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Brainercise: 5 ways to keep your self-improvement new year's resolution in London

It's time to get your brain active again after the Christmas slump. Try these invigorating and soul-soothing classes, talks and courses to stimulate the grey matter and revive the spirit

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Invigorating: Sunday Assembly (Picture: Jack Davolio)
Emily Jupp
12 January 2015

The Indytute

Learn everything from how to bake artisan loaves to making beautiful sculptures from wire at this funky adult learning centre. We like the sound of the art of flirting Valentine's special (Feb 10), where love coach and psychosexual therapist Cate Mackenzie will teach you her best moves.

The School of Life

The School of Life's new season is all about how to put your new year's resolutions in action. However you want to grow as a person this year, the School of Life is bound to have a course that suits: sign up for How to find the Job you Love to help you focus on what you really want from your profession, or try How to Choose a Partner or How to be Confident if those areas of your life need work.

London Insight Meditation

Want to find inner peace but don't have time for a week-long course? Try one of the London Insight Meditation Centre's day or evening courses. There are classes designed for beginners through to experienced meditation gurus.

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Sunday Assembly

If you've got a vague sense that something is missing from your life but you've ruled out religion, try these sessions of togetherness from the Sunday Assembly — like a Sunday service, but without the God bit. Sing songs, listen to talks, make friends. Everyone's welcome.

Volunteering

If all that extravagance over Christmas and the new year has made your thoughts turn to giving, why not become a volunteer? The Mayor of London's office has set up Team London, a scheme with positions all across the capital which require you to give anything from an hour to several days each week to a whole range of projects, so you can gain new skills at the same time as helping others.

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