My Silent Place
Where inspiration begins
a practical application of mindfulness in daily life
with Jane Negrych
About Jane
I have been teaching compassion based mindfulness for 15 years. Intially, I taught for the Mindfulness Association UK and I am currently teaching at the Sanctuary in Dublin, Ireland. Through teaching meditation, I have discovered that silence can be a doorway to creativity and to connection: connection to myself, to my environment and connection to healing.
Upcoming Courses
Being Present online
September 9, 2025
The Being Present course is back online, this Autumn. The Being Present Mindfulness training is a 4 Part, in depth training that is spread out over a nine-month period during the winter months, and aims to enable participants to establish an effective and regular daily mindfulness practice so as to help our minds to settle and stabilise. One of the distinctive qualities of this training is the kindness and compassion practices that are weaved throughout.
It is ideal for beginners; however, it is also for those who have previous experience of mindfulness and who want to deepen and develop their practice and for those who might go on to train to teach mindfulness in the workplace or the 8-week Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC).This course is part of the Mindfulness Association UK franchise.
The Art of Rest
April 12, 2026
The Harvard Independent, a student weekly, calls for rest as resistance and attributes the demonizing of rest as a product of capitalism. Indeed, at times rest has been confused with laziness. Being ‘busy’ has become a sign of success. We have been cultured to see rest as a sign of weakness.
On the other hand, studies have found that rest is an important and necessary component to mental health and wellbeing, the development of healthy relationships, boost creativity, and healing the body after illness.
In this programme of Rest, we will explore the 7 kinds of rest during 7 days of retreat spread throughout the year. The 7 kinds of rest are: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Sensory, Creative, Social and Spiritual rest.
So, if you would like to relearn how to rest, why not join me for 7 days of Rest in 2026?
This blog started with a return to the Sanctuary with my weekly Tuesday morning (10am) mindfulness sessions. The blog acts as an extra resource and a space to access a written mindfulness musing with audio recording of the sessions.
“Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.”
Wendell Berry
From the blog
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Sadness upon me…
Sadness has been upon me. I am not going to lie, last week was a tough one. There were various moments, hours and even a few full days where there was a heavy and almost lethargic melancholy upon me. At times, when I got pulled into my mind, it felt too much. However, when I…
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Energy follows focus…
There’s a phrase that the Buddhist teacher Rob Nairn uses when teaching mindfulness: energy follows focus. This simply refers to the concept that wherever it is that our attention has gone to, our energy follows. In terms of our meditation practice, when we become entangled in our thoughts, we feed energy into the habit of…
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