by Agnes Bourne, ASID, FRSA 

I first became interested in haiku as a form of mindfulness practice when I read work by Matsuo Bashō, a 17th-century haiku poet, who describes it as, “Simply what is happening in this place in this moment.” I already knew that haiku was just 3 lines — 5 syllables, followed by 7 syllables and completed with 5 syllables — but I had not combined it with mindfulness practice. “Seventeen syllables!” I thought. “What better constraint could there be in naming precisely what is happening right now?” 

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