22/11/2022
This course sounds so self-nurturing, and delivered by the wonderful and experienced mindfulness teacher Pip Bellis π₯°
The Mindfulness for Stress course is a rich and potentially transformative introduction to mindfulness.
We gradually explore what it means to be mindful and how mindfulness can enhance our health and wellbeing.
Each session, held on-line, is two hours long and the course runs over eight weeks so that you have chance to progressively build up a mindfulness practice using techniques such as mindfulness of breathing, mindful movement and the body scan.
The first four weeks involve building a capacity to pay attention and to develop more clarity and focus. We then go on to explore a new way of responding to ourselves and to life's challenges leading to greater happiness and less inner and outer conflict.
Home practice is a key component of the course and you will be encouraged to do a mindfulness practice six days out of seven each week to get the most out of the course
The course includes group discussion in a supportive, welcoming atmosphere and aims to be very practical.
The investment of Β£200 includes all hand-outs and recordings plus a half day silent retreat.
Course dates are as follows:- Introductory/orientation session Tuesday January 10, 6.30pm β 7.30pm.
Course:- January 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14 & 21, 6.30pm till 8.30pm. Half day silent retreat Sat Feb 25, 10am till 1pm.
* The course fee is in line with the standard fee charged by Mindfulness teachers who trained with an organisation registered with the UK Network of Mindfulness teachers. If the fee is beyond your current capacity to pay but you would really like to do the course, I'm happy to discuss concessionary rates. Please speak to me in confidence about this.
I am a self-employed mindfulness trainer and continue to undergo supervision/mentoring and further enhance my learning through courses, retreats and my own daily practice.
For more info or to book, please e-mail info@themindpool.co.uk or ring 07813 359622
βWe tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time.......And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be, without having to run around doing things all the time. Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than tyrannise us. This process doesn't magically happen by itself. It takes energy. It does not involve becoming some kind of zombie, vegetable, self-absorbed narcissist, navel gazer, 'space cadet', cultist, devotee, mystic or Eastern philosopher. Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is.β
Jon Kabat-Zinn