Meditation
Meditation & Breathwork Courses
5 Weeks covering different styles of meditation:
The aim of these 5 weeks is to introduce a variety of meditation styles, enabling you to develop a practice which suits you.
Each session will be 1 hour long
Each session will consist of a variety of different meditations, starting with short meditations and building to longer ones. There will be short periods of teaching and discussion.
Week 1: Introduction; 3 simple breath meditations.
Week 2: Different styles of meditation; visualisation, mantra, body scan.
Week 3: Mindfulness & Gratitude, including a loving kindness practice and a gratitude practice.
Week 4: Breathing techniques: including box breathing and 4-7-8 for insomnia.
Week 5: Bringing it all together, including a silent meditation.
Benefits:
Daily meditation has many benefits to both physical and mental health, this is backed up by centuries of human experience, and more recently scientific studies.
Probably the most well-known benefit of meditation is stress and anxiety reduction.
Meditation can decrease depression.
Meditation improves concentration.
Meditation can help cure insomnia.
Physical health benefits include lowering of the heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure.
Meditation can also be a tool to fight addiction.
With Kirsteen Leake | Fridays | 4.30pm | 60 mins
£40 for 5 weeks or £10 per drop-in session
5 sessions- join any time