CALM PATHS
Newsletter
Issue 1 – August 2021
I hope you are keeping well and that you are looking forward to enjoying the long weekend ahead. Whether your plans for the Bank Holiday include going for a walk, cooking your favourite food or sleeping a lot, I hope that you will make time to pause, relax, and nourish yourselves with the things that bring you joy!
A SIMPLE PATH TO MINDFULNESS
The appealing thing about Mindfulness is that it is a technique you can learn yourself and practise to continuously enhance your own health
Living with pain, illness and stress is challenging. Through a lens of kindness, compassion and acceptance The Breathworks approach that I am sharing with you, following receiving a teacher’s accreditation, brings a softer focus to pain and suffering. Drawing on my own personal experience, having lived with a health condition and experienced many stressful times during periods of my own life, as a participant, you will be guided through practical and proven techniques to empower and support you through your own journey to wholeness and healing. Over the 8 weeks, to the very best of my ability, I will show you how the benefits of mindfulness can bring a different kind of healing so that the mind- body can be calmed, focused, refreshed and renewed.
THE BREATHWORKS COURSE
Each course itself requires 20 minutes of meditation per day, in addition to a little reading every week, and a weekly group session. The sessions will consist of 20 hours of class time over the 8 weeks, including guided meditation, in-depth teaching on the practices and techniques, discussion, opportunities for questions, and help with your home practice.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
- The skill of meditation
- Mindfulness and self-compassion skills in your daily life
- To live in the present moment and breathe into your experience, rather than tensing against it.
- How mindfulness can help you to manage and live well with pain and chronic health conditions
- Supportive mindful movement practices
- Greater concentration and focus
- The art of taking joy in simple pleasures
- Transformative body and breath awareness for relaxation, tranquillity, and to let go of tension
- Pacing and learning how to break the ‘boom and bust’ cycle.
WHAT WILL I GET WITH THE COURSE?
- 8-weeks of practical skills – 20 hours of class time
- A balance of teaching, questions and discussion, and guided meditation
- Daily home meditation practice of 20 mins a day
- Guided meditations CD / MP3 downloads
- Teaching and practices to help you develop mindfulness and self-compassion, and to relieve pain and anxiety.
- A mindfulness teacher to answer your questions and guide you through difficulties every week
- A supportive peer group of those on the course with you
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Read what some of the participants have said following the completion of the 8- week Mindfulness for Health online course –
“I cannot recommend this course enough. Lisa was a wonderful facilitator who is very committed to her practice. She shares her knowledge with enthusiasm while she gently guides you to places within yourself that you never knew existed. Appreciation of the natural world, kindness and compassion for yourself and others, acceptance and a host of meditations to enrich your day and just the tip of the iceberg. Thank you Lisa for the gift of sitting quietly and just being. My life is all the better for having had you in it”
Ann McVeigh, Co. Louth
“The course has helped me to become more aware, kinder and to be a more resilient person. I look forward to continuing to implement, on a daily basis, the skills and toolkit that I have gained through mindfulness and breathing practices.”
Paula Connolly, Co. Dublin
“After completing this course, I have become significantly kinder and gentle with myself and as a result to others too”
Frances Walsh, Co. Louth
Both Breathworks courses will recommence in September 2021, with a blend of in person and online training options. I am very excited and privileged to say that I will be facilitating these courses in The Shaolin Buddhist Temple, which is located in Slane, Co. Meath. I can’t think of a more suitable indoor/outdoor location to facilitate these courses, than in their Feng Shui garden or outdoor training area!
As soon as I have organised the details I will let you know. If you have interest, you are unsure or would simply just like to be kept informed please drop me a email and we can to arrange a time for a chat about the course requirements and your needs. Lisa@calmpaths.ie
WHAT NOW?
NEXT DATE – 15th August 2021, further Dates TBC
ABOUT THE SESSION
These sessions are run in a warm and friendly group setting. You will be given an introduction to what mindfulness is, how it is practiced, and guided through some short practices and a meditation. Following a tea break, we will embark on a complimentary mindful walk and forest bathing experience.
Come away with some simple practices to help you incorporate mindfulness into your daily life, as well as some suggestions for the next steps to take on your journey with mindfulness.
This taster session will be held OUTDOORS , under the safe canopy of a Norwegian tipi, a wonderful community space that allows for sitting indoors and outdoors simultaneously, located in the private Rosemount gardens, alongside the enchanted Nanny riverscape.
Rosemount gardens are located 10 minutes drive from Drogheda Town and 35 minutes drive from Dublin, just off the M1
How better can you experience nature, shelter from the elements and share the elemental comfort of an open fire while practicing and learning skills for mindfulness and meditation?
FOREST BATHING
It’s coming up to the end of our first year running the Forest bathing sessions in the private grounds of Beaulieu House Estate,
I want to take the opportunity to thank all the wonderful forest bathers that have visited Beaulieu over the last year and especially Cara Konig-Brock for her kindness in opening up the garden and woodland, sharing this magical Land with us.
“A gorgeous morning, totally immersed in nature, a gentle re-connection with the earth, a reminder of how simple it is to take some time away from technology and everyday busyness. I felt nurtured, soothed and restored and had good energy the following day, thanks Lisa a real treat, I will be back”
Trish Hacket, Co. Dublin