Showing Up
in community for ourselves, each other and our world
Monthly mornings of mindfulness in Bray
In-person at Luisne, Bray starting Saturday, February 8th 2025.
10:00 - 13:00
Cost: €30
There are some concessions available @ €15
The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life…… the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.
—Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
As the start of 2025 promises to bring increasing turbulence to the world, it feels more important than ever to set aside time for inner connection and the refreshment of stillness.
This monthly, extended mindfulness session will offer a space and time for coming together in community, taking a break from our devices, dropping into mindful awareness and returning to our natural sanity.
Niamh will give gentle guidance through a range of grounding mindfulness practices such as a body scan, mindful movement, sitting meditation and mindful tea-drinking. Apart from her guidance, the main part of the morning will be in silence with time for (optional) sharing at both the beginning and end of the three-hour session.
The venue is the warm and welcoming Luisne
community holistic centre in the Egan centre on the Dargle Road in Bray, Co.Wicklow.
For booking and payment details please get in touch with Niamh at hello@showingup.ie or phone/WhatsApp 086 2857212.
Niamh Barrett
has been facilitating mindfulness courses since 2010, she's a member of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland
(formed to uphold mindfulness teaching standards and guidelines), and is an ongoing student of socially-engaged Buddhism and the practice of council circle, with Roshi Frank De Waele of Zen Sangha vsw (Belgium) and Beyond Us & Them, respectively. She is also an experienced facilitator of online mindfulness practice. In 2019 she founded showing up, a framework of online and in-person retreats and courses to facilitate mindful civic engagement with the housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland, and with other social issues. On Nollaig na mBan 2019 she facilitated a women's day-retreat, inspired by the bearing witness practices of Zen Peacemakers, on the theme of bearing witness to gender-based violence and resilience. Since 2023 she has been organising training in council circle practice in Dublin with trainers from Beyond Us & Them. In May 2025 she will co-lead a five-day Bearing Witness retreat in the tradition of Zen Peacemakers on the theme of the mother and baby homes in Ireland, with her teacher Roshi Frank De Waele.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you – in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
- Jan Chozen Bays