The practise “Just Like Me” is a variation of the well known loving kindness practise. It allows us as mindfulness practitioners to widen the circle of awareness to move beyond reflecting purely on our own experience and reaching out to others those that make up the common humanity that we so often speak of in…
I wake earlier, now that the birds have come And sing in the unfailing trees. On a cot by an open window I lie like land used up, while spring unfolds. Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps? Till it seemed men never go…
enter your sadness with open eyes curious and intrepid knowing it has purpose remove the partition between it and the beautiful and mingle its darkness with the light of time until your heart is enlarged into a great globe of being that cannot but glow by Maria Popova Maria Popova wrote this poem as a…
These days when I listen deeply to another I imagine holding a beautiful bowl in my lap. Often I chose a large Tibetan singing bowl. At other times only knotty wood will do. I embrace the round receptacle And simply hold it, A safe container That others can fill with their truth, Even when the…
The Springer Mindfulness Journal has published the second article of the Mahamudra and Mindfulness Series, written by Mindfulness Association tutor and Buddhist monk Choden. As with the first article, Choden explores a central tenet of Mahamudra teaching – this time compassion – and how it is central to modern mindfulness practice. Compassion is fundamental to the work…
I want to give you something necessary as rain and lasting as honey, something useful as a spoon, something helpful as wheels. Sometimes it feels so inadequate to offer you a poem, a prayer, the small light of a candle, a hammock woven only of blessings. Still, as you meet these difficult hours I wish…
It’s like the scent of rain after a month of drought, the way it rises up and fills the lungs, quiets the body and gentles the mind – that’s what it’s like when, after grasping and spinning and reaching and clenching at last, exhausted with my own fear, I lay my hand on my own…
Mindfulness Level 2 – Responding with Compassion DETAILS If you have completed an 8 Week MBLC course or our Level 1 Mindfulness training you can book onto this course and begin your journey into compassion. “The practices given are lifelong tools which everyone should be aware of” This course starts with building self-compassion into basic mindfulness…
Tutors: Kristine Janson and Jan Mayor Dates: 19-24 February 2027 Booking info: Please contact info@mindfulnessassociation.net for the booking link. Times: The retreat starts at 7pm on Friday 19th February, runs from 9.00am-18.00pm (Saturday- Tuesday) and finishes at 13.30pm on Wednesday 24th February 2027. Location: Online via Zoom Cost: £530.00 which can be paid in five monthly instalments of £106.00. If you…