If you’d like to deepen your mindfulness practice with a supportive and welcoming group, led by an experienced Oxford Mindfulness teacher, why not join our online Day of Practice?
The session is 5 hours and includes guided sitting, standing and movement practices of up to 30 minutes in length, and some extended periods of silence.
Typically, each Day of Practice has a theme based on one of the attitudes we explore as part of both mindfulness practice and everyday experience. For example, non-judging’, ‘patience’, ‘letting go’ etc.
The theme for this Day of Practice is Acceptance
The practices won’t be exclusively about that attitude, but may be explored with have a ‘flavour’ of the theme for that day. This might mean exploring ‘non-striving’ as part of the body scan or ‘allowing’ in a movement practice.
The Day of Practice is designed for those with an existing mindfulness practice, as well as teachers (or trainee teachers) of mindfulness-based programmes. It meets the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) Good Practice Guidelines by contributing towards annual retreat requirements.
What you’ll learn:
• Develop deeper insight into moment-by-moment experience.
• Recognise more clearly the habits of the mind and how we might work more skilfully with these.
• Revisit and deepen learning from familiar mindfulness and some less familiar practices.
What to expect on this retreat
The day includes guided sitting, standing and movement practices of up to 30 minutes, and some extended periods of silence.
- The day lasts for 5 hours, including a longer break in which you’re invited to continue to practise while eating a meal or engaging in other activities during the break.
- You’ll be led by our experienced teachers with a deep knowledge of mindfulness and extended experience of leading days of practice with groups
Entry criteria – who is this retreat for?
You can join our Day of Practice if you:
- Have completed at least 6 weeks of a recognised 8-week mindfulness course, led by a teacher in-person, or live online.
- OR are a teacher, or trainee teacher, of a mindfulness-based programme.
- Are able to speak and understand the English language (both spoken and written) to a level where you can fully take part in the course without the need for additional translation support.
