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Finding the time to practice mindfulness can heighten your enjoyment of this beautiful season.

With the support of the The Woodland Trust and the Mayor of London we are offering half a dozen opportunities for you to benefit from Mindfulness in parks and woodland across London as we celebrate the inaugural London National Park City Week. We caught up with Mel Sutton, mindfulness coach and yoga teacher, who has carefully chosen sites for you to enjoy as she leads you into a calming state of mindfulness.

"In mindfulness you work to become more aware of how you're thinking and feeling. Mindfulness suggests that if you're able to understand your thoughts and feelings more clearly, it could help you:
    • notice that thoughts come and go and don't define who you are or your experience of the world
   • notice when you get caught up in negative thoughts and take steps to change how you're thinking
   • be kinder towards yourself
    • manage some physical health problems, like chronic pain."

Mary Geraldine Harmsworth Park
MONDAY 23 JULY 6.15pm-7.30pm
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"It's always been my philosophy to keep things simple and to use common sense.

This is why Mindfulness is so good. We all breathe, we all take in air and we all have thoughts that bombard our mind. We start with the breath. IT connects us to who we are. Without our breath we are nothing.

By slowing down our breath we begin to bring a sense of calm into our mind. With practice we experience this relationship which creates space. Within this space comes greater self awareness, acceptance and clarity."

Russia Dock Woodland SE16
SATURDAY 28 JULY
1.45pm-3.15pm
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4.15pm-5.45pm
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"As you feel calmer and able to manage stress better you reduce mental chatter and find that through a mindfulness walk you develop a kinder and more compassionate relationship with yourself."

Springfield Park E3
SUNDAY 22 JULY 11.00am-12.15pm
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"Mindfulness describes a way of approaching our thoughts and feelings so that we become more aware of them and react differently to them." Mel has worked in health for the past 25 years. "Of all the therapies I have practiced I find practicing Mindfulness the most healing and useful. Once you have learnt the basics it can be practiced anywhere and the effect on wellbeing is enhanced.

There is so much info around health and well-being and much of this is conflicting advice. We can feel bombarded and overwhelmed when it comes to making the right choices to live healthy positive creative lives."

Ruskin Park SE5
FRIDAY 27 JULY
12.45pm-2.00pm
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"Being outdoors and connecting with nature has a profound effect on our physical, mental and spiritual health. Who hasn't stood beneath a tree or smelt a beautiful flower or noticed the butterfly without being transported to a place of greater awareness and connection to ourselves and the earth."

As part of National Park City Week we are offering 6 mindfulness events where we will look at different ways we can be mindful.

Victoria Park E3
SUNDAY 29 JULY 11.00am-12.15pm
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Book your place on any of Mel Sutton's Mindfulness events during London's National Park City Week - but hurry as places are going fast!
Click here to go to the list of all the walkshops being offered by the Museum of Walking to read more and book.