It's in times of transition that your practice is likely to suffer, or any time where there is a change in your routine. How you navigate these times, literally determines whether or not you inadvertently cause yourself suffering. It is true that Meditating every day at consistent times, is the ideal way to Meditate for… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Navigating Transitions With Eyes Open Practice
When the body is physically depleted it can seem difficult to make the choice to Meditate. Even if you do choose to sit on your Meditation cushion or chair, when exhausted you may find yourself slumped, dozing off, doing the "nodding dog", ending up with a stiff neck and likely a side order of negative,… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: What To Do When You’re Exhausted
Last Wednesday my van steering decided to pack up when I was visiting my daughter in Bedford. Power steering fluid dripping all over the place, steaming on the hot engine, and as you can imagine the van is rather heavy and unsafe to steer with no power steering. Not wanting to risk driving back to… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Living With Trauma & SPD
I'm busy preparing for at Back To The Roots Festival this weekend with another Silent Sanctuary. You can read my blog The Need For Spaces To be Silent to find out why I do this. Tara is coming with me as we need some cat van life practice and I really don't want to leave… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Silent Sanctuary
Our primary relationship is with ourself and determines how we show up in all our other relationships. Meditation can help us strengthen that connection with our own authenticity that cultivates a willingness to meet all parts of ourself with Loving Presence. It helps us create strong boundaries, to not settle for anything less than Love.… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Nurturing Relationships
Our Meditation practice can create a fertile soil in which life takes root. What has been planted? What is growing? Beautiful fragrant flowers, playful ferns, strong Oak Trees? Or is your psychological landscape overrun with weeds? There's no need to demonise the weeds though. Talk to any herbalist and they'll tell you of the healing… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Back To The Roots
Not only is it a Monday but it's also the first day of the week and the first day of the month. This is the perfect time to get clear on how to create and play with your "Heart Words" to Meditate! Tonight we'll create "Heart Words" for this year (if you haven't done this… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Wisdom Of The Heart
It's full steam ahead with preparations for the sale of Lily Pearl and I want to share with you a monumental shift I experienced in my mind leading up this point. I observed my mind falling into what I call a "Need to Know" anxiety pattern. "When will she sell? Who will buy her? What… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Be Like Water
I found myself on a workshop again with Dr Robert Holden this weekend, whom was talking about The Golden Thread. Robert appears to be weaved into mine, always popping up at the perfect moments that I need reminding of, or to hear some of his Wisdom. There are other people too in my life, more… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: The Golden Thread
Tonight we are doing something a little different.. A little treat for the bodymind! I will be tweaking our practice to invite some healing and harmony in our body by using the Indian Chakra system as a focal point and the source of Self enquiry to receive our Mantras. This is a very nourishing practice… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Chakra Healing
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