Great article received today from Artshub: “How meditation helped my creative practice: 8 artists share tips”. Wonderful to read about the different experiences with meditation, and the impact on personal creativity, from eight very different Australian artists. Including David Jones, professional percussionist who teaches meditation at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation centre in Fitzroy, who I have […]
What Are My Intentions?
If you were watching me at the Australian Meditation Conference last weekend .. you may have noticed a lot of head nodding and smiling, even occasional clapping. Inside my mind, there was a lot of hell-YES and hi-fives! The word that tied it all together for me: CONNECTION So, this morning, after meditation, I felt […]
Australian Meditation Conference
This coming weekend .. I will be filling my cup with meditation! I am attending the weekend-long Australian Meditation Conference being held in Melbourne with the theme Meditation and Society. Presented by the Meditation Association of Australia the conference: “provides a platform for collaborative dialogue between a wide range of speakers interested in the philosophies and applications of […]
Biggest Mistake When Starting A Meditati...
What’s the biggest (and most common) mistake you see people making in regards to starting a meditation practice? I was recently approached with this question. I certainly had a few thoughts .. after teaching meditation for the last eight years and having a personal meditation practice of 25+ years, I think I have probably heard or […]
Mindfulness At The Front-Line
I recently answered a call for meditation instruction for a very specific group .. emergency service workers, first-responders, those at the front line! This group was described as “hardened grizzled coppers?” As the mother of a soon-to-be paramedic .. I have a very personal interest in doing what I can to support the emotional and mental […]
Metta (Loving Kindness) Meditation
An excellent article today from The Greater Good Science Centre which is based at the University of California, Berkeley. The centre sponsors scientific research into social and emotional well-being and earlier this year I enjoyed some excellent online studies with their Positive Psychology school. Todays article introduced some recent research on how self-compassion practices can […]
From Elementary School to Presidential C...
The week that was … Exciting to read about the wonderful response from students at a Belle River elementary school who started a new meditation club to help them become calmer, nicer and more focused at school. Student Dayne Bensette says that the club helps him calm down “Sometimes I have a lot of stuff […]
3 Favourite Video Intros to Meditation
I have chosen three lovely, brief and engaging video introductions to meditation from my bag of tricks (ie. blog posts). While I may wish and dream to have the technical and creative ability to design my own video .. as this is unlikely to happen (in the next 20 years).. I want to share these […]