Name: Retreat: Deepening and Extending the Foundations of Mindfulness - (in-person) with Rebecca Crane
Start: 2024-09-27T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-27T15:00:00+01:00
Location: The Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow

Retreat: Deepening and Extending the Foundations of Mindfulness - (in-person) with Rebecca Crane

When: 27 Sep 2024 - 2 Oct 2024
Where: The Nightingale Centre, Buxton
Tutors: Rebecca Crane, Jaya Rudgard
Apply here: https://booking.mindfulness-network.org/course-information/?id=1022
What’s involved?
This retreat will place emphasis on the core intention of all mindfulness practice – to reduce suffering through recognising unhelpful habit patterns and perspectives and releasing tendencies to cling to them. We will draw on all three of the main underlying methodologies of mindfulness practice: stabilising, kindness and insight practices. The early part of the week will emphasise practices and teachings that aim to establish calmness and stability of mind, and the intentional cultivation of kindness as an attitude towards all experience. We will then introduce insight practices using the Buddhist psychological framework of the three characteristics of existence as ‘ways of looking’ at experience. These insightful ways of looking, supported by stability and kindness, can enable us to discover a growing sense of ease, agency, and freedom in our lives.
We will consider how these teachings and practices can resource us both personally and collectively, and how the contributions we each make through our work in the world can be nourished by this sustained engagement with practice.
Whilst having their roots in Buddhist psychology, the themes, teaching, practice guidance and explorations will be presented in terms of their application to contemporary mindfulness programmes such as MBSR and MBCT.
There will be periods of instruction and teaching, guided and self-guided meditations, and in the latter stages of the retreat some carefully facilitated contemplative inquiry in dyads or triads. We will also offer regular gentle mindful movement drawn from qigong and yoga to understand how body, heart and mind can support one another in the cultivation of the qualities we are exploring. No particular level of health or fitness is required.
Apply here: https://booking.mindfulness-network.org/course-information/?id=1022