Feb232022
Latest NewsPOETRY TASTER

Thursday 10th March at 7pm Online FREE taster session with Q&A with Fay Adams

This inspiring new 5 week course starts on Thursday 31 March (7pm -8.30pm) (UK TIME)

Are you a poetry lover? In this course we’ll be hovering at the crossover between mindfulness practice and spiritual or contemplative practice. We’ll see what the words of mystics from diverse religious backgrounds – Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism – can teach us.

Poetry has a special power to reach the heart, and mindfulness can clear a space for us to be able to receive and digest the wisdom in a poem. What a marvellous combination! Letting the ancient poems of the world’s mystics into our practice may offer comfort, open the mind/heart, inspire insight or touch us where we need to feel.

Fay will take us on a journey into the mythical & mystical in her new 5 week course which begins on the 31March.

To join the taster session you can use the daily meditation link HERE 

READ MORE ABOUT THE COURSE HERE &

 

WATCH FAY’S SHORT VIDEO INTRODUCTION HERE

                             

 

                            Startled by God 

                                  Not like
                        A lone beautiful bird,
        These poems now rise in great white flocks
                    Against my mind’s vast hills
                            Startled by God
                          Breaking a branch
                             When his foot
                                 Touches
                                   Earth
                                   Near
                                    Me

by Hafiz

Author: Lisa Hellier

Originally from Glasgow, Lisa now lives in Pembrokeshire west Wales where the midges are "less ferocious". Lisa works alongside Jacky Seery in the communications department. With a BAHons in Graphic Design, Lisa has worked freelance as a designer working in many media over the years, from leaflet and brochure design, designing illustrative town and village maps, to training to work creatively with children and adults with Community Arts group Arts Alive in Crickhowell, and more recently with older members of the community mainly on collaborative textile projects. Her first visit to Samye Ling in 1992 was to spark a journey into Buddhist teachings which created a strong connection with Samye Ling. In 1994 she took the first year's Mindfulness & Compassion course which has led to her now studying on the Msc Mindfulness Studies Course run by the University of Aberdeen, where she researching the place of mindfulness in the delivery and practice of the creative arts.