. If you do need to use your phone for any reason, please go down the driveway. If you need to be contacted in an emergency, the Adhisthana office is open daily between 9:30-17:00 (core hours 9.30-10.45 and 14.30-16.30), and the phone number is 01531 641726. The reception building is open all the time. The number for the telephone in reception is 01531 640972.
Food and Restricted Diets: All the food at Adhisthana is vegan, and we provide dairy-free alternatives to cow’s milk. We can only cater for genuine medical conditions and need to be informed each time you book because we do not store your data. To assist the cook, please restrict requirements to essential items only and give an indication of severity of your allergy/intolerance. If you have a complex diet (i.e there are more than 3 things you can’t eat) we will contact you to discuss options. If you need additional food supplements, please bring them with you, and they can be stored in one of the fridges in the accommodation blocks.
Living as a Community: There will be a rota for sharing washing up, vegetable preparation, making porridge and serving meals etc. There will also be a clear up integrated in the end of the event to help us prepare Adhisthana for the following event. We meditate together every morning at 7:00-7:50am then a silent 10-minute leg stretch and then again from 8:00-8:30am.
Cancelling: Please contact the office if you need to cancel your place on the retreat. The deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable. For Sangha retreats please cancel with the retreat organiser at your local centre.
Travel Details: Details on how to get to Adhisthana are on our website at https://adhisthana.org/contact-us-and-travel-information/ If you are arriving by train our nearest station is Colwall. You need to book a taxi in advance by phone to meet you from the station as there isn’t a taxi rank. Further details are available on the website, including a list of taxi contact numbers.
Please do contact us if you have any further queries, and we look forward to
welcoming you to Adhisthana.
Adhisthana, Coddington, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1JL
admin@adhisthana.org – 01531641726