Luke & Matthew Farren


About the Teacher

Why study with them?

Matthew Farren


Matthew started a daily practice of meditation and prayer in 1992 as part of 12 step recovery programme, first taking the Buddhist precepts with a Soto Zen lineage in 1995. After 20 years of daily practice, he had come to a dark place of depression.
He experienced an awakening to his true nature within two days of a Self-Inquiry Immersion, having a direct experience of being, something indescribably fulfilling. His immediate response was to share this with others.
Matthew trained as an Enlightenment Master with Lawrence Noyes in the US, devoting 4 years facilitating Intensives with Zen master Daizan Skinner with further training from Jake and Eva Chapman in the UK. He was a Zen teacher in a Rinzai Zen tradition and studied Jungian Depth Psychology. He now holds Hero’s Journey Self-Inquiry Retreats worldwide, with his brother and co-founder Luke Farren.
Together they have further honed and adapted this method to increase it’s effectiveness explained via the Hero’s Journey mono-myth, a way understandable to the western psyche.

In 2021 he spent 6 months in the Peruvian jungle working with ayahuasca and other plant dietas.
He's lead retreats in Guatemala, Mexico and Canada as well as the UK.

Matthew teaches and offers - Focusing, embodied meditation, dreamwork, Clearing, mentorship and 1:2:1 ongoing practices. He’s based in Dorset, enjoys art, walking, camping, swimming and surfing.

Luke Farren

Luke is an Enlightenment Intensive Master and has trained with Lawrence Noyes, Jake & Eva Chapman and Daizan Roshi. My background is in Zen, having began practising more than 20 years ago & being named Sensei in a Rinzai Zen tradition. I had a direct experience on my first 3 Day Enlightenment Intensive and when I returned home and looked at my meditation cushion, I burst out laughing. I'd meditated for years & realised that I'd been a good meditator, but had not had an awakening experience - the stuff the old Zen guys wrote about. When we touch into our fundamental resource and learn to live from this place, it changes lives.

Luke lives with his wife, family & 3 dogs in Brighton, UK. Read More

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