Releasing Potential: MEDITATION DROP-IN CLASS

Sunday 30 September 2012

MEDITATION DROP-IN CLASS

This is a weekly drop-in class which will teach the two basic meditation techniques and allow time to practise them.

It is designed to encourage an ongoing habit of practising meditation.The benefits of establishing a regular meditation practice can be considerable. It can lead to a greater sense of calm and contentment and give insight as to how to live a happier,more constructive life.Meditation can als lead to a more productive use of one's time.It is a wonderful antidote to the stresses of modern day living.

LUNCHTIME CLASS: TUESDAYS 1-00 TO 2-00pm

EVENING CLASS: WEDNESDAYS 7-00 TO 9-00pm

(Commencing Tuesday 2nd April and Wednesday 3rd April 2013)

Lunchtime Class £5. Evening Class £8 (concession £5)

Highgate Newtown Community Centre, Bertram Street, London N19 5DQ
(Archway Tube 15 mins. Buses C11 or 4).

www.releasingpotential.blogspot.co.uk

E: releasingpotential@hotmail.com

Tel 020-7428-9987

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Hello, I'm John Roche.

When I was a student, I had the immense good fortune to come across a teacher who opened my horizons and helped me to realise my potential. She was ostensibly a drama teacher, but essentially an educator. She saw her job as helping people realise that they had something to offer, and were in their own way, quite unique.

Encountering her changed my life and set me on my life's path. I became an English and Drama teacher in a Comprehensive school in East London and set about trying to do the same for others. It was such a joy for me to realise I had a valid point of view and was worth something. I wanted to pass on this “gift” to others.

Eventually I became a Theatre Director and took this same approach in working with actors, trying to help them to release their artistic talent and explore the substance of the play. This was successful and led to being appointed Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool where I had the good fortune to work with such excellent actors as Bill Nighy, Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Jonathan Pryce among others.

Subsequently I developed a keen interest in Buddhism and started to teach meditation as a complimentary means of realising these same qualities. Meditation increases the awareness of the qualities that one quite naturally possesses. I went on to teach meditation for 28 years.

The two interests combined when I went to India and started a Performing Arts Project amongst the "Untouchable/Dalit" Communities in Maharastra State. It was here that I discovered Storytelling as a simple, straightforward way of helping people to express themselves and to experience the power of the imagination. It became an effective way to empower people who were lacking in confidence and experience.

The object of this webpage is to make these two approaches available to others.To help to empower people and build the confidence to become more effective communicators. This is the purpose of this website and the classes and workshops that I run.

Sunday 30 September 2012

MEDITATION DROP-IN CLASS

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