Easter Practice Day: Mystical Poetry and Mindfulness for the Love of Nature
Easter Practice Day- Mystical Poetry and Mindfulness for the Love of Nature
with Fay Adams on Friday 18th April 2025 10.00am-16.00pm
On this day of nourishing retreat we will receive life lessons from poetry that connect us to the natural world. Many poets past and present look to the natural world for solace and joy. They draw our attention to delighting in the abundance and intelligence of our beautiful Earth. They also turn to the natural world to find a sense of expansion and oneness with the mystery of life, which may be hard to find elsewhere. So let’s discover how poetry of nature can comfort, restore and energise us, setting us to rights as we take refuge from the distractions of daily life.
The poems themselves will be enough to transport us into the natural world (in our imagination), however for those who want to and have an outside space available, there will be the invitation to listen to a poem and then move outside to walk or sit, or even to set up outside for the whole day if your technology and environment allows (weather permitting of course).
Tanka by Saigyo
As dew
on the grass blade
that quivers with every touch
let my heart hold
still and unscattered
