Experiencing Beauty

Experiencing Beauty is a gentle five-day exploration of how to notice and appreciate the beauty in your everyday life. Instead of waiting for extraordinary moments, this course invites you to rediscover the quiet wonder already present in textures, sounds, light, and small details.

Each short lesson (under 10 minutes) explores a theme paired with a simple prompt you can carry into your day. No journaling is required. Optional guided reflections and gentle awareness practices support a more embodied experience.

These tools can help ease stress, deepen your sense of connection, and open space for creative responses. By the end of the course, you may feel more grounded, less rushed, and more attuned to the richness around you.

Written by Marianne de Kleer, the course draws on principles of mindfulness, somatic awareness, and creative reflection. You’re welcome to share your thoughts or questions in the course classroom.

Includes quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh, Kyoriku, Issa, Chigetsu, and Katherine May.

Leçon 1: Seeing Beauty Begins With Presence

This lesson invites you to slow down and engage your senses through mindful noticing. By tuning into textures, sounds, and sensations in your surroundings, you’ll begin to experience beauty not as something rare, but as something already present in ordinary life.

Leçon 2: Beauty As Appreciation

Building on presence, you’ll explore how appreciation deepens your experience of beauty. By pausing to notice and value small details, you soften your inner state and reorient your mind toward joy. This simple shift can gradually brighten your inner and outer world.

Leçon 3: Connection Through Beauty

Today’s session explores how beauty creates a sense of belonging. You’ll reflect on moments of deep connection and learn how mindful presence can dissolve isolation. Through gentle awareness, you’ll feel more woven into the world around you.

Leçon 4: Everyday Enchantment

Reignite wonder by seeing the familiar with new eyes. This lesson helps you rediscover delight in small, everyday moments, revealing how curiosity and openness can turn the ordinary into something quietly magical.

Leçon 5: Creative Reflection

In the final session, you’ll explore simple, creative ways to respond to beauty. Whether through writing, movement, images, or playful gestures, your response helps express what you’ve felt. It offers a way to stay connected to beauty and let it keep unfolding.

Reviews

Inspirational course. Lots of good ideas for mindful living