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This is a tidied up transcript of an answer I gave in the Live Sessions in December 2020. Chuck, sitting with his dog in front of his...

There’s a question that comes up often in the Mindsprings meditation sessions: “When I am sitting or lying doing these body-based...

I’ve written before about the dread anxiety that can overcome me when I wake from sleep. Working with anxiety in a number of ways, I have...

I have a chronic complaint – nothing too serious – that comes back time and time again through my life. When I feel it coming on, I have...

But how do you feed a spine? When I noticed with horror – and not a little bit of shame – that my spine was so chronically starved of...

I needed to replenish my beautiful spine from top to bottom if I was going to be meaningful in this world. We can look to the line of the...

For a couple of weeks at the end of November 2020, I’ve been looking with the online community at the exhaustion and depletion many of us...

The group sharing of benefit at the end of the Autumn virtual retreat was a hurricane of love and inspiration. Please savour it at your...

I’m back filming for Escape to the Country and away from Daniel and the dog for the first time in months. The first time filming in a...

Every news story, every conversation has the potential to knock us off centre. We’re living in very wobbly times. Even turning on the TV...

[If you want to read #1 first you can find it here] Starting with what a meditation teacher is not Now I’m in Edinburgh, sitting in a...

From puritanical austerity to gentle cleansing I’ve been thinking a lot about purification these last few months. When I first...

So many friends have been discussing what being a meditation teacher actually means This is going to be a blog in live time. I’m pulling...

This is part 3 of a long essay I wrote back in the Noughties about my discovery of Buddhism. I’ve travelled quite a long way within the...

This is Part 2 of an old blog post I’ve exhumed and reposted. It’s probably more than 15 years old – but expresses in detail my early...

“Unpopular, ambiguous and dangerous, it is a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the world” C.G. Jung Another blog from Brazil,...