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Listening to sounds outdoors by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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An outdoor recording during covid 19 lockdown, this meditation guides  our minds to settle into hearing, we start to see that sounds perhaps have the same nature as sensations in the body and thoughts.  Simply take this time to allow sounds to arise in awareness, noticing the flow experience that arises without judgement, perhaps seeing how we can allow thoughts and feelings the same space as we give the sounds around us.

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Uddyotani explains the bigger container for experience

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Uddyotani explains the bigger container for experience

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recap of the six step process and step four - becoming a 'bigger container'

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Kindness to self meditation

Mindfulness with breathing meditation

Mindfulness in action: spend some time in the 'green circle'

Habit releaser: stop to look and listen, take in sights and listen to sounds letting them come and go.

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Dr. Russ Harris - Acceptance Commitment Therapy

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Internal Struggles (The Chessboard Metaphor) by Dr. Russ Harris

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Click to see the mindfulness Co-op facebook page

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In this workshop on 18 February, Breathworks Co-founder Vidyamala Burch and Professor Dominic (Mahaprabha) Houlder from the London Business School will dive into understanding how a state of permacrisis is impacting us and how we can equip ourselves to navigate challenges of our time.

Become a mindfulness champion through learning how to lead mindfulness and meditation practices that can brought to your workplace or your work with clients. This practical and comprehensive five-week course is held online with live sessions and group learning. FIVE FRIDAY MORNINGS

Join our free online mindfulness community for free events, courses, resources to support your practice and a chance to connect with a world-wide community of like-minded people.

Our Impact

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85% of people said they felt better able to manage their health condition since taking part in a Mindfulness for Health course

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80% of people reported an increased quality of life following a Mindfulness for Health course.

REDUCE DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

77% of people reported a reduction in depression and anxiety following a Mindfulness for Stress course

Our goal is to make mindfulness accessible to everyone. A third of places on our courses and teacher training are subsidised by our charity, and we also develop partnerships to make mindfulness accessible to the wider community.

Introduction to the Breathworks Approach

This short video gives you a powerful insight into the Breathworks approach to mindfulness and compassion, demonstrating the far reaching benefits it is having on many peoples lives.

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Breathworks - Mindfulness and Compassion Training

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In this workshop on 18 February, Breathworks Co-founder Vidyamala Burch and Professor Dominic (Mahaprabha) Houlder from the London Business School will dive into understanding how a state of permacrisis is impacting us and how we can equip ourselves to navigate challenges of our time.

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Join the Breathworks Community of Practice

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Join the Breathworks Community of Practice

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Access to resources, events, meditation drop ins, discussion.

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What is the Community of Practice?

Become a member of our free online mindfulness community for regular live practice sessions, resources to support your practice and a chance to connect with a world-wide community of like-minded people.

We invite you to join us for...

Regular practices and teachings - both from the Breathworks approach, as well as exciting explorations of other approaches to support and sustain your practice

Free courses, resources and meditations

Two live, interactive practice and learning sessions with members of the Breathworks Associate Team each month (recorded in case you need to miss a session) - Vidyamala will sometimes lead these sessions

In addition, you'll get:

A growing library of learning and practice content accessible 24/7 - including video, audio and written transcripts

A members-only discussion area where you can connect with fellow Breathworks community members around the UK and world based on shared interests

A requests area, where you can ask for a theme to be covered in our regular community sessions, or share a resource

Many other perks - including a monthly book club, and lots of new content every week

The community is available online or as an app!

After downloading the app, search for Breathworks and log in.

If you are in the Breathworks teacher training programme...

Breathworks teachers and teachers-in-training have an exclusive group in the community where we share all kinds of things about Breathworks, mindfulness & compassion, and teaching them. Just email us to request access.

Mindfulness Based Pain Management

Compassion-based Practice

Building Equanimity

Working with Emotional Pain

Trauma-sensitive Practice

Finding Joy in Everyday Life

Soothing Your Nervous System

Working with the Breath

Ways to a Better Night's Sleep

and much, much more!

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Become a member of our free online mindfulness community for regular live practice sessions, resources to support your practice and a chance to connect with a world-wide community of like-minded people.

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Continuing practice with Leeds Mindfulness Co-op - sign up for our newsletter

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Continuing practice with Leeds Mindfulness Co-op - sign up for our newsletter

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Sign up for our newsletter to receive the zoom link. We currently have online drop in meditation and check in Saturdays 9.30-10.30. We will also let you know about day retreats and future courses.

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Vidyamala's meditations on insight timer

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Vidyamala's meditations on insight timer

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Vidyamala Burch

Manchester UK

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Vidyamala Burch OBE is a mindfulness & compassion teacher, coach, award-winning author and Co-founder of Breathworks. She started meditating in 1985 following injuries that left her with chronic pain and went on to develop a Mindfulness-based Pain & Illness Management programme which has transformed the lives of thousands around the world.

