On Inis Mór, limestone, ruined churches and the Atlantic belong to the same landscape. Walking there, I found it difficult to separate what I was seeing from the stories surrounding it, or from the questions I had brought with me.
I write about this in “Inis Mór: Leyendas en el paisaje”, published in Spanish in El Hombre y lo Divino. The island gave me much to consider about pilgrimage, memory and the traces we leave behind.
These questions have a place in the work I share through Laurus. When we organise an experience in nature, I want there to be time to become acquainted with the place itself. What grows here? Who cares for it? What happens here after we have gone home?
There is a practical responsibility in bringing people into a landscape. There is also the pleasure of getting to know somewhere through repeated visits, until we begin to notice its changes.
At Feel Good Regenerative Fridays, we spend time gardening, writing, practising mindfulness and sharing conversation in Alhaurín de la Torre. The garden gives us something to attend to together. We can take part without having to arrive with something particular to say.
Our ten-week mindfulness programme offers another setting for that exploration, through guided practice and reflection, online and in person in Málaga. Making time regularly allows us to notice what we bring to an encounter: our expectations, our restlessness, our willingness to listen.
I would like these gatherings to leave room for questions as well as activities. We may come for a morning outdoors and find ourselves considering something we had scarcely thought about before.
You can read the full account of Inis Mór below, alongside the experiences we currently offer at Laurus.
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