Mindfulness can clear a space to enable us to receive and digest the wisdom in a poem more deeply. Since poetry has a special power to reach the heart too, combining mindfulness and poetry can open doorways that we didn’t know were there. Receiving poetry into our meditation practice may offer comfort, expand the mind,…
Mystical Mindfulness Practice Day with Fay Adams – Good Friday 2023 Do you sometimes long for more from your mindfulness practice? Do you sense that a more profound experience may be possible? Mindfulness is basic to most wisdom traditions around the globe. In these traditions it is also usually accompanied by teachings and practices that…
Poetry can reach within us and remind us of our potential to awaken. Mindfulness can clear a space to enable us to receive and digest the wisdom in a poem and poetry has a special power to reach the heart. What a marvellous combination! Receiving poetry into our meditation practice may offer comfort, open the…
Thursday 25th March at 7pm Online FREE taster session + Q&A with Fay Adams This inspiring new 6 week course starts on Thursday 31 March (7pm -8.30pm) (UK TIME) Are you a poetry lover? In this course we’ll be hovering at the crossover between mindfulness practice and spiritual or contemplative practice. We’ll see what the…
Don’t give me consolation I’m ashamed of my tears Go without looking at me I don’t want you to find me weak Go And give me the opportunity To carve for my cheek A mask of stone To hide and seek. by Dr Parween Pazhwak (Afghanistan) I recognise this feeling of exposed vulnerability and…
I am not I I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am…
Let your eyes fall easy upon me, And gaze without intention or preconceived idea of what I am. My shape is not me, as yours is not you. There is more to it than that. More to it than meets the eye, or the precept. Think more of what I may be, of what I…