Articles and blog posts written by team members, tutors and supervisors of the Mindfulness Association about how they bring mindfulness into their lives.
Do you need support with attending a course? We offer you a warm welcome to the Mindfulness Association and hope you will benefit from our training. We believe our prices are reasonable compared to similar offerings, but we recognise the reality of social inequality and financial disparities that means “reasonably priced” means something different to…
Last week I was tutoring with Choden on theMindfulness Level 2 – Responding with Compassion Retreat. Whilst planning for one of my sessions – Sympathetic Joy – I recognised that I had experienced the total opposite. Instead of rejoicing in others joy I found myself having negative feelings about others. The feeling I had has…
This week behind the scenes basics from the MBLC Mindfulness Based Living Course – an overview from the perspective of a trainee teacher i.e. me. (Reluctant and terrified trainee teacher). There are three ways to qualify as Ready to Teach the MBLC. A: MIndfulness Level 1 > Teacher Training Level 1 ( 2 weekends) >…
TRAINING TO TEACH MINDFULNESS – THE MBLC RETREAT I don’t really want to be a teacher, I said, as I applied for the course. Fear was pulling me back, but something stronger was pulling me – compassion to share all this with others. Facing fears in the MBLC Teaching retreat, accepting, meeting and looking deeply…
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!” Rumi Have you ever experienced one of those overwhelming events in life that can only be described as ‘having a meltdown’? One of those moments when the computer in your brain turns into Hal from the film…
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In…
Self-compassion is not easy for me. I’ve been focusing on the self-compassion break this week for my upcoming MBLC teacher training retreat and I tell you this has been a tough week. Whether or not that is due to my intention this week to focus on any difficulties encountered and to apply self-compassion break ……
A while ago, after listening to an audible book (How Things Exist – which I have to say blew my mind) on a long journey, I set myself a challenge to be as mindful as possible in my daily life and to try to be kind to others no matter what is happening and how…
Today I find myself in a house in Bempton (East Yorkshire coast) with my wonderful MAHQ colleagues. We have all taken our lateral flow tests and are together in person for the first time since February last year. It is strange, but amazing to see everyone manifest in 3D rather than on a screen in…