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November 2018
A Meditative Approach to Anxiety in Edinburgh
What this course is about This November we're exploring the meditative approach to anxiety in Edinburgh. Anxiety is a ubiquitous human experience. And part of the reason it's so problematic is that we demonise it and don't know what to do with it. It helps if we understand how anxiety works in our bodies and develop embodied tools to tolerate it. And embodied meditation gives us exactly that framework. We can learn to have a different relationship with anxiety. The…
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YORKSHIRE TENDER HEART RETREAT
Alistair is back in Yorkshire for a 4-day Tender Heart retreat Following the wonderful weekend course in March 2017, Alistair is back in Yorkshire to lead a 4-day retreat at Londesborough Lodge. This course is looking to 'tenderise' our hearts- so that we can work skilfully with our own emotions and - most importantly - with the humans and beings we come into contact with in our life. A deepening retreat exploring the somatic path of the heart This Spring…
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Practicing Embodied Meditation in Edinburgh – Part 3
Alistair is back teaching embodied meditation in Edinburgh. Following two sold-out courses in 2019, Alistair Appleton is back in the Scottish capital running a third course on embodied meditation in Edinburgh. This is a consolidation of some of the work we have looked at in parts one and two. Based on his work as psychotherapist and his studies with the American Dharma teacher, Reggie Ray, Alistair is leading a further weekend exploring the field of 'embodied meditation'. It will be…
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Yorkshire Compassion Retreat – Loving All Our Parts
Alistair is back for a 4-day Yorkshire Compassion retreat Following last years Tender Heart retreat, Alistair is back to lead a 4-day Yorkshire Compassion retreat at Londesborough Lodge in Scarborough. The focus of this retreat is "Loving All Our Parts" - the somatic meditation of 'maitri'. This 4-day intensive practice course is designed to deepen the somatic path of the heart. This Spring week will be a chance for meditators to experience the somatic path of the heart based on…
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