Mindful Eating retreat day

Saturday 21st January 2017 11:15-15:00 at ZenYoga studio, Camberwell
with Mark Westmoquette and Emma Hudson

Do you struggle to maintain a healthy diet or avoid unnecessary snacking?
Do you always stop when enough is enough?
Do you forget to appreciate lovely food when you have it?

Eating is so intimately linked to emotions, habits, and health that it can easily be the first place we notice something is out of balance.

Mindfulness teaches us to fully appreciate the constantly changing sensations and emotions around hunger, eating, and digestion. Mindful eating means selecting, preparing and eating food with awareness and attention resting in the present moment. It means being aware of the positive and nurturing qualities of the food you eat, and respecting your own inner wisdom. Like this we learn how to be at peace with our food.

It also means being aware and accepting of all the emotions that arise – positive and negative. It's only after we acknowledge and accept the way things are right now, that we can choose how to act wisely in the future.

The retreat day

On this retreat you we will discover:
  • The different kinds of hunger we experience
  • The body-felt feedback cues that can guide your decisions to begin and end eating
  • How to engage all your senses in the act of eating so that eating can become both satisfying to you and nourishing for your body
  • How to prepare and cook food mindfully

We will all participate in preparing the food we will eat during the retreat. All the costs of the food are included in the price of the retreat.

The day will also include a number of different mindfulness practices, including some still meditation and some mindful movement. The majority of the retreat will be held in silence.

Suitable for complete beginners to mindfulness, and to those with more experience. Not suitable for those with chronic or diagnosed eating disorders.

If you have any dietary requirements or restrictions, please send me a message on mark@youruniverseyoga.co.uk.
ZenYoga
Camberwell Grove,
London SE5 8RE

If you're new to mindfulness, why not come to one of our mindfulness drop-in classes first.

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."
 - Ann Wigmore