Harrow Ashram currently consists of a five-bedroom house with a beautiful, tranquil garden located in the suburbs of London. There are two full-time residents at present and many others who visit when they can. The community is a loving and supportive group dedicated to Truth and Spiritual Enlightenment.

The primary influences of the current residents are the teachers of non-duality such as Ramana Maharshi, David Hawkins, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Adi Da.

There are two meditation sessions each day as well as daily Diads (taken from Charles Berner's enlightenment intensives where individuals contemplate who or what they are). There is a weekly meditation class open to the public.

People are welcome to come for short- or long-term retreats.

Louis Mitchell is the spiritually awakened founder and head of the community who functions as teacher and guide to those who come.

All are welcome and each participant is encouraged to find his or her own truth and express it in ways that are personally meaningful.

We really enjoy what each visitor brings to the community and hope you will come and spend some time with us.

An example of Louis's written teaching:

At the Movies

Have you ever been watching a film and been so totally absorbed in the film that you forget that you’re watching a film? It’s almost as if you’re in the film yourself. You have sympathy for the characters and you have an emotional connection to the story that’s unfolding. To me, that’s one of the qualities of a good film—I can get lost in it. Well, from the perspective of consciousness that’s what’s happened relative to our body and mind. Consciousness has become so interested in the body and mind that it has forgotten that it’s only watching the body and mind. We, consciousness, have become so absorbed in the body and mind and all the experiences and characters it interacts with, and feel such sympathy for the body and mind, that we, consciousness, forget that we’re actually only observing the body and mind, and aren’t in fact the body and mind.

When the picture at the cinema ends, we realise again that we’re in the cinema watching the picture and that all we were watching was a screen on which the picture was projected. When you awaken to consciousness you again realise that the body and mind simply grabbed your attention for a period of time, and that for all the time you were assuming yourself to be the body and mind you were in fact just watching them, just experiencing them.