Mindfulness &
Embodied Presence
Courses
Mindfulness & Embodied Presence Courses
FULLY, FREELY, FEARLESSLY
St Werburghs Community Centre,
BRISTOL
Four-week evening course plus a two-day weekend retreat.
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Van-Life Mindfulness & Embodied Presence Course ONLINE
Six-week course
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Course Content*
Week 1: Mindfulness of Breath & Introduction to Mindfulness
Week 2: Mindfulness of Body & Introduction to Embodied Presence
Week 3: Mindfulness of Three Habitual Ways of Meeting Experience: Like (Demand), Don't Like (Defend), and Uninterested (Distract)
Week 4: Mindfulness of Emotions: Working Skilfully with Emotion
Week 5: Mindfulness of Thought: From Lost in Thought to Knowing Our Thoughts with Kindness & Working Skilfully with the Inner Critic
Week 6: Heartfulness: Cultivating a Loving Presence & Working Skilfully with what Obscures our Kindness and Love
*The four- and six-week courses have the same content. The deepening retreat covers content that is covered in the final two weeks of the six-week course.
Session Content
Each week includes short periods of teaching, simple experiential Mindfulness practices, interactive exercises, optional mindful movement, and sharing how your practice is going.
Between classes there will be short practices to do daily at home.
Example Evening Schedule
1800 - 1810 Introductions & Optional Sharing
1810 - 1830 Teaching on week's theme
1830 - 1840 Intro to Meditation Practice
1840 - 1855 Meditation (sitting)
1855 - 1900 Questions & Discussion
1900 - 1910 BREAK
1910 - 1920 Teaching on week's theme
1920 - 1940 Experiential/Walking Meditation
1940 - 1955 Questions & Discussion
1955 - 2000 Home practice instructions
"[the course] was beautifully held and the teachings offered skilfully and personally. Thank you Aubrey."
"Aubrey created and held a wonderfully intimate space, and this distinguished this course from others.
Aubrey's teaching style was gentle and friendly but also highly perceptive.
The class was great fun to be a part of, although it felt there was real depth too. I'd certainly like to take another course with Aubrey.
Aubrey's easy going manner belies a really strong grasp of Mindfulness and the Dharma. I found the practical teaching and techniques offered to be helpful and accessible yet also profound.
The course was lightly held yet really insightful. "