The Centre for Western Mindfulness

The Centre for Western Mindfulness We help people expand their awareness and adopt mindfulness as a way of life, because that’s where freedom from suffering begins.

At the Centre for Western Mindfulness, we train and support people to become Western Mindfulness Mentors. These mentors use our client program, Pathways to Mindfulness (PTM), as a framework for helping their clients to understand what living mindfully looks like, and how to incorporate mindfulness as a way of life. Pathways to Mindfulness is a revolutionary approach to living a fulfilled life, free of exhaustion. It is a systematic structure designed to help people bring about the change they want to see in their lives, and have it be sustainable. By becoming free from their fears, stress and judgements they are able to live with more happiness, health and clarity. Clients who participate in PTM consistently report the following benefits from completing the program:

• Less exhaustion and improved health.
• A more consistent state of happiness.
• Feeling more engaged and fulfilled in life.
• More freedom to express their authentic self.
• Increased abundance.
• More focused and productive.
• More clarity of purpose and how to express it in their life. The founding principal of The Centre, Russell Sturgess, created PTM after dedicating 35 years of his life to the health industry and more than 25 years of research and development into spiritual practices and approaches to holistic health. Hundreds of people who have participated in our client programs have reported improved health, clarity, happiness and freedom from their suffering. Most importantly, they have found these changes to be sustainable!

16/12/2025

A chasm is a profound gap between people, viewpoints, or inner experience. It is also the name of the 5-step framework we use in our Pathways to Mindfulness program to help people bridge the gap between a life largely governed by subconscious habits and one lived from conscious observation.

Why does that matter?

Because when we step back into the place of observation, we begin to loosen the grip of subconscious patterns and our suffering begins to soften. And from that space, peace naturally arises, followed by joy, love, and a deeper sense of happiness.

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How willing are you (or not) to surrender your position and simply observe?

05/12/2025

Founder and Principal, Russell Sturgess, teaching trainees about the childhood narrative.

Our Facilitator Training equips you with the knowledge, tools, and guidance towards presence to support others on their journey of self-discovery while transforming your own life in the process. To become a guide for transformation, you can find out more on his website: https://www.russellsturgess.com.au/ptm-facilitator-training

Next time you find yourself in a disagreement, just pause for a moment and notice your thoughts. See how they’re clingin...
03/12/2025

Next time you find yourself in a disagreement, just pause for a moment and notice your thoughts. See how they’re clinging to your position, justifying why you’re right, judging what should be.

Notice how that clinging shows up in your body, the tension, the tightness, the frustration.

Peace is possible when we simply let go. Sometimes action may be needed, but it can come from a calmer, clearer place rather than from tension or compulsion. The mind may still want to insist on a certain outcome, but you don’t need to follow it. Just notice and return to presence.

Resistance to surrender arises from doubt that grace will provide. When that trust is weak, the mind clings to outcomes, seeks control, and struggles to let go.

When you start noticing your thoughts and emotions instead of being ruled by them, something shifts. You feel the space ...
01/12/2025

When you start noticing your thoughts and emotions instead of being ruled by them, something shifts. You feel the space between who you are and what you’re experiencing, and you realise you’re not the voice in your head.

This opens the door to a whole new way of living.

Do you ever react without meaning to? How many times have you told yourself,“Next time I won’t do that,”or “Next time I’...
28/11/2025

Do you ever react without meaning to? How many times have you told yourself,

“Next time I won’t do that,”
or “Next time I’ll handle it differently”?

And how long did that change actually last?

Willpower alone rarely creates sustainable change. It’s a shift in consciousness that transforms how you meet the moment.

At times people get caught in analysing their inner-child story. Understanding it is helpful, but trying to make sense o...
26/11/2025

At times people get caught in analysing their inner-child story. Understanding it is helpful, but trying to make sense of every tiny nuance of the narrative keeps you circling the same place. It keeps you in the past, instead of the present.

Becoming aware of the childhood narrative is simply a way to recognise when an old pattern is active now. Once you notice it, there’s nothing more to process, you stay in the position of the conscious observer rather than entering the story again.

It’s presence that creates healing.

Discovering the childhood narrative and learning how to step out from behind it is the essence of our signature program, Pathways to Mindfulness, and in Feb / Mar 2026 we will be offering this program, for the first time ever, as a small group experience (limited to 15 participants).

The full details of the experience will be available in the coming weeks, but for now, if you would like to remain informed, pop your details in the form below:

https://westernmindfulness.activehosted.com/f/65

When people used to say “happiness comes from within,” I knew it was true on some level, but it always felt a bit flimsy...
19/11/2025

When people used to say “happiness comes from within,” I knew it was true on some level, but it always felt a bit flimsy. I’d have moments where I thought I’d finally grasped it, only to realise later that most of my happiness still depended on things outside of me.

In my case, it took losing the majority of the things I relied on to make me happy to truly begin the journey of discovering the truth in that statement: that happiness has nothing to do with external circumstances and everything to do with the state of consciousness we bring to each moment.

What I eventually realised is that chasing happiness often leads you away from it. You come closer when you shift your focus to cultivating inner peace, fulfilment, wonder of the infinite, and unconditional love instead. These create a sense of wholeness, and when you feel whole, the emptiness you’re trying to fill with “happiness” simply isn’t there.

And so the question becomes: how do we experience the world like that? The answer... well it always comes back to the same thing—present moment awareness. When you observe life as it is, without getting pulled into thoughts and judgements about what the experience means, you open the space where true happiness naturally arises on its own.

✨A Special Invitation: For the first time ever, we’re offering the full 25-session Pathways to Mindfulness program as a ...
17/11/2025

✨A Special Invitation: For the first time ever, we’re offering the full 25-session Pathways to Mindfulness program as a GROUP experience.✨

This pilot program will be limited to 15 participants, creating an intimate and supported space to deepen your practice alongside others walking the same path.

The program will be guided by Tegan Cannell, Director of The Centre for Western Mindfulness, who has been facilitating this work for over a decade.

One-on-one mentoring for this journey typically ranges from $4,000–$5,000, but as part of this first group round, the program will be offered at $1,290 AUD (we also offer weekly and monthly payment plans).

In return, we simply ask that all participants complete a short feedback form at the end of the program to help us refine and grow this offering.

If you’d like to be among the first to experience this, you can register your interest here: 👉 https://westernmindfulness.activehosted.com/f/65

We’ll contact everyone on the list with full details once registration officially opens in the coming weeks. The program will commence sometime in February / March 2026.

If you’ve been longing for guidance as you move through a time of self-discovery and transformation, this could be a beautiful next step on your path.

Happy Monday 🤍
17/11/2025

Happy Monday 🤍

A FREE 2-Hr Webinar for those expanding their awareness of self.In this session, Russell explores the profound distincti...
13/11/2025

A FREE 2-Hr Webinar for those expanding their awareness of self.

In this session, Russell explores the profound distinction between living as a human being shaped by conditioning and programming, and awakening to life as a soul being aligned with awareness and choice.

He explains how neuroplasticity reveals our innate capacity to reshape thought patterns and transform the way we experience reality. Through this teaching, you’ll discover how mindfulness becomes the key to breaking free from unconscious habits and opening into a more conscious, empowered way of living.

https://www.russellsturgess.com.au/understanding-consciousness-webinar

External circumstances can influence comfort and ease, but they aren’t the source of lasting fulfilment. Without cultiva...
13/11/2025

External circumstances can influence comfort and ease, but they aren’t the source of lasting fulfilment. Without cultivating awareness of your inner source of fulfilment, you’ll continue seeking satisfaction outside yourself, which is inherently temporary and limited.

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