Let’s peel away the filters and ask… what is really happening in the world of wellness? What is wellbeing today in the society I see, work and operate in? And what is really happening within me? I am at once both witnessing and participating in the outer and inner craziness that is the… self-improvement age we…
Who I am today is not who I am yesterday Last week I suggested to some friends who like to meditate that we meet up in a local park and make the most of the current heatwave with a little outdoor meditation. A few of those who came hadn’t met the others before so…
Mindfulness is no longer a state of being. It’s a commodity, a movement, a tribe with different hats (from Zen Buddhist monk to ethical entrepreneur), a place to meet ‘conscious’ people, a concept to engage in, a prefix (mindful gardening), an adverb (walk your dog mindfully), an attractive attribute (a good thing to say you…
It’s human behaviour, it seems, to hang on, to push through, to endure something that is not working for us – right up until something, or ourselves, fall apart. Much has been written and shared on how it takes things to fall apart for us to wake up and deal with what’s really there. But…
If Yoga is about feeling at one, within yourself and with the world, why do we need yoga postures? Can you not just… hear this idea, understand it, remind yourself of it and begin to feel it day by day and more and more until it becomes a natural state rather than a sought-after one?…
Distraction, distraction, everywhere, and not a drop to sink (in). No-one likes exams, at least I don’t think they do? And yet, I catch myself nowadays almost (almost) remembering with fondness the days of being holed up swotting for an exam, especially that night before when confronted with a lever arch file bursting with…
And so the Winter goes on, and on… for us in the northern hemisphere the gateway from January to February is a narrow, brow-furrowing, despondent-deepening crawl, with that light at the end of the tunnel yet to show itself. Not only are the mornings still dark, dank and shiver-full, but the light – when it…
We are a society more aware than at any other time in history of our capacity to look after our own health. But we are also at the beginning of learning how to empower ourselves from the inside out. A combination of the mass explosion of the wellbeing industry, public campaigns and multiple channels to…
You’ve decided you’d like to try meditation, or perhaps you’ve been dipping in and out of ‘trying it’ for a while, or maybe you started a practice and have fallen off the wagon. Most of us have been in one or more of these places when the idea of meditation takes a hold on our…
