SOIL & SOUL

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 27 Jan 2018 10:30 AM • What we'll doJoin us at the beautiful Plot 22 in Hove. We will be gardening and cooking soup whilst exploring the theme of coming from darkness into light, as we leave the depths of winter and slowly the days grow longer as spring emerges. We will eat outside in the garden around the fire, and listen to stories and poems on darkness to light. If it is very cold or wet, we can ... Read more

Hearing Good News – Reading Aloud the Gospel Of Mark

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 20 Jan 2018 8:00 AM • What we'll doJoin us to hear the Gospel of Mark read aloud from beginning to end. Regulars from the Centre's Saturday morning meditation group will each read a chapter. The meditation group has spent the last 12 months hearing a fragment of the Gospel of Mark each week, reading from the beginning to the end of the Gospel using the contemplative reading practice, Lectio Divina. Reading the gospel slowly each week with what ... Read more

Morning Meditation

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 31 Mar 2018 8:00 AM We start with a short reading from the book, Coming To Your Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn followed by 25 minutes of sitting meditation.  The second 30 minutes is an ancient form of contemplative practice called Lectio Divina, literally meaning divine reading. The invitation of Lectio Divina is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred text of the Bible, listening deeply with "the ears of the heart", (St Benedict). No prior experience of Lectio Divina or meditation ... Read more

Morning Meditation (Labyrinth Walk)

View On Meetup.com Date Tuesday, 27 Mar 2018 7:45 AM On Tuesday mornings we walk a seven circuit labyrinth that is modeled on the 12th Century Labyrinth found in Chartres Cathedral, France. In the last thirty years, walking the labyrinth has re-emerged as a meditative practice and a symbolic image of pilgrimage, not in the geographical sense, but of the journey we each make through life: a journey to the centre, a return to the heart, back to the Spirit who faithfully waits ... Read more

Morning Meditation

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 24 Mar 2018 8:00 AM We start with a short reading from the book, Coming To Your Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn followed by 25 minutes of sitting meditation.  The second 30 minutes is an ancient form of contemplative practice called Lectio Divina, literally meaning divine reading. The invitation of Lectio Divina is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred text of the Bible, listening deeply with "the ears of the heart", (St Benedict). No prior experience of Lectio Divina or meditation ... Read more

Morning Meditation (Labyrinth Walk)

View On Meetup.com Date Tuesday, 20 Mar 2018 7:45 AM On Tuesday mornings we walk a seven circuit labyrinth that is modeled on the 12th Century Labyrinth found in Chartres Cathedral, France. In the last thirty years, walking the labyrinth has re-emerged as a meditative practice and a symbolic image of pilgrimage, not in the geographical sense, but of the journey we each make through life: a journey to the centre, a return to the heart, back to the Spirit who faithfully waits ... Read more

Morning Meditation

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 17 Mar 2018 8:00 AM We start with a short reading from the book, Coming To Your Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn followed by 25 minutes of sitting meditation.  The second 30 minutes is an ancient form of contemplative practice called Lectio Divina, literally meaning divine reading. The invitation of Lectio Divina is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred text of the Bible, listening deeply with "the ears of the heart", (St Benedict). No prior experience of Lectio Divina or meditation ... Read more

Morning Meditation (Labyrinth Walk)

View On Meetup.com Date Tuesday, 13 Mar 2018 7:45 AM On Tuesday mornings we walk a seven circuit labyrinth that is modeled on the 12th Century Labyrinth found in Chartres Cathedral, France. In the last thirty years, walking the labyrinth has re-emerged as a meditative practice and a symbolic image of pilgrimage, not in the geographical sense, but of the journey we each make through life: a journey to the centre, a return to the heart, back to the Spirit who faithfully waits ... Read more

Morning Meditation

View On Meetup.com Date Saturday, 10 Mar 2018 8:00 AM We start with a short reading from the book, Coming To Your Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn followed by 25 minutes of sitting meditation.  The second 30 minutes is an ancient form of contemplative practice called Lectio Divina, literally meaning divine reading. The invitation of Lectio Divina is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred text of the Bible, listening deeply with "the ears of the heart", (St Benedict). No prior experience of Lectio Divina or meditation ... Read more

Morning Meditation (Labyrinth Walk)

View On Meetup.com Date Tuesday, 06 Mar 2018 7:45 AM On Tuesday mornings we walk a seven circuit labyrinth that is modeled on the 12th Century Labyrinth found in Chartres Cathedral, France. In the last thirty years, walking the labyrinth has re-emerged as a meditative practice and a symbolic image of pilgrimage, not in the geographical sense, but of the journey we each make through life: a journey to the centre, a return to the heart, back to the Spirit who faithfully waits ... Read more