Workshop Program — Sunday June 21

Morning Workshops: 9.30am - 12.30pm
Timothea Goddard: The Heart of Inquiry — Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Petrea King: The Point of Stillness
Janet Lowndes: This Body, This Breath, This Moment: Embodied Strategies for Being Here… Now
Andrew Wells: Meditations for people who can’t quiet their minds
Afternoon Workshops: 2.30 - 5.30pm
Dr Craig Hassed: Mindfulness — science, practice and philosophy
Phillip Stevens: Body, Breath - Blissful Sleep
Dr Chris Walsh: Day to day mindfulness
Paul Wilson: A Quiet Introduction

Workshop Information

Morning Workshops

Timothea Goddard: The Heart of Inquiry — Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

How do we find peace and skilful action in the face of inner and outer difficulties? Drawing on wisdom from this evidence-based and inspiring program we will explore how mindfulness offers us a method for bringing non-judgemental curiosity to every experience — be it joy, sadness, contempt, a headache or a heartache — leading to a more spacious and well-lived life.

Petrea King: The Point of Stillness

We spend a great deal of time and money accumulating training and skills when really, we are the gift. These skills and training help deliver the gift of our presence, but our real value lies in our ‘being’ rather than in our ‘doing’. This workshop explores how we can be present with one another in stillness — creating a healing connection that is greater than the sum of its parts. 

Janet Lowndes: This Body, This Breath, This Moment — Embodied Strategies for Being Here… Now

This workshop will introduce yogic strategies designed to bring body, breath and mind together in an embodied approach to meditation. We will explore practices for bringing greater awareness to your life at any moment.

Please dress comfortably to allow movement.

Andrew Wells: Meditations for People Who Can’t Quiet Their Minds

Whether you’re an advanced meditator or a novice with a mind that won’t stop, you’ll thoroughly enjoy this back-to-first-principles approach to making your meditation easy. From here, you’ll discover that meditation is ideal for a fast recharge at work or a deliciously soothing break at home, and you’ll go on to explore fascinating guided meditations to transform the forces creating painful emotions, limiting thoughts or physical disease into potent, positive states of wellbeing and confidence.

Afternoon Workshops

Dr Craig Hassed: Mindfulness — Science, Practice and Philosophy

Mindfulness-based therapies are attracting the most research and clinical attention of any form of meditative practice. Mindfulness is at once a form of meditation, a way of living and a foundation for psychotherapy. This workshop will explore mindfulness-based therapies for personal and professional use from the perspectives of practice, philosophy and science.

Phillip Stevens (Swami Samnyasananda): Body, Breath - Blissful Sleep

Meditation is associated with relaxation, increases in parasympathetic activity and decreases in sympathetic activity, but not all meditation techniques are the same and each can have a different outcome. For example, meditating by focusing on a candle flame can produce significantly higher levels of melatonin. This workshop will explore Yoga Nidra and Brahmari meditation for reducing stress and Tratak meditation for boosting melatonin levels and better sleep.

Dr Chris Walsh: Day to Day Mindfulness

This workshop will include mindfulness exercises and discussion to highlight how we can integrate mindfulness in our day to day lives. Some of the areas covered include:

Paul Wilson: A Quiet Introduction

This workshop is about a state that has all sorts of names, but which I call The Quiet. It will be experiential and experimental. Maybe it will simplify your meditation practice; maybe it will be a pleasant few hours of nothing. Think of it as a mini-retreat. No Powerpoint. No agenda. No courseware. No need to take notes. If you feel relaxed, involved and inspired at the end of it, we will have succeeded.