Home Retreat: Gratitude Day of Practice and Mindfulness

Is this Event for Me?

Oxford Mindfulness Foundation’s Day of Practice – Theme: Gratitude is a five-hour live online Home Retreat on Sunday 26 July 2026 (10:00–15:00 UK time).

This day is designed for:
people with an existing mindfulness practice, including teachers (or trainee teachers) of mindfulness-based programmes.
You can join if you have completed at least 6 weeks of a recognised 8-week mindfulness course (in-person or live online), or if you are a teacher/trainee teacher.
The day is delivered in English.

What you’ll find across the format includes:

Five-Hour Live Online Day of Practice (10:00–15:00 UK) ·
Guided Sitting Practice ·
Guided Standing Practice ·
Guided Movement Practice ·
Practice Periods Up to 30 Minutes ·
Extended Periods of Silence ·
Longer Break with an Invitation to Continue Practising While Eating a Meal or Doing Other Activities ·
Theme: Gratitude (held as an underlying flavour through the day) ·
Led by Experienced Teachers ·
Contributes Towards BAMBA Annual Retreat Requirements

Opening: Event Overview

Oxford Mindfulness Foundation offers Day of Practice – Theme: Gratitude, a calm and structured live online one day home retreat within their Day of Practice series.

Held on Sunday 26 July 2026, this Home Retreat event runs from 10:00–15:00 UK time, creating a focused five-hour space for shared mindfulness practice online.

With gratitude as the guiding theme, the day is presented as a quiet Virtual Retreat, bringing the atmosphere of Online Retreats into a single dedicated practice day.

The Day of Practice (Guided Practice + Silence + Break)

This Day of Practice is held as a five-hour online home retreat, with guided mindfulness practice offered throughout the day.

Participants are guided through a rhythm of sitting, standing, and movement practices, with sessions lasting up to 30 minutes at a time. Alongside these guided periods, the day also includes extended periods of silence, allowing space for sustained practice.

The full five-hour structure includes a longer break, during which participants are invited to continue practising while eating a meal or engaging in other activities.

The home retreat is led by experienced teachers with deep knowledge of mindfulness and extended experience of guiding Days of Practice with groups.

Theme Focus: Gratitude

Each Day of Practice is typically shaped around a theme drawn from the attitudes explored within mindfulness practice and everyday experience. Themes often reflect qualities such as non-judging, patience, or letting go.

For this Day of Practice, the theme is Gratitude.

Guided practices across the Home Retreat hold the theme as an underlying flavour of gratitude alongside the wider mindfulness teaching. This might include exploring attitudes such as non-striving within a body scan, or a sense of allowing within a movement practice.

Meet the Teacher: Sian Warriner

This Day of Practice is led by Sian Warriner.

Sian Warriner is a mindfulness practitioner, teacher, trainer, and author, with a long career in the NHS. Her work includes a special interest in perinatal mental health and in supporting NHS staff through mindfulness practice.

She holds both an MSc and a Clinical Doctorate, and trained in MBCT, MBCT-L, Finding Peace, and MBCP through Oxford Mindfulness, where she serves as a Teaching and Training Partner.

Sian is also a Faculty member of the Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting Foundation, and teaches and trains the Mindfulness for Life curriculum for Oxford Mindfulness.

Her teaching includes delivering the Finding Peace course to NHS staff and Long Covid sufferers, alongside ongoing teaching and training in Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting for the NHS and the Mindful Birth Foundation

Costs & Membership Access

The standard fee for this Day of Practice is £30.

This home retreat is also included, at no extra cost, as part of the Oxford Mindfulness Members’ Programme. Non-members are welcome to join the day retreat at the relevant fee band.

Places are limited, and participants are asked to advise 48 hours in advance, where possible, if plans change, so the place can be offered to another participant or transferred to a future event.

For members, registration for this Day of Practice counts towards the membership allowance.

Practical Details (Online, Time, Closing Date)

This Day of Practice is held online, as a live retreat day with Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.

Date: Sunday 26 July 2026

Time: 10:00–15:00 UK time

Duration: 5 hours (Sunday session)

Application closing date: Monday 13 July

Participants are joining a shared live online Day of Practice, offered in the spirit of a Home Retreat, with the structure of an Online Retreat brought into a single dedicated practice day.

Closing Context: Oxford Mindfulness Foundation

This Day of Practice is offered by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.

Oxford Mindfulness provides retreats, courses, and events as part of its wider mindfulness teaching and practice programme.

The Day of Practice series also includes other themed retreat days, such as Trust, Patience, and Friendliness and Compassion.

This event is part of Oxford Mindfulness’s live Online Retreat programme and takes place as a Home Retreat.