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New member Fran, coming from a progressive Islamic mosque in Canada, was interested in Buddhism’s stance on gender and sexuality and so I...

I am entering one of my periodic periods of great doubt. I have these on a fairly regular basis - once every five years, perhaps - and...

One of the factors that Johann Hari identifies in his excellent book Stolen Focus is the crippling exhaustion that most humans in the...

The January full moon over the Seven Sisters, 2022. WHAT IS SITTING OUT? I’ve been exploring a practice called ‘sitting out’. It’s not a...

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...

that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.

Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...

What does this word somatic mean and how does it relate to meditation? Somatic meditation means ‘of the body’ in contrast to ‘of the...

Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...