What is presence? John Prendergast says presence is our essential nature as open, wakeful, loving, spacious awareness. Sally Kempton says presence is your innate sense of ‘being’ inside you. Adyashanti says presence is the spacious unconditioned...

Meditative inquiry is the practice of reflection, often guided by a question. It invites deep listening while in a meditative state of being and from my experience it reveals insights and possibilities unknown to the head mind. When shared with...

This week I have been watching gatherings across the world associated with the film ‘The Eternal Song’, a film that “reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm … As we are drawn into the intricate web...

  For decades I have explored practices that support an embodied sense of safety. When we experience safety our wholeness responds in a myriad of ways, from ease of tension, to digestive harmony, to relief from nervous system overload....

India for me has offered glimpses of complexity and diversity that invite my mind to expand and reorganise to take in. From witnessing the seemingly simple life of villagers in the Himalayan foothills, embedded in landscape, growing food, tending...

My recent trip to India had me exploring a life long theme for me of belonging. Having moved from the UK to NZ as an 8 year old with my parents and two older brothers my sense of belonging socially ruptured pretty early on, if it was ever there at...

I returned yesterday from five days with John Prendergast at Santa Sabina Retreat Centre in San Rafael, not far from San Francisco. What is alive for me as a result of this transformative experience is deep gratitude, vast love, sweet gentleness,...

What if we viewed our lives as call and response? In kirtan practice the leader of a chant sings (the call) and participants respond through sharing their own voice, their own expression of the chant. What if life is offering you a call through...

    Gurupurnima on July 3 invites us to embody gratitude for our teachers in all their forms. Sally Kempton, beloved meditation teacher, passed away Tuesday July 11. Matariki (Maori New Year) on Friday July 15 invites us to remember those...

' Though I handed over the studio in 2019, having founded it in 2002 and nurturing it's first 17 years, the final closure was full of diverse feeling for me. The deep sadness at its ending, and the great joy and all it has offered to literally...

' We live in challenging times. Some would say we always have. On a 'Circle of Trust' retreat I attended earlier in the year we sat with the possibility of 'letting it all be true'. Our practice of yoga is such a gift, inviting us to feel and be...

'  This weeks suggested practice on our Yoga Journey is a the last in our Neuroscience Informed Practice series and is about the incredible phenomena of mirror neurones. I had a teacher who once said, "you are the company you keep, so keep...