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
Responding with Compassion online
September 1, 2026
This course is a follow on from the Being Present In-depth Mindfulness training and starts with building self-compassion into basic mindfulness practice. Through compassionate imagery and mindful self-compassion, we cultivate positive emotions as a way of building up an inner resource; from which we can approach the difficulties that are part and parcel of being alive.
We then approach the self-critic: that persistent inner voice that is harsh and condemning, and always finding fault in what we do. What it would be like to cultivate an inner voice that is kind and supportive, and to live life from this place, rather than from a place of destructive self-criticism?
In the course of the journey we move from self-compassion towards compassion for others. Exploring practices which help us find balance and perspective beyond our narrow preferences.
Introduction to Teaching Skills
September 5/6, 2026
During this weekend we teach you how to guide Mindfulness practices, in particular the practice of Mindfulness sitting practice (Intention, Motivation, Settling, Grounding, Resting, Support and Sharing), mindful movement and bodyscan. We look at the rationales for these practices, the language we use and safety issues around guiding these practices. Then we practice guiding each other in small groups and then in our tutorial groups.
We also explore how to lead Mindful enquiry at the end of a session of guided practice.
This course is about teaching from our own practice and so a key element is developing the trust to teach from our embodied presence. We do this by practicing together in small groups, while staying present and in touch with our body and noticing the difference between this and teaching from the thinking activity in our heads that takes us away from our direct experience of the moment.
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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The song of the land
Recently, I have been stopping quite a lot on my walks. It has nothing to do with my fitness levels, rather, it’s because the land has been singing to me. In Ireland, the month of May is a month of full bloom. The hawthorn, the cow parsley, the bluebells and even the wild roses have…
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Thank you, no thank you…
Two of my oldest Canadian friends have been with me for the past week and it has been absolutely delightful. We have traversed the Wicklow hills, roamed the halls of Kilkenny castle, explored Dublin’s fair city and ventured to the most sun soaked spot we could find: Inch beach in county Kerry. It has been…
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