live online offerings
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All weekly Monday events are free of charge and offer an opportunity to experience ideas, reflections, practices that potentially offer a greater sense of connection, self-care and agency.
Please contact me to receive your Zoom link invite.
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Please contact me to register your interest and you receive the Zoom link to join the session(s).
You can book a block of sessions or drop-in as you wish.
Each session is one hour long and you are invited to stay another 15-20 minutes to share and socialize with the other participants.
Your first session is free of charge. If you like to continue with the sessions, I suggest a donation of £5 per session.
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See the courses listed below and explore the mindfulness-based courses that capture your interest the most.
The commencement of courses is subject to interest, and days/times can be tailored to meet your needs.
Courses typically start, once ten people have expressed their interest and have subsequently enrolled.
To express your interest, please get in touch with me.
Each mindfulness-based course offers eight weekly sessions, consisting of a two-hour session each week.
Plus a half-day retreat after week six, to deepen the practices learned.
The benefits you can experience are also dependent on cultivating your personal home practice.
Therefore, support is provided through audio guidance and the opportunity for one-on-one check-ins for you to develop your independent, sustainable practice.
Weekly meditation Fridays 10-11.30 am
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The sessions are an opportunity to start the day with guided meditations to inspire focus, self-awareness, supportive states of mind and body.
The sessions include movement, vocalization, and quiet meditation. After the hour there will be additionally time to socialize, share and ask questions.
The sessions offer easy ways into developing your independent routine by practising in a group with an emphasis on mindful presence and body awareness.
Each session will start with guided movement practice to follow with sitting meditation.
Short practices of nervous system regulation will additionally offer possibilities to deeply connect with yourself.
weekly movement Tuesdays 10-11.15 am
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An essential intention of the sessions is the understanding that we do not need to feel stuck, immobilized, possibly feel frozen.
All movements are easy, adaptable and created to inspire connection with yourself.
You are encouraged to experiment with what feels good, energising and calming. To connect directly with the experience of body and mind and notice how you can impact how you feel by moving with presence.
You are encouraged to meet yourself where you are and not having to perform or pretend.
All session aims to encourage feelings of freedom, choice, creativity, energy and balance.
Sessions practices vary to offer enough versatility and equally we return to familiar practices so that conscious movement can become integrated into day to day life.
Self-supported touch and guided relaxation form are part of the session content.
weekly self-supported touch and movement
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Self-supported touch movement and guided relaxation form the content of the session.
The intention of the session is all about feeling and sensing to create experiences of self-support, self-soothing and self-regulation.
You are encouraged to experiment with what feels good, energising and calming. To connect directly with the experience of body and mind and notice how you can impact how you feel by feeling and sensing with presence.
And to meet yourself where you are and not having to perform or pretend.
All session aims to encourage feelings of freedom, choice, creativity, energy and balance.
Sessions practices vary to offer enough versatility and equally we return to familiar practices so that conscious movement can become integrated into day to day life.
8- week course - Mindful Hypnotherapy
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Are you interested in experiencing the combined benefits of mindfulness and hypnotherapy? Enhancing your meditation and mindfulness practice while engaging with imagery and imagination that can offer additional benefits, such as improved relaxation, rest, sleep, motivation, and a zest for life.
The course is structured with a range of topics and practices.
"Mindful Hypnotherapy: The Basics for Clinical Practice" by Dr. Elkins and Dr. Olendzki, is a foundational publication in the field of combining hypnotherapy and mindfulness, and has inspired the conception of the course.
8- week course - Mindfulness-based stress reduction
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This is a very popular course that offers experiential and cognitive explorations into what causes stress, how an individual reacts and is impacted by stress, and what concepts/practices offer ease and release from automatic reactivity to allow for more choice and control.
The practices in the course invite you to become more connected to internal/external experiences in the present; learning how to attend to bodily sensations, feelings, emotions, thoughts and behaviours beneficially.
The course is grounded in the training and curriculum of the Centre of Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor and Exeter University.
Recommended reading: Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn.
8-week- course - mindfulness based eating
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The mindful eating course harnesses mindfulness approaches to explore and understand how to develop a more satisfying relationship with eating and food.
The course offers a range of practices to experience food and the process of eating and satiation with awareness.
A crucial element explored in the course is how the relationship with food is influenced by the present social environment and past influences such as childhood.
Recommended reading: Mindful Eating, Jan Chozen Bays.
8-week course - mindfulness approaches to manage chronic illness
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Mindfulness for long-term health conditions is a set of mindfulness practices, concepts and explorations to understand how long-term health conditions are affecting the individual.
The course invites you to explore what is helpful in day-to-day living to experience a more connected sense of self, potentially decreasing the perception of pain/suffering, and increasing pleasure, joy and self-compassion.
The course is partly inspired by Breathworks.
Recommended reading: Mindfulness for Health, Vidyamala Burch, Danny Penman.
overview
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Please contact me via the contact form, or email.
I will send you the details and happy to answer any questions.
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Once you register your interest and made your decision that you wish to join, I will send you the Zoom link.
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Mindfulness: £160 for the eight-week long mindfulness courses; 20 hour of live online teaching in total plus 1 to 1 support in-between the sessions.
Weekly sessions: Donation-based, suggested amount, £5 - £10 per session.
All monthly events are free of charge.
Payment: Via bank transfer.
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You are always welcome to contact me to ask your questions.