The Lion's Roar: Waking Up to the Dharma Promise of Our Potential

Friday 3 July – Friday 10 July

Click here to book via The Buddhist Centre Online

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

A Home Retreat led by Paramananda, in collaboration with Melbourne Buddhist Centre

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Whenever the Buddha spoke the Dharma it is said to have sounded like a lion’s roar. And in middle eastern myth, when a lioness gives birth to stillborn cubs they are brought to life by the mighty roar of their mother. On this meditation retreat, Paramananda and friends will be waking us up every day — heart, mind and body — to the promise of our full potential.

Following Paramananda’s work with the symbols of the alchemical tradition — where the green lion is a symbol for the heart — the retreat will focus on how we can be more present to the depths of our own experience, and also more comfortable being in the world. Both of these take love and courage – two qualities cultivated by the Buddha as essential on the path.

Paramananda is one of Triratna’s most loved meditation teachers and a great friend of Home Retreats here on The Buddhist Centre Online. We are delighted to welcome him back this July as part of another joint retreat with the fabulous team at the Melbourne Buddhist Centre in Australia!

Join us for an emergent space that will include meditation, poetry, reflections, small and large group discussions and enquiry, teaching input, drumming, guided practices, and creative Buddhist ritual.

This retreat is presented in collaboration with Melbourne Buddhist Centre. The second session each day will be broadcast live from the Centre shrine room in Melbourne. Come and practise in truly international community!

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Session times

Friday 3rd July - Thursday 9th July, 2026
(retreat finishes Friday 10th July in AU & NZ timezones)

Please note: Session 2 will be broadcast live from the MBC shrine room, and we encourage anyone who can attend to join us for a puja each evening at 8pm AEST.

Attend any or all conversations in Zoom.

This event will be recorded and may be published online for others to access. Only the leader's video will be used except where users consent to appear spotlighted in a public conversation. Private conversations in breakout rooms will not be recorded.

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Suggested donation

£175 / $330 AUD / $230 / €205 for the whole retreat, or drop in for £35 / $65 AUD / $45 / €40 per day.

Get one ticket and come to any session you wish!

This retreat is offered by donation rather than charging a compulsory ticket price. We want to do this because we never want money to be an obstacle to taking part in a supportive community, and we know many people are struggling financially. The amount we suggest reflects the huge amount of work and love that goes into putting on events we hope will benefit everyone attending. If you can, please donate today. Thank you!

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Paramananda is an inspirational and much loved Buddhist teacher who has written a number of books on Buddhism and the craft of meditation, including 'Change Your Mind', ‘A Deeper Beauty’, and mostly recently ‘The Myth of Meditation: Restoring Imaginal Ground through Embodied Buddhist Practice’.

He worked for a number of years as a psychiatric social worker and did voluntary work in the community for the Samaritans, in drug detox, and in a hospice. Having co-founded the San Francisco Buddhist Center, Paramananda is now based in West London where is time is dedicated to teaching.

How To Join

Bookings and Zoom link will be organised by The Buddhist Centre Online

Use a PC or Mac

For most modern web browsers, you do not need to download anything. For a better experience you can, before the start time, download the Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Mac, or Linux. You do not need to create an account or sign in.

A few minutes before we're due to start, open the app if you have downloaded it, or go to join.zoom.us, and enter the meeting ID you've been given to join.