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Listen to Leeds Mindfulness Co-op | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

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Read by Wayne Dyer "Walk down another street" 

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Portia Nelson Autobiography in five short chapters

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Portia Nelson Autobiography in five short chapters

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The  poem 'Kindness' by Naomi Shihab Nye and the story behind it

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The  poem 'Kindness' by Naomi Shihab Nye and the story behind it

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"Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped," Carl Sagan urged in his beautiful and timely case for moving beyond us vs. them and marrying conviction with compassion. But what does kindness mean, really, and how does it manifest?

The measure of true kindness - which is different from nicety, different from politeness - is often revealed in those challenging instances when we must rise above the impulse toward its opposite, ignited by fear and anger and despair.

That's what the poet Naomi Shihab Nye captures with grounding and elevating tenderness in her poem "Kindness," found in Words Under Words: Selected Poems (public library).

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.

In her altogether elevating On Being conversation with Krista Tippett, Nye tells the remarkable real-life backstory that inspired this beloved poem - a story that only lends more potency to the poem's message:

Complement with Ta-Nehisi Coates on our conditioned resistance to kindness, Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor on how it became our forbidden pleasure, and Einstein on its centrality in our existence.

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Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem "Kindness"

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"Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped," Carl Sagan urged in his beautiful and timely case for moving beyond us vs. them and marrying conviction with compassion. But what does kindness mean, really, and how does it manifest?

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Connection meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Mindfulness of breathing into open heart meditation

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Mindfulness of breathing into open heart meditation

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Mindfulness of Breathing into Open Heart meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Open heart meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Open Heart meditation

Connection meditation

Mindfulness in daily life: commit some random acts of kindness

Habit releaser: every now and then stop and do a three minute breathing space, take in sights and listen to sounds letting them come and go.

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Dr Theresa Dahm explains the three emotion regulation systems.

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Dr Theresa Dahm explains the three emotion regulation systems.

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Originally discussed by Prof Paul Gilbert. Dr Theresa Dahm, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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Making sense of stress with CFT’s 3 circles

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Laura S explains the 3 emotion regulation systems

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Laura S explains the 3 emotion regulation systems

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Three emotion regulation - threat, drive and contentment

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Kindness to self meditation outdoors by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Recorded outdoors on a cold morning, this breath based meditation reminds us of the heart quality of mindfulness, inviting us specifically to meet our own experience with kindness, as best we can.

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Outdoor breathing anchor meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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A simple breath based meditation, led outdoors with the sounds of the city garden. The meditation may help you connect with the world around and within during lockdown.

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Meditation 8: Kindness to self, using imagery by Breathworks-Mindfulness

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This is the second of three Kindness to self guided meditations led by Gary Hennessey to accompany 'The Little Mindfulness Workbook' written by Gary Hennessey, co-founder, Breathworks.

Meet Gary Hennessey here:
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/breathworks/founders

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Kindness to self with phrases by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff

Tuna fish get trapped in it
Legs come wrapped in it
Nylon
I like that stuff

Eskimos and tramps chew it
Madame Tussaud gave status to it
Wax
I like that stuff

Elephants get sprayed with it
Scotch is made with it
Water
I like that stuff

Clergy are dumbfounded by it
Bones are surrounded by it
Flesh
I like that stuff

Harps are strung with it
Mattresses are sprung with it
Wires
I like that stuff

Carpenters make cots of it
Undertakers use lots of it
Wood
I like that stuff

Cigarettes are lit by it
Pensioners are happy when they sit by it
Fire
I like that stuff

Dankworth's alto is made of it, most of it,
Scoobeedo is composed of it
Plastic
I like that stuff

Apemen take it to make them hairier
I ate a ton of it in Bulgaria
Yoghurt
I like that stuff

Man-made fibres and raw materials
Old rolled gold and breakfast cereals
Platinum linoleum
I like that stuff

Skin on my hands
Hair on my head
Toenails on my feet
And linen on my bed

Well I like that stuff
Yes I like that stuff
The earth
Is made of earth
And I like that stuff

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Treasure of pleasure meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Meditation of your choice and Treasure of pleasure meditation.
Mindfulness in daily life: letting in the good.  Plan for pleasure!
Habit releaser: write down 10 things you've noticed every day that have made you happy or have given you pleasure

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Recap of Doing and Being modes of mind and how we can relate to thoughts mindfully

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Narrated by: Mark Williams
Language: English

The Guest House by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
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A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

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Evening body scan meditation in the garden

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Evening body scan meditation in the garden

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Evening body scan in the garden by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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During Covid 19 isolation this practice is offered to connect with ourselves in nature, opening to all the small wonders that are also here now.

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Three Minute Breathing Space by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Mindfulness: Observing A Train of Thoughts

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Breathing anchor meditation with counting, led by Laura S

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Breathing anchor meditation with counting, led by Laura S

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Outdoor Mindfulness of Breathing with counting by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Sitting with the sounds of nature in the city. Mindfulness of breathing meditation with counting.

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Compassionate acceptance meditation by Uddyotani

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Compassionate acceptance meditation by Uddyotani

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Compassionate acceptance meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Breathing anchor or body scan meditation
Compassionate acceptance meditation

Choose one daily routine activity, take on being mindful each time you do it and notice your experience.

