Our Programmes

Finding Quiet Strength

24th January 2025 - 26th January 2025

Facilitator: Judith Kleinman

Finding Quiet Strength is a course designed to restore our daily lives to an ideal balance of work, rest and play. We shall be working on finding our emotional intelligence and embodied awareness by revisiting old strengths of mind and body and discovering new strengths we didn’t know we had.

The course will reset our choices for the New Year ahead. Finding health, happiness and ease, through enjoyable, achievable routines

Event time: 24th January 2025 4:00pm - 26th January 2025 4:00pm

Interested in spreading the cost of this course? Select Clearpay at checkout.

What Is Included

For the majority of our courses, both residential and non-residential rates are available. Residential options are fully inclusive with all meals provided. Non-residential options include suppers, lunches and all refreshments and exclude B&B. Some of our short day courses, events and talks do not include meals and refreshments. For more details about this course, please see the Practical Information section below.

Additional Activities

Mindful walking through our woodland trails
Meditate in our Woodland Sanctuary
Go on a hike and explore the Cotswolds AONB
Discover surrounding charming market towns

At a Glance

Finding Quiet Strength is based on developing Awareness, Balance and Calm.
Group Yoga and Tai Chi sessions.
How to develop an awareness of daily movement.
Mapping the body and the impact of the way we move and breathe and inhabit our body and structure.
Exploration of calm energy.
A practice of self and co-regulation, creatively connecting to purpose, poise, joy and ease.

What You Will Gain

A practical understanding of the emotional and physical effects of the way we use our body.
A repertoire of ways to find calm and re-energize.
A deeper understanding of Yoga and Tai Chi and ways of bringing these practices into daily life.
Connect to our intentions to find safety, creativity and belonging.

Booking Options

Residential (single)Residential single rate

£470.00

Residential (shared)Residential shared rate

£420.00

Non-residentialNon-residential rate

£340.00

Interested in spreading the cost of this course? Select Clearpay at checkout.

Finding Quiet Strength Tutors

Judith Kleinman

More about Finding Quiet Strength

The course will develop the ideas from Judith’s book, Finding Quiet Strength. We will balance the course content with information, movement, games, creativity and visualization. The course will create a unique experience of learning that balances visual, aural and kinaesthetic learning. This approach will integrate and emphasize the interconnection of the mind, body and emotions. We will work on how to connect to ourselves, and our choices through constructive, integrated thinking.

We will look at, and experiment with, the discoveries of modern neuro-science, finding presence and awareness through the lens of the Alexander Technique. We shall discover how these practices can promote agency and resilience in our day to day lives. By connecting to nature, creativity and the restorative practice of meditation we shall establish a practice to find a deep quiet within ourselves.

There will be sessions of Tai Chi and Yoga to establish and develop ways to reset ourselves and find our energy and ease. We will also explore everyday movement and bring our intelligence to the way we sit, stand and walk, seeing the huge impact this has on our comfort and ease in everyday life.

The Ready List will be taught and practiced throughout the weekend, a simple but effective way to think and organize ourselves in any situation. We will learn some body mapping and its impact on the way we move and breathe and inhabit our body and structure. This will be balanced with finding a practice of constructive rest and meditation. We will develop the ideas of living with the conscious intention to balance work, rest and play in our lives.

Finding these different aspects of quiet strength and ease in ourselves will help us notice how these practices contribute to helping us find our healthy boundaries and ease with each other and find joy, wonder and a connection to the inspiration of the natural world.

Practical Information

Please bring a mat, a blanket, a notebook and pencils, a block to put under your head for lying down. Consider wearing warm comfortable clothing that’s easy to move and breathe in.

The wonderful advantage of these practices which help you to find your quiet strength, is that they are immediately accessible and practical…you can practice them any place, anywhere and at any time.

Sarah Oliver – Alexander Teacher and Cornille Science of Motion Practitioner

About Hawkwood

Hawkwood is a stunning Grade Il listed 19th Century country house, surrounded by 42 acres of sustainably managed woodland, farmland, and gardens. Set in the heart of the Cotswolds - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - it is a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. With a diverse selection of nearly 150 courses, there's plenty to choose from, including courses in transformative leadership, future thinking, inner life, music and the arts.

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