Online retreat day

enhance rest with compassionate awareness with an online live retreat

Hi

Here is some information about an online retreat day on 9th June.

If you are interested, please have a look here: 

It is £30 before 21 May and then £35. 

One of the things I do to support my mindfulness practice is dedicate a period of time, a morning, a day, a weekend sometimes a week or longer to practice.  This can mean going away, I often go to Gaia House  and this year I spent time at the Barn in Devon. 

I'm on a semi retreat at the moment writing for another book but in my own home.  I started doing home retreats when I was training to teach mindfulness but had a young family and it felt too much to keep going away to do sustained practice.  I worked with my supervisors to establish a process for "retreating" in the midst of my life. I found it very nourishing and helped me engage with my home and my family as part of my practice and meant I didn't have the sometimes jarring feeling we can have going from a single focus into the complexity of life.  I wouldn't be without the full retreats and still do them at least once a year but the home retreat has become part of my life. 

For many people I work with, being at home is essential and getting away is challenging.  I thought it might be an idea to share some of the practices I've written about in the book and teach on the NHS mindfulness course as a retreat day, but in a way that supports rest. 

This means winding down gently taking stock of how things are and then a deeper rest/relaxation before coming back up the gears and integrating back into the day.  There would also be an option to connect with others at lunch and at the end  if that was wished, or you could stay in silence.  There would be check in at the beginning and check out at the end but other than that we would practice.  I wont be offering any onscreen information, it will be a sharing of practice rather than theory.  There will probably be a few poems too. The practices will be recorded and I will send you information before on setting up and some follow up materials. 

If you are interested, please have a look here: retreat day info

It is £30 before 21 May and then £35. 

Best wishes

Fiona

ps other things I'm just sorting out now 

• mindfulness network for free workshop series we are going to continue monthly going forwards.  Recordings are available. 

• I am also running a couple of short sessions at the international Mindfulness conference 

• and am taking bookings to discuss a full  mindfulness course in the autumn- it will be a comprehensive 10 session  online live mindfulness based course for fatigue and run over 20 weeks and include 1;1 sessions and a retreat day.  Please Click here   to find out more and book an informal chat.