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{\n transform: translateY(-50%);\n margin-top: 0px;\n }\n}[vc_column_text css=””]”I loved this course and it just keeps on giving! Fay introduced us to a way of being with a poem that doesn’t depend on ‘understanding’ it…instead, we each found our own response … and I continue to experience what a rich, supportive, life-changing resource poetry can be. It was a joy to be part of this group, led by Fay in such a respectful and gentle way”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”I’m a great reader but had never got into poetry until Fay read a wonderful poem during one of the evening practices. After doing her course I am a convert, now reading poetry, reading about poetry and learning some poems by heart. I am loving my poetry journey, thank you Fay.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”The mystical poetry course has been inspiring, friendly and eye-opening. Fay creates a safe environment in which to explore beautiful poems in a completely new way with like-minded souls. Highly recommended.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”Fay has opened up my whole being to poetry and Mindfulness. The course is inspiring, fun, and very useful to me in my daily life. It has opened me up to the world around me and the beautiful beings that inhabit it. I never let a day go by without inviting a poem in to support me. Thanks Fay for your wonderful facilitation skills. I have loved sharing such a kind caring space.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”I loved Fay reading the poems alive and the connections made to mindfulness and life. It was beautiful.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”There developed a lovely openness between the group.  Touching the depths of Mystical Poetry alongside a deepening into Practice.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”I particularly like talking with such a diverse group of people who are literally all over the world”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”I was fascinated by how different my responses to the poems were listening to you read them after our session of mindfulness, compared to my initial reading of them when you emailed them. I particularly loved your ideas about ways to receive a poem”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\n6 Week Online Course With Fay Adams\nLive weekly sessions on Zoom on Wednesday evenings 7pm – 8.30pm GMT\nThe online session dates are:\nWednesday 4th November 2026\nWednesday 11th November 2026\nWednesday 18th November 2026\nWednesday 25th November 2026\nWednesday 2nd December 2026\nWednesday 9th December 2026\nTo book please click ‘Book Here’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this course we’ll be hovering at the crossover between mindfulness practice and spiritual or contemplative practice, and we’ll see what the words of mystics of the past and present can teach us.\nPoetry has a special power to reach the heart, and mindfulness can clear a space to enable us to receive and digest the wisdom in a poem. What a marvellous combination! Letting the words 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. Mystical poetry can reach within us to ignite a flame that connects us to the universal and the divine.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThough these poems may sometimes use religious terminology or ideas, we will be taking their teachings as wisdom that we can each relate to in our own way.\nThe course will be exploratory, with everyone relating to the poetry from the context of their own practice, whether they would consider it spiritual or secular. As such we will hold an attitude of ‘no right or wrong’ when it comes to interpreting or understanding a poem. We will also experiment with taking the poems as meditation instructions and there will be guidance on how to do this at home between meetings. We use the word ‘mystical’ in a loose way, to include all poetry that opens us to perspectives that take us beyond the personal and towards a universal wisdom – whether we call this by the name of a deity or whether we refer to it in another way.\nEach week we will listen to poems and practise being present for a while, allowing the teachings in a poem to ferment and find their truth within us. After this we will have space either for journaling (or writing our own poem) in silence or for mindful sharing in small groups, followed by inquiry and discussion in the larger group. There will be opportunities for those who want to, to volunteer to read a poem (written or chosen by themselves) to the group at the end of the session.\nExpect poetry from Sufi, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian mystics and from others that don’t identify with a particular tradition. We’ll draw from the likes of Hafiz, Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, Saigyo, Mary Oliver, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Jeff Foster and many more.\nThis course is open to all. We welcome those with mindfulness experience or without, and those who haven’t done a Mindfulness meets Mystical Poetry course before, as well as those who have (for the latter there will be new poems).\nI am making a home inside myself. A shelter\nof kindness where everything\nis forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patch\nof sunlight to stretch out without hurry,\nwhere all that has been banished\nand buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released.\nI whisper hallelujah to the friendly\nsky. Watch now as I burst into blossom.\nExcerpt from The Most Important Thing – Julia Fehrenbacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]\nA message from Tutor Fay Adams\n\n”I’ve always loved poetry, favourite poets being Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Andrea Gibson, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Hafiz and Rilke. But in recent years I’ve developed a new relationship to it, thanks to mindfulness. I just love it when I find a poem that gives me shivers down my spine, wakes up my heart or, in Emily Dickinson’s words, feels like it lifts the top of my head off!\n\nThis course has been running twice a year for many years now and is attracting people from all over the world! It’s a lot of fun to have your way of relating to poetry opened up by witnessing the diverse responses of others. I’m so happy to witness how the groups become a very precious space of contemplation and connection. Many of the participants stay in touch and continue with long-lasting (online) friendships and ongoing meetings sharing poetry and the poetry of daily life. ”\n‘\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”34760″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/BC85fScG6j8″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/6ln7L-G_RTM” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]\n URL:https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/mindfulness-meets-mystical-poetry-november-intake/ CATEGORIES:Latest Courses,Online Courses,Themed Courses LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MINDFULNESS-MEETS-MYSTICAL-POETRY.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR