COURSE

Holiday Season Survival Guide: Coping With Christmas

The holiday season can stir joy, pressure, exhaustion, and old emotional patterns all at once. This five-day course gently guides you back to your centre so you can move through the winter period with steadiness and self-kindness. Each day blends accessible teaching with grounding meditations designed to soothe overwhelm, ease family-related stress, release perfectionism, and help you create your own simple rituals for peace. Whether you’re navigating difficult dynamics or simply craving calm, this course offers a warm and supportive space to return to yourself.

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Meet your Teacher

Mark Rowland

United Kingdom

Mark Rowland is a meditation teacher, and sound practitioner, His work blends grounded mindfulness, visual storytelling, and accessible emotional support, helping thousands of listeners find steadiness and self-connection. Drawing from his own healing journey, Mark specialises in creating gentle, practical practices that meet people exactly where they are especially during challenging or emotionally full seasons.

5 Days

23 students

5.0 stars

16 min / day

Grounded

English

Lesson 1

Finding Calm Amid The Noise

Day One offers a gentle landing. The holiday season can be loud, fast, and emotionally layered, and this session helps you recognise the effects of sensory overwhelm and emotional pressure on your body. You’ll explore why this time of year heightens stress responses and learn how grounding the nervous system creates steadiness and clarity. Today’s teaching brings a calm understanding of what’s happening beneath the surface, and the guided meditation helps you slow down, soften tension, and reconnect with your own centre.

Lesson 2

Navigating Family Triggers With Compassion

Day Two explores the emotional patterns and family dynamics that often surface during the holiday season. This session gently unpacks why certain interactions feel heightened at this time of year, how past experiences can echo into the present, and how to approach it all with compassion rather than self-blame. You’ll learn practical ways to create internal boundaries, recognise your limits, and stay centred without shutting down. The meditation offers a steadying visualisation that helps you hold your own energy with kindness, even when surrounded by familiar pressures or difficult dynamics.

Lesson 3

Staying Connected To Yourself

Day Three guides you into the heart of this course: staying anchored in yourself during a season that often pulls you in many different directions. Today’s teaching explores how you can maintain your inner presence, even when the world around you feels busy, loud, or emotionally charged. You’ll learn grounding rituals, micro-practices, and energy-management tools that keep you centred and steady. The meditation invites you into a warm, inner-home visualisation where you can return to yourself throughout the holidays, offering a sense of belonging, calm, and gentle inner companionship.

Lesson 4

Letting Go Of Pressure And Perfection

Day Four focuses on releasing the pressure, expectations, and perfectionism that often surface during the holiday season. This session helps you recognise where unrealistic standards come from, how they affect your emotional balance, and why letting go of them creates space for peace and authenticity. Through today’s teaching, you’ll explore the quiet weight of “shoulds”, people-pleasing patterns, and the urge to hold everything together. The meditation guides you into a gentle release practice, dissolving tension and creating room for softness and ease.

Lesson 5

Creating Your Own Peace Rituals

Day Five brings your journey to a close by helping you create simple, nourishing rituals that support calm and steadiness throughout the holiday season and beyond. Today’s teaching explores the power of small, personal practices — grounding moments, micro-rituals, and daily choices that help you reconnect with yourself. The meditation guides you through a gentle visualisation where you discover and anchor a ritual uniquely suited to you. This final session invites you to step back into the season with softness, clarity, and a sense of inner continui

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Recent Reviews

Sue

December 23, 2025

Really soothing and has helped to nourish my nervous system over the last 5 days. Festive greetings 🙏

Bea

December 7, 2025

This is a blue Xmas season for me. My husband died 11 months ago. I took your course on grief and now this one. Both were wonderful-helping to steady me in this difficult season. A heartfelt thank you for both your kindness and your wisdom. Namaste.

Carol

December 3, 2025

Meditating with Mark has become part of my morning ritual☺️

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