May I never give up in all my lives
The Great Spacious Love
That seeks to free ALL living beings
The Great Spacious Love
That seeks to free ALL living beings
“Brave View” refers to courageous compassion and wisdom that inspires us to cherish and provide for the well being of all creatures. Brave View website supports Braeview Hermitage: two cottages in the remote Shetland Islands of Scotland. Established by Geoff Jukes as a home base for Paula Chichester and as a retreat space for aspiring bodhisattvas to practice, rest, reflect, heal, study and reconnect with their inner truth, purpose and power. Friends come for a few weeks or a few months. Every visitor joyfully remarks how the accommodation and surrounding nature is just perfect, including Paula’s presence of a lifetime of immersion in Buddhadharma. The website also keeps up to date with Paula’s teaching schedule, recordings, her dharma songs, and advice from her teachers and other inspiring yogis– all in the interest to motivate and support sincere seekers of enlightenment and planetary sanity.
Please also take a look at the link to the Meridian Trust, a wonderful archive of thousands of hours of video of some of Tibet’s greatest masters, as well as contemporary teachers. https://meridian-trust.org/
Paula’s Teaching Schedule
Please visit the individual centre website links below for further information about each event. Thank you.
Nearly all gatherings will be available on zoom.
2026
Nearly all gatherings will be available on zoom.
White Tara- Bi-monthly meditations hosted online by Christine Toscano: 1st Tuesday of the month. Please contact Christine via email to join. Email christinetoscano@gmail.com
White Tara – Bi-monthly meditations hosted by Land of Joy, Hexham, UK: 3rd Wednesday of the month. Please see the Land of Joy website link here for details https://landofjoy.co.uk/monthly-white-tara-online-practice-group/
VajraYogini Practice: monthly meditations on the short sadhana with Lama Yeshe Ling, Canda. The second Wednesday of each month at 4 pm GMT/ 8 a.m. PST/ 11 a.m. EST. We will use the short or Long sadhana composed by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche available from fpmt.org. Please follow this link for more details lamayesheling.org (Please note – you must have taken the empowerment to participate in this practice.)
VajraYogini Monthly Self Initiations Online Practice Hosted Online current first date is January 13th 2026. Further dates are to be confirmed. You can write to Paul Wielgus to get on the mailing list and zoom details. paul@socialinnovation.co.uk (Please note – you must have taken the empowerment to participate in this practice.)
PAULA IS NO LONGER LEADING THIS RETREAT – HOWEVER IT IS STILL GOING AHEAD. 12th April – 7th May 2026 – VajraYogini Retreat mantra recitation and fire Puja. – Hosted by Land of Joy, Hexham, UK. RETREAT STILL GOING AHEAD Please see the website link here for details- https://landofjoy.co.uk/2026-programme/
15th -17th May – Cultivating Loving Kindness with Lou Beaumont: Hosted by Land of Joy, UK. Experiential weekend: bodywork, meditations, discussions, singing; –exploring the source of ease and love within that blossoms when we give it to others. Online and in person. Please see the website link here for details : https://landofjoy.co.uk. Paurla is taking a break from travel, she will join on zoom for two sessions on Saturday, like last year.
21st – 28th August – Bodhicitta from our Whole Self. Hosted by Thubten Jamtse Ling in Sorens, Switzerland. Weeklong retreat – Please join us for a week-long submersion in the experience of bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the great love and wisdom that heals our discomfort and distress. Bodhicitta inspires us and leads us to become kinder, wiser people and, ultimately, to strive for enlightenment for all. As Charok Lama said recently, “With love, there is never a problem.”
A lifelong practitioner, Paula seeks to make Tibetan Buddhist teachings and practice more accessible and workable for people in our modern European Culture. The foundation of the retreat will be the practice Lama Zopa Rinpoche arranged that combines Chenrezig Practice with the 8 Verses for Training Mind. Paula’s talks and meditations will be based on traditional teachings from Paula’s 45 years of studying with Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well as sharing how to adapt this wonderful teaching to us now in the 21st century. Recognizing how the cultural differences between medieval Tibet and today can impact the effectiveness of the traditional method, we will explore diving deeper: beyond theory and into transformative experience. Patrick and Marianne host wonderful retreats in the foothills in Sorens. I am honored that I was asked to return. Please see website link here for details : https://thubtenjamtseling.ch
30, 31 Oct & 1st Nov. Medicine Buddha Retreat – Hosted by Lam Rim Centre, Wales, UK. A Taste of Wholeness, Medicine Buddha weekend with sadhana practice, chi gong, discussions, good food with good people; hosted in a lovely large estate house in beautiful rural Wales. Please see website link here for details : www.lamrimcentre.org.uk
For any further enquiries – Please contact Andrea Bridger at admin@braveview.org
