Retreats

Mindfulness for health

Practicing with pain, fatigue or illness

Over two non-residential weekends, we’ll be exploring how to live and practice well when affected by conditions that cause physical pain, fatigue or illness.

These conditions can be tricky to incorporate into a meditation and mindfulness practice, because we naturally don’t want to be present with difficult or painful experiences! But it is possible to gently integrate these into our practice and lives, bringing about a greater sense of wholeness and well being.

We will cover the whole Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course over these two immersive, experiential weekends. Breathworks is a secular organisation with roots in Buddhist practice that helps people living with ongoing pain, illness and stress to improve their quality of life. The weekends are open to anyone – from newcomers to experienced practitioners (it can help re-charge a flat or distracted meditation and mindfulness practice).

You’ll learn meditation and mindfulness techniques to:

• Help you be present in the body with more kindness and equanimity
• Develop a greater sense of acceptance and ease
• Help calm and soothe yourself
• Re-discover pleasure in your experience
• Prevent the recurring boom and bust cycle we can get into – overdoing things when we feel good and crashing when we feel worse – and have more steady energy levels
• Discover a sense of connection with yourself and others

Even with challenging bodies, we can learn to respond to our circumstances in each moment with creativity and choice, rather than reaction and aversion. We can learn to be kinder to ourselves and others. We can learn to connect, be present and come home to ourselves.

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