Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is as beautiful, it touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present he had sent you from…
Sing, my tongue; sing, my hand; sing, my feet; my knee, my loins, my whole body. Indeed I am His choir. by St. Thomas Aquinas When I rest in body awareness, I allow the field of experience which is my body to speak to me. I hold the intention to listen with gentleness. This…
Just sit there right now Don’t do a thing. Just rest. For your separation from God is the hardest work in this world. Let me bring you trays of food and something that you like to drink. You can use my soft words as a cushion for your head. Daniel Ladinsky rendition of Hafiz …
just to fall back on the grass and be just to fall down on my bed and stay to be just a being on this earth my head objects: there’s a life to be lived a path to be followed a skill to be learned a friend to be seen a change to be made…
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…
Stillness Through Movement Course with Insight practices, Qi Gong & Tai Chi 5 Weekly Evening Sessions 7pm – 9pm starting Tuesday 8th November- Tuesday 6th December 2022 With Jacky Seery This 5 week course – Stillness Through Movement with Insight continues our movement journey into deeper QiGong practices. We will explore being present in the…
Level 1 Mindfulness In Movement Course with Mindfulness, Qi Gong & Tai Chi 5 Weekly Evening Sessions 7pm – 9pm starting Tuesday 21st March- Tuesday 18th April 2023 With Jacky Seery “The body is not experienced as a solid object but as the ‘experience of sensing’, floating weightlessly like a cloud in the open, empty,…
Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now. by David Whyte A few simple words from the prolific poet David Whyte, often shared on the world wide web.…
Stillness Through Movement With Mindfulness, Compassion & Qi Gong