Meditation for Beginners - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield Woodhouse

Date	5 November - 10 December 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield Woodhouse View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

This course provides a practical introduction to meditation, focusing on techniques, tools, and environments that support effective practice. You’ll learn how breathing, visualization, and posture influence meditation, and how to adapt techniques for stress relief, focus, and relaxation. You’ll explore how to create a calming space using lighting, sound, and comfort, and discover the benefits of mantras, affirmations, colour, and chakra balancing. The course also covers the mental, emotional, and physical benefits of regular meditation. By the end, you’ll have the skills to confidently integrate meditation into your daily life to enhance mindfulness and well-being.

Please bring to the course with you:-

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

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive 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 funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

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

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014