Mindfulness Meditation and Meditation Coaching (London)

I love to meditate and inspire others to get going with a powerful practice!

I offer subtle one-to-one mindfulness meditation training, guidance, and reflection for individuals. My work is deep and grounded.

Meditation is the direct experience of the mind. Observation of my mind has been part of my daily practice for twenty years now, and I can honestly say it has made this journey of being alive a far richer experience. I recommend it! I love to entwine meditation practices into our life coaching process.

The subject of meditation often comes up when I am working with coaching clients. We sometimes develop a practice as a way of taming an overactive-worrying mind, and other times the practice is a pathway to help people reconnect with themselves and life. The usually-simple methods I teach come from rich and thorough Eastern wisdom traditions, but it isn't necessary to get deterred by their complexities and religious overtones. I have seen that meditation has many positive effects on well-being and outlook on life, and is generally a simple process. I generally teach Insight-Meditation or Mindfulness Meditations grounded in the Tantra tradition.

I have been cultivating ways to introduce and teach meditation as an ongoing part of our life coaching work together.

I craft a Mindfulness Meditation methodology tailor-made to the lifestyles and needs of my clients. The teaching is being received very well, and I now have plenty of clients developing and deepening their own daily practice. 

You may also be interested in going to a Meditation Retreat

Learning to meditate is a personal journey which is undertaken slowly and over time. It starts simply, and with experience, that simplicity gets ever more subtle. Rather like learning to play the piano, it requires that you make available quality time, and apply the right effort. Sometimes it is a slog, and other times there are breakthroughs. And like the piano, every stage is rich with insight and new understandings. Fundamentally, Mindfulness Meditation nurtures your ability to savour life, allowing you to “taste your life” wisely. It is a practice of poised alertness, and not a removed trance.

As we settle into mediation, we are freed from the exhausting effects of mental chatter; doesn't that sound nice? The mind becomes concentrated and focussed. Afterwards we are calm and refreshed. It took me years to get to the point where my practice was not full of resistance; I could sit for 20mins and watch a million thoughts punching and rebelling at my very sitting there! It was not fun. But then... the elixir arrived, and now a day without a sitting is like a day without a hot-shower and a nourishing breakfast.

My Mindfulness Meditation coaching approach has several levels to it.

• At first we start with the basics of posture and sitting comfortably, slowly developing the skills of self-awareness and engaging with stillness.
• As we move deeper we start to cultivate mindfulness and concentration. At which point we will have created a bedrock for movement towards tranquillity.
• In more advanced levels we are then able to " play" around in stillness, developing deep insight into ourselves and the nature of existence. It is all a very personal experiment.

The joy is that at any or every level we will always bring something peaceful back to the world; to share with others. A peaceful centered Mum and an aware un-agitated boss undoubtedly makes the world a better place; nobody needs to be machine-gunned with reactive drama that many will see playing out on a daily basis at home, work or on the bus. Mediation helps you get there.