That Mysterious Silence – 10 Years at the Centre

Dr Stefan Gillow Reynolds is author of ‘Living with the Mind of Christ: Mindfulness in Christian Spirituality’ (DLT, 2016) and ‘The Wisdom of Love in the Song of Songs’ (Hikari, 2018) and ‘Letting Go and Coming Home: A Year of Poetry and Photos’ (Hikari, 2021). He has a PhD in Christian Spirituality from London University and runs retreats for The World Community for Christian Meditation and for the Cistercian Abbey of Mount Melleray where he works. He lives with his wife in Lismore, Co. Waterford.

Lucy Barnes is a dancer and British Wheel qualified yoga teacher, working in the WCCM community.  She is currently interested in Feldenkrais technique and T’ai Chi, both of which influence her teaching approach. Lucy has run classes and workshops at the Meditatio Centre for several years as well as running a private practice in London.

Lennie Charles has been performing music and poetry events from the works of classic mystic poets such as Rumi, Kahill Gibran , Lao Tzu , Omar Khayyam and Kabir to name a few, to local audiences for number of years. A Classical and Middle Eastern multi-instrumentalist and a big fan of BBC Radio’s “Words & Music” He wanted to bring that listening experience to a live audience. The music is often improvised and poems read twice, lines repeated and may also re-read against another poem. Poems he says need to be read and listened too twice sometimes, one for the head and again for the heart.

Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is the Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Mark Burrows is an associate member of the Iona Community and an oblate of Glastonbury Abbey, a Benedictine monastery near Boston, Burrows is also a poet and award-winning translator of German literature. His most recent volume of poems, The Chance of Home, was published in 2018, and he published two volumes of meditative poems with Jon M. Sweeney inspired by the mystical writings of Meister Eckhart: Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart (2017) and Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets (2019), with a third due out in 2023. www.msburrows.com