Wellbeing in the woods

(This is meant to be Saturday 24th's entry but I accidentally blipped the deckchair on the wrong day instead of backdating it! )

Today was the first of 4 CPD days with the focus on self care and wellbeing. Each day will focus on a season so today's theme was the arrival of Spring after a long Winter. We reflected upon our own personal winters and the new beginnings we hoped to hatch in our lives.

It was a day of creativity, poetry and writing, meditation, mindfulness and being together with nature and new friends. Deep in the woods, around the campfire, we whittled sticks which we then wrapped in dough. Once baked, we spread them with homemade lemon curd (see extra)! We also had a wholesome lunch prepared for us, with love, and a delicious marmalade cake.

A little robin was very interested in us all as we talked and laughed around the fire and a woodpecker was busy at work the whole time.

To top the day off, the sun was beating down...thawing, warming and stirring the Earth back to life.

Our next time together in the woods will be in the summer.