Visit our popular and acclaimed meditation retreat centre in the Buddhist tradition, set in the stunning and peaceful River Dart valley where up to 11 people join together for up to 10 nights living in community.
Stay in your own single room in a friendly atmosphere of fellowship, sit in daily meditations, work in our organic vegetable gardens and explore the wonder of the Sharpham Estate on the River Dart.
Stay full-board in The Coach House on nature-based mindfulness retreats connecting you to the land and yourself.
You’ll get your own room in a beautifully-restored Grade II-listed Georgian courtyard, with daily meditations, mindful tasks in our organic gardens and time out on the land, including explorations of our rewilding fields.
You’ll eat vegetarian and vegan food, much of it sourced from the organic gardens in which you’ll be spending time.
Mindfulness retreats in Devon: stay full-board in a Grade I-listed Georgian mansion at the centre of the stunning Sharpham Estate.
This Devon retreat centre is set in beautiful Capability Brownian gardens offering calming views over the Dart Valley, in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the perfect place to experience a mindfulness retreat.
Buy books & gift vouchers from The Sharpham Trust and help the charity.
You can purchase The Trust’s own published books, including cookbooks and a Heritage book. Browse Sharpham’s online bookshop and help independent bookstores at the same time.
Or buy gift vouchers and give the gift of Sharpham to friends and family.
A low-key campsite in nearby Point Field where tents sit a few metres from the river.
The site is basic, with compost loos and a firepit, and it is the perfect place to canoe to!
Canoe partners also offer a drop-off and pick-up service to this hard-to-get-to but easy-to-love site.
Retreats for one in a cabin set in blissfully peaceful woodland on The Sharpham Estate. Food provided.
For experienced meditators.
A simple hideaway where you leave the world behind you and unwind.
Built in the 1770s, at the same time as Sharpham House, the Bathing House was created on a bend in the river, below the main House.
It has one main living room, a beautiful bedroom with balcony overlooking the River Dart, a kitchen, a bathroom, a utility room and a sofa-bed in the lounge. Outside, a patio running the whole frontage of the Bathing House overlooks the water. Guests have reported seeing amazing wildlife close up – including otters feeding on fish in the River Dart.
With stunning views of the River Dart and across the South Hams Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Sharpham Meadow Natural Burial Ground offers an ecological alternative to traditional burial or cremation and is open to all – regardless of faith or local residency, whether you are using a funeral director or not, having a religious ceremony, a secular ceremony, or no ceremony at all. Ashes can be interred here as well as burials.
The site is cared for as a hay meadow, hence the grass is allowed to grow long and cut periodically. Only simple flat headstones are permitted.
We welcome groups looking to hire indoor or outdoor spaces for residential programmes, particularly where those groups support the principles of the Sharpham Trust.
Sharpham House offers a very different experience to staying in a hotel. You and your colleagues can stay in a beautiful Grade I-listed property, which also has the relaxing, informal atmosphere of a family home.
You can also hire The Coach House – a converted Georgian courtyard – with 18 single rooms and an exceptional glass and timber extension providing a wonderful, light-filled space.
Or hire Sharpham House and The Coach House together.
The Sharpham Estate – now certified organic – is set in a majestic location high above the River Dart. The house and gardens exude a sense of peace and tranquillity with exquisite views in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
If you can’t get to us, you can still access Sharpham teachings and mindfulness from your own home.
We offer online mindfulness courses, a weekly guided meditation and virtual retreats where you can connect with community and practice.
We’ve got downloadable meditations to take you away from the screen, videos that you can use and gentle mindful movement practices. Our experienced course/retreat leaders are there in real time to guide you.
The Trust welcomes couples to use 18th century Sharpham House and its wonderful gardens exclusively for their weddings, with proceeds supporting the charity and its upkeep of the Estate.
Many couples hold their ceremony on our famous feature: our spectacular, oval, cantilevered staircase, rising three floors beneath a domed ceiling and lantern skylight.
Before and after the wedding, you and your guests can be accommodated in comfortable bedrooms among relaxed surroundings, while you can choose from five elegant rooms in this Georgian Palladian mansion designed in 1770 by Sir Robert Taylor, all licensed to hold your civil wedding ceremony.
Sharpham House is LGBTQ+ friendly.
3 & 5-night full-board Woodland Retreats, with meditation, supportive mindfulness leaders, single-occupancy furnished bell-tents, delicious vegetarian/vegan food and ample time to explore the incredible Sharpham Estate.