About this Event
Step away from the rush of daily life and into the calm embrace of a garden — a living, breathing sanctuary where the air feels softer, the colours feel brighter, and your nervous system can finally exhale.
Reset & Reconnect in the Garden is a deeply nourishing wellbeing session designed to help you slow down, ground yourself, and rediscover a sense of ease. Surrounded by nature, you’ll move through a series of guided practices that soothe the mind, settle the body, and bring you back home to yourself. Whether you're new to meditation and mindfulness or you just need someone else to help reguide you back to calm, this is the session for you.
What awaits you in the garden
✨ Embodied Arrival Meditation: Begin by arriving fully into your body, feeling the earth beneath you and the gentle presence of the garden around you. Let nature hold you as you settle into stillness.
✨ Why Grounding Matters: Learn why grounding is one of the most powerful tools for anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional regulation — especially when practised outdoors, where the body instinctively relaxes.
✨ What Makes Us Stressed: Explore the hidden pressures, habits, and nervous‑system triggers that keep us stuck in survival mode, and why nature helps soften them.
✨ Strategies to Reduce Stress: Discover simple, evidence‑based techniques you can use anywhere — but feel especially potent when practised in a peaceful garden setting.
✨ Breath & Sitting Meditation: Drop into a calming breath practice as you listen to the natural soundtrack around you — birdsong, breeze, leaves, life.
✨ Sounds & Thoughts Meditation: Learn to observe your thoughts the way you observe sounds in the garden: passing, shifting, never needing to be chased.
✨ Movement Meditation: Finish with gentle, grounding movement among the plants and pathways, releasing tension and reconnecting with your body in a way that feels natural, fluid, and free.
🌞 You’ll leave feeling:
• lighter in your body • clearer in your mind • grounded in the present • equipped with tools to manage stress • deeply restored by nature
Who is this for?
Anyone craving calm, clarity, connection, or simply a moment to breathe. No experience needed — bring yourself and let the garden do the rest.
If the vibe feels right afterwards, make a day of it and stay for lunch, enjoying a range of fresh and colourful foods such as Buddha bowls, flatbreads, fresh salads, and many other delicious brunch-style dishes and pub classics, catering for different diets, from vegans to meat-eaters.
FAQs about your Instructor
Rachel brings a rare blend of professional expertise, therapeutic skill, and heartfelt creativity to every MindAlive session.
A registered social worker and seasoned mental health professional, she has spent over thirty years supporting individuals and communities through some of life’s most challenging moments. Alongside her clinical background, Rachel is also a certified mindfulness coach, a Reiki Master, a colour therapist, and a trained facilitator in creative arts as therapy — allowing her to weave together science, spirituality, and creativity in a way that feels both grounded and deeply transformative.
Since 2018, Rachel has been leading MindAlive’s signature creative mindfulness retreats, where meditation, colour therapy, arts and crafts, food and even animal‑assisted practices come together to create truly unique wellbeing experiences. Her training sessions and workshops are known for being practical, accessible, and thoughtfully designed for every kind of mind — including those who are neurodivergent, easily distracted, overwhelmed, or completely new to meditation. Rachel understands that no two people are the same, and she creates spaces where everyone feels welcome, supported, and able to engage in their own way.
At a MindAlive session, participants benefit not only from Rachel’s depth of knowledge, but also from her intuitive ability to make wellbeing feel achievable. She offers simple, doable strategies for reducing stress, alongside meditations that even the busiest or most restless minds can access.
Arrive feeling burdened. Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and reconnected — with renewed optimism, purpose, and a sense of possibility.
For more information about Rachel's work, please go to www.mind-alive.co.uk or contact -07726486621
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Magic Garden, 24-26 Low Pavement, Nottingham, United Kingdom
GBP 9.38 to GBP 13.70
