Leeds Mindfulness, Well-being, & Spirituality Centre
- Secular Mindfulness
- Emotional Well-being
- Positive Emotion Enhancement
- Interfaith Exploration
- Psycho-spiritual Integration
Day retreat: “Exploring Reality”
Sat 22nd March
11am-4pm
Venue : Insight for Wellbeing Meditation House, bottom of garden of 11c Allerton Park, Chapel Allerton, LS7 4ND
cost : £30 cash on the day
On this day we will be focussing on exploring the texture of reality or dependent arising and what may be beyond conditionality. We will begin with a period of mindfulness bodyscan and self nurturing and loving kindness practise before lunch. (Bring food to share if you wish). This will culminate in the afternoon’s exploration of exploring the three characteristics of conditionality and dependent arising. So the day will mainly focus on Insight practise. Please book a space by ringing Steve Hart on 0799 9218450.
Tuesday 20 May – Creativity & Wellbeing Meditation events at the Kirkstall Abbey Museum, (over the road from Kirkstall Abbey).
2pm Introduction to Secular Mindfulness – exploring mindfulness from the perspective of reducing stress
3pm – Men’s Event – An Introduction to Jungian Psychology. What are the archetypes ? What is the Collective Unconscious ? Why is Jungian psychology important today ? A short accessible introduction to Jung’s work and some visualisation meditation – we will be invoking the Green Man.
Both events facilitated by Steve Hart
Please book by ringing Steve on 0799 9218450
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About the Organiser/Facilitator
Lead Facilitator, Steve Hart (Suleiman Salaam, Shinchi Daishin)
- Steve Hart is known in Zen circles as “Shin Chi Dai Shin” (Great Wisdom Deep Heart) and is a dharma holder and vision holder in the UK Zen Peacemaker scene.
(More Detail: At present Steve is revisiting how to organise the UK Peacemaker meetings and is also holding retreats based on Buddhist “immanence” in Zen, Mahamudra, Dzogchen and Buddhist Tantric visualisation practise.)
- Steve also has a rich inter-religious background and training and is an initiated dervish in the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi community and enjoys friendships with sufi practitioners in the UK
- Steve organises the annual Kirkstall Abbey Mindfulness Festival which is a home for people seeking stress reduction and pain management as well as those seeking a spiritual space of practise. Steve invites teachers from other traditions also to lead workshops and sessions. Steve formally trained in and led sessions at Leeds Buddhist Centre where he enjoys much inspiration from friends who are in teaching roles at the Centre – a space he warmly recommends.
- Another sangha space Steve enthuses about is Awakened Heart Sangha – a home for all those seeking to intuit and trust the vastness in the heart.
- A vital space he supports and visits is Rajeshwari Tantra where Steve has received many Shaivite practises including the mandala of the 5 Elemental Dakinis from Zeenat Cameron. These are practises useful for replenishing lost energy and promote inspiration and healing.
- One of Steve’s passions is in sharing loving kindness meditation which he has been practising since 1992 and teaching since 1999. Crucial to Steve’s approach is trusting the sacred feminine and the inspiration of the Imaginal, the mythic and visualisation.