Courses and Follow-up Events: London (UK) and Coffs Harbour (Australia)

All our planned forthcoming courses in and around London (until 2009 autumn) are now full. Dates for the next Meditation Maintenance evening is 14 July, 7-9pm. If you would like further info, or to be informed of future course dates and details, email Anna at anna.black@btinternet.com.

If you would like to be informed of mindfulness courses in Coffs Harbour (NSW, Australia) in 2010, click here to register your interest.

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is about being awake to the thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they occur right now. So often we tend to live in the past or the future, forgetting that the only time we experience life is in each moment as it unfolds. We tend to react to events in habitual patterns that we have developed over time; we often fail to notice the sensations of the breeze on our face, the tension building in our necks, the rich sounds of life around us. If our minds are always miles away rather than right here, we can not only miss the multitude of moments that make up our life, but we can also fall prey to unnecessary stress and suffering, and can find ourselves in a low mood without even knowing how we got there.

Being with things as they are both requires and fosters various qualities which develop with practice. One of the most important of these is nonjudging, so that no matter how challenging our experience may be, there is always an acknowledgement of and opening to how things are. This way of being tends to result in different ways of seeing and being, and to deep levels of calmness, equanimity, and healing.

Mindfulness is cultivated by deliberately paying attention to that which we would usually not notice. Formal meditation can be practised through sitting, lying, standing and moving. These practices offer us the opportunity to stop and see what is going on, to recognise our habits of thought, our constantly fluctuating feelings, and what we are drawn towards and what we avoid. They also gives us the chance to practise developing qualities of stillness, patience, openness, acceptance and letting go.


home mindfulness-based stress reduction courses about us further reading frequently asked questions participants' feedback links contact details It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. e.e. cummings	Courses and Follow-up Events: London (UK) and Coffs Harbour (Australia) All our planned forthcoming courses in and around London (until 2009 autumn) are now full. Dates for the next Meditation Maintenance evening is 14 July, 7-9pm. If you would like further info, or to be informed of future course dates and details, email Anna at anna.black@btinternet.com. If you would like to be informed of mindfulness courses in Coffs Harbour (NSW, Australia) in 2010, click here to register your interest. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is about being awake to the thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they occur right now. So often we tend to live in the past or the future, forgetting that the only time we experience life is in each moment as it unfolds. We tend to react to events in habitual patterns that we have developed over time; we often fail to notice the sensations of the breeze on our face, the tension building in our necks, the rich sounds of life around us. If our minds are always miles away rather than right here, we can not only miss the multitude of moments that make up our life, but we can also fall prey to unnecessary stress and suffering, and can find ourselves in a low mood without even knowing how we got there. Being with things as they are both requires and fosters various qualities which develop with practice. One of the most important of these is nonjudging, so that no matter how challenging our experience may be, there is always an acknowledgement of and opening to how things are. This way of being tends to result in different ways of seeing and being, and to deep levels of calmness, equanimity, and healing. Mindfulness is cultivated by deliberately paying attention to that which we would usually not notice. Formal meditation can be practised through sitting, lying, standing and moving. These practices offer us the opportunity to stop and see what is going on, to recognise our habits of thought, our constantly fluctuating feelings, and what we are drawn towards and what we avoid. They also gives us the chance to practise developing qualities of stillness, patience, openness, acceptance and letting go.
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