Louise Taylor
Louise Taylor has practised meditation for over 20 years and has been teaching since 2018. Louise is a founding member of Radiant Mind Insight Meditation and leads single and multi-day meditation retreats. Her teaching is grounded in the clear practice methodology of the Mahāsi Sayādaw lineage. She encourages practitioners to find a refuge in nature, enquiring deeply and compassionately into our shared experience of being human.
Events with Louise Taylor
The Middle Way - Two week retreatSeptember 12 - 26, 2026
In his first formal discourse the Buddha introduced the middle way as the central theme of his teaching. How is this to be understood? The middle way is not mere moderation, but the dynamic recognition that there is no fixed position in our experience, no where we can land and cling to. This teaching points to both freedom from clinging and our opening to universal love and compassion. These are the themes we will explore in our retreat.
The Way of Direct Experience - Two week retreatSeptember 11 - 25, 2027
We are sentient beings, intimately interwoven with the suchness of life, and yet, all too often, we find ourselves living in a world of thought, ideas, and concepts, mistaking them for reality. When the Buddha taught, he did not ask us to believe, but to practice — to cultivate awareness and to know for ourselves. When we choose intimacy with experience, the dharma illuminates itself, not as concept but as something directly lived and recognised. This is what we will explore together during this retreat, weaving our way between stillness and movement, practice workshops and dharma talks. The retreat is…