Wholebeing Health & Meditation

09/07/2025

** New ** 7-Day Meditation Challenge. It is perfect for those new to meditation and those who would like some structure in getting back into regular meditation. And it is absolutely free…

When you register for the challenge, you will receive an email each day with the following topics and a guided meditation for that day.

Day 1 – Meditation: Introduction, Purpose and Getting Started + 5-minute guided meditation
Day 2 – The Key to Meditation + 10-minute guided meditation
Day 3 – Meditation – The Mind’s Daily Shower + 15-minute guided meditation
Day 4 – Meditation and Resistance, Part 1 + 18-minute guided meditation
Day 5 – Meditation and Resistance, Part 2 + 22-minute guided meditation
Day 6 – Meditation and Being + 23-minute guided meditation
Day 7 – Meditation Review + 17-minute guided meditation

To find out more and to register visit: https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation/7-day-meditation-challenge/

14/06/2025

Term 3 Meditation Classes
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Meditation 1: Ground, Calm, Relax
Thursday Evenings (face-to-face), 24 Jul to 4 Sep | 7:30-8:45pm

Meditation 2: Deepening Presence
Tuesday Evenings (face-to-face), 22 Jul to 2 Sep | 7:45-9:00pm

Meditation 3: Awakening Freedom
Monday Evenings (face-to-face), 21 Jul to 1 Sep | 7:30-9:00pm

Early Bird price available until 24 Jun.
For more info and to register visit: https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation-classes-sydney/

Hope to see you in a class!

13/06/2025

Just completed and released is this free 7-Day Mindfulness Challenge. It is perfect for those new to mindfulness and those who practice mindfulness, but would like the extra reminders and structure of a 7-day challenge.

Day 1 – Mindfulness: Introduction, Purpose and Getting Started
Day 2 – Setting a clear intention
Day 3 – Mindfulness and To Do Lists
Day 4 – Mindfulness, Time and Efficiency
Day 5 – Mindfulness and Multitasking
Day 6 – Mindfulness and Emotion
Day 7 – Mindfulness and Presence

To find out more and to register visit: https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation/7-day-mindfulness-challenge/

28/02/2025

New Meditation: Dropping Into the Well of Yourself (12 min)
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https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation/dropping-into-well/

A meditation guiding you into the depths of your own presence:

“Letting go into the well of yourself
Fully immersed, fully here
And aware
Aware of the sensation you’re feeling in this
This is the deep well of yourself
This is yourself
Feel yourself
Feel your own presence”

27/02/2025

My mindfulness practice for the week: cleaning the mould from each crevice of a hand carved mandala - with a toothbrush and essential oils! .
.while dodging mosquitoes.

How are you going with your mindfulness practice?

26/02/2025

Mindfulness - A Simple Explanation
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Very simply, mindfulness is a redirection of the attention.

Mindfulness is the practice of reclaiming our attention, our focus. Which has been hijacked by advertising and social media, and particularly our own thoughts and emotions.

For most people, the attention is constantly focused on the thoughts and feelings arising and swirling within themselves. Whenever the mind is not fully engaged in something, the habit is to automatically focus on one’s thoughts and feelings, or to try to distract the attention so as not to focus on them.

Mindfulness is consciously redirecting the attention away from thoughts and feelings. Whilst distraction is an unconscious redirection of the attention. Distraction leads to the need for more and more distraction from the growing unrest inside, whilst mindfulness cultivates presence.

Presence reduces thinking, anxiety and stress. Distraction and suppression increase them.

Mindfulness is the practice of bringing your full attention to what you are doing. For example, when washing your hands, fully feel the sensations created in the hands. Give your full visual attention to what you are doing and be aware of the sound of the running water. Notice the scent of the soap.

Mindfulness is the practice of redirecting the attention from the mind and emotions – to the senses.

With the attention fully absorbed in what the senses are registering, it is impossible to think.

Over time, the practice of mindfulness gradually breaks the habit of aimless thinking. The mind slows down and the emotions settle – once they stop receiving the fuel of the attention.

Now it’s time for you to practise! During what activities can you practice mindfulness this week? While driving? Taking a shower? Brushing your teeth? Eating? Cooking?

If you do this every day for a week, you will notice the world around you and inside you slowing down. There will be more space, more calm. Try it and see.

This mindfulness practice is taken from the Meditation 1 course: https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation-classes-sydney/

30/01/2025

New Meditation: Rejuvenation of Body, Mind and Psyche
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https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation/rejuvenation-body-mind-psyche/

In this meditation you are guided to connect with the nourishing, healing, restorative capacity that is always present in the body and psyche.

Excerpt from the meditation:
“This is where real revitalisation, replenishment happens, in this stillness. This is where we start to disappear, yet are still here, still aware.

Aware of the nourishment that this stillness is providing. It’s a real gift, a deep blessing – where gratitude naturally arises.

