Welcome to Mindfulness-West
Join us for a Mindful Morning
Our morning sessions of lightly guided Mindfulness practice are open to anyone who has some experience of Mindfulness - or who would like a taste. They're a great way to take your practice deeper - or to reconnect if you've lost the thread. They're also a great way to catch up with fellow practitioners.
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At Mindfulness-West we offer courses, workshops, and one-to-one mindfulness coaching in Stroud, Central Bristol, Gloucester, Dursley, Cheltenham, and points beyond. We work with the general public and for work teams, in group sessions and one-to-one.
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Mindfulness opens the door to a fuller, richer experience of life. It's a way of waking ourselves from the half-life of habit, knee-jerk reaction and limiting self-views, allowing us to play a more active, conscious role in our lives.
Although drawn from the Buddhist meditation tradition, Mindfulness is fast gaining respect in the worlds of healthcare, business, the arts and sport as a way to enhanced wellbeing, creativity and resilience.
Although drawn from the Buddhist meditation tradition, Mindfulness is fast gaining respect in the worlds of healthcare, business, the arts and sport as a way to enhanced wellbeing, creativity and resilience.
In the healthcare arena Mindfulness is a recommended frontline approach to stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and more conditions.
By offering the skill of staying present to our actual, living experience of the present moment, Mindfulness opens the way to clearer, freer states of mind. Mindfulness is as natural as our next breath or our next step, yet it can bring a new quality of engagement and confidence to everything we do.
Mindfulness-West has been offering courses and workshops in Mindfulness in the Gloucestershire region for five years. We have run more than 50 'standard' eight week courses in the area, as well as workshops and bespoke sessions for teachers, social workers, carers, work teams and even, as participants in an important research project, people challenged by early-onset dementia.
Some benefits you can expect:
By offering the skill of staying present to our actual, living experience of the present moment, Mindfulness opens the way to clearer, freer states of mind. Mindfulness is as natural as our next breath or our next step, yet it can bring a new quality of engagement and confidence to everything we do.
Mindfulness-West has been offering courses and workshops in Mindfulness in the Gloucestershire region for five years. We have run more than 50 'standard' eight week courses in the area, as well as workshops and bespoke sessions for teachers, social workers, carers, work teams and even, as participants in an important research project, people challenged by early-onset dementia.
Some benefits you can expect:
- Handle difficulties without stress
- Discover the true richness of your experience, moment by moment
- Make clear, conscious choices
- Distinguish subjective thoughts from objective facts
- Listen more attentively
- Communicate more clearly
- Direct your thoughts appropriately
Here are some links to good introductory talks on Mindfulness:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAy_3Ssyqqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_If4a-gHg_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeWvf-nfpA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAy_3Ssyqqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_If4a-gHg_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeWvf-nfpA
“Mindfulness practice is vehicle that assists people in learning to tap deep internal resources for renewal. Increase psychosocial hardiness, and make contact with previously unconceived-of possibilities and ways of being. Besides well documented reductions in both medical and psychological symptoms, participants report an increased sense of self-esteem, shifts in their sense of self that afford them the ability to care for themselves while better understanding their fellow human beings, a palpable deepening of self-trust and for some a finer appreciation for the preciousness of everyday life”
From Mindfulness and Mastery in the Workplace.
Saki Santorelli, University of Massachusetts Medical School
From Mindfulness and Mastery in the Workplace.
Saki Santorelli, University of Massachusetts Medical School
