New Year, NEW START.

DO SOMETHING TO FUTURE PROOF YOUR WELL-BEING.

RELAX IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR FUTURE SELF WILL THANK YOU FOR THIS.

Are you really ready? Pause and ask yourself - are you ready to grow, heal and awaken into your future self? Are you ready to discover that you can take ownership of your health and wellbeing?

Do you want to join in on a journey to dissolve perfectionism, to start to learn how to embody daily habits that promote clarity, ease and connection with other like-minded people around you?

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This journey isn't for everyone. You have to be committed to your own personal growth, willing to experiment, feel silly, backslide perhaps, break outdated habits, rewrite limiting beliefs, work with others in a dynamic group and learn skills, to live daily to aid growth into your wellness and whole being potential.

You don't need to have it all figured out, after all, who does? This is where we come in at ABC.

We at ABC have been nurturing space at Lime Tree Farm to aid growth with co co-operation of other like-minded individuals. We’re here to help you should you want to go on the road less travelled. Our mission is to awaken our innermost selves through a deep connection to nature, with meditation through conservation to create Time and Space to allow your innate wisdom and capacity to thrive.

The road less travelled.

Together, with ABC, we’ll humbly and vulnerably share our own milestones along with our journey time and experiences with living these newly formed habits. We’ll work step-by-step, using proven breathing techniques, and carefully planned pit stops, to be able to allow you to be in the here and now, to act defiantly to your child of origin within group dynamics, as currently are. Should you choose to share your feelings?

Our Solo day mini - 1-day taster course and Time and Space retreats offer an opportunity to reach your true potential in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

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Darrell - +447851448812.

                                   

            
The cost is £47.50 which includes a healthy lunch.

We offer a 2 for 1 deal if you have attended previous ABC events. So bring a friend.

Dry January and Beyond/2019.

This January we at ABC are available to help you in this resolution and ask,could you do Dry January and extend to February too, as thousands of adults in the UK already take part in Dry January.

Starting on the first day of the month, participants vow to go 31 days without alcohol as a resolution that has been previously endorsed by Cancer Research UK and Alcohol Change UK.

ABC provides a great space to come and have some time out to discuss with you an extension to this as a concept.

Why not?

Reasons for taking part have been documented, with people focussing on the health benefits, including weight loss, decreased risk of diseases including cancer and improvements to mental health. But what about an extension is it worth it? 

Could I do it?

Yes you could do it. You could easily calculate the calories and money you could be saving, as well as monitor your year-round drinking habits by starting with an extra month as well as placing yourself in the mindset of people who have abstained due to dependency issues.

Tips for those who need a little help staying on the wagon include going on long walks, taking up a hobby or trying a non-alcoholic version of your favourite drink or try cleaning and washing up to keep extra busy. 

Is it really worth it?

The benefits of Dry January are the subject of an ongoing debate among doctors and scientists as recent reports are from Alcohol Change UK who report that in 2018, “88% of participants saved money, 71% had better sleep and more energy, and 58% lost weight”.

Give it a go.

Call us on 07851448812 to book a consultation at our gatherings, to swap information and ideas and to plan for the extra month and talk about your feelings, that such a challenge brings up.

We look forward to talking with you soon.

Darkness to Light.

Winter Solstice 2018.

The road to celebrate the winter solstice at the farm was lit by the moon and the night was mild and it was raining.

When there is so much conflict in life, we struggle and become empty. Visiting the nature reserve we had to concentrate on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Shelter, food, warmth as well as this Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper used the terms "physiological," "safety," "belonging and love," or "social needs" "esteem," and "self-actualization" to describe the pattern through which human motivations generally move.

So we practiced meditation and mindfulness to be able to cook food and warm drinks. As a group we bonded and laughed and shared Christmas carols as we waited for the sun to rise and go from darkness to light.We then observed our vow of silence to leave negative thoughts and feelings behind as we all prepared to be positive and peaceful through the festive season and into 2019.

We had a great time and hope you do also, if you choose to come to this magical place at Lime tree farm on one of our Solo days or other events.

Seasons Greetings.

Season’s greetings from all of us at ABC.

Yesterday we were at Lime tree farm,wreath making to brighten up the festive yuletide season.

The holidays are just around the corner and fast approaching.
Decorating your home to get into the festive mood can be a daunting task, and it all starts with deciding whether you prefer natural decorating elements or artificial. In fact when you decide to decorate with fresh Christmas wreaths, it was a great way to get into the holiday spirit in its entirety!

Live wreaths can be a bit more cumbersome and expensive than their artificial counterparts, but they do offer a great number of advantages. It was a great day chatting and sharing about love, life and the year gone by remembering friends old and new and also people who have passed.

What a great day.

We decorated the round house in preparation of our gathering to mark the WINTER SOLSTICE from Midnight of the 20th December through to our planned hour’s vow of silence in the stone circle.

Please contact Darrell 07851448812 to book. The evening is priced at £15.00 all monies go towards self funding our project for events to come and our vision of building a treehouse in the future.

