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5-4-3-2-1 Grounding in the Present Advicechoicesmindfulnesspanicpresent momenttaking care

5-4-3-2-1 Grounding in the Present

This is one of 3 posts where I share my favourite practices or tools to…

Sheena BurkeDecember 17, 2022

Nature & Mindfulness – our allies as we emerge from lockdown? Advicemindfulness

Nature & Mindfulness – our allies as we emerge from lockdown?

We may have mixed emotions as we begin to move out of our current lockdown…

Sheena BurkeMay 24, 2021

Do no harm MBSR Advice

Do no harm MBSR

A brief report on a paper published by researchers at the Center for Healthy Minds…

Sheena BurkeNovember 18, 2020

The Body Scan Practice Advice

The Body Scan Practice

Introduction  The body scan is one of the first core meditation practices that we learn…

Sheena BurkeOctober 6, 2020

A mindful 5-a-day Advice

A mindful 5-a-day

As my practice with mindfulness deepened over the years, I came to discover the informal…

Sheena BurkeOctober 6, 2020

Mindfulness Body Scan Uncategorized

Mindfulness Body Scan

The Body Scan In this blog, I introduce the body scan mindfulness meditation practice: what…

Sheena BurkeAugust 10, 2020

Meditation-related challenges Uncategorized

Meditation-related challenges

Reading the Academic Report: Progress or Pathology? from Lindahl et al 2020 This post offers…

Sheena BurkeJuly 31, 2020

Strengthening teaching integrity through practice, inquiry and community. Uncategorized

Strengthening teaching integrity through practice, inquiry and community.

Mindful Academy Solterreno Teachers Sit with Inquiry:A review of a COVID-19 support for MBSR Teachers.…

Sheena BurkeJune 13, 2020

Joyful effort in the face of apathy acceptanceallowingbeingchoicesmeditationmindfulnesstaking carewaking up

Joyful effort in the face of apathy

November to February is my least favourite time of year.  I feel a natural decline…

Sheena BurkeNovember 5, 2017

Slowing down, resting in our true nature. beingintentionjoymindfulnesspresent momentslowing downwaking up

Slowing down, resting in our true nature.

Resting in springtime sun Reading Haemin Sunim's 'The things you can see only when you…

Sheena BurkeMarch 25, 2017

The mindful invitation: Finding the funnies & deflating difficulties? acceptanceallowingchoicesgratitudejoymindfulnessUncategorized

The mindful invitation: Finding the funnies & deflating difficulties?

Inspired by words of others yet again.  I am reading 'the Book of Joy' -…

Sheena BurkeJanuary 21, 2017

New Year – New Beginnings 2017 intentionkindnessmeditationmindfulnesspossibility

New Year – New Beginnings 2017

Pic: Taken from the Hill of Uisneach, 1 Jan 2017.  Approaching the end of one…

Sheena BurkeJanuary 8, 2017

Antidote to the inner-critic kindnessmindfulnesspoemstaking care

Antidote to the inner-critic

I heard this poem recently, read by Mark Coleman at Spirit Rock in the states.…

Sheena BurkeDecember 23, 2016

Remembering the power of simply being. calmgratitudemindfulnesspoemsUncategorized

Remembering the power of simply being.

"Draw alongside the silence of stone Until its calmness can claim you. Be excessively gentle…

Sheena BurkeOctober 12, 2016

Courage to accept and be with our present experience acceptancemindfulness

Courage to accept and be with our present experience

  Listening to Tara Brach's inspirational and soothing talk on 'Genuine Acceptance' today.  Acceptance is…

Sheena BurkeOctober 8, 2016

Gladdening the Mind choicesgladgratitudehappinesslevelling the playing fieldmindfulnesspossibility

Gladdening the Mind

  Inspired by Tara Brach talk: Happy for No Reason, Part 2.   "When you…

Sheena BurkeSeptember 26, 2016

Why retreat? allowingintentionletting gomeditationmindfulnesspoemsretreatsufferingtaking careUncategorizedwaking up

Why retreat?

  Reading Sylvia Boorsteins's: Don't just do something, sit there - I am inspired to remember…

Sheena BurkeAugust 14, 2016

It’s not working! acceptanceallowingintentionletting gomeditationmindfulnesswaking up

It’s not working!

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/07/are-you-trying-to-escape/   How often have we cried out this lament about our fledgling mindfulness meditation practice?…

Sheena BurkeAugust 1, 2016

Inspiring words … the time is now … acceptanceletting gomindfulnesspoemspresent momentwaking up

Inspiring words … the time is now …

I love those moments that wake me up from an overthinking-everplanning loop!  Here's a share…

Sheena BurkeJuly 28, 2016

Surrender to what is allowingmindfulnesspoems

Surrender to what is

Allow - a poem by Danna Faulds   "There is no controlling life. Try corralling…

Sheena BurkeJuly 1, 2016