Mindfulness group term 1 2024
Eight-week mindfulness training and practice sessions, open to anyone interested in learning and practising mindfulness techniques. The sessions will cover aspects of both traditional and contemporary approaches in a practical way applicable to everyday life.
Dharma group term 1 2024
Term 1 topic: Theravada Dhamma – In this first eight-week series for the year, we explore Theravada dhamma teachings and associated contemplative meditations in the universalist Buddhist tradition.
Mindful walking group term 1 2024
Join us for weekly mindful walking. Stay up to date via our social media platforms. Please note that this is a local, voluntary and free community walking group on public land. We walk on a range of terrains with varying difficulties. Each person is responsible for their safety and well-being.
No pets, please.
5-day mindfulness and nature retreat April 2024 at Fair Harvest
Join us for 5 days of semi-silent retreat exploring mindfulness and meditations on nature through an ecological perspective. This retreat offers an opportunity to deepen mindfulness and explore meditative practices that foster a profound remembrance of our sacred relationship and place within the body of nature. Also, there is ample opportunity for rest and respite.
Mindfulness weekend retreat May 2024 at the Origins Centre
The focus of this first weekend will be on the foundations of mindfulness practice, including essential techniques for cultivating the mindful mind, including the seven-point posture, naming experience, and calming bodily formations. These techniques will be combined to form a practice pattern.
Mindful walking weekend retreat August 2024 at the Origins Centre
Become familiar with techniques of mindful walking to help you become comfortable moving mindfully across country, observing and interacting with landscape ecologies, and understanding the relational aspects of the mind, body, and environments.
5-day metta meditation semi-silent retreat October 2024 at Fair Harvest
Mettā meditation is a powerful practice that has the potential to bring healing, health, and peace into our everyday lives. Done mindfully, it allows us to hold lived experience dear in our hearts, like a good and loving friend, and to find deepening states of affection for the world.
Meditations for enriched awareness of nature November 2024 at the Origins Centre
Through mindfulness we come to a deeper awareness of our true nature and the World, Gaia, Mother Earth, all our home. This mindfulness can be enriched through training, revealing insights into the body of life and the wisdom of life’s intelligence.