My Blog
Mindfulness: Cultivating Presence in the New Year
It’s still the dawn of a new year…. a great time to explore how mindfulness can infuse your year, and life, with an ongoing sense of presence and clarity.
6 Qualities to Cultivate this Christmas Time
Your invitation to reflect, or consider, in the lead-up to the festive season is: How do I wish to be this Christmas? What qualities & attitudes am I aspiring for?
Mindful Approaches to Holidays: Nurturing Self-Care and Boundaries
Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.
Navigating end of year busyness, through Mindfulness
Reminders and tips for managing the busyness and the dynamics the end of year brings.
3 simple breathing practices to help you get to sleep (and stay asleep)
Learn 3 sleep-supporting breath practices to help you wind down, fall asleep, and stay asleep, including abdominal breathing and Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
What is iRest Yoga Nidra and how is it practised?
Are you looking for an accessible alternative to counselling that can therapeutically support you to connect with, and deepen your understanding of self?
Feeling anxious, or experiencing stress?
Here’s a simple practice you can use to ease anxiety and relax physical tension, caused by stress, in the body.
Slow Dance
A poem, to remind us of the power of engagement in life… of noticing, of being curious.. being in the present and enjoying each moment.
Dropping Anchor
It is a skill to support you to make contact with the present moment, open up to the thoughts and feelings you’re experiencing, while choosing to consciously engage in the activity, or situation at hand.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) for Sleep
A guided Progressive Muscle Relaxation practice for better sleep…..
Box Breathing: for calm and concentration
This breath practice is often attributed to the US Navy SEALS who utilise it in developing focus and staying calm under stress
Stop before you start by Taking 5
One of my favourite practices to share with corporate and counselling clients alike is a simple practice
Gratitude - it's a Super Power
Stop to smell the roses…. with gratitude… more than a cliche..
10 More Benefits of Mindfulness
Improve focus, regulate emotions, better relationships, reduce stress levels and increase energy… that was the first 5…… here’s another 10..
5 Benefits of Mindfulness
Meditation can help you improve your focus, regulate your emotions, have more harmonious relationships, and more….
Meditation - what it is to me
The definitions describing meditation that I like most are those which talk about meditation being the practice of becoming familiar with yourself…
Meditation - my experience
When I started to meditate, many years ago, I started with formal practice of sitting in silence for a period of time
your heartfelt desire – a practice
A meditation practice to reflect on what’s most important to you in this life.
Inner Resource - a meditation focus
Our weekly meditation session focus was on cultivating an inner resource of calm, ease and a sense of ‘everything is okay’, in this moment, and the ability to be with what is.
how to start to meditate
No hand positions required… and I recommend you start with bite size pieces, or ‘spot meditations’.