The Mystery of Time: An Evening with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
November London Seminar – Registration Closed
The Song of the Seasons, US
The Song of the Seasons, UK
Sharpham Summer Retreat 2025
Past Events
- 2024
Sharpham Summer Retreat
In summer 2024, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee held a week-long retreat at The Sharpham Trust, set along the river Dart in Devon, England. The retreat included talks, meditation, dreamwork, teaching and walking dhikr practice.
Audio Recording available: Prayer and the Mystical Journey
Remembering Earth Time: A Practice in Spiritual Ecology
In the face of our ecological unraveling, time as we know it is rupturing. Around the world, buds bloom too early, winters don’t quite arrive, and time bends as long-buried carbons emerge to haunt the future. As we increasingly run out of time, accelerating towards climate catastrophe, how can we free ourselves from the clutch of the minute hand and embrace the possibilities inherent in every moment?
In April 2024, Sufi teacher and Emergence’s founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee held a four-day retreat in Devon, England. Hosted by Emergence Magazine, this gathering considered how we can attune to a sense of time rooted in the living world.
Expanding upon Emergence’s forthcoming print edition, Vol 5: TIME, this gathering opened participants to move beyond the time-bound consciousness of control, separation, and linearity we have created, and towards a different kind of time in which we are attentive to our present moment of ecological crisis and transformation. Through talks, writing workshops, storytelling, meditation, and nature connection practices, we remembered the primordial cycles and rhythms of the Earth.
Audio Recording available: Remembering Earth Time
April London Seminar (Registration Closed)
In April 2024, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee held a three-day seminar in London. The seminar included talks, meditation, dreamwork, and discussion.
Audio Recording available: April London Seminar
- 2023
A Seminar with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in London, UK
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee held a three-day seminar in London. The seminar included talks, meditation, dreamwork, and discussion.
Audio Recording available: A Space of Offering
Shifting Landscapes: An evening in London with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
We have arrived at a threshold: a liminal space where the world we have known is coming undone and new configurations are still taking shape. In this moment of great loss, possibility, and transformation, how might we bear witness to the Earth’s changing face, listen to her evolving song, and find ways to navigate our shifting landscapes?
Join Sufi teacher, filmmaker, and Emergence Executive Editor for an evening at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London that will explore the seismic shifts in our natural and cultural landscapes and the new stories that are emerging in their wake.
This lecture, drawing from Emergence’s forthcoming volume, Shifting Landscapes was followed by a Q&A.
Audio recording available: An Offering of Remembrance
Teaching Residency with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in London, UK
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee held a two-week long teaching residency in London. The residency included talks, meditation, dreamwork, and discussion.
Audio Recording available: Teaching Residency London
Shifting Landscapes Retreat in England
We have arrived at a threshold: a liminal space where the world we have known is coming undone and new configurations are still taking shape. In this moment of great loss, possibility, and transformation, what are the stories we need to orient ourselves within our shifting landscapes?
Set in the beautiful countryside of South West England along the River Dart, this four-day, three-night, retreat with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will offer participants ways of engaging with and navigating our present moment of unprecedented transformation.
Hosted by Emergence Magazine, this gathering will consider how Earth’s ancient patterns and pathways are changing rapidly, how cultural landscapes are undergoing seismic shifts, and how outdated myths are being discarded. Through lived experiences—talks, meditation, nature connection practices, walking meditation, writing workshops, and a special film screening—we will witness ways in which the world we have known is coming undone, and listen for the new stories that are emerging.
Audio recording available: Shifting Landscapes
- 2022
St Ethelburga’s, London, UK
Living with the Unknown, an evening lecture with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee that explores what it looks like to live in an unfolding apocalyptic reality—and the creative possibilities that are waiting to be embodied.
Audio recording available: Living with the UnknownSwitzerland
Retreat with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Sufism and Spiritual Ecology.
Audio recording available: Sufism and Spiritual Ecology