Mindfully Invisible
I seem quite far removed from a ‘mindfully invisible’ nature experience last weekend whilst writing this in a coffee house at Stockholm airport. However, writing whilst travelling seems to be a common theme for mine…
Transformational Masters
Heather Regan-Addis, lead tutor, author and head of the Mindfulness Association, shares her experience whilst teaching students studying the MSc Studies in Mindfulness on their retreat on Holy Island.
Masters retreat on Holy Isle
I am on the beautiful Holy Isle this week delivering the year end retreat for the first years of the University of Aberdeen’s MSc in Studies in Mindfulness. There can be no better place on…
Let me sell you some flowers
I started to write this blog on the notes app on my phone. Plotted up in a coffee shop down a busy shopping street, full of cafes and characters. It has been a while since…
On the train again…
OI have been struggling this week to write my blog. More often than not the words fall out of me and the blog writes itself. I have an alarm on my phone that sounds on…
Being on Holiday
I am in the sky, on an aeroplane, on my way for a week’s holiday in Zante. My friend Claire is staying there for a month and asked me to join her for a week.…
from Mindfulness to Insight
Mindfully not right – and that’s ok
It’s the first of April. April fool’s day. And I feel like a fool. I woke up this morning just not right with myself. Hours later I had an unusual encounter with a seal on…
Fear and Overwhelm
It is very early in the morning and I am struggling to sleep. I woke up with feelings of fear and overwhelm and have spent the last hour or so lying in bed practicing. Part…
Mindfulness at Christmas – Responding to Overwhelm
Our Mindfulness meditation practice can help us in to responding to overwhelm during the Christmas period. Some of us have a wonderful time at Christmas, others experience overwhelm and yet others experience both…
