Mudita House

31/07/2025

Here's our latest News... a little bit about the house and a lot more about the wonderful practitioners working from Mudita.

17/07/2025

We are very happy to welcome a new practitioner to Mudita House, Paul Baxter, with The Alexander Technique.

The Alexander Technique offers the means to reset mind and body as an integrated whole.

Thursday mornings at Mudita House
t: 07952 037402
e: wearesomaticmovers@gmail.com
w: wearesomaticmovers.co.uk

12/06/2025

We warmly invite you to our next Death Cafe at Mudita House on Saturday 21st June: 10.30am - 12pm

'Since my first visit, I have continued to return to death cafes... meeting new people and having new conversations about death over tea and cake. In truth, I feel more alive than ever for doing so.'

I felt peace flood over me as I realised I no longer needed to seek validation from others. Rather than saying yes to everything, I became more open, present and patient

15/05/2025

We are very happy to share Summer dates for the 'End of the Line' Death Cafe, hosted by Rosie Hadden, at Mudita House

09/05/2025

Eldering - The Sunset Years​
~ with David Rose
Growing old can be a state of body and mind where the light and warmth of the sun diminishes, and sunsets are obscured by grey clouds. Eldering is remembering to look for the beauty in the sunsets, finding authentic gratitude for this life, and embracing the fleetingness of our existence And whenever possible to use this experience as a power for the good of all​.
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A meeting for Elders* to engage in a creative exchange, and to support each other to be in service to our communities and our world.
David Rose is in an ongoing enquiry about what is means to be an elder in these times. This offering comes from a dream and ongoing contemplation. David intends to facilitate this as an experiential exchange, rather than a talk, or theoretical discussion about Eldering.
* What qualifies you to attend this event, or to define yourself as an elder, is entirely up to you to decide.
Saturday 10th May
2 - 4pm
£10 suggested donation
Mudita House, Penzance
All Donations go to the charities Hospice Uk & Cornwall Hospice Uk

Full Programme of Events:
https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

09/05/2025

Remembering Our Dead Beloveds with Stitching & Letter Writing

~ with Susie Chaikin & Rebecca Althaus.​

​​Sunday 11th May: 2pm - 5pm

A practical workshop where we'll be stitching our grief and love into fabric and writing letter poems to our loved ones who have died.​

Rebecca will bring pens and paper, and letter-poems written by poets like Emily Dickinson to read for inspiration. Susie will bring fabric, threads and examples of work she has made. The very act of stitching and writing can support a healing conversation within us, helping to express difficult emotions, memories, and the unsaid. Come and create in a relaxed, small group with Susie and Rebecca, and tea and biscuits.

Susie is an artist whose latest work came about from processing the grief around her husband's heart attack and a friend's death from cancer. She stitched the heart and lungs, stitching beauty and thought into harsh moments. Rebecca is a poet and creative researcher who began to write as a way to make sense of her partner's death. She writes poetry about love, death, and grief and is researching long-term grief.

£10
or pay what you can - proceeds go to Cornwall Hospice

Mudita House, 43 Morrab Road, Penzance

​To book contact: Rebecca t: 07825082555

Full programme for Dying Matters events in Cornwall:
https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

08/05/2025

Songs To Die For
~ with David Rose

Friday 9th May
7pm - 9pm


For those of you who have not been before, the format will be to create a ceremonial/prayer/meditation space. ​We will then sing and spend some time in silence between each song. We can sing together from a song sheet, and there is also room for improvisation and finding authentic expression through your voice​.

We will hold the structure and the focus of the event and provide songs. We also want these events to be a collaboration. So please feel free to contribute a song/chant/mantra etc that we can join in with. Our songs do not have to be in a particular modality and can include harmonies and spontaneous improvisation.

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The focus is on connecting with death and dying, however this touches you, with reference to:

The global situation, and the transitions that are happening in the world.

Facing death and dying in your community / family;

An inner process of surrender and letting go​


£10 suggested donation.

Places are limited

Please pay by cash on the night.

For more info & full programme: https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

08/05/2025

We are delighted to host this rare opportunity to ask The Professionals questions and to discuss medical and legal aspects of the dying and grieving process. We'll be discussing wills, advance directives, Treatment escalation plans (TEP), resuscitation decisions, NHS services at the end of life.

Friday 9th May ~ A Dying Well Surgery: 2pm - 4pm

Dying Well Surgery

~ with Jessica Lior, Em Dixon and Dr Frank Davey

This surgery will be an opportunity to ask questions and to discuss medical and legal aspects of the dying and grieving process and the provision of chaplaincy support in hospitals and the community. We'll be discussing wills, advance directives, Treatment escalation plans (TEP), resuscitation decisions, NHS services at the end of life .... And much more.. We may not have all the answers but I'm sure we'll have plenty to discuss!"


Jessica Lior: Property, Wills and Probate Solicitor.

Em Dixon: Chaplain at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and End of Life Doula

and Dr Frank Davey: Local GP​

2 - 4pm
Donations to Hospice charities
At Mudita House, 43 Morrab Road, Penzance

Come along. No advance booking required.

Part of Dying Matters Awareness 2025:
Full programme for SW Cornwall
https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

07/05/2025

An Evening to Remember
~ with Kay Parkinson
​​This evening is an opportunity for all who have lost loved ones to gather, remember their dead (however recent or long ago) and to be reminded that we are not alone in sorrow. ​
We will be invited to sit quietly, share photos of loved ones (if you wish), light a candle and do a guided practice of 'Essential Phowa'. This simple practice is from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It requires no prior experience, faith or belief - anyone can do it! And of course, there will be tea & biscuits.​
Kay Parkinson is a long-term practitioner within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has been holding Meditation groups for many years. She has a long held curiosity for death and dying, which has found expression in Death Cafes, Dying as Well As We Can and co-founding The Little Death Festival, Penzance.
Monday 12th May
​​7.30pm - 9pm
Suggested minimum donation £5
for Cornwall Hospice/Hospice UK​
Booking essential: 12 places available
t: 07866573690
e: enquiries@muditahouse.co.uk #

Full Programme:
https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

06/05/2025

'End of the Line' Death Cafe​​
~ with Rosie Hadden​​
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Death Café is a place to come together to share our hopes and fears around death and dying, a place to honour and share our stories of grief and loss, a place to co-create a community of support. Tea and cake are provided. All are welcome to this small friendly group.
Rosie Hadden has over 5 year’s experience of holding space for death cafes, grief circles and grief tending ceremonies. She is an End-of-Life Doula and trained with Living Well Dying Well. She co-hosts Companionship Cafes with No one Dies Alone in Cornwall and has worked for many years as a Creative Arts Facilitator in the Arts for Health field.
She is a poet and an artist.
Monday 12th May
10.30am – 12pm
to book email: enquiries@muditahouse.co.uk
or contact Kay on 07866 573690
Donations to Cornwall Hospice

Full programme:
https://mailchi.mp/8cbf0b1ab7f1/dying-matters-awareness-may-6420341

30/05/2024

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