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.
Nature and Healing
January 31, 2026
Nature-based interventions (NBIs) have gained increasing attention in recent years as a promising approach to promoting health and well-being. Research has shown that engaging with nature can have a wide range of positive effects on physical, mental, and emotional health, making it a valuable tool for improving overall quality of life.
The Sanctuary’s Nature and Healing Programme was created by Jane Negrych and follows three ecologies for deepening our relationship with nature, ourselves and one another:
Ecology 1: Inspiration/ Ecology 2: Engagement/ Ecology 3:Enmeshment.
The aim of the programme is to cultivate and foster a relationship with nature for the purposes of healing and strengthening mental and emotional resiliency
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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Lightly, my darling
Whenever things feels heavy in my life, like when I start to feel the walls caving in, I remember the words of Aldous Huxley: It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly…
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Slow down, you move too fast
As many of you know, and those who have been reading my blog will know, the last few years of my life have been difficult ones (to say the least). Life turned upside down with the illness and death of my beloved. And before that, I was working a lot. Too much, some might say.…
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