BEAT THE RETREAT.

This week's retreat Friday 10th May from 7pm + Saturday 11th May to Sunday 12th May until 2pm.  Our conservation task was to bag up the logs for the campsite and to tidy up the bags of logs and to set them off the ground on pallets, at the same time as listening to the hypnotic beats of the drumming workshop in the roundhouse, in tandem with birds singing in the hedgerows.

What a weekend and a great conservation task accomplished, and a pleasure to give back, for this special place.

African drums are so iconic of Africa that an African drummer is almost a stereotype of the country. The fact is that drums have been an intrinsic part of African life for countless generations and how this has now had a crossover to other cultures. The drums were led by an African drum leader and a special thanks to Barbara and her group for allowing the Abc team to experience this beautiful and memorable experience. 

It has been said that Africa is the cradle of humanity, so it's not unreasonable to conclude that music formed a part of the African experience before many, if not all, other civilizations were even born.

Music is deeply woven into the fabric of African life, and drums are the primordial musical instruments and to hear the sound coming from the roundhouse was amazing to hear.

Drums play an important role in all aspects of African life, including the physical, emotional and spiritual. African hand drums are played to communicate, celebrate, mourn and inspire. They're played in times of peace and war, planting and harvesting, birth and death.

TIME AND SPACE RETREATS.

For that extra piece of missing magic, book early to avoid disappointment.

Seen in Masham.

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ...“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” ...“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ...“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”  “Honest people don't hide their deeds.”

A wonderful time of the year.

Easter is a wonderful time of the year. With the spring weather changeable, the hills turn green and the flowers start to bloom. Spring is a time of renewal and hope, and this is seen with the newborn lambs.

"A time to let go of resentments and gain compassion." 

This week's Solo Day (13th April 2019) was enjoyed by our participants although the temperature was cold, with meditation and conservation, our task was to take the willow cuttings gathered from a previous Solo Day we had placed in a pile and burn it in the field to provide ash for the hedgerows. Wood ash is an excellent source of lime and potassium for the hedgerows. Not only that, but using ashes from the farm in the hedgerows also provides many of the trace elements that plants need to thrive.

"Conservation is caring for the environment."

Being around the fire generated an atmosphere of sharing and hope for the future.

Easter also is a time of Peace and Easter also is celebrated with Eggs and we are thrilled to see 3 eggs in the robin's nest in the coat of the boot room.

"Meditation and mindfulness need constant practice in order to attain lasting Peace."

from ABC retreats.

Reasons...

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The reasons to attend Solo days or Time and Space retreats would be to learn simple meditation techniques and to practice mindfulness and to be in nature with small conservation activities to practice this learning. The conservation of flora and fauna and its related benefits are:

 A) To help maintain biodiversity - this ensures that the variety of plants and animals are maintained in the environment such that no species are lost. 

B) To maintain ecological balance, as ecological balance is very important because life is supported by this balance. 

C) To enrich a sense of personal wellbeing.

This week (30th March 2019) we lime whitewashed the roundhouse out for a spring clean and this was a great day with the owners Pete and Irene and we had a great springtime feel.

In speaking of a springtime feel, there may not be a shrub that cheers people up more than the forsythia bush.

A robin has laid its nest in the arm of a sheepskin coat in the boot room at ABC.

Don't forget the Bees.

We are looking forward to meeting you when you book to come on a Solo Day or Time and Space retreat.
See you soon.

Back to nature. Meditation Mindfulness and Conservation.

Habitual meditation is reputed to help reduce anxiety and anxiety-related mental health issues like social anxiety, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.

This weekend's Solo Day (23rd March) was a chance to be back to nature with the conservation task at Lime tree farm and a chance to give back. We moved the trimmings of the cutback holly from the gardens on the edge of the orchard to enable new growth. 

It was a chance to be immersed in the smells and sounds of nature in this truly remarkable place. A beautiful spring-like day and the smell of the daffodils was amazing and a reminder that a new year is starting.

Time and Space allows true reflection to heal, and help participants to plan the months and year ahead one day at a time. 

Being in the here and now, at this special place is amazing so please come again.

Your thoughts and your words shape your modern day life. The introduction to Abc guided meditations available whilst on a Solo Day or Time and space retreats on this site are designed to provide, direction and power to enrich your thoughts so that you can achieve better health and life goals.

When you have attended one of our Solo day events, we hope with practice, the techniques if practiced will aid your ability for meditative reflection to aid you to detach from day to day problems and to create space for self-compassion. We hope to help you address your specific issues.

In this state, you will be encouraged to envision the outcome you desire and to aid you to believe in positive affirmations, of self to reinforce this vision. Lives have been transformed by consistently practicing mindfulness.

Visit our Solo days or Time and space retreats to enjoy a taster session in meditation mindfulness through conservation.

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.

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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.