Advicechoicesmindfulnesspanicpresent momenttaking care 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding in the Present This is one of 3 posts where I share my favourite practices or tools to…Sheena BurkeDecember 17, 2022
Advicemindfulness Nature & Mindfulness – our allies as we emerge from lockdown? We may have mixed emotions as we begin to move out of our current lockdown…Sheena BurkeMay 24, 2021
Advice Do no harm MBSR A brief report on a paper published by researchers at the Center for Healthy Minds…Sheena BurkeNovember 18, 2020
Advice The Body Scan Practice Introduction The body scan is one of the first core meditation practices that we learn…Sheena BurkeOctober 6, 2020
Advice A mindful 5-a-day As my practice with mindfulness deepened over the years, I came to discover the informal…Sheena BurkeOctober 6, 2020
Uncategorized Mindfulness Body Scan The Body Scan In this blog, I introduce the body scan mindfulness meditation practice: what…Sheena BurkeAugust 10, 2020
Uncategorized Meditation-related challenges Reading the Academic Report: Progress or Pathology? from Lindahl et al 2020 This post offers…Sheena BurkeJuly 31, 2020
Uncategorized Strengthening teaching integrity through practice, inquiry and community. Mindful Academy Solterreno Teachers Sit with Inquiry:A review of a COVID-19 support for MBSR Teachers.…Sheena BurkeJune 13, 2020
acceptanceallowingbeingchoicesmeditationmindfulnesstaking carewaking up Joyful effort in the face of apathy November to February is my least favourite time of year. I feel a natural decline…Sheena BurkeNovember 5, 2017
beingintentionjoymindfulnesspresent momentslowing downwaking up Slowing down, resting in our true nature. Resting in springtime sun Reading Haemin Sunim's 'The things you can see only when you…Sheena BurkeMarch 25, 2017
acceptanceallowingchoicesgratitudejoymindfulnessUncategorized The mindful invitation: Finding the funnies & deflating difficulties? Inspired by words of others yet again. I am reading 'the Book of Joy' -…Sheena BurkeJanuary 21, 2017
intentionkindnessmeditationmindfulnesspossibility New Year – New Beginnings 2017 Pic: Taken from the Hill of Uisneach, 1 Jan 2017. Approaching the end of one…Sheena BurkeJanuary 8, 2017
kindnessmindfulnesspoemstaking care Antidote to the inner-critic I heard this poem recently, read by Mark Coleman at Spirit Rock in the states.…Sheena BurkeDecember 23, 2016
calmgratitudemindfulnesspoemsUncategorized Remembering the power of simply being. "Draw alongside the silence of stone Until its calmness can claim you. Be excessively gentle…Sheena BurkeOctober 12, 2016
acceptancemindfulness Courage to accept and be with our present experience Listening to Tara Brach's inspirational and soothing talk on 'Genuine Acceptance' today. Acceptance is…Sheena BurkeOctober 8, 2016
choicesgladgratitudehappinesslevelling the playing fieldmindfulnesspossibility Gladdening the Mind Inspired by Tara Brach talk: Happy for No Reason, Part 2. "When you…Sheena BurkeSeptember 26, 2016
allowingintentionletting gomeditationmindfulnesspoemsretreatsufferingtaking careUncategorizedwaking up Why retreat? Reading Sylvia Boorsteins's: Don't just do something, sit there - I am inspired to remember…Sheena BurkeAugust 14, 2016
acceptanceallowingintentionletting gomeditationmindfulnesswaking up It’s not working! http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/07/are-you-trying-to-escape/ How often have we cried out this lament about our fledgling mindfulness meditation practice?…Sheena BurkeAugust 1, 2016
acceptanceletting gomindfulnesspoemspresent momentwaking up Inspiring words … the time is now … I love those moments that wake me up from an overthinking-everplanning loop! Here's a share…Sheena BurkeJuly 28, 2016
allowingmindfulnesspoems Surrender to what is Allow - a poem by Danna Faulds "There is no controlling life. Try corralling…Sheena BurkeJuly 1, 2016