Meditation Explored - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Covering what Meditation is and how to do it. An understanding of how breathing techniques can influence Meditation and our well-being. To be able to prepare your meditation environment, what is imagination?  how to improve our imagination, and covering the many benefits of meditation, how to use mantras and affirmations and how beneficial they are, and how to release tension, anxiety and reduce pain. 

What will be covered on the course?   

• What meditation is and how to practice it – using a variety of “tools”, and the use of our breath and techniques, covering conducive factors on preparation, our imagination, the benefits of meditation, mantras and affirmations, , how to release tension, anxiety and reduce pain. 

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?  

• How to meditate and use this anywhere with a variety of “tools”, and how to breathe. Preparing a meditation environment, how to use mantras and affirmations, ability to release tension and stress, anxiety and reduce pain, covering the many benefits of meditation for our well-being.  

 Learners should bring 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 

Booking your place and fee information

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.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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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).

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