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Event Details
Rediscover Your Awareness: An Introduction to Mindfulness Practice
Join us for a series of calm and welcoming mindfulness workshops here at the beautiful Monastery, Manchester.
This secular, science backed, and trauma-informed approach to mindfulness blends simple theory with guided practice, reflection, and real-life tools to help you find stillness in a busy world.
Explore the inner world of mindfulness in a series of three sessions.
How will I benefit?
By being more in tune with the present moment – to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you – you can improve your mental health and wellbeing. Some people call this awareness “mindfulness” practice, which can help us reduce stress, enjoy life more, and understand ourselves better.
What to expect
• Beginners Mindful Meditation
• Simple theory & insight into thought patterns
• Practical techniques to take home
• Next steps
Who can take part?
These workshops are open to all adults and no previous experience of mindfulness practice is needed.
Practical details
When: Each 1st Sunday of the month, from 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: The Monastery Manchester, 89, Gorton Lane, M12 5WF. Tap here for directions.
Cost: £10 (+ booking fee)
Session One – Beginners Mind
Sunday 5th April, 2026
Sometimes, when mindfulness arises it can feel as if we are seeing things for the first time with a freshness that can take us by surprise.
This quality of mind has been referred to as ‘beginners mind’, and has some of the qualities of wonder and appreciation that a happy child can have in experiencing new things.
In this way, mindfulness can help us to engage more fully with life, with its sheer impact and beauty, and can shake us from habitual thinking, awakening a sense of awe and wonder.
Even the most ordinary things can be seen with new eyes and we can appreciate the uniqueness and preciousness of all things.
Tap here to reserve your place on the April workshop
Session Two – Overcoming Obstacles and Non-striving
Sunday 3rd May, 2026
It is always interesting to explore the obstacles and difficulties which have come up over the week and to recognise how universal they are.
This is all powerful learning about the nature of the mind and the nature of our habitual tendencies.
There is no need for despondency, it is all a learning process of becoming more aware and awake in our lives.
We will be learning about working with distraction, with boredom, with sleepiness, with managing demands in our life which seem determined to stop us from practicing.
Tap here to reserve your place on the May workshop
Session Three – Staying Present
Sunday 7th June, 2026
If we can capture more of the moments of our lives, by being fully present and paying attention to what is being experienced, then we can truly wake up to the fullness of our lives.
The passing moments, may seem fleeting and often not very important, but they are our lives!
We could say that it is only possible to live our lives in the present moment – everything else is just thought or activities of the mind.
We notice how the automatic pilot mode frequently pulls us out of present moment awareness and into the realm of thought.
This is usually triggered from a reactive response of dissatisfaction, wanting to fix or grasp something, or wanting something to change.
Tap here to reserve your place on the June workshop
Further info
Led by Em Dine, a fully qualified and insured mindfulness teacher and psychotherapist
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Directions to the Monastery here.