Living Well with Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation with Laura Ashurst
South Tees Wellbeing Network brings you a seriously international standard speaker for this workshop, as inspiring as she is knowledgeable. Do not miss out.
Saturday, February 10th 2024, 10.30am - 12.30pm
Women's Institute Hall, 137 Newton Rd, Great Ayton TS9 6DQ (Free parking on site)
South Tees Wellbeing Network brings you an international standard speaker for this workshop, as inspiring as she is knowledgeable. Do not miss out.
To all those booking:
Please do not book as a maybe, booking your place is a commitment that may prevent others from attending. We have had some sessions where more than 50% who have booked have not turned up or let us know! I know, how rude!
So book it, then commit to it! If you need to cancel, please give us a minimum of 48 hours notice and use the link in your booking confirmation to do so.
Thanks for your understanding. Enjoy this brilliant session.
Living Well with Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation with Laura Ashurst
This two-hour workshop is an opportunity for Laura to share some of the underlying principles of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation, providing tips and strategies that will help to weave mindfulness and breathing practices into your day. Based on the ethos that we are all more alike than we are unalike in the way that we function as human beings, Laura's workshop has a strong emphasis on self-kindness and self-compassion - skills that help us to live well in a hectic world.
The meditation aspect of the workshop will be chair-based so perhaps bring along a blanket for your comfort and wellbeing to wrap around your shoulders during the seated practice. Comfort is key!
Laura Ashurst has lived with secondary breast, the incurable form of the disease for 16 years. She was first diagnosed with primary breast cancer in 2001 when her son Jack was 6 months old and her daughter Megan was three. She underwent a lumpectomy and 25 sessions of radiotherapy. Three years later another separate tumour grew in the same breast and Laura then had a mastectomy and a breast reconstruction. She received the devastating news that her cancer had spread to her lungs in December 2007 and has been receiving cancer treatment since then. Despite the odds, Laura is currently stable and doing well.
Her experiences as a cancer patient led her to cancer campaigning. She is an ambassador for Richmond (Yorks) for Cancer Research UK in the Cancer Campaigns team, the political lobbying wing of CRUK. She is an active metastatic breast cancer campaigner for several charities and is the Patron of the Trinity Holistic Centre at The James Cook University Hospital. Laura was awarded a Prime Minister's Points of Light Award in November 2022 for her services to campaigning for secondary breast cancer.
Laura is hugely passionate about promoting mental health awareness. She experienced a severe mental health decline when she was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer and this led to her introduction to mindfulness meditation. She now teaches meditation and mindfulness as part of her Living With Hope business.
Her workshop will address the essential need for mental health support for all and how mindfulness and meditation can play an integral role in supporting our wellbeing.
Laura is thrilled to have been invited to be our speaker.
Book your place soon before spaces run out!
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LOCATION
Women's Institute Hall, 137 Newton Rd, Great Ayton (Free parking on site), TS9 6DQ