This is the place we love to go into in deep, dreamless sleep.”

This meditation guides you to connect with the nourishing, healing, restorative capacity that is always present in the body and psyche.

29/01/2025

Pausing – A Simple Practice for Greater Calm
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One of the simplest ways to remain calm and relaxed is to pause regularly throughout the day. Having frequent, brief periods of stillness prevents the accumulation of pressure and stress and breaks up the momentum of the mind.

If allowed to build up, it can be difficult to switch off at the end of the day and can cause disturbed sleep. Rather than feeling pressure and stress, pausing frequently allows for presence and enjoyment of the day.

Some examples of when to pause include: before making a phone call, before starting your car, between emails, before answering a text message, and when completing a task and before starting another.

So what do you do during these pauses? Here are some suggestions:
• Take a few deep, conscious breaths
• Connect with the sensation of your body
• Connect with the beauty of the day and the nature around you
• Take a moment to walk barefoot on the earth

How long should you pause for? As little as 10 seconds, but ideally until you are open and fresh for the next task.

This exercise is ideally practised during the busiest times of the day, when you feel pressure and stress building. There will be times when you may not want to pause, when you feel the want or pressure to continue with what you are doing – this is when pausing is most important.

The best way to implement this practice is to pick one or two things you do frequently during the day, such as sending texts or starting your car, and use it as a cue to pause beforehand. Six to ten pauses per day is ideal. Commit to this for a full week and you will notice the difference in the quality of your day and how you feel at night.

If you are interested in exploring this and other meditation and mindfulness practices, the Meditation 1 course starts next week, Tuesday, 4 February. For more details: https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation-classes-sydney/

27/11/2024

January Online Meditation Sessions
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On Tuesday evenings in January (7th, 14th, 21st and 28th) I will be guiding an online 30-minute meditation session from 8:00-8:30pm. No experience required.

Early Bird price is $55 before 10 Dec, $65 afterwards. Or $20/session.
Register here: https://wholebeing.as.me/schedule/19b34cf8/?appointmentTypeIds[]=55335970

20/11/2024

The Australian Government removed health fund rebates for Bowen Therapy and 16 other natural therapies in 2019. A petition has been submitted to parliament to have health fund recognition for Bowen Therapy reinstated. Here's your chance to have your voice heard.

Sign the petition today!
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6717

03/10/2024

New 16-Minute Meditation: "Moving Through Resistance, Restlessness or Emotion"

https://www.wholebeing.com.au/meditation/resistance-restlessness-emotion/
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This meditation helps guide and assist when you are restless, feel an inner resistance to someone or something (including meditation), or feeling stuck in an emotion.

You are guided to be fully aware of the resistance, restlessness or emotion you are feeling - without thinking about it. This is the key.

This reduces the tendency to struggle or fight with the resistance/emotion, or the urge to avoid meditation altogether.

A peace is present when discomfort or emotional pain is fully accepted and allowed. This peace is the absence of the tension created by fighting and opposing.

And without the fuel provided by inner conflict, the pain and tension dissipates, releases or reduces.

“Peace comes when we stop fighting what we are trying to avoid. If we just fully allow it, then there is a release. A release somewhere in our psyche and we can just relax and settle in.

The discomfort can still be present. It doesn’t have to go for us to feel peace.” - Extract from meditation

02/10/2024

Tips for Mindfully Releasing Tension and Stress
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If tension, stress and/or anxiety have become a regular feature of your daily life, the following suggestions may help. The accumulation of tension and stress create excessive restlessness and inability to focus and relax (as I'm sure you know).

Breaking the habit and force of these accumulated energies can take a great deal of perseverance, as they dictate how we behave, what we feel, what we think and what we believe.

The practices and activities below cultivate presence when done mindfully and help to naturally discharge the accumulated energies which make it difficult to be present.

Try substituting these for the less wholesome things you do (or consume) to unwind or relax.

Also, if you find it difficult to sit down and meditate, I recommend you do one or more of these activities beforehand.

• Being grateful/practising gratitude
• Being in nature
• Walking (especially barefoot, when possible)
• Yoga, Tai Chi
• Other exercise done mindfully (e.g. being present in body, no music or screens)
• Cold exposure, cold shower (not recommended if you are depleted of energy or have weak constitution)
• Singing, dancing, laughing
• Being affectionate with a partner, giving your dog or cat a pat, watering your plants/garden
• Bilateral sounds
• Bowen Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Massage
• Join a Meditation class

When practising or participating in any of these activities, being present and mindful is the key as to whether they allow for a natural discharge and release of stress and tension or whether they are an unconscious expulsion of energy. Be aware of your inner state and focus, is there a forceful push or drive to release/get rid of energy or to go harder or further? Or are you present and aware?

Be aware of activities you engage in where there is a force or push to release or dissipate energy or the urge to express an emotion. These are areas that are ‘leaking’ energy and perpetuate unconscious, habitual patterns.