Group meditations: all welcome

If you happen to be in or near Bristol UK here’s two events

Offerings in the Hall and café area of The Centre for Whole Health:

Meditate as One with Munira and Peter

On Friday February 21st  7:30-9pm in the Centre for Whole Health Hall

Munira will be offering an evening of meditation in the mystical traditions drawn from the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, alongside Peter from WakeUp Bristol who will offer a meditation from the Zen Bhuddist tradition. Suggested donation £5

Introduction to Sufism with Munira

On Sunday March 23rd 10-4pm Munira will also lead an introduction to Sufism (in the tradition of Hazarat Inayat Khan).

Please do bring and share lunch between 12-1.  Suggested donation £10

Munira Salomon:

Munira is a Sufi and Chair of the trustees of the Inayatiyya Order in the UK. She is also a Sufi Healer, teacher of Alexander Technique and NLP Practitioner.  She has spent most of her career working within aspects of international human rights law.

Peter:

Peter is a member of Bristol’s Wakeup group, which meets at The Centre for Whole Health every Monday evening.

Centre for Whole Health, 12 Victoria Place, Bedminster, BS3 3PB

www.centreforwholehealth.com

Creative Meditations details

If anyone happens to be in Bristol UK, you are welcome to attend:

Creative Meditations with Glenn

Tuesdays, 7:15-9pm from 4 Feb at The Centre for Whole Health.

Come and share the beauty of our collective and individual wisdom as we move and respond to the richnesses within the heart of mindfulness, poetry, dance and song.

Each Tuesday evening from 7:15 we will gather together initially in the café area.We will begin to come further into this wonderful moment by sharing in a simple guided meditation and/or creative writing exercise then in the main hall we will experience a variety of meditations, chants and songs, (drawn from many different and complementary spiritual traditions).

Maybe you have a favourite that you can offer and we all can learn and grow from? Please do bring with you a pen, paper/journal and a mat if possible.

Pay what you can, (suggested donation £5 to cover cost of hall hire)

Please text if you’d like to chat before hand or just come along.

Glenn Mower:  (07485-109881)

Centre for Whole Health, 12 Victoria Place, Bedminster, BS3 3PB

www.centreforwholehealth.com

Glenn has been a member of Bhuddist (Zen-Thich Nhat Hanh), Christian (Contemplative-Centring Prayer) and Sufi groups. He is currently a student of The Inayatiyya (a Sufi order).

Creative Meditations: Week three

Here’s the collective group poem for week three

Belonging, Knowing and the Unknown

Moving always moving, but

Slower now.

Opening and ready to receive.

Waking up

Falling asleep

Waking up

Falling asleep.

The magic of the trees, the sea, the sky

Just there.

When I uncover these veils Who else may arise?

The mother, the father, the son?

The Holy Spirit, the Wanderer, the Warrior?

I see these lines and lashes

That whisper and touch

Belonging, Knowing and the Unknown.

A collective poem that emerged within the ten minute ‘in the moment’ writing by those attending Creative Meditations on Feb 18 2025.

Creative Meditations: Week two

Here’s the collective poem from week two:

Flowering Flutes

Blossom and all it represents

Loss and Beauty

Tethering chords of dischord and delight

Pluck tears of joy for my heart.

Callibrating ill-ease

I try

Moving more into the Light

I try

Magnetising Love within and without.

Golden and flowing and ever expanding

Happiness becomes a new nectar of life

To live

To love

 And even to Be

Sometimes, often times

 These pen movements

On paper

Tune like a song

When the flute is set free.

A collective poem that emerged within the ten minute ‘in the moment’ writing by those attending Creative Meditations on Feb 13 2025.

Creative Meditations: Week One

Over the past three or so weeks I have been offering a space for others to meet write, sing and dance together, here’s the first weeks group poem:

Love’s gathering

I am softening from the hard world

Tender from its demands and constant asking of me

Things I love and things I must do tangle like vines and I

Cannot separate the two.

Life can be simple if it is allowed to be

A place of magic

To stop

To be restored

How many kind, fully hearted Beings

Walk soft foot along this path

Unseen, yet fully seen By Love

A collective poem that emerged within the ten minute ‘in the moment’ writing by those attending Creative Meditations on Feb 13 2025.

Deeply Well

Drinking in the lite life

Checking out for a life time

Holding on for the right vibe

Searching happiness and peace on-line

Mesmerising myself again

Within a moments consolation

Building longer loss upon an instant gain

Drowning with anticipation

And we say:

Please hold on within your strife

But dont let yourself be held by it

Walk bold and free within your life

But don’t stamp your foolish pride on it

Don’t grasp the wrong away from right

Judge and jury of folks behaviour

Be guided by His strong tower light

As you wade in these seas with your saviour

Wading in the watering

Surfing waves that surely quenches

Satisfying thirstfulness again

Immersing well beyond our senses.

After reading pages 206-208 in Volume 1 of The Sufi Message by Hazarat Inayat Khan