Mindfulness lunch-time drop-ins continue today Mondays and Fridays, 1.10-1.50pm in the Chaplaincy upstairs. These are Open to all students and staff - beginners, meditation longtimers, and those just curious. We have a twenty-five minute guided practice, and then a little time to reflect.
For last week's MindLetter, on David Attenborough's Secret Gardens, Kitty writes about dippers, newts, pine martens, and the beauty of our care for our nearby natural worlds.
Read Here: /mindfulness/the-mindletter/in-secret-gardens
Katie will be back teaching on Friday 24th April until Friday 22nd May, 11 – 12am. Yoga practice refreshes the brain and releases both physical and mental stress as you turn inwards to explore the wonder of your inner universe – a brilliant antidote to the stress of exam season.
A reminder our yoga sessions with Katie start again this Friday, 24th April from 1100-1200 in the Chaplaincy Centre. These will run every Friday until 22nd May.
"Katie’s yoga classes offer real quality teaching that invokes our mobility from within, weaving together threads of wisdom and bodily intelligence "
(Ting Ting, 3rd year student)
"It was almost 4 years ago that I first came to the Friday yoga class at the chaplaincy. It was my first contact with Iyengar Yoga, and I've since become a regular in that class and am attending additional classes regularly. I've done other forms of yoga before, but none have made me feel like I'm genuinely progressing. As such, the class has been transformative for my physical and mental well-being. As university staff, it's a great opportunity to unwind and re-energise, and I hear similar comments from the students attending the class. Overall, I can't imagine a better way how the university can support staff and student well-being"
(Andrea, staff member)
Our yoga sessions are taking a break over the Spring holiday but Katie will be back teaching on Friday 24th April until Friday 22nd May, 11 – 12am. Yoga practice refreshes the brain and releases both physical and mental stress as you turn inwards to explore the wonder of your inner universe – a brilliant antidote to the stress of exam season.
Spring is here with its forsythia and hellebores, the trees submerged in magnolia blossom so thick they look by night as though laden with snow...It’s so lovely. And yet. What if you had reconciled yourself to winter, such that you were in a good groove, with your blankets and early bedtimes, the chill, wind or fog a cast-iron excuse for saying no?' Kitty Wheater writes about finding new energy and courage for the life changes we might need to make as the year warms up.
Read here: /mindfulness/the-mindletter/springs-new-grooves
A few weeks ago, our Mindfulness Chaplain, Dr Kitty Wheater spoke with ECA for their news Bulletin. You can read the full piece here but here are some of the best bits!
Kitty talked a little about the Chaplaincy as a place for Students and Staff Members and the services provided here. Being called a home from home by some and offering help via our Listening Service.
The topic then turns to the Mindletter which Kitty also writes. She uses this as a place to reflect and to reach a larger audience than the Chaplaincy may otherwise be able of doing. She writes in the article “The MindLetter often captures something that's been on my mind for a while, that I want to think through with my readers"
If you would like to receive the Mindletter then please find more information about how to do that here.
Read the full article here: /news/university-chaplaincy-offers-place-reflect-and-connect-challenging-times
The Mindfulness Drop-In Today has been cancelled, we are very sorry for the last minute change. Please do still take an hour to decompress and relax at the end of another busy week. We hope to see you all next Monday for the Drop-In then!
Mindfulness lunch-time drop-ins continue today Mondays and Fridays, 1.10-1.50pm in the Chaplaincy upstairs. These are Open to all students and staff - beginners, meditation longtimers, and those just curious. We have a twenty-five minute guided practice, and then a little time to reflect.
Mindfulness lunch-time drop-ins continue today Mondays and Fridays, 1.10-1.50pm in the Chaplaincy upstairs. These are Open to all students and staff - beginners, meditation longtimers, and those just curious. We have a twenty-five minute guided practice, and then a little time to reflect.
In 2022 Dr Kitty Wheater contributed to the Divinity School's Art and Spirituality Project, writing a series of meditations about the collaboration of artist Brigid Collins with poet Christine De Luca in Dr Neil's Garden, Duddingston.
Their work was published last year as the book Such Fragile Futures: An Artist and a Poet Reflect in a Garden, and Kitty's meditations are now available too in a booklet, Of Mutual Things, published by Main Point Books. The booklet launched on Friday 27th February at the Divinity School in New College, where Kitty, Brigid and Christine reconvened to discuss their work.
For last week's MindLetter, Kitty Wheater writes about attention, artistic process, and a sense of place in Edinburgh, via @brigidcollinsart@drneilsgarden and the Alfred Buckham exhibition National Galleries of Scotland
Read here: https://edin.ac/4lgcyl0
