Rory Kinsella Meditation

05/03/2025

I’m here to help – if you’re interested, send me a message and we can speak privately. No pressure, just a chat.

28/12/2024

SEVEN YEARS alcohol-free.

It was seven years ago today I last had a drink.

At that point, I'd been moderating for a couple of years but would still find myself on a huge binge once a month or so, a habit I couldn't seem to shake.

Alcohol had played such a big role in my life up to that point though that I hadn't even considered quitting completely.

I initially gave up only for a week over New Year at a meditation retreat then decided to extend it and do Dry January.

I'd never felt this good in the first week of January and wanted to see if the feeling would last.

There were a few difficult points in that first month, mostly around the social awkwardness of often being the only person not drinking (Dry January is not a big thing in Australia as it’s summer!). But once people got used to it, things got easier. 

After Dry January, I wanted to make the feeling last so set another goal of 100 days, and apart from a few occasions where it was harder not to drink – a an Australia Day boat party and a ski trip to Japan – it was mostly a relief not to have to drink.

That’s how I started to think about it. The previous times I’d tried to stop drinking for a month, it was a case of not “getting” to drink.

But now I re-framed it as not “having” to drink. I no longer “had” to try to moderate on nights out or to suffer through needless hangovers. 

If you’re ready to try something new and want to see what it feels like for yourself, I’m running an online Dry January program starting on January 1.

Participants will spend a month working on healthy coping mechanisms like meditation and delving into their drinking triggers and beliefs so that they can get in control of their drinking and break old habits. Link in bio for more info.

Pic: The cat who got the cream with the cat lover who got the cream of the cats 😻 😻

22/11/2024

The Four Achievements framework is the culmination of my six years of helping people change their relationship with alcohol.

Swipe to read more and then register for the free masterclass: The Four Achievements Roadmap to Effortless Alcohol Control.

👉 Link in bio.

25/10/2024

EIGHT YEARS teaching meditation.

This month marks eight years of teaching Vedic Meditation.

What a ride!

Here's a pic of me living my meditation teacher dream teaching poolside in Bali last month.

And swipe for me graduating from teacher training with Tim Brown in Rishikesh, India in 2016.

You know when you get asked that question in workshops or self help books: What would you do if money was no object?

I would definitely teach meditation.

But I'd also tour the world as a full time reggae bass player packing out stadiums, so would have to balance the two 🤣.

I will be eternally grateful to my teacher Tim Brown for everything from the day he taught me to meditate in 2014.

And to my fellow Vedic Meditation teachers for camaraderie and for inspiration and support.

I have upcoming courses in Bronte and Canberra and retreats in the Blue Mountains and Bali – more info linked from the usual place.

Here’s to many more years!

24/09/2024

One of the biggest learnings I got from the Bali retreat that wrapped up the other day was the value of collaboration.

I have a natural tendency to work alone, which has both pros and cons.

But when suggested last year that we run a retreat together, I jumped at the chance.

Alex is very experienced running retreats and I knew I'd learn a lot from her.

And we're both so aligned in what we do it was a no-brainer.

Alex teaches yoga as a tool for self development and sobriety and I do the same with meditation.

She’s Sober Yoga Girl 🧘‍♀️, I could call myself Sober Meditation Guy 😑.

Last week's retreat proved what a great team we are and the value of collaboration for creating a whole that is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Each time Alex or I were watching the other one teach from their tradition, we were nodding on in agreement.

And we wonderfully complemented each other in energy and our different styles of sharing knowledge.

Thanks for being the best co-host I could have asked for! ❤️

And if you haven't checked out Alex's new book, Sober Yoga Girl, get on it! I'm partway through at the moment – it's a real page turner with plenty of gems of wisdom. It was the talk of the retreat with people sharing what part they were up to 📖.

If you're interested in hearing about future retreats, I'm planning several over the next 12 months. Register interest through link in bio or comment RELAX for more info.

19/07/2024

I’m delighted to be now offering private and group meditation trainings in Bronte, as well as one on one coaching and mentoring for existing Vedic Meditators.

Get in touch to find out more, including a full list of offerings.

12/07/2024

Send me a DM or get in touch through the website to discuss how we can work together.

I specialise in working with high-functioning overthinkers.

01/06/2024

Join me for a Blue Mountains weekend retreat!

Looking to escape the city for a weekend and dive deep into what meditation has to offer?

Join me Aug 15-18 for a long weekend in the Blue Mountains and come back feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.

For those who have already learned to meditate, there will be a Rounding program to give you up to six months’ benefit of regular meditation.

And for newbies, there will be a learn to meditate course.

Also enjoy delicious healthy food, spa treatments and an opportunity to dive into Vedic knowledge as it applies to whatever you have going on at the moment.

Click through to find out more!

Pic from the last retreat I attended – with Light Watkins in Mexico over New Year this year.

Join me on retreat for some deep rest and rejuvenation.

25/05/2024

Sleeping or meditating?! It's often hard to tell if we or other people are meditating or sleeping.

Take this picture – Max looks like he's meditating, but he's actually sleeping (or is he?!) 🤣

Deep meditation and sleep can be hard to differentiate because when we go deep in meditation, we move beyond thought into a place of inner silence where we're not aware of what's happening.

Because we're beyond thought, we can't have thoughts like "look at me, I'm beyond thought!", so our subjective experience can be similar to us having been unconscious or in deep sleep.

And we can appear to others as if we're sleeping as our head might be rested forward.

As a teacher, I tell students the sure way to tell if you're sleeping is if you're snoring or drooling!

The more experienced we become as meditators, the less we care about whether we were in deep meditation or "just" sleeping.

Either way, we're allowing our minds and bodies the deep rest they need. One is not "better" than the other and we get whichever one we need in that moment.

If your body is craving sleep and you close your eyes to meditate, you'll sleep. And afterwards, you'll feel in a much better position to tackle your day.

24/02/2024

Salt and pepper calameowri 🦐 😻

09/02/2024

But you go ahead – be my guest! It’s just not my bag anymore.

I prefer my sleep and lack of hangovers – no judgement, just preference.

Drop a ❤️ in the comments and share this if you agree.

06/02/2024

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