The Richard Glyn Foundation started its educational work in 1982 at High Lea School for children; moved to Gaunts House in 1988, and was registered as an educational charity in 1995.

Long ago, we realised the need to re-evaluate every aspect of modern life and endeavour in the West. The complete re-thinking and revolution of new ways takes time, connection to 'cosmic consciousness', (beyond collective mind), and interpretation for others so they may be able to learn, and refine themselves and the work.

The Foundation seeks Realisations of Life through wisdom teachings, mindfulness, conscious awareness,and pure intent in thought, expression and action. We offer learning on Communication, Community, Contemplation, 'Conversations', Creative Arts & Expression, Education, the Environment, Healing, 'Hearth Times', Meditation, New Organisational Structures, Philosophy and Spirituality, and particularly 'Profound Learning'.

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

Both yoga and walking encourage us to maintain our own good health through increased flexibility, strength and relaxation. During the yoga sessions we will practise a variety of asanas (physical postures), as well as pranayama (breathing), meditation and relaxation.

We will spend time walking in the rolling countryside of Southern Dorset with it's wealth of woodland, hills and wildlife. The daily walks will be of approximately 3 hours duration, around 5-6 miles. They will not be route marches, there will be time to stop and appreciate our surroundings!

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

This retreat is a tradition going back many years and offers a unique opportunity to relax, rejuvenate and deepen your Yoga experience. The daily schedule is based on the 5 points of Swami Vishnudevananda, the same schedule followed in Sivananda Ashrams for over 50 years.

The History Group discussion about 26,000-year energy cycles, what happened in the last three shifts, and the spiritual dynamics underlying the history of the soul. The Current Global Shift Group discussion about the current energy shift, 2012 myths and realities, and the future that we are all helping to create. Create the Collective and Individual Future You Want Guided meditation to allow you to visualise the collective future we all want, and to create your own individual future within that. Note that this is a creative visualisation, not a vision of a predetermined future www.ianlawton.com

The Evidence Group discussion about the evidence for a spiritual worldview, including near-death experience cases, those of children who remember past lives, and the stronger cases of adult recall. The Theory and Practice Group discussion about the interlife experience, planning your life, personal responsibility and free will, experience and growth, the holographic soul and what all this means for how you approach your everyday life. Meet Your Spirit Guide and Experience a Past Life Guided meditation to take you to a special place where you can meet your spirit guide and visit a safe past life www.ianlawton.com

Come along and have a delicious supper, a glass of mulled wine and then wander into the candlelit ballroom for an evening of entertainment. The evening starts at 7.00 pm with supper and will finish around 11.00 pm. You are invited to bring your own poem to recite or story to tell, or maybe you would prefer to just sit and enjoy listening to others. There will be some gentle music too interspersed between the literary offerings. This will be an informal, cosy evening with log fires, friendly faces and delicious food.

This certified course aims to give yoga teachers and interested health professionals a clear understanding of what Chronic Fatigue/ME is and how it affects the mind/body/spirit both from a medical point of view and from the yoga energetic point of view, look at the differences between ME and Chronic Fatigue and other illnesses which are included under the umbrella of CFS, examine how ME impacts on people culturally and to understand the ME personality and ME as a rajasic condition, explain the fight or flight response and how this can be calmed down using the breath and relaxation techniques to help with symptoms and examine CFS/ME as a spiritual crisis. Getting back in touch with the authentic Self

The Summer Gathering is the highlight of our year at Gaunts House. Somewhere between a festival, retreat and garden party, it is a very special event for all ages. The 'original and best' of its type, 2010's Gathering will be the 20th of this long-established and delightful annual event, and the first to be organised and run by Heartbeat, a dedicated team of talented, skilled and enthusiastic volunteers. This year will see an inspiring array of speakers and workshops. There will be many wonderful workshop leaders introducing a wide range of subjects. You could experience yoga and tai chi before breakfast, drumming or chanting to work up an appetite for lunch, shamanic dancing or a sound bath in the afternoon, before letting your hair down for a good old dance to music performed either in our theatre, or out and about in the grounds. This year, we will be entertained by Praying for the Rain, Seize the Day, Kora Colours, Kangaroo Half Moon and other wonderful acts. There will also be other musical diversions around the site, maybe an accoustic band on our Woodland Stage, or chillout sessions amongst the trees

Our Annual Gathering and Reunion for all spiritually-minded, ecologically motivated and creatively-living people. This year the Gathering will stay small and friendly, with workshops, music, events and entertainment throughout the four days. There will be more than 100 free workshops on dance, drumming and music, creative arts & expression, shamanism, healing, spiritual matters, storytelling, wilderness, and many on similar work to courses in this brochure. Open Forum Conversations will be held in different venues each day, led by your favourite workshop leaders - an opportunity for people who have valuable things to say about life and how we live; much common sense and wisdom to share. We hope to be able to help people join together to express themselves, to be heard and to listen to their peers and others carefully and with their hearts.

Be part of the third gathering of some remarkable individuals. In the widely-acclaimed book, Soul Companions: Conversations with Contemporary Wisdom Keepers; A Collection of Encounters with Spirit , author Karen Sawyer collected 45 fascinating encounters with spirit beings… experiences shared by wisdom keepers from all over the world that communicate powerful and inspirational messages. This Gathering brings Karen together with six of these wisdom keepers for a weekend-long series of workshops, ceremonies, lectures, discussions and much, much more. Featured presenters from the book include: RJ Stewart, Leo Rutherford, Philip Carr Gomm, Patrick Gamble, Michael Dunning and Andras Corban Arthen. We hope that you will join us for this extraordinary opportunity. Early-bird special discount available now! For more information please visit www.soulcompanions.org e-mail: info@soulcompanions.org or call 01437 760075.

