WELCOME TO OUR ECO-THEREPY MHIME PROGRAMME
MINDFUL HEALTH IN MUSIC-ENTERTAINMENT
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As an Irish musical family in the Theatre-Music-Hospitality industry, with life long experience in each profession, we set up MHIME, to consolidate all our passions in life, and offer the perfect natural way to find total relaxation, recharge and start a bright new chapter in your career, all set in a remote farm in Central Italy. We all need to step back at some point in our professional and personal lives, to decompress, destress, regain health, energy and overall fitness levels. Our MHIME programme helps you to make positive feel good decisions about every aspect of your life.
The effects of MHIME are immediate and will quickly give very clear and highly beneficial upswings to your nutrition, health and happiness. Whether you need to refocus on your chosen career, review the path your life is on, or immerse yourself in a remote getaway that connects to the land and nature, MHIME offers the ultimate "step back from it all" route to give you all the inspiration and direction you need to take the next major step in your life with confidence.
We care deeply about you finding REAL space in your life, to help you move forward in a positive direction and find better solutions to how you live and the decisions you make.
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As industry professionals who have successfully made the Transition, OUR TOP PRIORITY is reconnecting with nature, discovering what's good for us and the environment, and finding the balance between what we take from nature and what we give back. Balance is crucial to the real meaning of success in life.
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Deciding to get away from it all is just the first step in taking back control of who you are. Relearn to relax, reconnect,write,create,recover,eat,sleep,growfood and focus on health, strength and happiness.
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If you are ready to make that first step, then this programme is for you, and you are on your way.
We would be very happy to hear from you, share your experiences to date, welcome you to our farmhouse, and help you develop a new approach to your journey, and rebuilding a new life.
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CREATING POSITIVE PRINCIPLES IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD
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OUR ETHOS.
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By now, you will have discovered that we own and run an organic farmhouse in Le Marche, central Italy. Here, we make our own wine, olive oil, grow our own food and live a healthy happy life in nature. We are on an ecological journey to rediscover and reconnect with the consciousness which is embedded in our land. By rediscovering nature, we unlock a real connection to who we actually are. By moving through the year in seasonal cycles, Just like our anchestors did before us, we feel invited to align with the seasonal rhythms of nature, each season offering its own truths and secrets. The reawakening of spring, the growth and abundance of summer, the harvest of Autumn, and the rest and relaxation of winter. Here we find our peace and rhythm of life.
OUR FARMHOUSE-HOME.
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We offer our home for Spring and Autumn reconnection during the months of February to May and from September to November. These are the most beautiful months of the year, as springs brings new life and Autumn brings a bountiful harvest. Our home is located in a rural setting within a nature reserve, offering perfect tranquility for those looking to slow down, step back, relax, refocus and start the process of reevaluation, restructuring, rebuilding and ultimately re entering a new approach to life. Our home offers the perfect place to immerse in nature and let go. Although we are a musical family with extensive music-hospitality-farming experience, we invite everybody who feel they are struggling with their development in life or overall mental health.
OUR PROMISE.
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Today as we struggle with the brokenness of our land and cultures, and our estrangement from the earth, this symptom mirrors the brokenness within us, which in large parts has been caused by the overuse of social media, AI and the internet. Healing the soil and souls from this symptom requires great attention, awareness and humility. There is nothing more healing than being in nature among the olive trees, for they are truely full of peace, devotion, humility and kindness, with each tree holding its own spirit and energy. If we can learn to hear nature again, really hear nature, then nature will speak. Our promise is simple, total relaxation, peace and quiet, promoting a more balanced, healthy and happy life in nature.
