practice day Archives - Mindfulness Association Being Present | Responding with Compassion | Seeing Deeply Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:28:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-08-at-10.25.42-32x32.jpeg practice day Archives - Mindfulness Association 32 32 New Year Vision Board Reflection Day https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/35131/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=35131 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:58:32 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?post_type=mec-events&p=35131 ]]>

With Fay Adams

Do you feel that you’re a bit off course? Would you like to feel more aligned with yourself and your vision for life in 2025? Does the idea of feeling inspired by a sense of possibility and potential for the coming year stir something within you? Would time to reflect, create and share in friendly company be just lovely?

You’re invited to join us for a day of creatively connecting with your your inspirations, aspirations, longings and dreams for 2025 through making a vision board! You don’t need to think of yourself as creative or artistic to participate – this is a day to follow your heart, leave aside your self-critic and get into the joy of creative flow.

When we give dedicated time to getting out of our heads and connecting with ourselves though following our creative impulse and our intuitive hunches, we are often thrilled and surprised by what emerges.

Vision boards seem to have a magical influence on the future through the power of clarity and intention and through bringing alignment with what feels true to us. If we connect with our heart, we find our north star and then we’re more likely to stay on course.

On the day we’ll combine mindfulness practice and reflection with a long period of silent creative immersion and then we’ll conclude by sharing with others. We’ll give a little bit of kind attention to our self-critic before we begin, so that we feel more free to follow our flow and then we’ll see what emerges!

Before the day you’ll be guided to prepare by gathering materials and inspiring images, quotes or poems. All you need as a minimum is a (preferably) A2 sized piece of card, thick paper or board, glue, some magazines to cut out, some scissors and something to make marks with. Even part of a cardboard box would work! More info will be sent out to you in the weeks preceding the day.

Have a watch of this short video to see an example – my 2024 vision board (credit goes to the Needs Based Coaching Institute for this wonderful idea and for facilitating the workshop that produced this)

]]> Online Christmas Practice Day: Mindfully Exploring the Breath https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/online-christmas-practice-day-mindfully-exploring-the-breath/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=online-christmas-practice-day-mindfully-exploring-the-breath Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:27:23 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?post_type=mec-events&p=35128 Mindfully Exploring the Breath With Alan Hughes Using the breath as a support is probably one of the best known mindfulness practices, and one of the first that many people learn.  This can sometimes give the impression that the Mindfulness of Breath is a “basic practice” but as our mindfulness deepens we discover that this…]]> Mindfully Exploring the Breath

With Alan Hughes

Using the breath as a support is probably one of the best known mindfulness practices, and one of the first that many people learn.  This can sometimes give the impression that the Mindfulness of Breath is a “basic practice” but as our mindfulness deepens we discover that this can be an incredibly rich practice, which can help us cultivate both tranquillity and insight. This will be a day focused around mindfulness practice, where we will take time to deepen our awareness of the breath, drawing from some of the teachings of the Buddhist Anapanasati Sutta.  While this day is open to anyone, it will probably be of most benefit to people who already have some experience of mindfulness.
]]> Online Easter Mindfulness Practice Days https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/latest-news/online-easter-mindfuness-practice-days/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=online-easter-mindfuness-practice-days Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:37:35 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=25244 Time to unwind, time to nurture, time for compassion and time for mindfulness.

Time for yourself to relax, destress and recharge.

Our gentle nourishing Practice Days give you a chance to rest, pay attention, and just be.

10am – 4 pm

No previous experience required, all levels of experience welcome.

HAVE A BROWSE OF THE FOUR PRACTICE DAYS HERE

]]> Practice Day 7th March https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/latest-news/practice-day-7th-march/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=practice-day-7th-march Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:01:52 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=22202 BELONGING – An online Practice Day with Fay Adams

10am – 4pm

Join Fay Adams this Sunday 7th March

On this retreat day we will invite ourselves home. Externally we are all ‘staying at home’ so this is a perfect time to find our home in the present moment, in our heart and body, held by the rhythm of the breath, supported by the Earth.

Using practices focussing on breath, deep grounding on the Earth and a little bit of imagination, we will spend a day together online, in the warmth of quiet, ‘heartful’ company.

FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK HERE

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