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27/04/2026

In memory of Flynn Gillespie who sadly took his own life at just 18 … Uncle Sean needs your support for Flynn Forever 18. In memory of Flynn Gillespie

22/03/2025

Yesterday was World Poetry Day
Celebration

World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, "with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard".

Here is one of my favourites, what's yours?

When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what...

01/01/2025

Happy New Year Everyone!

A Gentle Return to You
by - Per Norrgren

Hope is not a wish,
But the seed within the soil,
A tender whisper—act now,
And watch the world uncoil.

It moves not with haste,
But steady as rivers flow,
A light in the heart of shadows,
The strength to rise and grow.

For hope is the silent prayer,
In the hands that build anew,
It lives in every step we take—
In me, in them, in you.

23/10/2024

Lots of great freebies at the moment!
https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/free-autumn-members-weekend/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGFsUlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe-g7vG6W7rNnjDNr6bVwjilbHiptRwvs2NnJGRLxeVGeNwwMEBfZkV9gg_aem_HMX6noe-n04o7V45MTiAiw

Free Autumn 2024 Members Weekend - A free weekend online for our members with teachings and guided practices with our tutors.

22/10/2024

Join the Oxford Mindfulness App Community

Following our last weekly highlights email, where we shared with you a little about our new communications programme, we're writing to you today with a big announcement...

14/10/2024

https://www.bluezones.com/2023/03/are-meditation-and-mindfulness-effective-for-treating-certain-conditions/

  By Hilary A. Marusak, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University   Many people look to diet trends

04/10/2024

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we
have learned to let go"
- Jack Kornfield

30/08/2024

Join Vidyamala for a free weekly meditation, she's just amazing!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Space to Breathe - Weekly Live Meditation with Vidyamala. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

30/08/2024

Sun Sep 01 2024 at 12:30 pm, Join us for community picnic and 'BioBlitz' at the Mountainhall Greenspace! This is going to be a fun and gentle way to connect with nature and your community. Bring your own picnic! There will be facilitators to take folk on nature walks, looking at pl

30/08/2024

Interesting...

A new video resource has been produced to promote the safe overtaking of horses and cyclists with mindfulness techniques.

29/07/2024

How do you know it’s time?

because the ache of not speaking
becomes too much to bear, because one breath,
one breath of this blooming spring day reminds you
that seeds need sunlight to bloom,

because, finally, you see that your own
permission is the only
permission you need, and that you,
you are the most important one to please.

And because the end of another season
reminds you that seasons end,
that everything ends, and who has time to waste
on waiting?

Because, my sweet love, don’t you see –
don’t you see? No one else
is coming to save you.

How do you know it’s time?

Because you’ve wrestled inside your own
skin, fumbled around in the dark
long enough. Because, even the lily,
that was closed up tight, has bloomed. Has finally bloomed.

Because the pen tells the truth.

Because when you arrive
all the way here,
you just know.

by Julia Fehrenbacher

We know a lot of factual information about the starling—its size and voice, where it lives, how it breeds and migrates—but what remains a mystery is how it f...