Practice accepting a difficult experience  - let go of resistance and see what it's like to accept your experience using the small difficult moments we all have each day.

Find ways to make peace with gravity! Notice if you are subtly pulling away from your experience - even if this is just when you are sitting in a chair or lying on the bed - and soften to it instead, settling in to the moment without resistance.

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Now try this with your own kettle!

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Evening body scan meditation in the garden

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Evening body scan meditation in the garden

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Evening body scan in the garden by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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During Covid 19 isolation this practice is offered to connect with ourselves in nature, opening to all the small wonders that are also here now.

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Mindful movements from standing or sitting led by Laura S

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Mindful movements from standing or sitting led by Laura S

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Mindful Movement by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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A series of mindful movements to accompany the Breathworks Mindfulness for Stress course

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Three Minute Breathing Space by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Mindful Mary Oliver by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Sitting in lockdown, can we open to the beauty of the ordinary that surrounds us and can enrich our lives and support wellbeing. Mary Oliver points us to the wisdom of tuning into the natural world, perhaps even more important when we live in the city.

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Body Scan Meditation or Breathing Anchor meditation once a day
You may like to try some Mindful Movement - see below
Mindfulness in Daily Life: Do one routine daily activity mindfully
Habit Releaser: Watching a kettle boil - just that! A mindful moment when you put the kettle on and the don't fill the time with other tasks - just watch or listen and be present to yourself.

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watching the sky

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Breathing anchor - see below
Body scan from last week and below
Stop and be still once an hour and notice the fluid and changing nature of thoughts, emotions and sensations.
Habit releaser: watch the sky for a while.

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Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Kaira (Official Audio)

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16 minutes led by Laura S

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Body Scan outdoors by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Breathworks body scan led by Vidyamala - saturating the body with the breath

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Breathworks body scan led by Vidyamala - saturating the body with the breath

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12 mins led by Laura S

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Outdoor breathing anchor meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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A simple breath based meditation, led outdoors with the sounds of the city garden. The meditation may help you connect with the world around and within during lockdown.

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Breathworks Breathing anchor 10 mins with counting led by Sona

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Breathworks Breathing anchor 10 mins with counting led by Sona

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12 minutes led by Uddyotani

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Mindfulness of Breathing meditation by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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This guided meditation from the Breathworks mindfulness programme and Leeds Mindfulness Co-operative introduces using the breath as an anchor for your attention during meditation.

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All the videos and ideas we use will be put here each week. Let us know what's helpful by using the like button below each post.

If you have ideas for things that could go on here just send a message to us and we will try and add it.

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Some ideas on how to be with nature

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Nature is all around us: even in the busiest of cities there can be parks, green areas, trees, birds, insects and more. Noticing nature can help us be more mindful and give our mood a boost.

Litter picking, planting trees, group walks, trips to the countryside or coast, growing seeds, exercising outside, practising mindfulness, photography groups... if you want to connect with nature, the possibilities are endless! Many of us have appreciated nature more during Covid-19 restrictions, and there are lots of ways we can still enjoy the great outdoors and boost our wellbeing as the rules are changing.

Our 7 nature themes and resources

For Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, we ran a Connect with Nature campaign. The resources we created are perfect to use if you want to support your mental health by enjoying nature. You can start with our Connect with Nature 7 day planner and then use our 7 nature themes and resources for a week.
7 day planner Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Nature is all around us: even in the busiest of cities there can be parks, green areas, trees, birds, insects and more. Noticing nature can help us be more mindful and give our mood a boost. Litter picking, planting trees, group walks, trips to the countryside or coast, growing seeds, exercising outside, practising mindfulness, photography [...]

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Lying down body scan by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Lying down body scan by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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16 minutes led by Laura H

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Body scan meditation lying down by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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A body scan meditation from the Breathworks program and Leeds Mindfulness Co-op.

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Seated body scan by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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Seated body scan by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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19 minutes led by Laura S

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Body scan (seated) by Leeds Mindfulness Co-op

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A guided body scan meditation drawn from the Breathworks mindfulness program.

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This week we suggest you try the ideas below:
A Body scan meditation once or twice a day
Stop and be still once an hour for a few moments and notice what the breath feels like.
Habit releaser: spend time in nature every day or bring some nature inside.

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6 step process Being aware of body, thoughts emotions and surroundings Awareness Weeks 1-3 and throughout the course Turning towards difficult experience in the moment Turning towards difficult From week 4 Wonder - seeking out the pleasant Seeking out pleasant From week 5 A bigger

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Click for mindfulness co-op website or scan QR code for meditations

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Click for mindfulness co-op website or scan QR code for meditations

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Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative deliver accessible mindfulness and compassion training for individuals, community groups, schools and workplaces in Leeds, Bradford, and Yorkshire. We have particular experience of working in community settings to meet the needs of diverse groups. We also have a strong emphasis on nature connection and work indoors, outdoors and online.