Common Ground North Pembrokeshire

Introducing a new local therapist…

We are all complex and interconnected beings and our spiritual wellbeing is integral to, and as important as, our physical, emotional and mental health.  When difficulties and challenges arise, we often need help to tease things out and a safe space to really hear ourselves and be truly heard by another.

How do we manage our varied relationships, our health and emotional wellbeing with more compassion and greater integrity?  How do we connect with our unique self – the treasure within – which we need to recover and perhaps discover for the first time? Jayne has guided, helped and accompanied many people over the years in their search for wholeness, healing, self-discovery and their relationship with the Divine ‘Other.’ She is a licensed and practising Spiritual Health Mentor, with the Diploma in Spirituality and Wellbeing (Spiritual Companions Trust).

Jayne can see people in person in St Davids, or via Skype.
Her fees are £35 per one hour session (concessions available).

Please get in touch via email – jaynemacgregor@yahoo.co.uk
Or by phone – 01437 454388 / 07491 985180

Further details at stdavidswellbeing.co.uk and www.contemplativecounselling.co.uk

Please note updated details for this event are below:

Welcome to this Turning Of The Year 2018 to 2019 Cacao Ceremony and Conscious Dance Celebration with Indigo Latto and Helen Pattinson,
We will have a super heart opening Cacao Ceremony with the finest Peruvian ceremonial grade Cacao. Then we will set sail on two incredibly deep and uplifting waves of inspired music from around the world for this really special new year’s eve celebration! We will share ceremonies to appreciate and integrate 2018 as well as setting intentions for 2019. After a good medicine dance we will meet the new year refreshed and clear.

Admission: £12-£15 .

Arrive at 7pm to greet each other and to warm up. Wear loose comfortable clothing, bring a bottle of water and a blanket and a pen and paper is helpful for your personal notes.
When we dance we do so without words so we can be in moving meditation. Being conscious without drink or substances so we are clear and focussed. Fully present. We make memories to take forward with us in our journey in life.
We dance to free our body and self, while we move through a wave of music, as we ride the wave we relax feel good and let go and come to a peaceful stand still and finally chill out. Very often we come to creative realisations and everything falls into place as we move to amazing music together and receive our dance as we wind down and bring it all together as the dance comes to a close.
Trust your body and self, it all knows what to do as you naturally dance and move.
Just dance how ever you feel and move how you want to. You can’t get it wrong and your dance is perfect for you. Let the music resonate in you as it inspires and helps you release and express your feelings.

Indigo Latto has been facilitating conscious ecstatic dance classes in Narberth and Cardigan and workshops at camps and festivals. Dancing at conscious dance classes and workshops most weeks for 20 years. Including 5 Rhythms, Biodanza, and many other forms of dance. Dancing passionately since 16 when I discovered free dance at raves. Regularly dancing 12 hours just using his own energy. He has been a DJ for 30 years with a passionate love of music which touches your heart and soul.
Helen Pattinson is a Dancing Freedom conscious dance teacher all the way from Canada and has been dancing since she was five years old. Although – who knows – those wiggles in the womb may well have been dance moves. She studied classical ballet from age five to fifteen with dancers from the Royal Ballet School in London, UK. Discovering rock climbing in her early twenties opened up a new kind of ‘dancing on rock’, and later yoga entered her life – a rhythmic dance where movement is threaded on breath. Helen discovered Dancing Freedom in California and it has “literally exploded my life into dance and music!”

New Year’s Eve, 8pm, Newport Memorial Hall

Welcome to this ‘Turning Of The Year Conscious Dance’ with Indigo Latto and Helen Pattinson, as we integrate our 2018 and get ready for 2019.
We will have two incredible deep and uplifting waves of the latest music from around the world for this New Year’s Eve celebration!
An Ecstatic Dance wave with Indigo and a Dancing Freedom wave with Helen.
We will share ceremonies to appreciate and integrate 2018 as well as setting intentions for 2019. After a good medicine dance we will meet the new year refreshed and clear.
£12 or £10 concessions.

