A City Centre project focusing on Wellbeing, Activism and Discipleship.
When I was asked to write a blog about Peace, I just had to laugh at the irony. Peace is not a word easily associated with me. I have a chaotic noisy mind with a thousand thoughts running through it at any one time. I’ve spent my adult life raising four children, running a household,… Continue reading Peace and Wellbeing
We are really pleased to have recorded this new meditation for World Meditation Day. Explore the value of meditation, taking the opportunity to be still and enjoy a short visualisation. https://soundcloud.com/leedssanctuary/world-meditation-day/s-I6sBd6mRSLI?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Photo by Opollo Photography on Unsplash If you enjoyed this meditation, we would love to welcome you to Monday Mindfulness; a weekly opportunity to pause, every Monday… Continue reading World Meditation Day
Leeds Sanctuary are delighted to announce we are releasing a book! “Everyday Sacrament” is a collection of meditations and images written and curated by local artist, Shaeron Caton Rose, and commissioned by Leeds Sanctuary. The meditations were originally written in response to the Covid19 pandemic, as we aimed to support people with their wellbeing, and… Continue reading Everyday Sacrament
Many of us find it easier to process our thoughts if our hands are occupied; if we have something physical to ground us and focus us in the moment we're in, keeping us on task. Our theme at Leeds Sanctuary this month is "Weariness", but naming what we're struggling with internally can be very difficult;… Continue reading A sensory meditation for weariness
It simply isn’t possible to walk around Leeds without coming across Art. Comms boxes covered in Leeds United chants, player names or Bielsa on his bucket; grafitti on partitions, walls or abandoned buildings; the mosaic at the bottom of Kirkgate Market; the heron at the canal by the Dock; our list could go on and… Continue reading Street Art
Prayer is perhaps the most accessible element of life as a Christian, as it can be done any time, any where, without any thing! In the Methodist Church, Prayer forms an important part of the Methodist Way of Life, and is about making space in the day to remember that we are always in God’s… Continue reading Prayer
This week, Anna discusses Flourishing - a holistic, God-centred understanding of wellbeing... Flourishing is the final value of Leeds Sanctuary. This value was developed during Lockdown. We were seeing so many people struggling with their wellbeing that I started to explore wellbeing resources that might help people see themselves as a full, whole, complicated human… Continue reading Flourishing
This week, David discusses "Sanctuary"... Sanctuary offers us both our name and one of our values at Leeds Sanctuary. Like so many words it can mean different things to different people. What then does Sanctuary mean to us as the Methodist Church in Leeds City Centre? The Rock Chapel at St Bueno's Church, North Wales… Continue reading Sanctuary
This meditation was written and recorded for us by our friend Tim from The Blackbird Project, who runs our Monday Mindfulness sessions. The meditation is an opportunity for you to examine emotions that may feel like they are always with you, with a short focus at the start on anger as an example. It is… Continue reading Always Angry?
“Remember that all things which happenTo you are raw materialsEndlessly fertileEndlessly yielding of thought that could changeYour life and go on doing so forever.” - Ben Okri The Anastasis Icon Is-o- lat-ed by Andreas Anastasis Take a look at the first image: it may be familiar to you as I have used it twice already.… Continue reading In Conclusion