Hello campers … well, hello anyone going to Glastonbury festival. As usual – and since 1986 – I’ll be offering a guided mindfulness session from between 2-3 pm up in the Healing Field. This is right up at the top of the Green Field area; turn right into the Healing Field. The field is divided […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 24th, 2014 | Comments Off on Daily mindfulness gig @ Glastonbury
I’ve gotta book with the caterers tomorrow; hope you can make it? Mindfulness Retreats
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 5th, 2014 | Comments Off on Last call for Monday’s day retreat for Mindfulness Practitioners!
There are still a couple of places left on the next course – booking up fast, so if you were still thinking about it – decide very soon and you can book from here: http://www.martinwilks.com/the-next-mbct/ And no worries if you missed it this time, the next one is starting Sept 16′th, 2014 The day retreat associated with […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 14th, 2014 | Comments Off on Next 8 week course – just one week away
On the first Wednesday come join us at the “drop-in” mindfulness practice refresher”. Woodbridge/Melton: 7 – 8.30 pm Runs from The Oval Office: Retreat & Reorientation Centre on the First Wednesday of the month. The garden venue is home to “Flexible Psychological solutions” Meetings start at 7 pm and will have the simple […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 31st, 2014 | Comments Off on “Drop-in” Mindfulness practice sessions
I am still savouring memories of the day retreat; prompted from time to time by exchanges of e-mail. It was a relatively small group, few people have met previously, yet by the end of the day there is a real sense of parting from a deep connection. An number of people commented in the debriefing […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 19th, 2014 | Comments Off on Savouring memories of the day retreat @ Otley Hall
Sunny Suffolk is presently brimming with spring, the gardens at Otley Hall bursting out with unstoppable seasonal transition and the birds singing loud their whole-hearted approval. JUST RIGHT for the upcoming day retreat! Hope you can make it – but let me know soon, caterers need to know my numbers for Saturday http://www.martinwilks.com/mindfulness-retreats If you […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 5th, 2014 | Comments Off on Last call for the Mindfulness practitioner day retreat?
When Pain Happens We suffer because we marry our instinctive aversion to pain to the deep-seated belief that life should be free from pain. In resisting our pain by holding this belief, we strengthen just what we’re trying to avoid. When we make pain the enemy, we solidify it. This resistance is where our suffering begins. – […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 28th, 2014 | Comments Off on When It Happens to Us
Mary Oliver: “I Worried” I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 26th, 2014 | Comments Off on Mary Oliver: “I Worried”
Less then three weeks to go; still some places available. TREAT yourself to a ReTREAT! Take a day-break from inter-connectivity and switch back into inner-connectivity http://wp.me/p3nw5O-cs
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 17th, 2014 | Comments Off on Next Day Retreat for mindfulness practitioners
Meditation and Poetry Traditions of deliberate attention to consciousness, and of making poems, are as old as humankind. Meditation looks inward, poetry holds forth. One is private, the other is out in the world. One enters the moment, the other shares it. But in practice it is never entirely clear which is doing which. In […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 16th, 2014 | Comments Off on Meditation, poetry (& song)