Courses

Taking Delight in Photography – Seeing in a Moment of Stillness

From: £30.00

Sunday 25th June 2023

10.30AM to 1.00PM

Budding photographers are invited to join this session to learn how to settle the busy mind and take time out to discover how to relax, slow down, savour and appreciate to find that magic moment and allow the image to present itself to you.

 

 

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Join Angie in this morning session where budding photographers can learn a few tips on how to settle the busy mind in order to savor and appreciate more fully our surrounding environment. Enjoy walking mindfully and being present, with no particular agenda, while coordinating breath and movement.

Take some time out to discover how to find that magic moment, stepping out of busy ‘doing mode’ into simply being. Learn how to relax, slow down, savour and appreciate each moment to prepare for spending time in the environment with the camera and allow the image to present itself to you.

 

Your Tutor

Your Tutor

Angie Ball

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Angie Ball is a qualified tutor, trainer and supervisor of Mindfulness, Compassion and Insight and has worked as a freelance tutor for the Mindfulness Association UK for 12 years running courses both locally, throughout the UK and in the EU. A long-term practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and philosophy, she also trained in Tara Rokpa Therapy, a comprehensive therapeutic process involving a self-reflective writing, painting, relaxation, bodywork and working with the 5 Tibetan Element system for health and well-being. Previously, she worked over many years as a community artist running school projects with African and Asian artists with a strong emphasis on the benefit of Arts for Health. Angie’s teaching style is interactive, experiential, fun and informative whilst exploring the exciting and rewarding journey of self-discovery.

About the Day

Taking Delight in Photography – Seeing in a Moment of Stillness will run from 10.30am until 1pm with refreshments including fresh coffee, teas and cake.

Find out how to move towards being in the present at this time, this place, no matter what it is! If we approach taking that special photographic image when we are in ‘busy mode’ – our ability to really see can be obscured by our distracted busy minds. On top of this, our agendas to create that perfect picture can also at times get in the way when we may become tense aiming for a type of perfection, trying to ‘get it right’.  Enjoy and savour the chance to stay with the ever-changing qualities of light, the perfectness in a blade of grass, or an imperceptible tiny beetle climbing up it’s stalk, and even the beauty in a brown and shriveled leaf discarded from last season’s winter winds.

Essential Information

Please note: There is a flight of stairs from the main entrance with a stair lift.

The course will take place outside and in the Drawing Room on the first floor. When outside we will be on some uneven footpaths so a general level of fitness an mobility is required. Please wear appropriate footwear.

KIT REQUIREMENTS

Note pad and pens

Clothes and footwear for outdoor wear.

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