What do you need, to connect with awareness more deeply? What enables the ‘one backward step’ as Jack Kornfield calls it, that opens us up to resting in the nature of our being – while at the same time staying intimately connected with the ever changing landscape of the different parts of ourselves?
These days of immersive practice offers the invitation to re-connect with the body through movement and stillness, we’ll practice responding with warmth and care to our feelings and ‘stuff’ as it comes and goes in our experience, and we can experiment with widening out into the effortless presence of our compassionate core. In this way we can welcome awareness where it’s always been, and in the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, touch in with what’s essential – ready for a new year.

The retreat will be spaciously guided and sprinkled with poetry, so we can connect in silence with ourselves, each other and the short days in the upstairs studio and winter garden of the Salisbury Centre. Come for either one or both days as works for you!

Dates: 28 and 29 December
Times: Both days start at 10am (doors open from 9.30am) and finish at 4pm.
Location: the Salisbury Centre in Edinburgh, 2 Salisbury Road, EH16 5AB
Costs:
1 day: low income £30, standard £40, pay it forward £50,
two days: low income £60, standard £80, pay it forward £100.
Don’t let the costs get in the way of coming, if they’re a problem just get in touch!
Please book by contacting me at  kristine.m.janson@gmail.com  or www.earthymindfulness.com.

Things to bring: some vegetarian food or drink for lunch to share, a shawl or blanket to be as comfy as possible during lying down practice, your favourite cushion/stool and journal if you like.