Arrive at 8pm to greet each other and to warm up.
Wear loose comfortable clothing, bring a bottle of water and a blanket and a pen and paper is helpful for your personal notes.
When we dance we do so without words so we can be in moving meditation. Being conscious without drink or substances so we are clear and focussed. Fully present. We make memories to take forward with us in our journey in life.
We dance to free our body and self, while we move through a wave of music, as we ride the wave we relax feel good and let go and come to a peaceful stand still and finally chill out. Very often we come to creative realisations and everything falls into place as we move to amazing music together and receive our dance as we wind down and bring it all together as the dance comes to a close.
Trust your body and self, it all knows what to do as you naturally dance and move.
Just dance how ever you feel and move how you want to. You can’t get it wrong and your dance is perfect for you. Let the music resonate in you as it inspires and helps you release and express your feelings.

Indigo Latto has been facilitating conscious ecstatic dance classes in Narberth and Cardigan and workshops at camps and festivals. Dancing at conscious dance classes and workshops most weeks for 20 years. Including 5 Rhythms, Biodanza, and many other forms of dance. Dancing passionately since 16 when I discovered free dance at raves. Regularly dancing 12 hours just using his own energy. He has been a DJ for 30 years with a passionate love of music which touches your heart and soul.
Helen Pattinson is a Dancing Freedom conscious dance teacher all the way from Canada and has been dancing since she was five years old. Although – who knows – those wiggles in the womb may well have been dance moves. She studied classical ballet from age five to fifteen with dancers from the Royal Ballet School in London, UK. Discovering rock climbing in her early twenties opened up a new kind of ‘dancing on rock’, and later yoga entered her life – a rhythmic dance where movement is threaded on breath. Helen discovered Dancing Freedom in California and it has “literally exploded my life into dance and music!”

Online Booking at http://tymammawr.co.uk/event/mindfulness-meditation-retreat/

This retreat is hosted by Ty Mam Mawr Eco Retreat Centre (for those who know her, this is Shayne Newlyn’s place) who are delighted to have Elizabeth Daniels, Mindfulness coach, facilitating the weekend. She will take us on a journey into the power of the present moment as a way to let go of anxiety, stress, obsessions and build the resilience to be the best version of ourselves and learn how to fully enjoy the life we have. You will be shown ways to bring mindful awareness to all the moments of your daily life. So as well as relaxing lying down practices and sitting meditation we will be walking in nature and learning how to fully appreciate the beauty around us that we so easily miss if we are preoccupied by worry or planning the rest of our life. There will be periods of silence when we learn to love the one we are with all the time as well as an opportunity to learn how to be mindful during activities.

Elizabeth Daniels is fully trained mindfulness teacher with experience of teaching MBSR and MiSP courses for over 5 years.. She introduced mindfulness in Pembrokeshire Schools and now has mindfulness programs running in many schools in West Wales.Elizabeth trains teachers to teach mindfulness to their pupils and co-founded the Wales Teachers Mindfulness Network She is frequently invited to speak at conferences such as the Academy Wales first mindfulness conference.

Elizabeth is also a Heartmath Coach and so will be introducing bio feedback technology that gives a real time measure of how our meditation practice is going. Heartmath is a great way of bringing heartfulness into our lives and relationships

As well as the above, Elizabeth also worked as a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie for 5 years, weaving the power of enquiring into our stressful thoughts as a way to deepen present moment awareness. This is particularly powerful tool for healing stressful relationships, as well as deepening satisfying ones.

Accommodation:  The accommodation is in two yurts. The smaller yurt sleeps 2-4 people. The larger yurt sleeps 6-7 people. All meals are provided, it will be healthy, delicious mainly vegan/vegetarian food. In order to keep the costs down, we ask for all participants to help the cook with some of the food preparation as part of Mindfulness practice, as well as clearing up after meals. This is always fun and inclusive helping to create a feeling of community and shared enjoyment.

“The Art of Becoming the Soul”

A video course of esoteric wisdom teachings on Saturday mornings from 10.30am-1.30pm
at St Davids Wellbeing, 38 Nun Street, St Davids SA62 6NT

Dates:
6th October
17 November
1 December
19 January

Cost: a donation of £5-£10 per session is invited. Refreshments and nibbles provided!

This is an eight module video course and we shall aim to cover two modules each Saturday morning. Each module ends with a short meditation, led on audio by William Meader, which will be available for use at home as well. Many of you came to the introductory videos shown in February 2018, but to see those is not essential, as the course stands on its own.

No need to pay in advance, but if you intend to come, please email Don MacGregor on donmacg@live.co.uk

N.B. Following May’s successful event, William Meader will be coming again to St Davids Wellbeing in May 2019 , so please book the date  -Tuesday 21st May 2019