Mudita Salus CIC

26/01/2026

Nowt better than a walk in nature 🌿🥾

26/01/2026

February marks 1 year of our National Lottery funded FREE Connect3 walks
Why not join us for these slow paced, short distance nature and human connection walks?

Monday 2nd Feb 3pm - Weston Woods
Monday 9th Feb 3pm - Portishead Ecology Park/Nature Reserve
Monday 16th Feb 3pm - Winscombe and Sandford Award Land
Monday 23rd Feb TBC - Portishead Sculpture Trail

We always finish with free refreshments ☕️🍪

More information here
https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/connect3

Book on here (it's free!)
https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/events/connect3-weston-feb

02/01/2026

✨ Still time to join our Vision Board Workshop ✨

If the start of a new year has you thinking about what you want more of, more calm, clarity, balance, or direction, our Vision Board Workshop offers a gentle space to explore that.

We’ll begin by reflecting on the year just gone, using the YearCompass workbook to help you notice patterns, lessons, and what really matters to you. From there, we’ll move into creating a vision board that reflects your values, intentions, and hopes for the year ahead.

This isn’t about forcing goals or setting rigid resolutions. It’s about slowing down, listening inward, and creating something meaningful you can return to throughout the year.

🗓 Sat 3 Jan 2026
⏰ 1:30–4:30pm
📍 Private wellbeing studio, Winscombe
👥 Small group
💷 £35 / £28 low income

There are still a few spaces left, and we’d love to welcome you if this feels like the right moment for you.

🔗 Find out more and book here:
https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/events/vision-board-workshop-2026

A gentle pause. A clear intention. A supportive start to the year. 🌿✨

01/01/2026

This afternoon we braved the bracing cold to welcome in the New Year with a 5-mile Connect3 walk around the Sand Bay area 🌬️✨

We hadn’t quite anticipated that so many others would have the same idea, and car parking proved to be a bit of a hurdle. Our apologies to anyone who hoped to join us but couldn’t find a space, thank you for your patience and understanding.

Once we set off, we followed quiet footpaths across open countryside towards the serene Woodspring Priory, surrounded by farmland, winter fields, and gentle streams making their way to the sea. From there we headed out towards Sand Point, before looping back to our starting point at Sand Bay.

Along the way, we paused to reflect on nature’s way of letting go and creating space - bare branches, open landscapes, and wide skies - using these as soft metaphors for our own reflections at the turning of the year.

Cold cheeks, numb fingers, steady footsteps, shared moments, and a real sense of connection. A powerful way to begin the year together 💚

Sign up for our upcoming walks here: https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/events

01/01/2026

We’re starting the New Year with a bang ✨
Our New Year’s Day Connect3 walk is sold out, with a long waiting list – thank you for such a heartfelt response.

If you missed out, you’re very welcome to join us on our regular Connect3 wellbeing walks, which are shorter, gentle, and open to new joiners at any time. They’re a simple way to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself, others, and nature as the year begins.

January walks (3pm):
🌿 Monday 5 January – Weston-super-Mare
🌿 Monday 12 January – Portishead
🌿 Monday 19 January – Winscombe & Sandford

You don’t need any experience, just a willingness to walk gently and take things at your own pace.

More details here:
https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/connect3

A new year doesn’t have to start fast – it can start grounded, together, and outdoors.

30/12/2025

Exciting teaser!
Mudita Salus CIC barely survives financially, once you take away the grant funding for our Connect3 walks, insurances, memberships, running costs etc.
So, in April, we are going to do a fundraising walk (you know we love a good walk) but this one is BIG!
22 MILES looping around Winscombe (and beyond). All to be done in 1 day 🤪

Keep a look out for updates, and of course, we'll be seeking donations for our Community Interest Company and you will be welcome to join us for some or all of it, whatever calls you!

