Dough ready for kneading at a breadmaking and meditation class held in North East London. All photos by the author.
No, today we will be engaging with the meditative nature of baking itself. It's a method Skeat stumbled upon a couple of years ago. She had started her own cottage industry making loaves of bread at home to sell to work colleagues after learning how to bake six years ago from Virtuous Bread.READ MORE: How Cooking Can Benefit Your Mental Health
Breaditation instructor Alison Skeat (right) with friend Mish Rodriguez.
Pens and paper at the ready for writing down any angry thoughts jogged during the breadmaking process.
Skeat demonstrates how to mix and knead the bread dough.
Bread in the oven, the students write down any stressful thoughts they may have experienced before cutting them up and burning in a metal mixing bowl.
The finished loaf.