Our monthly meeting combined the arts of Tai Chi, Qigong and Mindfulness, with practical exercises and group chats led by Frances and Paula and a beautiful poem by Rachael Halstead
GIFT
Give yourself the gift of your attention.
Catch the whirlwind rush
and gently, calmly, set it aside.
Sit still and watch its flurries
echo inside you.
Stick with the stillness
and find calm in your breath.
And as the flurries dissipate,
find the knot inside
whose tight curling, tense clinging,
is at the centre of it all.
And sit and still sit
and know that, in time,
the knot will unfurl, release,
and there will be space again.
And space becomes your gift,
encircles everything,
slows the pace,
lets the light in.
RACHAEL HALSTEAD
Crowlas & Ludgvan WI 