Lose Weight Mindfully
The course has been very insightful - givng me the time and tools to start 'peeling back the layers' and find my blocks/issues and how they have impacted and continue to impact upon me.continully, mentally and physically. Good mix of meditation exercises and gentle questioning, Becoming comfortable with silence and focsuing on the 'now.' All aspects of the course were interesting. S W Pontypool
Qigong & Meditation Retreat Week, 2010
Being on Holy Isle has certainly made me re-think things. I enjoyed the week immensely and really love Wild Goose and it's graceful movements and have been practising to perfect the sequence.
I am becoming more and more interested in the loving kindness meditations and feel that this has opened up an area for me that I have been struggling with for some time i.e. softening the heart and letting love and compassion in. I will certainly be following this up. I do have very real feelings for everyone there and am a bit overwhelmed by the loveliness of everyone.
I think it is really wonderful to be able to bring back so many valuable practises since quite often on courses I can come home remembering hardly anything and am eternally grateful to you.
Other years:
This was a memorable experience - a real holiday with a difference. Barbara Muston
A truly wonderful week with a lovely group of people – a friendly atmosphere. As a beginner I found Qigong to be inspiring and I hope to take what I have learnt into everyday life. Sue is a wonderful teacher, kind, considerate and encouraging, and very patient. She taught us how to improve our lives and I so enjoyed the meditation. Thank you, Sue. A healing experience.
The Centre for Peace & Health is a beautiful building both inside and out. A caring, loving and safe atmosphere with wonderful staff and volunteers. Excellent food, beautifully cooked.
Lovely gardens and surrounding areas. It was a pleasure and a privilege to stay in this lovely place. A joyful place. Joan Corney
Sue, thanks for a wonderful course. It was everything I expected and more! I leave feeling relaxed and refreshed. And will definitely be back again!
The Centre for Peace & Health was absolutely wonderful. Everyone was friendly. I was worried about the vegetarian food, but it was superb! John Bennett
Very well structured and presented. Enjoyed the variety of exercises, meditations and the medical Qigong. Also appreciated the course content was different from last year.
After an adventurous journey from London I arrived on Holy Island via the visitors ferry. During the
journey I realised I was about to experience something amazing. Holy Island is an extremely beautiful and tranquil place. It gives you the space to find yourself again, away from all the distractions of modern life.
Sue Weston's Tai Chi and Meditation week was a fantastic experience. Through Sue's wisdom and teaching I found the week was the beginning of spiritual journey for me. Sue gives you the tools to make changes in your life and appreciate what is important. For me I have found happiness, well being, to live with an open heart, be loved and to love. Of course there are days when all this fails me but I think of Sue and Holy Island take a deep breath and start again.
The whole week was an amazing experience and something I will always remember and hold close to my heart.
The week of meditation on Holy Island was a marvellous antidote to the stresses and strains of 21st century living. It provided a wonderful mixture of spiritual uplift, exercise and relaxation, all in an atmosphere of great companionship. Mornings and evenings were spent in meditation and T'ai Chi, led by Sue Weston, whose leadership and compassion offered us all a chance to learn and grow. Afternoons provided the opportunity to explore and enjoy the island or join with members of the volunteer staff on the island in gardening or other conservation activities.
Holy Island is a jewel of peace and tranquillity - a haven for birds and animals with a magical air, which contains in a very small space a mountain, moors, cliffs, rock pools and beaches. It's a fitting location for the Inter-faith Centre which provided more than comfortable accommodation and food that was almost too delicious.
I felt truly embraced by the community and, under Sue's guidance, felt myself unwinding and relaxing as the week went on. And I was able to take away tools to help me carry the peace of the Island into my daily life.
I had come to a place within myself where I felt at home and it seemed like such a long time since I had last visited that beautiful place. Doing Sue’s work is like coming back to a place deep within that one already knows but keeps forgetting about - and it’s real.
I’m not one for early morning starts, but standing on the deserted beach with the dawn breaking over the silent sea at six o clock in the morning, moving as one with the rest of the group doing the gentle movements of Tai Chi was simple beautiful.
Sue’s calm yet firm and always joyous energy infuses the week on this sanctuary of peace that is Holy Island. And the accommodation is lovely and the food good and the walks are lovely – what more can I say? Siobhan McMahon
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