COURSE

December Reflections: Quiet Rest, Gentle Clarity, And Year’s End Wisdom

As the year draws to a close, December invites you to slow down, exhale and listen more deeply to your own heart. In this four day course you will gently reflect on the year behind you, honour both the light and the hard moments, and create space for quiet rest in the middle of a busy season. Through simple teachings, grounding practices and soothing guided meditations, you will reconnect with your inner home so that you move toward the new year feeling softer, steadier and more present. Each week offers a fresh doorway into calm, helping you remember that this month does not have to be perfect to be meaningful.

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Meet your Teacher

Mark Rowland

United Kingdom

Mark Rowland is a meditation teacher, sound journey facilitator and Insight Timer creator based in the UK. Coming from a background in animal care and energy work, he brings a grounded, heartfelt approach to mindfulness, weaving together breath, imagery and gentle reflection. Mark has guided thousands of listeners through his courses and meditations, helping them create pockets of calm in everyday life. His work focuses on making inner practice feel friendly and accessible, so that each person can move at their own pace while feeling supported, seen and safe.

4 Days

62 students

5.0 stars

14 min / day

Divine Connection

English

Lesson 1

Arriving Softly In December

This session welcomes you into the beginning of December with softness and presence. As the season shifts toward its darkest point, today offers space to slow your pace, reconnect with your inner warmth, and honour the way winter naturally invites reflection. You’ll explore what this month means for your body and mind, learning how to settle into stillness without feeling stuck. Through gentle teaching and grounding practice, this first day helps you arrive with clarity and ease.

Lesson 2

Quiet Strength In The Midwinter Light

December often invites us to turn inward, noticing how strength can appear in softer, quieter ways than we expect. Today’s reflection explores the kind of resilience that doesn’t push or strain but instead arises from presence, gentleness, and staying connected to what matters. Through a calm teaching and a grounding practice, you’ll rediscover the steady centre within you, even as the season around you continues shifting toward its darkest point. This session is a space to breathe deeply, reconnect with your inner warmth, and honour the quiet power that carries you through winter.

Lesson 3

Resting Into the Still Point Within

Day Three invites you into the quiet centre of the season, a place within yourself that remains steady even as the world grows darker and still. This session explores the deeper rest that December naturally encourages, not as withdrawal but as nourishment. Today you will learn how to soften your pace, settle your breath, and reconnect with the calm that lives beneath all your thoughts and emotions. With gentle guidance and a soothing meditation, this reflection helps you recognise rest as a source of renewal rather than something to earn.

Lesson 4

Returning To Light As The Year Grows Quiet

Day Four brings this month’s reflections to a gentle close by helping you reconnect with the light that continues to grow within and around you. Even in December’s darkness, there is a quiet brightness that never disappears. Today’s session explores how inner light can feel subtle yet steady, something that guides your pace and softens your view of yourself. Through thoughtful teaching and a calm meditation, you’ll honour the warmth that has carried you through the year and step forward with clarity and renewed ease.

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John

December 29, 2025

Thank you Mark! I look forward to January!

Elaine

December 29, 2025

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