As a three-time survivor of breast cancer, mindfulness and mindfulness meditation have helped me to live presently, developing moment-to-moment awareness of each day.
Mindful Mondays provide an opportunity to take part in a weekly mindfulness meditation session on Zoom at 7.00pm and 8.00pm.
Situated between the picturesque village of Great Ayton and the quaint market town of Stokesley
I’m Laura Ashurst. I am a Breathworks-trained mindfulness meditation teacher, aromatherapist, and wellbeing practitioner. I have 30 years of career experience within the health and wellbeing industry, including 15 years as a lecturer in Further Education where, as a senior lecturer, in 2004, I co-wrote the first Foundation Degree in Complementary Therapy (Aromatherapy) delivered within the North-East of England.
I am passionate about creating bespoke mindfulness and mindfulness meditation programmes for groups and individuals that are embedded with two of the most important philosophies by which human beings can live: self-kindness and self-compassion. I combine my love of poetry with my professional work too. All of my therapeutic offerings include an element of poetry; poems I have written myself or the words of somebody else. We all have so much to learn from one another.
What does living presently look like? How does it feel when we focus our attention on the moment that we’re in without the heaviness of dwelling on difficult past events or the uncertainty about what might lie ahead; transporting ourselves to events in the future that take us away from
Hi there! My name is Laura Ashurst. I’m a wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend. For the last 17 years I’ve also been a cancer patient at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough; I’m one of the one in eight women worldwide who develops breast cancer in her
I read a quote the other day that said: A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of about each other. It got me thinking, which isn’t always a good thing. I thought about the level of truth in it and then
As a three-time survivor of breast cancer, mindfulness and mindfulness meditation have helped me to live presently, developing moment-to-moment awareness of each day.
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