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3rd May 2024

One year on and what a ride its been! 

 

Our first year has been a mixture of settling in, streamlining and refining, and also developing new ideas, promoting our wonderful lodges and meeting so many new and interesting people! The time is definitely now for the work we have been developing for years on our own paths; there is a real need for community, deeper exploration into spirituality, consciousness, movement and connection.

 

We do not follow one doctrine or dogma here at Green Door, our hope is that we can all exist together and learn from one another’s experiences and revelations. If anything we embrace simplicity, listening to and trusting our intuition, and connection with others. 

 

This year we have developed our events to include cacao ceremonies with Shamanic journeys marking special days of the calendar. These have been well attended and very powerful as like-minds meet on this very special and magical land. 

 

One of our most successful weekly events is ‘Community Wednesday’ where you can pop by for a cuppa from the Diddy Van, have a chat and relax and join one of our groups if you feel like it. 

 

We are so pleased that our desire to include more children’s activities has come to fruition with Willow Tree forest school, mental health and fitness activities for teens from the Wellness Tribe and our very own Flow Rider bus outreaching to local schools offering mindfulness and breathwork. Our own kids love to get involved helping out, and selling Green Door wares in the holidays too- not forgetting the recently launched sweet shop ‘Kai and Jai’- Marianne and I are encouraging healthy options here with limited success!

 

Our groups have flourished, free meditation continues twice a week,  the hall is booked up well into next year and while sometimes we flounder we are doing our best to walk the talk embracing our 2024 mantra ‘slow is the new go’, catching ourselves when we rush and reminding ourselves to lean back rather than charge forwards! We are definitely learning all the time and only wish to give people an opportunity and the environment in which to be themselves, heal whatever holds them back and move forward. We do not wish to preach or make generalising pronouncements on how to live- that is far too much pressure!!!!

 

We are so grateful for everyone who has given their precious, sacred energy to make Green Door such a magical place this last year and are thrilled to enter year 2 with positive high vibes, light hearts and dancin feet!💚

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May 2023

We are ready to open our doors!

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Formerly known at the ‘Hamblin Centre’ and ‘Bosham House’ this gentle place housed a charitable Trust set up to promote the teachings and life of Henry Thomas Hamblin (1873-1958). Hamblin was a mystic, who experienced visions all his life and believed, due to his own experiences, that one could improve one’s life dramatically, through positive thought and meditation. https://www.thehamblinvision.org.uk

 

Myself and Marianne  pitched to take over guardianship of what had already been created by Hamblin and subsequent caretakers in December 2021. We have a very similar vision to HTH, and felt aligned with the existing ethos; I had worked at the centre for years and had got to know it well. So many signs and signals came- I received notice of our successful application not only by email but 5 minutes before by receiving a deep purple light in my 3rd eye centre.. my spiritual inbox if you like!  We were lucky enough to have built great trust from our community who enthusiastically backed us all the way. When we flailed, they picked us up. We were not familiar with the legal or business aspects of what we were taking on and luckily for us my wonderful cousin Mike, a business and financial Guru appeared like a gene from a lamp and put in the hard work to guide us all over the line. Such a great model for future business, Mike and trustee Noel Raine sat for hours together working through the finer points of the transaction. Not only great teamwork but friendships forged. 

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As for the future, Marianne and I want to bring a new energy to the centre- to continue the good work but focus more on the generations to come. They will change our world and we need to guide and encourage them; the centre has already breathed in the new life as children have enjoyed the space more, and we have nourished it with regular, free, twice weekly meditations. We envision more retreats, more community gatherings, deep spiritual work, more love and definitely more laughter.