Everyone is invited to help with delivering leaflets to local houses near the temple in time for the Songkran Festival on April 8th
The leaflets invite local people to visit the temple for Songkran, Meditation and Yoga classes and thank them for their support in Phra Seri’s visa case
If you would like to deliver some leaflets, please collect some from the temple, and use the form and map to avoid replication
Many thanks to San for designing and printing leaflets
Temple Garden Clearing-up Day
Saturday 31st March 2018, 11:00 am
Please help tidy up the Temple garden to make it look beautiful for the Songkran Festival on 8th April
Tasks include: Weeding, clearing leaves, mowing the grass, cutting branches, trimming the hedges, taking rubbish and green waste to the tip, etc, etc
We already have some tools, but please bring your own strimmers, loppers, trimmers, shears, shovels and rakes and other implements
Start at 11:00 by offering food to the monks, then start on the garden after lunch
Lunch will be generously provided by Phetpailin Thai Restaurant
This year’s Songkran Thai New Year Water Festival will be held on Sunday April 8th from 10:00 am onwards
All are welcome, please invite family and friends
Delicious Thai refreshments will be generously provided by local Thai restaurants and temple supporters
Have you ever wished you had somewhere to go when life pulls you off-centre? A place where you can find your inner strength, calm, and wisdom whenever you need it?
Take the opportunity to deepen your meditation practice on a weekend long meditation retreat organised by our sister temple in Woking, Surrey
More about the retreat here http://www.watphradhammakayalondon.co.uk/the-inner-peace-weekend-meditation-retreat-15th/
Further information about the Woking temple can be found here http://www.watphradhammakayalondon.co.uk/
Reserve your place on the retreat here http://www.watphradhammakayalondon.co.uk/weekend-retreat-16/
Jeannette and Maria will be running a Chakra Yoga and Pilates Workshop at the temple on Sunday March 18th 2018 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Delicious Thai refreshments will be generously provided by Chilli Banana Restaurant
An innocuous looking plain brown UK Government style envelope arrived in the post at the temple
It contained a letter from the Home Office with the fantastic news that Phra Seri has been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (i.e. Permanent Residency) in the UK
We are all delighted, as you can probably imagine! Thank you everybody, for your hard work, support, signatures and encouragement!
The Wednesday Meditation Class led by Phra Seri was showcased on dhammakaya.net
http://en.dhammakaya.net/2018/02/11/wednesday-meditation-class-manchester-united-kingdom-2/
The new kitchen at the temple came into being with astonishing rapidity during January and February 2018
Many thanks to everyone who generously gave their time, money and help to bring about the new kitchen
Phra Ak held his last meditation class for local people, for the time being, on Wednesday evening, 10th January, before returning to Thailand
Meditation class participants would like to thank Phra Ak for all his time, energy and enthusiasm teaching meditation at the temple during the past six months
He plans to apply for a new visa and return around April 2018 and we look forward to having him back at the temple again
In the meantime, we welcome Phra Seri back into the Meditation Class teaching role
Farewell to Phra Ak, Phra Liu, Phra Chin and Phra Boom (pictured L to R as they go on alms round in a rainy Manchester city centre) who all left the temple on 11th January to return to Thailand when their UK visas expired
They will be missed at the temple and we wish them all well for the future
Phra Ak and Phra Liu will be returning in three months or so time when they obtain new visas
