Osho Leela

We are a unique group of people, united by a desire to live communally and linked by the search for spiritual growth and raising personal awareness.

Because we maintain an open door policy in our community, the size of our group is ever-changing. However, we do have a fixed group of around 15 adults and two children.

The way to find out more about us and our community is via the Community Experience Programme.

Our long term members have a wide variety of backgrounds. They include three business people, a teacher, a social worker, a graphic designer, a recording engineer, a nurse, a healer, a librarian, and a deep sea diver, among others.

Most of us have taken part in the Humaniversity Therapist Training Programme and we all value straight-forward communication, respect for each other, ourselves and the planet.

We are committed to joyous living and the promotion of beauty in everything.

Food at Osho Leela
Osho Leela runs a vegetarian kitchen. We do our best to meet the most common food requirements for our guests and generally avoid wheat, dairy and refined sugar in our cooking. Dishes will be clearly marked if they contain any of the following: wheat/gluten, dairy, egg products, nuts, mushrooms & sugar. For these common food intolerances, an alternative will be provided at a separate table. If you have a food allergy not mentioned above, please make it known to the Booking Office before your arrival on 01747 821221 or by email: info@osholeela.co.uk.

Who is Osho?

Formerly known as the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho was an Indian spiritual mystic who lived from 1931 to 1990. During his lifetime he inspired the development of many “Osho communities” all around the world. His main community still remains in Pune, India.

One of Osho’s main achievements, in spiritual cultural terms, was to bring together therapy and meditation into a synthesized whole. He developed a series of “active meditations” with therapeutic content, with the intention of helping Westerners to experience meditation. He believed that the average Western mind was too busy to experience meditation without undertaking some level of therapeutic catharsis first.

Osho Leela was created in 1996 by a group of Osho devotees in the UK. The community recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. We are proud to continue developing the work that Osho commenced and bringing it into the modern world.

By Car
Take the M3, leave at Junction 8 to take the A303. Follow this until Mere, then take the B3092/5 left to Gillingham.

You will see brown signs to Caravan/Camping – follow these until you reach the B3081 at traffic lights. Turn right and then take the second left into Broad Robin which becomes Common Mead Lane. Follow this for about 3/4 mile until just before the speed limit signs – Thorngrove is on the right – follow the drive to the top.

From the South West:
From Devon take the A303. After Wincanton look for the B3081 to Gillingham. When the housing starts on the outskirts of town look for the brown Caravan/Camping signs on your right. Turn right into Broad Robin which becomes Common Mead Lane. Follow this for about 3/4 mile until just before the speed limit signs – Thorngrove is on the right – follow the drive to the top.

From the North or South:
Take the A350 to Shaftesbury. From Shaftesbury take the B3081 to Gillingham (5 miles). In Gillingham follow signs for the B3081 to Wincanton. Just past Waitrose to your right turn left at the traffic lights on to Wyke Street (B3081). Take the second left into Broad Robin which becomes Common Mead Lane with brown Caravan/Camping sign. Follow this for about 3/4 mile until just before the speed limit signs – Thorngrove is on the right, follow the drive to the top.

From Bristol:
Take the A37 to Shepton Mallet the A371. Turn left off at the B3081, through Bruton towards Gillingham . When the housing starts on the outskirts of town look for the brown Caravan/Camping signs on your right. Turn right into Broad Robin which becomes Common Mead Lane. Follow this for about 3/4 mile until just before the speed limit signs – Thorngrove is on the right – follow the drive to the top.

Lift-sharing – Freewheelers or goCarShare or BlaBlaCar.
By Air
The closest airports to Osho Leela are, in order of closeness, Bournemouth, Bristol, Exeter and Southampton. However, unless you are hiring a car, being picked up, or taking a taxi, it is usually easier to fly into any of the 5 London airports and get a train from London Waterloo, as detailed below.

By Train
Trains from London Waterloo to Gillingham every hour or so. Journey time: 2 hours. Phone: 08457 484 950 (Southwest Trains) – Timetables available on the web at: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ – (type ‘Gillingham (Dorset)’ in the destination box or you will end up in Kent!!!)

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