Four days of Satsang, Deep Rest, Communion, Movement, and Yoga. During our days of retreat we will honour and nourish the Heart, and liberate what longs for freedom and creative expression. Open to and suitable for all women.
The retreat will consist of two satsangs per day, in addition to gatherings for movement, yoga, walks, relaxation and connection.
In Sanskrit sat means truth and the sangha is the group of lovers of Truth. So satsang is literally a truth-gathering - an informal get-together of people to sit with the truth of their being and, occasionally, talk about it. Each satsang lasts a couple of hours.

Three days at Gaunts House. Arrive Friday for Tea and meet your host and other friends for the weekend. Friday is settling-in time and a lazy evening after supper. A walk is offered on Saturday morning followed by coffee and a session of conversations up until lunchtime. The afternoon is free to teatime, when a creative session, or introduction to Profound Learning session, is offered. Saturday evening is spent how the at home folk collectively choose, which could be an event or songs and stories in the bar. Sunday morning follows the Saturday plan. The weekend ends after lunch on Sunday.

Erik Berglund, like the troubadours of yore, combines his extraordinary musical talents with the Spirit and power of healing gifts. Erik sings like an angel with a refined tenor voice accompanied by the crystalline sounds of his Irish harp to bridge the world of angels and healing, and touch people deeply. As a sensitive healer, Erik's life has touched thousands via concerts, workshops, retreats, sacred journeys and private healing sessions. Both Erik and Dan Winter are internationally famous Presenters of Sacred Science. Time 8 00pm - 10.30pm. Cost £6 Optional Meal 6.30pm 7.30pm.

A six day long transformational programmes follow a pattern of experiential and relationship-to-life events and happenings, offering revelation and the chance for re-evaluation. Togetherness Weeks, which we started 15 years ago, are led by a team of experienced Group Focalisers and guaranteed to refresh and re-awaken important parts of us that may have become submerged in the process and pressures of modern life. Chanting, conversations, countryside exploration, meditation, profound expression and listening, arts & crafts, games, left-field projects, time in the woods and along the river, relaxation, celebration and fun all have their part. These are weeks of feeling, laughter, nature, triumph and the re-emergence of our vital self. Likely to be life-changing.

This week long programme is designed to regenerate the lives of busy-busy city-folk and town-based professionals, to help free perspectives through the wholesome nature of life in the countryside. The week follows a pattern of thoughtful and valuable experience quite removed from office and street. Some of photographic deer stalking; vermin control; fishing; time on the farm; night walking; drumming; alternative creative skills; meditation may be included. A sophisticated version of Togetherness Weeks, the week will stretch your horizons; remind you of vital elements of life and beauty; will help re-establish your real value and what really matters.

Our Annual Gathering and Reunion for all spiritually-minded, ecologically motivated and creatively-living people. This year the Gathering will stay small and friendly, with workshops, music, events and entertainment throughout the four days. There will be more than 100 free workshops on dance, drumming and music, creative arts & expression, shamanism, healing, spiritual matters, storytelling, wilderness, and many on similar work to courses in this brochure. Open Forum Conversations will be held in different venues each day, led by your favourite workshop leaders - an opportunity for people who have valuable things to say about life and how we live; much common sense and wisdom to share. We hope to be able to help people join together to express themselves, to be heard and to listen to their peers and others carefully and with their hearts.

A twelve day Summer School for teenagers and young adults involving creative life skills, age initiation, bushcraft, orienteering and wilderness experience. An exceptional opportunity, suitable for young people from around the world, ages fourteen to twenty-two. Groups limited to 15 places only. Experienced and registered facilitators.

Facilitator: Don Conreaux

This weekend will introduce the Healing Sacred Tone Performance, and the 6 areas of mastery

1. Gong And Bowl Playing Therapy
2. Free Tone Multi-Instrumental Improvisation
3. Shruti Singing, Mantra & Toning
4. Kriya Kundalini Yoga & Meditation
5. Sacred Geometry & Music Science
6. Teaching The Philosophy & History

Don Conreaux is a world-renowned master teacher of the healing gong. He is recognised not only as a leading artist and musician, but also as a pioneer in the field of sound therapy with what he calls gong therapy.

A three day event facilitated by Sue Hollingsworth, Geoff Mead and Ashley Ramsden

At the Summer Solstice, join storytellers Sue Hollingsworth, Geoff Mead and Ashley Ramsden in a joyful celebration of the dynamic potential of the masculine and feminine, female and male, ying and yang. Working with traditional and biographical stories, we will explore, uphold and celebrate our wonderful difference. No previous experience of storytelling is necessary.

Gaunts House is open; come and experience the country mansion with art exhibits displayed throughout the house. Featuring the work of John Reilly and other local artists. Refreshments available throughout the day and delicious vegetarian lunch. Local artists have been given the opportunity to exhibit their works in an unusual setting. There will be art to enjoy and some to purchase. We have a big display of John Reilly's work, a well-known Isle of Wight artist, and local artists, arrangements being firmed up as we speak, stay tuned.

A three day festival to celebrate the advent of spring / May Day / Beltaine

An all-day festival of entertainment and music, d ancing around the maypole and walks in the gardens and enchanting bluebell woods , talks, mini-workshops, children's activities including storytelling , soothing complementary therapies and delicious vegetarian food. Special Spring Festival accommodation rates!