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Trauma-informed mindful movement workshop – Day two
Building on the basic principles of safe movement that we explored in Day 1, this workshop will help you to identify the intentions and specific needs of your clients and support you to create a safe, balanced, accessible and engaging programme. What is covered? This online day intends to offer a space to discuss and create a sequence of mindful movements that will suit your population, particularly if standard mindful movement does not feel appropriate for your groups. For example, if: We will identify the intentions and specific learning to meet your clients’ needs, and support you to create a…
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Trauma-informed mindful movement workshop
In this day long workshop, we will join together in a spirit of connection and collaboration to explore the various ways in which our personal meditation practice can open to meet the challenges of the wider world, of which we are a part. What is covered? Foundations of mindful movement will include safety principles, intentions and offering guidance with graded movement. We will draw on the work of environmental activist and systems scholar Joanna Macy, as well as interpersonal and personal mindfulness practice. Building understanding, confidence and skills to bring awareness of moving mindfully to your specific population and setting.…
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My transformation with mindful self-compassion
Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, writes from the heart about her mindfulness journey and her more recent experience of Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. When I learnt how to apply self compassion, it was literally transformational for me. That’s not a word I use lightly. Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust I had done the standard eight-week mindfulness courses a number of times, getting different benefits each time. My meditation practice had been a constant, if somewhat inconsistent thread in my wellbeing recovery over a couple of decades. I’d worked…
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“How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx
Quite often we promote mindfulness as a way of feeling less stressed, less depressed, less anxious, less self-punishing. We gather ourselves around the breath, pause and let our parasympathetic nervous system activate, returning to being the self that we like being, the one that can be more grounded, calmer, kinder. I can breathe into that gnarly little knot I have become in that moment of aggravation and open to a bigger space – and feel better. But actually, I also appreciate the practice for opening up a space that lets me feel worse. In my haze of avoidance and reactivity,…