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Kathy and I are running a course on self-care at the spa road Buddhist centre next weekend and so our thoughts have been circumambulating...

This is a series of essays on a subject that I’m interested in exploring in 2014: loneliness. Last year at Mindsprings we concentrated a...

Mindsprings is not a specifically Buddhist organisation but I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the paramount debt we have to the...

The Buddha met a woman whose life was made miserable by her compulsive miserliness. He gave her a carrot and taught her to give it from...

This was a public lecture Alistair gave to the Norwich Interfaith at the Octagon Chapel, 21st November 2012 on the subject of sexuality...

There’s a list of behaviours guaranteed to piss off your friends after you come back from a retreat. Preachiness is probably right at the...

After weeks…and weeks…of rain, I had begun to question the wisdom of running a mindfulness weekend entitled “Sinking into Summer, Sinking...

This is a reboot of a blog I wrote back in 2012 (which seems like another world) after a weekend retreat at the Abbey in Sutton...

I’m deep in the middle of a research project for my therapy training about the fascinating subject of dissociation and how it impacts our...

I’ve been working on the course that I’m giving this week in London – It’s about “poisoned patterns of the mind” and it seems to have...

George Monbiot makes an interesting statement in this morning’s Guardian. He points out that there is a myth: that the people at the top...

The course upon Holy Island was truly wonderful this year. It was a great group. There was palpable energy flowing around the Peace Hall,...

I’m very excited about the workshops coming up this autumn – they’re all pushing mindfulness in different directions. There’s...

I (Alistair) went to an amazing workshop this weekend with Alan Dolan. Alan is a fellow workshop leader at the Special Yoga Centre. Or at...

Back filming for Escape to the Country and enjoying the other headspace that being outside of London and away from psychotherapy books...

Had a wonderful retreat in the cold, perpetual daylight of Iceland. The lovely Reykjavik sangha organized a fantastic 35-person retreat...

I had the most wonderful afternoon on Friday talking to the young men and women of St. James schools – two independent, sibling schools,...

My therapy work has got me interested in the field of trauma and energy psychology. Working with trauma – highly painful,...

It comes up again and again in our classes, so I thought it might be worth jotting down a few thoughts about focus. Doing this a hundred...

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...