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Join this popular online course where Mystical Poetry Meets Mindfulness with Fay Adams.
Starting 27th May 26
mindfulnessassociation.net/course/mindfulness-meets-mystical-poetry
A message from Tutor Fay Adams
”I’ve always loved poetry, favourite poets being Mary Oliver, Hafiz and Rilke (amongst others). But in recent years I’ve developed a new relationship to it, thanks to mindfulness. Like many I was taught to analyse poems at school. Now instead I rest in my body and heart and allow the poem to touch me. In this way poems speak to me in a right brain way, through feeling and metaphor, before I think about it. It feels like receiving a gift! This practice is what I now share with people on the Mystical Poetry meets Mindfulness courses and participants report that it opens them up to poetry in a whole new way.
This course has been running twice a year for 3 years now and as far as I know it’s the only course which brings poetry and mindfulness together! I’m so happy to witness how the groups become a very precious space of contemplation and connection. Many of the participants from both the UK and different parts of the world, stay in touch and continue with long-lasting (online) friendships and ongoing meetings sharing poetry and the poetry of daily life. ”
Join this popular online course where Mystical Poetry Meets Mindfulness with Fay Adams.
Starting 27th May 26
mindfulnessassociation.net/course/mindfulness-meets-mystical-poetry
A message from Tutor Fay Adams
”I’ve always loved poetry, favourite poets being Mary Oliver, Hafiz and Rilke (amongst others). But in recent years I’ve developed a new relationship to it, thanks to mindfulness. Like many I was taught to analyse poems at school. Now instead I rest in my body and heart and allow the poem to touch me. In this way poems speak to me in a right brain way, through feeling and metaphor, before I think about it. It feels like receiving a gift! This practice is what I now share with people on the Mystical Poetry meets Mindfulness courses and participants report that it opens them up to poetry in a whole new way.
This course has been running twice a year for 3 years now and as far as I know it’s the only course which brings poetry and mindfulness together! I’m so happy to witness how the groups become a very precious space of contemplation and connection. Many of the participants from both the UK and different parts of the world, stay in touch and continue with long-lasting (online) friendships and ongoing meetings sharing poetry and the poetry of daily life. ”
