Mindfulness Connected Learning

Find a new rhythm for Autumn - in person 5 week programme, day retreats and more - https://mailchi.mp/2a1549053b46/mindfulness-connected-learning-20232272

One small error in the email. Please note the Sept mindful walk is on Sun 22nd not 29th

'Float and let yourself be carried'
Even for a moment...

We are all connected at the deepest and most elemental level. It is our conditioning and life experiences that manipulate us away from our true selves.

Mark Nepo says it beautifully...

My soul tells me

we were all broken from the same nameless heart

and every living thing wakes with a piece of that original heart

aching its way into blossom.

This is why we know each other below our strangeness.

Why when we fall, we lift each other

or when in pain, we hold each other.

Why when sudden with joy, we dance together.

Life is the many pieces of that great heart loving itself back together.

~ Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk

We unconsciously store stress and anxiety in our bodies. Over time this can take its toll on us both physically and emotionally.

Meditation helps to bring our nervous systems back into balance, by creating a space where we can declutter the mind, rest the body and relax in the reality of the present moment.

Please join me in the morning for a free guided meditation on zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUsf-6uqzMt6gOlx3MTzVVTMj1j18vpCw

Standing against racism, united in hope.

Wonderful speeches and beautiful expressions of connection, love and solidarity.

There's more love in the world than hate.

Time to reclaim our streets ❤️

Autism NI is calling for a specialist Autism Mental Health Service for Northern Ireland.

We need a health service that meets the needs of all people.

Please sign

Sign the Petition Autism NI is calling for a specialist Autism Mental Health Service for Northern Ireland

If you would like to help out and show solidarity with our friends and neighbours after yesterday's vile, racist, islamaphobic attacks, you can donate here.

We are not separate
We all belong

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Don't miss out on this beautiful coastal retreat in the stunning location of White Park Bay.

Do something for yourself for a change 🙂

http://eepurl.com/iU0fKA

A perfect morning

Don't miss out on this beautiful coastal retreat in the stunning location of White Park Bay.

http://eepurl.com/iU0fKA

We have a few places left in both single and shared rooms. Do contact me soon if you're interested in this 3 night residential retreat on the beautiful North Antrim Coast

Over the coursevof the weekend we will reconnect with our elemental natures and explore the themes of love and loss, surrender and growth.

Drawing on the natural world, we will gather our collective insights and experiences around living with uncertainty and find ways to be present and at peace in our ever-changing lives.

Please DM for more information or drop me an email at [email protected]

Here's a bit of info on our retreat. We only have a few places left so do contact me soon if you're interested.

On this 3 night residential we will reconnect with our elemental natures and explore the themes of love and loss, surrender and growth.

Drawing on the natural world we will gather our collective insights and experiences around living with uncertainty and find ways to be present and at peace in our ever-changing lives.

Please DM for more information or drop me an email at [email protected]

A new course and summer offerings
http://eepurl.com/iTxy4Q

This course is suitable for people who are interested in developing their own personal mindfulness or refreshing an already existing or lapsed practice.

Over the course of 5 weeks we will explore the various aspects of mindfulness and how to integrate them into everyday life. Each week we will gather together and develop our capacity for awareness, compassion and happiness through practice, inquiry and discussion.

The practices will focus on the body, breath, movement, strong emotions, self compassion and nourishing happiness.

Practising mindfulness is a way of being in the world. It brings us alive, builds our resilience and allows us to live with more ease and less stress and to really savour and appreciate all the many conditions of happiness that are already here. We begin to wake up to our lives.

In the words of Thich Nhat Hanh "If we miss the present moment we miss our appointment with life. And that is very serious”. Here is where life happens. The practice of mindfulness helps us to embrace life fully, to be with the difficulties in our lives and to appreciate more fully all that is well.

As part of this course I will provide you with guided meditation recordings to use during the week to support you on your mindfulness journey.

Each week I will encourage you to engage in home practice of 20 mins each day.

If you are interested in understanding what mindfulness is really all about or if you feel you would benefit from a refresher course, please join me on Thursday 1st August 6.30-8.00pm. The course runs weekly until 29th August

Cost: £95 includes recordings sent each week, home practice guidance and a short manual.

Booking via Eventbrite but if you wish to avoid the Eventbrite fee, please contact me by email

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sense-of-mindfulness-tickets-943647634477

Hi everyone, I'm so sorry to cancel the meditations for the next three weeks. I have a few things on over a couple of weekends in July and rather than stopping and starting I thought it easier to take a longer pause.

I'll really miss our regular practice together but look forward to beginning again on Friday 26th July.

It will be the same zoom link for then

With love,

Veronica