Winter Solstice Event 2018.

ABC Invite you to share in the winter solstice and festive season on Midnight Thursday 20th December to Friday 21^st at dawn for an hours vow of silence.

The shortest day and longest night of the year inspire mystical celebrations, both old and new, in anticipation of the sun’s return.

In 2018 in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is Friday December 21st with our gathering at 7.23am in the stone circle with a vow of silence to watch the sunrise at 8.23am and be at peace.

Remember, the days just get longer from here!

A spiritual gathering of like minded individuals who want to mark the festive season in a more natural way with mindfulness and meditation petitions for the coming year, singing, and storytelling are also part of the festivities, so what you can bring to share will be appreciated. 

Your ABC experience will incorporate pagan winter solstice celebrations marked by a small bonfire to burn a Yule time tide log and food. After the solstice, the abundance of darkness in winter often associated with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, the northern hemisphere will begin to be balanced with the light of the sun and we are gathering to celebrate this.

We will be gathering again for our 3rd year to celebrate this magical evening to say goodbye to the end of shorter days and the victory of light over darkness along with others around the world with other winter celebrations.

We will meet from midnight on Thursday 20th until dawn at

 Limetree Farm Hutts lane Grewelthorpe

 Ripon HG4 3DA.

Please bring warm waterproof clothes and boots.

Priced at £15.00, all monies go to help sustain our conservation work on the nature reserve throughout the New Year 2019 and would be the perfect alternative gift / donations.

 Please call Daz 07851448812 to book.

We would especially like to thank all our volunteers some that are currently oversees for all their hard work dedication in our long term goal of fund raising and building a treehouse and of course Pete and Irene for this special place.

Making way for new growth....

On route to Ripon whilst travelling along a route known as blubberhouses, with the first sign of snow, a beautiful barn owl was seen in full flight hunting at dawn.

It reminded us of the barn owl chicks that we saw, late summer whilst on a Solo day at Lime Tree Farm.

Let there be light.

Whilst at Lime tree farm we helped the owners clean up some cow dung from the car park to the observatory as some cattle had got loose and were on the road and were shown into the field at Lime tree Farm ,the cow pats were then shovelled into the hedgerows as fertilizer for species such as,

Crataegus monogyna (Hawthorn)

Fagus sylvatica (Green Beech)

Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea' (Purple Beech)

Ilex aquifolium (Holly)

Along with other species such as blackthorn, field maple, hazel, spindle, wayfaring tree and wild service tree occasionally overshadowed by oak, ash, silver birch and other trees.

Bramble bushes and rose are frequent, together with climbing honeysuckle and wild clematis. At the foot of the hedge, thick herbaceous vegetation commonly includes species such as cow parsley and hedge mustard with coarse grasses, although sometimes woodland flora is found with bluebells and greater stitchwort.

Hedges provide song posts, shelter and nesting opportunities for both woodland and farmland birds such as yellowhammer, whitethroat, bluetit and great tit, birds that we have seen recently at Lime tree Farm. Hedges at the farm offer nectar, berries, nuts and leaves provide food for an assortment of invertebrates, mammals and birds. In addition to providing excellent wildlife habitat, hedges can help reduce soil erosion and water run-off for the Farm.

Stripped bare.

At peace with nature.

So it was great to trim some silver birch trees to let sunlight in to the entrance to the farm and add some brush to the hedgerows knowing our efforts may aid the wildlife at the nature reserve for the future. The rest were placed in a pile to make a bonfire as Halloween and bonfire night looms in this beautiful autumn period we are having.

The bonfire.

Our conservation work passed by so quickly yet so slowly.We always use mindfulness and meditation and breathing techniques that we teach on your Solo day which keeps us fully in the now. This mindfulness and meditation allows us to experience peace and harmony within ourselves and with Mother nature.

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Return to Lime tree farm...

Autumn marked a return to Lime tree farm and another beautiful Solo Day.

Yorkshire, an area of outstanding natural beauty. (AONB)

Teasel.

On the back of the storm callum, the winds were up and the sounds of the winds thrashing through the trees gave this special place extra magic.

The sun shines through.

To practice mindfulness in such a beautiful environment with the effects of the storm gave us poise, and a special moment to truly reflect in our stilling of the mind and we gained peace. We were in awe at the presence of Mother Nature as the cloud formations blew across the horizon with really unusual mild temperatures 20 degrees despite the rain.

Before.

We managed to clear out some sheds and clad a barn door for the owners Pete and Irene and to help to conserve this place for others to come to this peaceful place.

After.

With our conservation commitment, we keep an eye on everything, from the ground upwards and look after and protect all plants, animals, trees as nature needs to be at its best.
We are never surprised to find man made materials that find their way onto Lime tree farm conservation area. 
As small as the piece of plastic is (above), it can do severe damage to wildlife. We always remove and safely dispose of any foreign materials; such is our commitment to ensuring that this beautiful place is kept this way for future generations and for all of you who come here for a Solo Day or Time and Space retreat.

And nature needs a hand too.