the art of savouring…
saturdays in april 5-6.30pm, (irish time)
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us.
Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy.
It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
Henri Nouwen
Why savouring?
For the last six months or so, I have been immersed in creating workshops and courses on ‘the art of wanting’ - exploring how we can learn to open and deepen our relationship to desire, and bring our wants forward in enriching ways that make our lives more beautiful.
A key strand in this journey is our willingness to engage more sensually with life as it presents itself to us, and to savour and appreciate those things we already have. In these odd times, this capacity to savour may prove especially precious…
Savouring has profound and uplifting side effects: it deepens our noticing of what nourishes us; it builds resilience for what is difficult; it amplifies the beauty and potency of the magical, sublime and ordinary goodness available to us each day. It also - and this is special just now - invites us to really notice the particular gifts of this time - the deep silence, the stopping - to imbibe their gifts, even as we struggle with other aspects.
So - this space will be an experiment in deepening our capacity to savour - in order that we do not miss the gifts of these days, and in order that we may be nourished by each other’s capacities to cherish quirky things.
