Practice
Purpose and Practice
Wild Ivy is designed to grow as a living field of integral buddhist practice and trans-lineage collaboration. Our purpose is to support sincere inner work—through proven methods, deliberate inquiry, and relational maturity. We nurture the conditions for cultivating awareness, responsibility, and care, both inwardly and outwardly, in a time that calls for personal clarity and collective resilience. The house, land, and community rhythms support those on a path of awakening in personal transformation.
Principles
Our space is designed for both practitioners and guests based on 3 practice principles:
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Nature of Mind – Potentiating awakening: trans-lineage community field rooted in the nonduality traditions.
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Integral Embrace – All-inclusive Wholeness: research and education in the transformation of consciousness
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Earth Care – Sangha with all beings: nurturing ecological intelligence and regenerative Earth ethics.
Nature of Mind
Wild Ivy draws from Zen and Dzogchen traditions, focusing on the direct experience and ongoing stabilization of awakened awareness. Within the intimate container of the retreat house, practitioners engage in a 24-hour contemplative rhythm—training to hold the view through meditation, daily activities, and relational presence. The shared field fosters a quietly powerful momentum, where the effects of collective dedication become a mirror and support for deep individual transformation.
"Alone, but together"
Integral Embrace
Integral Retreats at Wild Ivy weave silent meditation with deep inquiry, integrating traditional Buddhist practice and contemporary developmental insight informed by Integral Theory of Ken Wilber. Rooted in the principles of waking up, growing up, opening up, cleaning up, and showing up, the space supports conditions for personal transformation across all layers of life. With a balance of stillness, study, and shared field, each programme offers a space for sincere inner work in a held and spacious environment.
"Alone, and together"
Earth Care
Earth Care at Wild Ivy is both a response to the ecological exigency of our times and a spiritual practice rooted in reverence for life. Informed by Sacred Stewardship as developed in our Zen lineage, we understand caring for the planet as an expression of awakened awareness — widening our circle of care to include all beings, all systems, all futures. Through presence, simplicity, and nature-based intelligence, we cultivate sangha not just with humans, but with land, water, and more-than-human kin.
"Not alone at all"
Combine stay and practice
Wild Ivy offers a supportive setting for self-guided or facilitated practice—whether you're resting, meditating, studying, or simply reconnecting with nature. Guests are welcome to make use of the dharma library, zendo, and contemplative spaces designed to nourish inner work.