OUR WORK IN NATURE AND HOW WE ADOPT TO CONSTANTLY CHANGING CONDITIONS
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While staying with us, we welcome all course participants to immerse in our land based activities happening throughout the day. There is no set schedule, no real time keeping, and in many cases, no clocks or watches, we simply use the sun and the moon to set our pace, and guide us along the paths of nature, the seasons as they unfold, and the tasks required to connect us to:
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THE LUNAR CYCLE AND THE RHYTHM OF TIME - PREPARATION FOR THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING - LISTENING TO NATURE AND ITS SECRETS - PLANTING - PRUNING - CARING - NURTURING - THE ARRIVAL OF SUMMER - CELEBRATING THE BOUNTIFUL HARVEST - THE DESCENT INTO AUTUMN - FOLLOWING THE SUN AND THE MOON - CAMPFIRE AND MUSIC TO REPLENISH OUR SPIRIT AND ENERGY - PREPARATION FOR HIBERNATION
SOME OF THE LEADING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS WHO ENDORSE AND SUPPORT THE CREATIVE CIRCLE PROGRAMME
STEVIE G, DJ
YOUTH WORKER
PAUL LEWIS
MUSICIAN
CHRISTINA BAUR
MUSIC MANAGER
VELVIN LAMONT
JAZZ ARTIST
BERIT CARDAS
MUSICIAN
NEIL GRANT
MUSIC PUBLISHER
Music is all about creating a family. As a youth worker, the most enjoyable feeling of all for me is when I bring happiness to the lives of the people I work with. MHIME is a family and I am delighted to be part of it STEVIE.
Having experienced all the pressures of being a global touring musician, I'm delighted to support programmes like MHIME and can highly recommend this community based project. PAUL
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Creating, Writing and Performing is a very stressful part of the arts-music industry, that quite often gets overlooked. Its our pleasure to collaborate with MHIME and contribute to this much needed group. CHRISTINA.
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Music communities like MHiME, who support equality, inclusiveness and togetherness, while supporting the musician at all stages of the musical journey, has got to have my full blessing. VELVIN LAMONT
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Any time-out, spent immersing in music, nature and good company, gives our lives just that counterbalance needed to survive in the music industry and todays stressed out world. BERIT.
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Ive known Graham for over 30 years, his commitment to music and the arts runs deep, very deep. MHIME is a very welcome addition to an industry that needs it more than ever. NEIL.
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CREATIVE CIRCLE COURSES.
We are an Irish/Celtic musical family, with a strong interest in Gaelic heritage and living a naturally in nature. Here in the rural Italian countryside, we have established a sustainable farmlife combined with a deep rooted focus on inner growth and strength through music and nature, spending most of our time as guests on the land among the tress. The tree of life has become symbolic with our work here and our passage through time.
Soak up the sun, affirm lifes magic
Be graceful in the wind, stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains.
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Be tough in a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
And be still long enough to hear your own leaves rustling.
The story of the Celts can only be described as a story of survival and defiance, and from these sentiments and expressions came incredible survival skills, creativity, art, music, poetry and dance. These art forms are the cornerstone of our entire activity here, and now to share our experiences and knowledge of life on the land, to help guide you on your own personal development path.
And this race of celtic tribal people,
a race that came from the plains
were all the harder for hard land had borne them.
Their bodies were built on stronger and firmer bones
and endowed with mighty sinew, for they were a race
undaunted by heat or cold or new foodstuffs.
For many a year, among all the beasts of the earth they led their lives
And none was yet a driver of a curved plough
none yet could turn the soil with an iron blade
nor bury a new shoot in the ground for food
nor prune the ripened branch from the tree.
We would like to invite creatives, artists, poets, bards, songwriters, musicians and writers to be part of our family, share our space and create your own, for our Spring/Autumn Creative Circles from February to May and October to December
Spring and Autumn are the 2 most important seasons in our lunar calendar. Spring is a time of awakening from the long winter slumber, a time to prepare the land for the season ahead and new growth. Autumn, a time to reap the bounties of previous months hard work and thank nature for her gifts.
OUR 3 STEP PLAN TO CREATING INNER REGENERATION AND DEVELOPING RESILIENCE
Step 1.
Decompress, destress and re evaluate
Immerse in rural country living and re engage with nature.
Find relaxation and regain energy levels
Eat healthy food and learn about nutrition and food sources.
Be part of our daily farm activities and follow the lunar clock from sunrise to sun down.
Step 2.
Become inspired and more creative
Find your special place in your natural surroundings to explore inner thoughts
Learn more about yourself and your strengths and weaknesses
Reconnect with nature through discussion and activity
Learn new skills using nature as a tool.
Step 3.
Begin your new creative process
Start creating, writing/recording with clarity
Work on your musical-artistic vision
Explore new ideas with our guidance
Strengthen overall approach to your art form.
Be fully prepared and ready for the next step in your career.