Mindfulness Grantham

07/09/2022

The Live Mindfulness Drop in will start again on Monday 19th September at 1.00pm at Elite Dance Studio in Grantham - suggested donation £4.00.
The Zoom Drop in will start Thursday 29th September at 1.00pm.
In these very challenging times it becomes ever more important to have some way of calming down our nervous system, as we navigate the ups and downs of life. A mindfulness practice, even 5 minutes can help us regulate and "tend and befriend" in moments of anxiety, fear, anger and sadness. Please feel free to drop in and join this wonderful group.

Please email me should you have any questions.
cicicollins23@gmail.com

17/07/2022

Just a reminder.......

THERE WILL BE NO LIVE SESSION ON MONDAY 18TH JULY.

Meanwhile dear friends, thank you for your participation and commitment to working with this wonderful practice, as we navigate the ups and downs, the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows. The feedback that I receive constantly, is how the practice is helping to approach what it is to be human, and all the challenges - relationships, grief, change, uncertainty, illness, and holding on, in a more loving and tender way.

As Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

May you have a peaceful and relaxing summer.

30/03/2022

"This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there, the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life."
-Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear

Posted through Tara Brach today. x

24/03/2022

Poems from today. I hope you enjoy them. x

Donna Ashworth

I pray that when I die,
no-one waxes lyrical
about the quality of my skin
for my age.
I pray that no-one
compliments my co**se
on its great condition.
I want everyone to remember
the way I showed my face to the sun
without care for lines
and how I used my body out,
every minute of every day
in the most beautiful
and fun filled ways.
I am not here to preserve
I’m here to live.
And my body will tell that story well
when the time comes.

Ten thousand flowers in spring.
The moon in autumn
Snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded
By unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your fife.
Wu - Men.

15/03/2022

The power of the pause 🙏🏽💕

10/03/2022

From here there is only one thing left to do -
break ourselves open and love our way through.
Love every wound until it begins to heal,
Love hardened hearts ’til they begin to feel,
Love until violence turns to shutters and sobs,
Love ’til light breaks through shadows and fogs,
Love until wings sprout from deep pits of fear,
Love until the truth is perfectly clear.
From here there’s but on place left to go,
surrendering to love’s unstoppable flow.

Cristen Rodgers

28/02/2022

For peace.
As the fever of day calms towards twilight
May all that is strained in us come to ease.

We pray for all who suffered violence today,
May an unexpected serenity surprise them.

For those who risk their lives each day for peace,
May their hearts glimpse providence at the heart of history.

That those who make riches from violence and war
Might hear in their dreams the cries of the lost.

That we might see through our fear of each other
A new vision to heal our fatal attraction to aggression.

That those who enjoy the privilege of peace
Might not forget their tormented brothers and sisters.

That the wolf might lie down with the lamb,
That our swords be beaten into ploughshares

And no hurt or harm be done
Anywhere along the holy mountain.

John O’Donohue, Irish poet and philosopher

30/12/2021

A New Year blessing from John O'Donohue

Wishing you all a peaceful and joyful 2022. x

For Josie

On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.

And when your eyes
Freeze behind
The grey window
And the ghost of loss
Gets in to you,
May a flock of colours,
Indigo, red, green,
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
In the currach of thought
And a stain of ocean
Blackens beneath you,
May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.

13/12/2021

Here is the poem from today for the last Live Drop in at Elite Dance Studio today. Dates to follow for after Christmas. x

Tides by Mary Oliver

Everywhere the sea
blue grey green lavender
pulls away leaving the harbour’s
dark-cobbled undercoat

slick and rutted and worm-riddled, the gulls
walk there among old whalebones, the white
spines of fish blink from the strand stew
as the hours tick over; and then

far out the faint, sheer
line turns, rustling over the slack,
the outer bars, over the tree-furred flats, over
the clam beds, slippery logs,

barnacle-studded stones, dragging
the shinning sheets forward, deepening,
pushing, wreathing together
wave and seaweed, their piled curvatures

spilling over themselves, lapping
blue grey green lavender, never
resting, not ever but fashioning shore,
continent, everything.

And here you may find me
on almost any morning
walking along the shore so
light-footed so casual.

26/11/2021

24/11/2021

Mindful Drop in tomorrow at 1.00pm. All very welcome. Please contact me should you wish to join. CiCi

18/11/2021

Mindfulness Drop in today at 1.00pm. Looking forward to seeing you all. c

11/11/2021

An amazing project.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59241828

Following a friend's su***de, Andy Bishop, set up ManGang, a support group to help get men talking.

03/11/2021

The link for the Drop in Thursday 4th November at 1.00pm. Please feel free to join this wonderful group for a couple of short practices, and some heart warming company. Warmist wishes, CiCi

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12/10/2021

Just to let you know I am having some technical issues so will be doing the zoom through a friend's computer. Hopefully all will be well! If not I hope to see those of you who can make it on Monday 18th October at Elite studios Grantham, and the zoom session on Thursday 21st October both at 1.00pm. Blessings. CiCi

27/09/2021

PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO LIVE SESSION AT ELITE STUDIOS GRANTHAM ON MONDAY 4TH OCTOBER. NEXT LIVE SESSION MONDAY 18TH OCTOBER AT 1.00PM.

16/08/2021

THERE WILL BE NO ZOOM DROP IN ON THURSDAY 19TH AUGUST AT 1.00PM. NEXT SESSION MONDAY 23RD LIVE SESSION AT ELITE STUDIOS, GRANTHAM.

27/06/2021

TOMORROW THE LIVE DROP IN AT 1.00PM
Elite Studios
Units5/6 Chandler’s Yard Business Park,
Greyfriars,
Grantham NG31 6PG
£4.00 per session or whatever you can afford.
WILL BE LOVELY TO SEE THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN MAKE IT. BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND ANYONE YOU THINK MAY BE CURIOUS TO FIND OUT ABOUT THIS LIFE SAVING PRACTICE.