It’s December: the darkest month of the year. However, rather than a time to be feared or disregarded, this phase of the year has been considered a special time that is part of the Earth’s cycle, since as far back as the Neolithic era. Traditionally, these dark days are often equated and prescribed as a…
A Message from Heather Regan Addis: I am on the train home from teaching on the second weekend of the University of Aberdeen’s MSc in Mindfulness Studies. Tired and joyful. It was an inspirational weekend with deep sharing and lots of insights arising. We were working with the limiting emotions of anger, desire and jealousy.…
Recently and during one of our Weekly Online Sits, MA member Anna Zannides shared with the group that she was about to head off for a weekend away to Amsterdam. She also shared that she was worried about keeping up her Mindfulness Practice while away. As a group, we brainstormed about ways she could bring…
Embodiment in Teaching Mindfulness was the title of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) weekend held over two days recently at Samye Ling. This was a CPD to encourage us to embody our own unique qualities as mindfulness teachers, and was created and facilitated by Fay Adams, Annick Nevejan and Anna Zubrzycki. Sadly Annick could not be…
We’re Fascinated by Words, But Where We Meet is in the Silence Behind Them Ram Dass Since the beginning of time, the human race has acknowledged the power of silence. This is no surprise when you consider that silence has the ability to punctuate a statement, express an emotion, fill a space, cause confusion, tell…
It’s often been said that Mindfulness and Compassion are two wings of a bird. You cannot have one without the other. This is especially true in times of difficulty. For a lot of people, their first introduction to mindfulness training is in part a result of searching for an approach to ease their suffering and…
Traditionally, October has been celebrated by poets and scribes for its vibrant colours and the moment of reprieve that stands between the extremities of summer and winter. It can be like a pause, a time to take stock, gather the energy and gradually make both an internal and a physical turn inwards. These colours of…
As some of you may know, we held a Summer Conference at the end of June in which B. Alan Wallace was a key note speaker, and luckily for me, part of my job is to edit the video footage of his talks. Wallace is a scholar of comparative religion and an expert on Tibetan…
The second weekend of our mindfulness course has just finished giving the beginning to something new and opening us for what is and what is going to come. It was a wonderful time of exchange, inspiration and growth. We are glad that we can be in all this together and so we’d like to express…
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