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Sitting Out practice

The January full moon over the Seven Sisters, 2022. WHAT IS SITTING OUT? I’ve been exploring a practice called ‘sitting out’. It’s not a...

Every broken heart is sacred

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

No more future anymore

This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...

Understanding the weather of emotions: Candace Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion”

that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.

Dynamiting the prison of the present

Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...

What is somatic meditation?

What does this word somatic mean and how does it relate to meditation? Somatic meditation means ‘of the body’ in contrast to ‘of the...

Kick-Ass Mindfulness

Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...