If you are affected by a life-limiting illness, are a carer or are living with a loss or bereavement, we are here to support you.

This session is for experienced meditators who are familiar with a regular sitting practice and that have completed Oakhaven's 6-week Introduction to Mindfulness course. Our fortnightly session, facilitated by our trained volunteer Gillian, is aimed at continuing your mindfulness practice.

The benefits of mindfulness

This skill of developing moment to moment awareness brings benefits to both our physical and mental wellbeing. Mindfulness training has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety, help better cope with physical and emotional pain, increase cognitive ability, help with memory and improve relationships.

How it works

We can easily be triggered to react to stressful situations in well-worn habitual ways, often our reactions are not helpful in the long run and can lead to further stress.

Through mindfulness practice we will develop greater awareness of thoughts, feelings, and associated bodily-sensations that are normally out of the ordinary field of perception. These can trigger these stressful patterns of thinking and reaction. We learn the skill of not reacting as we usually would and in doing so we break the cycle of triggered reactions.

What you will learn

On the course you will learn a range of formal and informal mindfulness practices which include some meditations, some gentle yoga movement practices and some cognitive exercises. This helps bring greater awareness, concentration and choice to our experience. Being part of a supported learning group is also an important aspect of learning mindfulness.

Together we will be working to change the patterns of mind that have been around for a long time and have become well-worn habits. We will only make progress with this if we put in the time and effort to learn these skills and to practice them on a daily basis. This relies on your willingness to practice regularly at home between class sessions.

The course is held every other Friday from 10am to 12.30pm, at the Coates Centre, Oakhaven Hospice.

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