Why Meditate?
These are some of the reasons why you may like to begin a regular meditation practice:
- Brings clarity of mind
- Promotes good health and happiness
- Can reduce stress and stress related ailments and disease such as high blood pressure, heart disease and cancers.
- Improves concentration
- Gives perspective in difficult times
- Provides a path to intuitive knowledge or a universal intelligence
- Trains us to be the witness
Practice Tips
- To meditate you must first have the desire to meditate.
- Prepare a “sacred” space and make time for your practice.
- Get the right seated position, be warm and comfortable.
- You must make sure that you won’t be disturbed. But if it happens, try not to get frustrated … smile and be grateful for having got as far as you did. There is always later in the day or tomorrow.
- Most importantly, have no expectations. Every day is different.
Meditation to ‘Mind Your Mind’
These were a series of meditation sessions that I ran in 2018/2019 giving you practical tips to develop your own regular meditation practice. They started with some gentle Yoga stretches to prepare your body for sitting quietly which is the first step in any meditation practice. There are well defined steps to develop the discipline to bring you to that quiet space and we explored them in these sessions.
Meditation has been proven to reduce stress and to improve the immunity of the body and the mind. Practiced regularly (15-20 minutes per day) it can bring greater clarity to your thinking and help you to gain perspective.
We will be adding, posts to our blog over time which might be helpful to you on your meditation journey.
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A Soprano Pipistrelle rescued from a basin of water this evening. Resting in a box til tonight. Fingers crossed 🤞
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Danu shining bright 🔆 in the centre of the Loop Head Labyrinth during Bealtaine celebrations.
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Bealtaine Blessings to you and yours.
Did you dance in the dew this morning? 🌿
We'll be live on Facebook at 7pm at the Labyrinth.
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Slí an tSuaimhnis. Explore left... See where it takes you... You never know what you may find 🌿🐞🐝🌱🐜🌻🦋🌼🌿
🌿Purecamping woodland trail 🌿
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Slí an tSuaimhnis. This hand-crafted sign by @schoolforthewild will live in a quiet shady corner of the magical woodland at Purecamping.
"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it" William Shakespeare
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Sli an tSuaimhnis. Follow the peaceful path through our woodland when you visit again.
New woodland trail markers hand made by @schoolforthewild.
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Getting time to explore our 2km limit with calm seas and blue skies. Brent Geese still hanging on to their winter grounds, Whimbrels coming through in small flocks and after some time, 2 Bottlenose dolphins came on the scene.
My camera is not good enough to capture these beautiful creatures but the @shannon_dolphin_project has some great stories.
This strange time has had some positives for us. We've slowed down and that's been nice. Take care and #staysafe
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Orange Marigolds or Calendula to lift the heart as you enter the Labyrinth to walk to the centre of your soul.
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A crescent moon 🌙 barely visible through a silhouetted Ash tree 🌿 with the sun ☀ setting to the west.
This direction associated with reflection as we review the day with a view to being grateful for all we have.
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'Gallarus' style bender sauna being dismantled by Lughadh. First edition built Santosa Yoga camp 2011, second edition around 2013?
Many bodies sweated in this space, many laughs were had, beautiful songs sang, many shrieks during cold water showers. many star-gazing evenings.
We have time now for some projects. Watch this space.
Hope to see some of you this summer. Hope you are all keeping safe 🌿🐞🦋🐛🐝
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Have you ever wanted to learn how to cook vegan food?
Now is your chance, with some Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Meditation. Stay in a cosy cabin or bell tent. Private units available for this intimate retreat. 10 max. All on purecamping.ie
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Our new website is now live. We've tried to keep the same simplicity and natural feel of the old site. There were lots of pages that were probably never explored but we've tried to structure it a bit better now. Retreats are bookable now under the events. We're still tweaking it but what do you think so far?
www.purecamping.ie
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Wellness teacher, Hilary showing us how to physically nourish ourselves at our Loop Head Wellness weekend last September. #nourish #wellness #yoga #meditation .
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This time 2 years ago I recorded a meditation for the 'Breathe' cd with #lukabloom. Luka recorded a beautiful piece, called #mindyourownmind It was a surreal experience and one I cherish. It came about through workshops I ran that year, called Mind your Mind which focused on establishing a steady regular meditation practice. .
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Surrounding yourself in nature is good for the soul 💚🌿🐞🐬🐝
#loveloophead
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Smoothie shots at one of our Autumn Loop Head Wellness weekends at Purecamping @hilarygleeson @kilkeethalassotherapycentre
@kev_claretaichi .
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On a stormy day in February on a day where we've been gutted when our local green @roisingarvey came sooo close to being our voice for West Clare... but where 12 other greens have a place around the table to lead the way in tackling our #climate and #biodiversity #crisis..... it's not a bad day after all @misserikadoyle Here is a glimpse of a lazy, sunny Purecamping day... just hanging out 💚💚💚🐞🐝🐬
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Yoga and Meditation teacher, Trea and the 'Naked Forager', Siobhán, stroll through the woodland hatching plans for their Yoga and Vegan cooking retreat June 12-14th. #yoga #meditation #retreat #solstice #vegan #food #loveloophead #wildatlanticway
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Escape from the busyness... with some 'slow' Yoga... restorative... deep tension releasing poses ... the mind follows.... tensions released... and clarity replaces the 'fog'. We will warm up with slow salutations and drop down onto thick soft Yoga mats, into classical restorative Yoga poses. We will practice each pose keeping in mind the Koshas, the layers of our beings.... the physical aspect, pranic or energy aspect, lower mind, higher mind and bliss body..... #yoga #classes #meditation #loveloophead @westofclare @thewildatlanticway @loopheadtourism #clare #ireland
Take a morning out on your mat... well my mat... a cosy one in our Yoga room at Purecamping.... underfloor heating... stove... #yoga #meditation #loveloophead #myloophead #clare
