Join us for a taster session and immerse yourself in the meditative and all absorbing world of ‘Whittling for Wellbeing’. The merits of woodcarving on wellbeing are plentiful, the single-minded focus and presence which is necessary when carving with a sharp knife creates a state of mindfulness, and with practice and repetition a blissful flow state can be entered into.
In our modern daily lives, whittling offers us a connection to the natural world via the trees we sit under and the wood in our hands, a sanctuary which is open to anyone with a piece of wood and a whittling knife.
One participant had this to say:
” I have severe anxiety, I carry my whittling knife everywhere I go. On breaks at work I whittle. It keeps me out of dark places.”
