I have spent most of my time in on this earth in deep pain, angry at the world and at myself, riddled with shame yet unable to do more than stumble through my life doing the best I could, as a survivor. And then suddenly, one day, during a morning meditation in the open air, I realized that I was no longer in pain. The voices, the demons that I had grown accustomed to as my constant companions, and the knot in my core were simply no longer there. And in that quietly glorious moment, I knew what it was to be free; free to be present in my joy and my struggle, free to put space between me and my decisions, free to create healthy boundaries, free to feel without fear, free to love and be loved.
I started dabbling in meditation at the tender age of 19, drawn to it like a magnet as if by the innate knowledge that therein lay a path to peace. In those days, it was regarded as a hippy thing and not openly accepted as the spiritual tool it is today.
The experiences I had back then were powerful and illuminating and spurred me to spend 5 months in India, as much on a spiritual quest as to connect with the beautiful people who live and breath meditation in the daily course of their daily lives.
Over the past 30 years, I have often dipped my toe back into that healing pool, usually as a crisis meditator when there was no-where else to turn. However, I always ended up getting distracted once the crisis was over and, inevitably, my inner pain and turmoil returned. Until one day I stopped resisting and accepted that, if I wanted to access and maintain a state of inner peace, I would have to embrace meditation into my daily life.
Meditation has been a fundamental part of my personal healing journey. Having had the great fortune to connect with the teachers who spoke “my language”, I was able to summon up the discipline to establish a consistent meditation practice that, over the past few years, has accompanied me on my journey and brought me to a place that I never imagined existed.
This is why I teach meditation, because I want others who, like me, are searching for a path towards the light, to experience the life-changing transformation that occurs when you invite this powerful tool into your life and connect to the stillness and silence that rests within. In conjunction with your own personal healing work, meditation provides an in-built support system that you can access in any moment; stress relief, clarity, courage, solace, regeneration, enlightenment – these are just some of the resources that lie within you, always.
Meditation changed my life. Let me help it change yours.