Group support session for eyesight improvement

When:

fortnightly on Saturdays 10:00-12:00

How to attend:

book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-eyesight-tickets-864599679917?aff=oddtdtcreator

Room:

Wellspring Room or Library.

Accessibility:

Wellspring Room and Library are fully accessible.

The Salisbury Centre’s kitchen door and toilet are now wheelchair accessible. The Garden can also be accessed by wheelchairs via a movable ramp via the Art Room Annex, subject to room occupancy on the day. Please let the organisers know in advance of any access requirements.

About the Event:

These sessions are intended for exploring different techniques, practices, and perspectives of holistic eyesight improvement, with an invitation for some gentle physical movement (in the garden weather permitting!), and group reflection.

Healing eyesight naturally is not a new thing. Over 100 years ago, an optometrist called William Bates devoted his life to researching and teaching natural eyesight improvement as well as curing hundreds of people of their eyesight disorders with his assistant, Emily Learman. The techniques they used were varied, but ultimately very simple and focused on helping people achieve mental relaxation, as well as learning, or re-learning the habits of perfect sight. The methods are gentle, unobtrusive and common sense. In these sessions we will practice and discuss some of these methods, as well as explore ones of our own, and any others we come across that we find helpful.

This is for anyone who is curious about this topic, who experiences difficulties with their vision and is willing to have an open mind.

If you wear glasses, I will invite you to remove them for parts of the session to be able to work with your natural state of vision. Likewise, if you wear lenses, consider wearing your glasses to this session instead so that you can easily remove them.

This is not a therapy session, but a place for discussing the topic, practising techniques and sharing progress and discoveries in person amongst the group.

About Donations: 

Participation in our community-led events is on a voluntary ‘by donation’ basis. This means that nobody is expected to make a payment if they cannot afford to do so.

Any donations received will be shared between the Centre and the facilitator, helping to make the events’ programme sustainable as well as to provide some reciprocity towards community facilitators’ time and skills offered.

Where a “suggested donation” is listed, this is just an indication of what the event might cost if it was ticketed.

This is an invitation to practice ‘Dana’ (generosity) – please pay only what you can afford to attend.

To donate:

• bring cash
• donate online on  www.salisburycentre.org/donate  (Please use reference “EVENT NAME“).
• Card payment option available at the entrance hall (Please enter the event name before making payment)