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Rest and Renewal: Cultivating Inner Resources

30th January 2025 at 7:30 pm-20th February 2025 at 9:00 pm

In this quiet late winter season (in the Northern hemisphere), these four online sessions will offer guided meditation, gentle movement, discussion and reflections. Returning to breath and body as foundations of mindfulness, we will explore the capacities for generosity, patience, courage, and friendliness, and how these can serve us, and serve our world. All levels of experience are welcome.

About the Course

This is an online, four-week course.

The 4 Thursday evening sessions (7.30 pm – 9.00 pm) will take place via Zoom on the following dates:

 

  • Thursday 30th January
  • Thursday 6th February
  • Thursday 13th February
  • Thursday 20th February

 

You will need access to a digital device (ideally desktop, laptop or tablet) and Zoom in order to take part in these sessions.

Information about how to access Zoom will be included in the joining instructions.

All are welcome, including those newer to meditation and mindfulness.

Please get in touch using the email address below if you are newer to meditation and want to find out if this course will be a good fit for you.

sghsg2009@googlemail.com

 

About the Teacher

River WoltonRiver teaches meditation retreats, groups and courses, and offers one-to-one mentoring for meditators, mindfulness and Buddhist practitioners. She trained as a social worker, psychotherapist, and carpenter; since 1998 she has taught creative writing in therapeutic, community, and educational settings. She is a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, has worked extensively with community arts projects, and published poetry, short stories, and non-fiction.

A deepening interest in the connections between psychology, embodiment, creativity, activism, and spiritual practice led her to an Insight Meditation retreat in 2000. Since then she has been a regular retreatant at Gaia House, Devon, and continues to be inspired by teachings in the Buddhist tradition, and by radical thinkers who seek to address the crises of our times.

She is co-founder of Sheffield Insight Meditation, a Community Dharma Leader authorised by Gaia House Teacher Council, has completed the Bodhi College Dharma Teacher Training Programme, and is a mentor with iBme UK.

Visit River’s website by following this link.

 

Tickets & Booking

You can only attend this course online.

There are several different prices – a supported ticket is for those who can contribute something towards the cost of the event, the standard rate is for those who can contribute the cost of the event and the sponsor rate is for those able to make an additional contribution. In addition, freely given tickets are available for anyone who needs one.

£15 sponsor ticket
£10 standard ticket
£5 supported ticket
Freely Given ticket

Your ticket pays for the costs of the retreat but does not cover a payment for the teachings. You will be invited to offer a donation (dana) to support the livelihood of the teacher.

Please book in advance. Participants are asked to commit to all sessions if possible.

Click on the button below  to access our Eventbrite Booking Page.

 

Book Here

 

 

Dana

Dana can be translated as cultivating generosity or giving. The teachers who lead our courses and retreats receive their travel costs and ‘out-of-pocket’ expenses but do not receive any payment for their teaching. However they are happy to receive voluntary contributions from participants in the events they lead. These offerings are traditionally called dana. Most of our teachers depend on dana for most or all of their livelihood.

Our teachers are following an ancient tradition, offering teachings freely just as they received them freely from a previous generation of teachers. In this way the dharma (the teachings of the Buddhist tradition) is not made an object of commerce, and the relationship between teacher and student is based upon trust, freedom, and mutual generosity.

If you attend one of our events and appreciate what the teacher has offered, we warmly invite you to make whatever contribution you feel appropriate. If you do so, you will be making a vital contribution to their livelihood and helping them to continue teaching on this generous basis, particularly in situations where people cannot afford to pay anything.

Dana can be offered to the teacher, River, during and after the course.

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