The benefits of being outside with nature.

Solo Days.

The benefits of being out with nature and the abundance of flora and fauna and nature arrives if we allow our selves to be in the present.

Our mindfulness meditation and conservation Solo days will allow you to participate in this stilling of the mind.

Time and Space.

For calm and true reflection, contemplation and Introspection seeing nature with flora and fauna and also the local wildlife that is fulfilling and that's why Bird watching is a very meditative activity.
Birders spend lots of time in the quiet of the great outdoors without the easy indulgence of distractions.

Bird watching is a great opportunity to reflect on your life or to just zone out and think calming thoughts. Meditation has been shown to slow the decay of your brain’s grey matter, which happens naturally as we age.

Birds that have been seen on our Solo days.

Wren.

Barn owl

Buzzard                      

Tawny owl

Greater spotted woodpecker

Dunnock

Robin

Redstart

Blackbird

Song thrush

Nuthatch.
Photos by Andrew Robin.

Redwing

Garden Warbler

Blackcap

Yellow-browed Warbler

Chiffchaff

Willow warbler

Goldcrest

Spotted flycatcher

Tree Creeper.

Pied Flycatcher

Long-tailed tit

Marsh tit

Coal Tit

Blue tit

Great Tit

Nuthatch

Treecreeper

Jackdaw

House sparrow

Tree sparrow

Chaffinch

Greenfinch

Goldfinch
Wren.

Assessing the great outdoors by yourself or with others for a Solo Day would be a valuable use of your resources and could promote team building. Getting out into the fresh air which is great for the mind, body, and soul, is a good building block for you to future proof your own life and to take an inventory of your life's decisions.

Keeping the mind active and healthy and being present in nature is a great way to connect with your inner child in the same way of being able to give back through some light meditative tasks.

Providing a change of scenery is therapeutic and allows time and space from your worries and woes, allowing yourself to redirect your own personal, solution provision.

Please ring Darrell 07851448812        

For information or to book.

Our first Solo Day of the year.

It's great to finally get back to Lime tree Farm for our first Solo Day of the year.

The place is really coming alive on the nature reserve as Norman, our raw food expert, who has been busy felling trees to allow natural light to low photosynthesis to have a greater effect, tending and shaping the allotment for Spring and is growing crops to eat for our grow cook eat program.

We helped move a couple of things across the farm where some other volunteers are moving the forge from the outbuildings to create a place and make a workable forge, for artisan things to be crafted and made of use around the Farm and this is great.

Sarah the ecologist wanted a caravanette top moving and we all helped out to place it on a trailer bound for the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.
We are clearing a space for Martin and the astrology team to make a planetarium.

It was a pleasure to help move comprised willow from the iron age roundhouse where we practiced meditation and mindfulness through conservation.

Lunch was perfect.

                    
We used grappling hooks to move bindweed from the ponds in order for the newts and frogspawn to have a greater effect this spring. After the stilling of the mind in the stone circle and vow of silence, we witnessed one of the Barn owl chicks hunting at dusk, it was magical. It really is soul food.

Another amazing solo day for peace and tranquillity, Set in this area, of outstanding natural beauty. Do YOU want to enrich and enhance your life?

Come and try a Solo Day by yourself or with friends.

We offer a place to retreat to help recharge batteries, for the workforce should they choose to come. We offer  Solo days and Time and space retreats and could possibly offer away days for you and your team as you continue to help drive your personal development forward, on a day to day, by being in the healing power of nature.

We provide a vector, a platform through a guided route of:

A       Meditation

B       Mindfulness

C       Conservation

 In which individuals, groups of people, in your organization could visit our website to take on board what we do with mindfulness-based practice in order they may visit the nature reserve for one of our courses and take a much needed break from the stresses and strains of modern-day life, to have time out to reflect in the hope that this would help everyone make the critical "yes/no" decisions that promote wellbeing of yourself and others around you. 

 We offer a small window of reflection in an area of outstanding natural Beauty in North Yorkshire to be able to look beyond the day to day challenges that can consume tremendous amounts of emotional energy and help people remain focused on feeling good through meditation mindfulness and Conservation.

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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Or Ring

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.