28/12/2025

Our Vision Board Workshop is a chance to pause, reflect, and gently shape what you’d like 2026 to hold — without pressure or perfection.
📍 Winscombe�🕰 Sat 3 Jan 2026 | 1:30–4:30pm�👥 Only 6 spaces available

28/12/2025

If anyone wants to know what makes Kim and I tick, its beautifully worded by Kim in the blog within this post. Well worth reading! We need to reimagine society and how we connect to each and everyone ❤️

Are antidepressants really solving the root of our mental health struggles; or are we missing something far deeper?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways we’re told to manage mental health, and it’s made me pause.
Reading Sedated and Lost Connections has highlighted something I’ve long sensed: we’re often encouraged to rely on medications as the main answer, yet research shows their effectiveness, especially for mild to moderate depression, may be far less than we’ve been led to believe. Much of it, according to Irving Kirsch’s studies, comes down to the placebo effect.

It’s not that medications have no place - they absolutely can help in severe cases, but the dominant narrative often misses something crucial: depression and anxiety are deeply tied to disconnection. Disconnection from meaningful work, community, purpose, and even nature itself. When society focuses on pills instead of connection, we lose sight of the broader causes of our distress.

In my latest blog, I’ve been reflecting on this alongside societal pressures highlighted in Sedated, and on stories like Charles Eisenstein’s A Gathering of the Tribe. I explore how these pressures, and the way mental health is framed, point us toward a different kind of solution; one rooted in slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and remembering the wisdom that’s always been there.

It’s an invitation to consider: what might healing look like if we focus less on medication as a fix, and more on connection, presence, and the simple, relational practices that nourish us?

Read the full reflection here: https://www.naturally-mindful.co.uk/blog/returning-to-what-we-already-know

24/12/2025

I used to think vision boards were just about choosing nice pictures and hoping for the best... kind of like mood boards.

And honestly? When I first tried them that way, it felt like nothing really shifted for me.

What I’ve come to understand is this:
a vision board isn’t about what looks good on the wall... it’s about what moves something inside you.

The most powerful vision boards aren’t focused on “having more” or ticking boxes. They’re rooted in clarity, intention, and emotion about who you are and who you want to be. They work when the images and words you choose reflect how you want to feel, not just what you want to achieve.

When a vision board connects to your deeper why, it starts to gently guide your choices.
It helps quiet the mental noise.
It makes your next small step feel clearer.
It becomes something you return to, not out of pressure, but out of reassurance.

Without that deeper reflection, a vision board can easily become just pretty decoration.
With it, the board becomes a quiet companion, nudging you towards aligned action, one gentle step at a time.

If you enjoy journalling, reflection, manifestation, or intentional living, vision boards can be a surprisingly powerful form of self-care, especially when you slow down and really listen to what you’re being drawn towards.

And if you’d like to experience this in person, we’re hosting small, cosy Vision Board Workshops in our Winscombe studio, with just 6 spaces per session, so there’s room to breathe, reflect, and create at your own pace. 💛

https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/events/vision-board-workshop-2026

23/12/2025

This is your permission to pause.

Begin the New Year gently, with fresh air, wide horizons, and supportive company.

We’re hosting a Connect3 Extended Walk on New Year’s Day, taking in Sand Bay, Woodspring Priory and Sand Point, a steady coastal circular walk of around 5 miles.

This isn’t about resolutions or fixing yourself. It’s about slowing down, noticing what’s around you, and walking alongside others in a calm, welcoming group. Along the way, we’ll pause occasionally to connect with nature in simple, reflective ways; noticing beauty, engaging the senses, and finding moments of meaning and calm.

🗓 Thursday 1st January 2026
🕜 1:30pm – approx. 4:30pm
📍 Sand Road Car Park (Bus Terminus), BS22 9UE

Open to anyone, no experience needed. Just come as you are, dressed for winter coastal weather.

If you’re looking for a grounding, thoughtful way to start the year, you’d be very welcome to join us. 🌿
https://www.muditasalus.co.uk/events/new-years-day-connect3