Posts tagged with 'meditation'
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (tenth post)
28th March 2009
A brief tenth post - back in Marrakech and reflecting on the trip. Back in the city - so woken by the Marrakech muezzin long before 5.00am. Lying in the dark and then coming downstairs to read and write. Yesterday we started in Hotel Irocha a bit north of Ourzazate. …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (ninth post)
27th March 2009
Here's a ninth Moroccan post - coming out of the desert - dancing, cold beer, mindfulness & consciousness Here in the civilisation of Hotel Irocha, I woke early and then got up with the first tentative muezzin call from the local village. It's now a bit before 5.00am. I've been …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (eighth post)
26th March 2009
Eighth Moroccan post - last night in the desert. Last breakfast here in the desert - this one at an encampment at Erg Cheggaga. We arrived last night after one of our longest day's walks (they haven't been very long). I've not been wearing a watch since the first afternoon …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (seventh post)
25th March 2009
And here's a briefer seventh Moroccan post looking a little at the internal "meditative methods" being used by various of us in the desert. So at the lunch siesta today I asked our group what they had been doing in their heads while they were walking. One person talked about …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (sixth post)
24th March 2009
This is the sixth - and a rather longer - Moroccan post. It looks a little at mindfulness and interpersonal conflict. And after the siesta yesterday, we walked (again without the camels) up to the top of the highest "singing dune" (so-called because of the noise it sometimes makes in …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (fifth post)
23rd March 2009
This fifth Moroccan post is written two days into the desert walk with the mindfulness practice beginning to deepen. This is the second full day in the desert. We've been here about 48 hours. Now is post-lunch siesta time. Walking meditatively this morning was much easier than yesterday's walk. I'm …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (fourth post)
22nd March 2009
This brief fourth Moroccan blog post describes some of the first day in the desert. Waking this morning in the encampment ... desert dawn ... a few clouds catching the sunlight ... people slowly emerge from their tents. Camels wandering. Packing up gradually. Breakfast. Then heading out through scattered tamarisk …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (third post)
21st March 2009
This is the third Moroccan blog post. It introduces some ideas about mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), self-criticism and problem solving. So yesterday we drove East and South from Marrakech across the Atlas - the road, our driver said, winding up to over 6,500 feet (about 2,000 meters) before heading back …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (second post)
20th March 2009
This is the second of 11 blog posts about going to Morocco to walk "mindfully" in the Sahara desert. This post covers the arrival in Marrakech. 5.00am - the calls of the muezzin increase in volume. This seems a good time to meditate. All around, here in the Marrakech medina, …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (first post)
19th March 2009
This is the first of 11 blog posts about going to Morocco to walk "mindfully" in the Sahara desert. This post gives a bit of background to the trip. 6.00am - the old clock has just sounded in my cousin's house in London. We arrived yesterday evening, flew down from …