The Aware Baker, a Suffolk-based firm instructing mindfulness by the artwork of baking, is to launch a brand new one-day course within the wake of the pandemic.
The course, designed with busy professionals in thoughts, teaches meditation strategies in addition to tips on how to bake artisan sourdough bread and pizza.
The refreshed course comes after two years of lockdowns within the UK, and supplies methods for dealing with anxiousness and stress, in addition to sensible baking abilities.
Lawyer-turned-life-coach, Tim Leach, who arrange the enterprise in 2020 mentioned: ‘It’s no secret that the pandemic has had a profound – and doubtlessly long-lasting – impact on the UK’s psychological well being. Baking and meditation helped me by a really difficult time in my life and I wish to carry these abilities to the lots with a course that addresses the consequences of the pandemic.’
The hyperlinks between baking and mindfulness might not instantly be apparent, however – based on Leach – the 2 go hand-in-hand. Tim mentioned: “Baking is a methodical, calming course of. It’s all about slowing down: bread is just not one thing you may rush, which is why it dovetails so nicely with mindfulness.
Clearly, the pandemic precipitated untold harm, however there are some positives to be taken from it. Life in lockdown took on a slower tempo and we grew to become grateful for easy issues like going for a stroll or a dialog with a buddy. Mindfulness is all about taking the time to understand the second.”
Tim’s mindfulness and life teaching {qualifications} permit him to information the dialog, listening to and training people to progress by areas of their lives the place they really feel caught.
Tim mentioned: ‘Some shoppers arrive with slightly cynicism about spending the day discussing meditation and mindfulness, however they go away with a constructive understanding of the strategies I educate – to not point out loads of scrumptious baked items that are sampled all through. I’m pushed by wanting to assist my shoppers of their on a regular basis lives, in order that they go away feeling impressed to make adjustments of their lives – as nicely to bake their very own bread from scratch.’
The Aware Baker is run from Tim’s newly refurbished baking studio within the coronary heart of Suffolk’s Constable Nation.
Programs begin from £79 for a five-hour sourdough course.