Mind the Zen

31/10/2025

Teaching a stretching routine for the Ely Dojo Judo club to help with recovery and flexibility.

02/10/2025

Workshop testimonials from clients.

24/11/2024

A review of one of the Mind The Zen workshops

14/10/2024

I spent 5 months working on a PICU ward. An intensive mental health unit. Many of the patients had violent backgrounds. The practices of zen helped me to maintain calmness when being threatened and to offer it to the patients. The practices of counting the breath, mindful movement and zen belly breathing really helped them to be less reactive and more peaceful. Two of the patients credited the practices with helping them leave the facility. I saw less incidents and more patients move onto a better life.

12/03/2024

Rebecca doing the full lotus…showing there is no disability.

30/01/2024

On this course we’ll be looking at a number of Zen meditation techniques and practices designed to explore what it means to develop a sense of physical and energetic grounding, and to have an understanding of yourself and the nature of reality.

Starting Mon 12th Feb, 19:30-21:00 (UK time)

Suitable for complete beginners to those wanting to broaden their meditation experience.

The techniques we’ll cover include:
🧘 Mindfulness of the breath
🧘 Fusho - your unborn mind
🧘 Meditating with a koan (a paradoxical statement or question used to point at the true nature of reality)
🧘 Healing with soft ointment
🧘 Cultivating and energising your hara (belly) and legs
🧘 Energy transformation

Zenways members £85
Non-members: £100

Find out more on zenways.org

14/01/2024

It’s my pleasure to be doing another zen workshop at Fresh Ely. The workshop will consist of the insight practices of Zen. The main goal of the workshop is to help you dissolve your obstacles within and create more energy so you can create the path for your life you always wanted.

Join us for seated zen practice, zen yoga and journaling towards yourself.

06/07/2023

I’m delighted to be holding a workshop at .social The workshop will include some of the daily practices used by the Zen monks of Japan and give you the life-long tools to keep you grounded and happy.

27/02/2023

Zen Tea Ceremony

19/12/2022

The Syrian Refugee Project - I was working with the male and female groups. Many had lost their families and homes in war. The feedback I got was they enjoyed it and got a lot of peace from the sessions.

17/10/2022

01/09/2022

Welcome to Mind the Zen!

I'm James. I'm a 200hr Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher and a 200hr Yoga Teacher. I teach through the Zenway's lineage through Julian Daizan Skinner. A monk who spent 20 years living and teaching in the Temples of Japan through the Rinzai and Soto lineages of Zen. He has passed this onto me to teach to you. I offer 8 week courses in:

∙ Mindful movement
∙ Yoga
∙ Meditation and mindfulness for mental well-being and insight.

Look forward to helping you.