Freedom of Being Retreats with Brad Richecoeur
Exploring Embodied Awareness
Qigong, Meditation and Enquiry

Bala Brook, Dartmoor, South Devon
March 18th-23rd 2025
October 21st-26th 2025
email Brad if you would like to book a place.

Click here for more information about Freedom of Being or feel free to contact Brad either by email or by calling 01364 644040.

Beautiful, peaceful and secluded location on the edge of Dartmoor with single rooms for everyone and organic vegetarian meals.
As well as the group practice there will be individual guidance, time for sharing of our experience and space to rest and digest.
There will be sessions throughout the day and evening.
Some of the retreat will be in silence.
The retreat is limited to 12 students.

Cost  £795 includes tuition, accommodation and food.
Timings Arriving from 4pm – leaving on the final day at 2pm.
Bala Brook is a beautiful, peaceful and secluded location on the edge of Dartmoor.
To reserve a place email Brad directly.
Bursary fund – we now have a bursary fund to support making this work accessible to those who wouldn’t otherwise have the financial resources to come. If you would like to make a donation to this or if you would like any help from the bursary fund please email Brad.

By bringing an interest in meeting each moment just as it is, we explore our capacity to live more fully this precious life; opening to the possibility of tasting the freedom of being through embracing life as it unfolds from one moment to the next, in all of its ups and downs – the glorious, the messy, the awkward and the delightful.

This approach is both effortless and rigorous; deeply relaxing and yet not casual; all encompassing and very specific; playful and deep; mysterious and yet blindingly obvious; intangible and yet right in front of our nose. Paradoxically these realisations are so close and always available to us and yet there’s nothing to hold on to and nowhere to get to.

Brad has been exploring awakening since the mid 1980’s, initially through Buddhism, then including Qigong and more intensively since 2005 with a teacher of embodied consciousness. This approach of Freedom of Being has gradually emerged over the last few years, bringing together the practices of Qigong, Meditation and Enquiry in an ongoing exploration of this ever changing experience of being human, supported by resting in this ever present awareness.