Classes, workshops and retreats
“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine. But it shines a lot brighter with like-minded souls.” Anon
Join like-minded women on a similar life journey to yours. Invest in some ‘me time’ to re-energize and reconnect to your zest for life:
- Get started with a half-day introduction to mindfulness, specifically designed for busy women.
- Join the 2BCalm women’s mindfulness group on a Monday or Saturday in Tollcross, Edinburgh.
- Extend your practice with the backpack series of half-day retreats for women with a good understanding of mindfulness and meditation.
Introduction to mindfulness for busy women
During this Saturday morning half-day retreat you’ll:
- Gain a good overview and understanding of mindfulness
- Learn simple and practical ways to include mindfulness in your daily life
- Discover the benefits of mindfulness and how it can help reduce stress levels and increase your resilience for life.
We’ll look at the key principles and how to use mindfulness, including:
- Informal practices you can use throughout your day, and
- Setting aside time for the formal practice of seated meditation.
For more information:
- Read about mindfulness meditation
- Try this free guided meditation to get a feel for the practice.
If you prefer, you can book a 1-to-1 mindfulness session with me. The session will be personalised for you. Contact me for details.
Interested in 1-to-1 coaching to reduce stress? Read about Life coaching for stress reduction.
Cost for the half day introduction to mindfulness:
£40 with early bird discount; £50 thereafter.
Date, times & venue
The next date for this half-day retreat will be Saturday 1 February 2020. The course will run from 9:30am-12:30pm at the Edinburgh Centre of Nutrition & Therapy, Tollcross, Edinburgh.
Ready to book or any questions?
Email me to register for the course; I’ll email you information on how to pay.
The size of the group is limited to six people so, to avoid disappointment, register your interest now. Places go very quickly!
The 2BCalm women’s mindfulness group
Plan a pause in your week—join the 2BCalm women’s mindfulness group to relax and reconnect to your inner silence, stillness and spaciousness. Practising meditation in a group is a wonderful and supportive way to deepen your experience of meditation.
What to expect
At the start of each class we sit for 5 to 10 minutes to allow ourselves to settle. You can choose to sit on a chair or a meditation cushion. We then have some teaching on mindfulness for around 20 minutes and then a longer sit of around 30 minutes.
Is this group for you?
We are all beginners in that each time we come to meditate we come afresh into the meditation with no expectations of outcome—always starting where we are in that moment.
If you have never meditated before, though, and you’d like an introduction to mindfulness:
- Read about mindfulness meditation
- Try this free guided meditation to get a feel for the practice
- Join a half-day introduction to mindfulness for busy women
- Book 1-to-1 mindfulness coaching with me.
Is there an evening group?
Email me if you’d be interested in hearing about an evening mindfulness group. I’ll let you know as soon as dates are available.
Costs
£10 per session if you pre-book two or more sessions (to be attended within a 4-week period), or
£15 per session if you book as and when you wish to come along to the class.
Spaces are limited, so it is essential to book your seat.
Dates, times & venue
Mondays (excluding holidays), 1:30–2:30pm
Saturday mornings (from February 2020); contact me for details)
Venue: Edinburgh Centre of Nutrition & Therapy, Tollcross, Edinburgh.
Ready to book?
What’s in your backpack?
A series of half-day mindfulness retreats for women
Within our backpacks are all the skills, experience and habits that we’ve built up over many years. Sometimes, we keep using the same strategies or maps to cope, to fix things and to make sense of what’s happening in our world. Mainly these strategies work—but perhaps the outcomes are not in tune with what we now want or desire.
In these half-day retreats, we’ll dive in deep and explore ways in which mindfulness, along with relevant techniques from other practices, can help us. The aim is to help you take stock and perhaps choose a different path in your approach or decision-making.
Are the backpack retreats for you?
The backpack series is for you if you have a good breadth of knowledge and understanding of mindfulness and the practice of meditation. This is a rolling programme, which you can join at any time. You can sign up to individual retreats or come to all of them.
If you’re new to mindfulness, here are two ways you can start learning:
- Join a half-day introduction to mindfulness for busy women, or
- Book 1-to-1 mindfulness coaching with me.
An overview of a backpack retreat
Where is your North Star?
In the northern hemisphere, humans have been using the North Star for direction for hundreds of years. We also used to have a deep sense of our direction from signs in nature. Now, we tend to rely on digital information to find our way—which is all very well if the signal is working!
But our sense of where we are—and of when to say yes, or no or maybe—also comes from within us. This even includes choices about which direction we go in—forwards, backwards, right or left. This inner sense is sometimes called our inner compass or intuition. But, as with modern digital information, if there is no signal—if we are travelling though periods that are demanding, challenging and even overwhelming—our inner sense of direction may feel more like a tunnel!
In this retreat, we explore ways in which using mindfulness and other techniques can help you restore and strengthen your connection to your inner compass, intuition, insight and wisdom.
Other retreats in the backpack series
Discovering the core essentials that will nourish and nurture you to flourish
Who else is with you in your backpack? How to recognise life enrichers and life saboteurs.
How to use the oxygen mask of compassion for yourself, with ease and grace
Cost
£40 with early bird discount; £50 thereafter.
Dates, times and venue
Backpack retreats run every other month: check out my Facebook page for details. You can sign up to individual retreats or come to all of them.
Not on Facebook? Email me for details of upcoming retreats.
Venue: Edinburgh Centre of Nutrition & Therapy, Tollcross, Edinburgh.
Ready to book?
Clients’ words
“The course calmed me, made me take stock of my present circumstances; in our busy lives we don’t often get the chance to reflect…. a safe and supportive group led by a very knowledgeable person.” L, Edinburgh
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