I am primarily a meditation enthusiast, and have been for about a decade and a half. For me, meditation is a world of practices, approaches and frameworks that lead in many beautiful and freeing directions. My passion is to understand, explore and guide others through the world of meditation.
What gets me excited is teaching meditation in ways that reflect the diversity of ways of practicing and the diversity of personalities of meditators, while honouring the core of meditation practice - to be here to experience the mystery of life more fully and more freely.
I have practiced in, and am inspired by many contemplative traditions and approaches, particularly Buddhist, Non-dual and Yogic traditions.
For me, meditation is not one thing, done in one way. What, on the surface level, appears to be a set of very similar techniques that all involve sitting still and placing attention somewhere, begins to become a much more nuanced and rich landscape of practices that, while all leading in a compatible direction, bear different kinds of fruit.
My meditation practice was born out of two seemingly very different places - a need to find some space from a restless and agitated mind, and a deep curiosity about the nature of life, consciousness and reality
These two seemingly different paths have turned out to be thoroughly entwined. The exploration of what it is to have an experience of being a self in a world turns out to be the same as the exploration into how stress, tension and inner conflict are created by habits of the mind.
When I’m not teaching meditation, I also work as a software engineer/web developer, building websites for organisations with a purpose that makes sense to me.
I live in Buckfastleigh, Devon, on the edge of beautiful Dartmoor, near the river Dart and ancient oak woodlands, where I love to spend long days wandering around. I’m a keen mountain biker and novice surfer.
