Mindfulness Groups in South London
We spend our lives either in the future – planning, worrying, inventing countless scenarios, or in the past – remembering, regretting, missing, re-living. Each of those activities brings emotional responses which – it feels – are beyond our control.
Mindfulness training teaches us to develop a distance to thoughts, feelings and emotions, as something that we DO, not who we ARE.
Once we see that, we can be more in charge of our lives. By being fully aware of the present moment we take away the power, over us, of what happened in the ‘past’ and what might happen in the ‘future’.
Mindfulness practice helps with stress reduction as well as with managing chronic pain, depression, addiction, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) and some other mental health conditions
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Introduction to Mindfulness workshop
- Meditation exercises
- Mindfulness practices you can introduce to your daily schedule
- Gentle physical routines to increase awareness of your body
Introduction to Mindfulness workshop dates in 2020:
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Location: reCentre Health Balham
Cost: £30
Regular Mindfulness Meditation Group 2020:
Mindful Eating workshop
Are you often on and off slimming diets? New amazing eating plans?
Is food your friend or enemy? Or maybe a tool for punishment?
The mindfulness approach has been proved to help with maintaining weight loss and combat obesity. The main focus in not on what items of food we are ingesting, but what is our relationship with food and ourselves. This workshop will help you discover what relationship is it that you have with eating and your body, teach you how to introduce small “digestible” changes.
Mindful Eating workshop dates in 2020:
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Location: reCentre Health Balham
Cost: £30
Anger and Mindfulness workshop
Is it okay to be angry? And if so, is it okay to show it? Does being angry make me a bad person?
Mindful relationship with anger recognises that we all have the seeds of anger within us. It is an important tool to inform us that either our physical or emotional self is under attack. What we need to develop through mindfulness practice is the ability to understand how to use this information for self-protection without letting anger take over and retaliate. In our workshop you will understand the roots of your anger and how to take care of it, so it remains your trusted ally, not source of destruction.
Anger & Mindfulness workshop dates in 2020:
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Location: Re-centre Health Balham
Cost: £30
Hurry Mindfully workshop
How come life runs so fast? Always more to do ahead of you? Dreaming of more ‘me time’?
Mindfulness practice creates an opportunity to develop a new understanding of Time and how to make it work for you not against you. It offers a new way of looking at your life and what matters. This workshop will reveal a secret of how to become your own Time Lord and how to transform all your time into “me time”.
Hurry Mindfully workshop dates in 2020:
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Location: Woodfield Recreation Ground & Pavilion SW16
Cost: £20
Relationships & Mindfulness workshop
Do you feel like your relationships are often a battle between ‘being yourself’ and ‘being with’? That you are talking but not communicating?
It doesn’t have to be that way. Applying mindfulness practices of self –compassion and deep listening opens a new dimension to your relationships, and changes them from battlefields endless tug-of war sessions into a source of nourishment and support. You will learn how to listen underneath words and to communicate what you are asking for.
Relationships & Mindfulness workshop dates in 2020:
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Location: Re-centre Health Balham
Cost: £30
What is Mindfulness and how will it help?
Mindfulness training teaches us to develop a distance to thoughts, feelings and emotions, as something that we DO, not who we ARE.
Once we see that, we can be more in charge of our lives. By being fully aware of the present moment we take away the power of the past and the future over us.
Mindfulness practice helps with stress reduction as well as with managing chronic pain, depression, addiction, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) and some other mental health conditions
Mindfulness Of Body
“I live in the body, not in Mauritius, London, India or South Africa” BKS Iyengar
Most of us spend our lives in our heads – not noticing the body, our faithful servant trying to catch up with whatever our minds decide is needed. It is only when we completely exhaust our bodies and they give up in protest (called flu, eczema, back pains) that we start to pay attention to its messages.
We now know that bodies have their own intelligence – patients with transplanted organs report changes in their tastes or reaction for some time after the operation, suggesting that the organ carries the traits of character of the donor. Trauma specialists agree that memories of the traumatic experience are stored by our bodies, and recovery from trauma and PTSD includes releasing those from the body.
Mindfulness teaches us to be aware of our physical presence, to notice how our physical and emotional states are interrelated and interdependent, and ultimately to keep our bodies healthy.
