Softening into Spaciousness with Danny Jolly and Sarah Pace

The last step of a three-step breathing space invites us to open out from a grounded anchor, into a broader sense of spacious connection. On this retreat day we’ll intentionally explore how this sense of spaciousness can begin to support insight and create the conditions for positive emotions to emerge.

With our human tendency to see the world through a lens of scarcity or ‘not good enough’, it can be helpful to notice the spaciousness available to us in daily life – which can support us in responding creatively when the mind and body contract around difficult emotions.

Through a variety of standard, and adapted, mindfulness-based practices and postures, using the body, imagination and metaphor, we’ll explore how our experience can be gently held by spaciousness. By cultivating mindful awareness we have the potential to open into spaciousness.

This retreat is open to all participants who have regular experience of using the core practices of MBCT or MBSR. To make this day retreat more accessible and inclusive to participants with health conditions and caring commitments we have made this day retreat 5 hours long with 1 hour for lunch and 2 breaks. If possible, to get the most out of this retreat we encourage you to maintain silence and mindfulness through the lunch and breaks.

This day retreat will not be acceptable as a BAMBA teacher’s retreat as it is less than 8 hours in length.

This retreat day is freely offered. Please feel free to donate to the Mindfulness Network if you can do this.