Those of you who read this blog regularly (thank you!) will know that I use the lojong cards from the Pema Chodron compassion box. Unfortunately, they are no longer available. However, her book ‘Start where you are’ which forms the basis of the compassion box is still available and contains a list of the lojong…
I am in Cape Town for a month and the weather has been sunny and hot every day. It is like a different world to Scotland. I have been spending time with my mother and old friends. I have also been spending time with Rob Nairn working on the structure for a book on Insight.…
This week I am travelling from Venice to Florence for five days of holiday with my husband Mark before travelling back to Venice on Friday to lead the last weekend of the Level 2: Responding with Compassion training. Then back to the UK for Christmas. ‘A Room with A View’ over the River Arno It…
This week I am writing my blog from Cape Town in South Africa. I am here on a short visit to see my meditation teacher and founder of the Mindfulness Association, Rob Nairn. He did not visit Europe this year due to poor health and so I wanted to visit him. We have had a…
Over the last two days I have been doing a training course on the MBI-TAC: Mindfulness Based Interventions – Teaching Assessment Criteria. It was wonderfully facilitated by Rebecca Crane and it was an opportunity to share practice and experience about what it is to be a Mindfulness teacher with other experienced practitioners and teachers. A…
This week many of us are feeling quite fearful at the prospect of a Trump Presidency, another winter of austerity and the uncertainty of Brexit. It is worth reflecting that the earth is populated by the same people this week as it was last week and recognising that the majority of people on this earth…
work in the office is piling up; the clocks have gone back and there is a lot to organise in the family. I think many of us find ourselves tired and over-busy in the run up to Christmas and it is easy to get run down and catch one of the omnipresent cold or flu…
I came across this concept at an excellent workshop led by Vidyamala Burch who founded and leads Breathworks, which is a Mindfulness training organisation specialising in healing pain and illness. Vidyamala will be speaking at our conference next year, for more details please click here. The concept of over-efforting, as I understand it, is that due…
Dear all, Choden is out of retreat this month, after one year, and I am very much looking forward to re-connecting with him and finding out about his experience on retreat. Also, I am very much looking forward to working with him again, as I have missed him this year. Choden is the expert behind…