Meditation for Beginners - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 13 January - 10 February 2025
• Sessions: Mondays: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
• No. sessions: 5
• Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £35

Have you ever wondered what meditation is and how it has an impact on your wellbeing? Through attending this course, you will develop an understanding of what external factors help to promote and make meditation easier. You will explore different breathing techniques that can influence meditation and apply different meditation techniques in different situations and circumstances to release tension.

You will build up an understanding of how to use meditation and how to prepare your meditation environment. We will cover the many benefits of meditation for our well-being, and how to use mantras and affirmations alongside. We will also explore the effects of colour and the role of chakras, and how to balance these.

Resources required:

- A drink – water or juice, a cushion and blanket or wrap, comfortable clothes, notebook and pen

Suggested Reading for the course:

- Meditation Working with by Madonna Gauding

- Meditation by Khalid Malik

- Meditation Healing book and card pack by Christopher Titmuss

- Practical Meditation with Buddhist principles by Venerable Thubten Lhundrup

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

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