Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This practice comes from the Mandala of Compassion Mindfulness Course online weekend of 21-22 February.
Find out more here
mindfulnessassociation.net/course/the-mandala-of-compassion
Many of us imagine ourselves on a path leading towards a distant point in the future where we finally ‘arrive’ and everything is sorted. What changes if you swop this image for a circular mandala? Rather than striving to move away from the present moment and the undesired aspects of our experience, we turn inward toward the centre, towards deeper presence and our innate potential.
A mandala can be understood as a symbol of our inherent wholeness. At its centre lies the still point at the heart of a turning wheel — a place of balance from which our human potential can unfold. Surrounding this centre is a compassionate field where all aspects of who and what we are can belong.
Of course, much of the time we find ourselves on the stormy outer rim of our inner mandala. Here, many different influences pull us in opposing directions. We may feel consumed by our thoughts, at the mercy of our emotions, and disconnected from our bodies. This turbulence can leave us mentally constricted and distanced from ourselves and others.
Over this weekend we will work experientially with mindfulness practice, compassionate imagery, inspiring poetry and reflective journalling to find for ourselves the way into the centre of our mandala. Then from this place of steadiness and spaciousness, we may hold the complexities on the rim with greater kindness and understanding
In-Depth Compassion Based Mindfulness Training
JOIN US FOR FREE GUIDED MINDFULNESS
Free Daily Online Guided Meditation Practice
10.30am & 7pm Monday - Friday (UK Time)
Offer yourself some time just to be still and be guided through a gentle practice.
Join us by following this link:
mindfulnessassociation.net/latest-news/free-daily-online-meditation
#Mindfulness #Compassion #MindTraining #Meditation #MastersDegree
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Mindfulness - Compassion - Insight - Wisdom - Teacher Training
• FREE EMAIL COURSE AVAILABLE - Visit our website to find out more.
• If you are struggling to make ends meet we can support you with our widening access initiative. Visit our website for more information.
At the Mindfulness Association, we recognise how Mindfulness frees us from the conditioning that governs and limits our lives. This results in the flourishing of our human potential to make choices about how we live in connection with ourselves and our world. We help people to transform their lives by training them in being present, responding with compassion and seeing deeply their habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. We do this by providing a long-term systematic training in Mindfulness for living and see this transformation at the end of every course.
Check out our (online) MSc Studies in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen:
mindfulnessassociation.net/mindfulness-courses/mindfulness-degree
This practice comes from the Mandala of Compassion Mindfulness Course online weekend of 21-22 February.
Find out more here
mindfulnessassociation.net/course/the-mandala-of-compassion
Many of us imagine ourselves on a path leading towards a distant point in the future where we finally ‘arrive’ and everything is sorted. What changes if you swop this image for a circular mandala? Rather than striving to move away from the present moment and the undesired aspects of our experience, we turn inward toward the centre, towards deeper presence and our innate potential.
A mandala can be understood as a symbol of our inherent wholeness. At its centre lies the still point at the heart of a turning wheel — a place of balance from which our human potential can unfold. Surrounding this centre is a compassionate field where all aspects of who and what we are can belong.
Of course, much of the time we find ourselves on the stormy outer rim of our inner mandala. Here, many different influences pull us in opposing directions. We may feel consumed by our thoughts, at the mercy of our emotions, and disconnected from our bodies. This turbulence can leave us mentally constricted and distanced from ourselves and others.
Over this weekend we will work experientially with mindfulness practice, compassionate imagery, inspiring poetry and reflective journalling to find for ourselves the way into the centre of our mandala. Then from this place of steadiness and spaciousness, we may hold the complexities on the rim with greater kindness and understanding
In-Depth Compassion Based Mindfulness Training
JOIN US FOR FREE GUIDED MINDFULNESS
Free Daily Online Guided Meditation Practice
10.30am & 7pm Monday - Friday (UK Time)
Offer yourself some time just to be still and be guided through a gentle practice.
Join us by following this link:
mindfulnessassociation.net/latest-news/free-daily-online-meditation
#Mindfulness #Compassion #MindTraining #Meditation #MastersDegree
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mindfulness - Compassion - Insight - Wisdom - Teacher Training
• FREE EMAIL COURSE AVAILABLE - Visit our website to find out more.
• If you are struggling to make ends meet we can support you with our widening access initiative. Visit our website for more information.
At the Mindfulness Association, we recognise how Mindfulness frees us from the conditioning that governs and limits our lives. This results in the flourishing of our human potential to make choices about how we live in connection with ourselves and our world. We help people to transform their lives by training them in being present, responding with compassion and seeing deeply their habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. We do this by providing a long-term systematic training in Mindfulness for living and see this transformation at the end of every course.
Check out our (online) MSc Studies in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen:
mindfulnessassociation.net/mindfulness-courses/mindfulness-degree
