Forming the Formless: A 5-day retreat of contemplative and creative practice
With Martin Aylward and Sam Winston
April 5 - 10, 2027
Language: English
What happens when we slow down enough to really meet our experience?
How might you find a spontaneous, creative response to each moment?
This unique five-day retreat brings contemplative and creative practice together as two ways of becoming more intimate with experience. Meditation practice and teachings will invite you into stillness and receptivity, while simple creative exercises of writing, drawing and time in nature will offer ways to give form and expression to what you encounter. More than making an accomplished picture or an eloquent poem, we are instead developing skilful and original responses to what we don’t yet know – allowing the essential formlessness of experience to find its own unexpected forms.
Together, we’ll explore what becomes possible when we learn to listen deeply, to stay open to uncertainty, and to respond with greater freedom.
No artistic experience is required. The retreat is open to all, whether experienced in meditation, or creativity, or both, or neither.
Booking will open January 2027
All prices shown are current prices and are subject to change for 2027
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE:
BOOKING TAKES PLACE IN TWO STEPS:
STEP 1
Please register for the event and pay the teaching fee via the booking link provided, then book your accommodation.
STEP 2
Once you have registered for the event and paid the teaching fee, you will receive a link enabling you to book your accommodation at Le Moulin.
TEACHING FEES (including VAT):
Standard fees: €445
Subsidised : €385 (If your financial situation does not allow you to pay the standard fees, please feel free to pay this lower fee)
Professional fees (Paid by a company): €495
Teaching Fee Refund Policy:
If a participant should cancel this event up to 2 months before the starting date, it is refundable less a €100 administration fee.
If cancelled 1 month before the event, 50% is refundable .
If cancelled less than 1 month before the event, there is no refund.
If we should cancel this event, we will return all monies paid by participants for teaching fees.
About the Teachers
Martin Aylward
Moulin resident and founding teacher Martin Aylward began dharma practice and study aged 19, spending several years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. Teaching worldwide since 1999, Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute and the online dharma community Sangha Live. He is married with two adult children. Living full time at the Moulin with his wife Gail, Martin integrates dharma into […]
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Sam Winston
Sam Winston is an artist primarily known for his typographic artworks and books. He has exhibited and created projects for museums worldwide, with his work held in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, the British Library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the J. Paul Getty Museum. His first mass-market book, a collaboration […]
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