SDF Mindfulness & Creative Writing

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was "Memories of Kindness"  and she introduced it with a breathtaking poem called  "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye . Bev introduced the 7 minutes of writing with the prompt self under self, threaded through time   and this came from  "Summer Farm" by Norman MacCaig .

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links In this session Adrienne revisited the Body Scan practice  - this is the one that you might find easiest to remember without support, but do remember you can do it with Adrienne's support if you click on that link. She opened with a poem "The Journey", by Mary Oliver . Bev's writing prompt was another poem called "The Journey", but this one was by David Whyte .

    NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was Mindfulness with the Support of Sound (these practices can be accessed on YouTube if you would like to do the mindfulness in your own time). She opened with a poem called "Lost" by David Wagoner . Bev's writing prompt "edges of song that came in on the wind" was taken from Kenneth Steven's poem "The Fiddler" . Some introspective writing emerged from the session and we shared the link to a moving philosophical video by Huw Evans called "Not Long Now". This is a life reflection by this writer exploring his own mortality; roughly an hour long and you need a peaceful place to listen to it but what a powerful essay.