west london mindfulness centre & osteobreathe
London
Yes, I was just another stressed out west Londoner. Busy-ness and exhaustion was
my badge of honour. I was infatuated with agitation. As a journalist, novelist
and mother of three, I saw life as an uphill battle to be won. Littered with
lists, relentless self-criticism and unfavourable comparison. Until I read
Professor Mark Williams book about Mindfulness. Everything he explained was
obvious, but had failed to see it without Mindfulness practice. I immediately
gained a decisive, calm, spacious joy and so much extra time that dramatically
changed the quality of my daily life. After meditating for many years, finally,
I took the plunge and went to study at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Oxford
University. I went on to teacher training with the internationally-acclaimed
Mindfulness teachers Martin Alyward and Mark Coleman at the Mindfulness Training
Institute. I am a certified teacher with the Mindfulness Training Institute and
accredited to International Mindfulness Teachers Association. Once you can bring
yourself back to being present, conscious and aware of your moment by moment
experience, you can so easily navigate the inevitable difficulties, ups and
downs that is the stuff of all of our lives. You have no fear, no anxiety,
because you have the ease of knowing you can meet all your experience without
resorting to knee-jerk habits and reactions that inevitably hinder rather than
help you. Once you see clearly what is going on in your daily life, you can
respond wisely, simply and freely without the narratives and stories we tell
ourselves and others to try and make sense of ourselves and our experience. I
really hope that I will have the opportunity to share this simple, yet life
changing practice with you.
