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What Do You Desire?
I’ve been consciously creating a life of meaning and purpose for myself and supporting others on their paths for many years. However it wasn’t until I met Dr Richard Miller and began the journey into iRest Yoga Nidra that I heard the term Heartfelt Desires, and fully...
The Science of Willpower
If you’ve ever tried to let go of an old habit, or create a new one, you’ve no doubt found how challenging it can be. I’ve previously written about the six steps to changing a habit - they include clarity, noticing, self compassion, acting consciously,...
Feeling What You’re Feeling
Escaping our emotional experience is a full time job for many of us. It's not uncommon to spend a vast majority of our lives trying to stop ourselves from feeling what we're feeling. It's exhausting! But when we can let ourselves feel our emotions, we can cope with...
Happiness is an Inside Job
It seems to me that we spend a vast majority of our lives chasing after happiness in external places. When we’re at school, we say to ourselves “when I graduate…… then I’ll be happy.” And then when we graduate, we say to ourselves “when I get my dream job……. then I’ll...
Why I Meditate
Why on earth would anyone meditate? Why spend so much time doing nothing, when there's so much to be done? This is a question I've asked myself on many occasions, and one I see in my client's eyes when I suggest they give meditation a try. In case you haven't heard,...
Yoga and the Nature of Existence
GUEST POST BY RACHEL ZINMAN When I met my partner John Weddepohl, I felt I was at the peak of my understanding of yoga and yoga practice. I had read every book out there on the philosophy of tantra, studied the science of mantra and yantra and had a deeply entrenched...
The Hero’s Journey
Joseph Campbell, mythology expert and philosopher, studied all the great myths of the world and found that there was really only one story, the Hero's Journey. In this story, the hero is separated from his or her tribe, goes through a period of initiation and finally...
The Space Between Stories
Have you ever felt life as you know it drop out from under you? A health crisis that stops you in your tracks? Your partner falling in love with someone else? Being fired from your job when you were expecting a promotion? Your landlord giving you notice to leave...
How To Change a Habit…. For Life!
Let's start with a paradox. You are perfect, just as you are. You don't need fixing or changing. There's nothing more you need to do, or know, or have, to make you any better than you already are. You are perfection itself. And at the same time, perhaps there's...
Eat slow, breathe deep, live well
I've always been a big advocate of breathing well. Breathing gently, rhythmically and all the way down into the belly is one of the best things you can do for your health and your happiness. It's a very simple and embodied practice we can all do to tap into our...