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Nanpantan Hall

has been a retreat centre for the ‘school of philosophy’ since 1986

From family home to a spiritual retreat centre.

The Hall was built in the 1870s for Edward Warner, who gave his name to Cartwright and Warner’s hosiery mill off Nottingham Road Loughborough.Nanpantan Hall was sold to William Byerley Paget before the century was out. The Hall and its 30 acre estate was donated to the School of Philosophy in 1986 and is now one of three retreat centres for the School of Philosophy an educational charity open to all. https://schoolofphilosophy.org/

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The main subject explored in the School today is practical living philosophy, and mantra meditation; drawing on Eastern and Western traditions, which share the philosophy of unity (beautifully expressed below by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Retreats and Yoga in Loughborough

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and who’s beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Courses run at Nanpantan Hall

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Courses are also offered in Economics with Justice. These aim to show how a more equitable distribution of wealth can be achieved. 

In addition to philosophy and economics, the School offers a wide range of other courses, including art courses, calligraphy, seminars, workshops, dance astronomy, Sanskrit concerts, lectures.

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Weekly philosophy classes

JL withdrawing room

Spiritual retreats

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Art and Craft

Private event hire

Since 2017 Nanpantan Hall can be hired for private events.  

You can find out more about the School of Philosophy and Economic Science and the courses we run at www.schoolofphilosophy.org

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UK LOCATIONS

We have local face-to-face courses available across the UK. Our introductory courses can be attended online or at the following locations: London, Guildford, Midlands (Birmingham), SE London (Croydon), North East (Brighouse, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Leeds, Loughborough, Nottingham, Saltaire, Sheffield, York), North West (Stockport, Chorley, Wirral), St Albans, Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh), Peterborough, Cambridge, Oxford, Sussex, Wessex, Berkshire, East Anglia, Kingston, Kent
  • VISITS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

We regularly have retreats and events taking place. If you are not already booked onto an event, please pre-arrange an appointment to visit us to view our beautiful facilities. Call or Email Us