Hall of Mindfulness

23/09/2025

Reiki Appointments today due to cancellation. Choose from a Tier 1, full one hour session at £45 or the Tier II one hour session plus take-away tailored information and personalised meditation for £60.
Discounts available for block-booking 3 sessions - learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AczaPGxgT/
Appointments also available throughout coming months. Message me with any questions or to book your appointment - day and evening slots available

10/09/2025

Come join us for this Spring Retreat in rural Leicestershire. From 2.30pm on Tuesday, 7 April to 2.30pm on Thursday, 9 April 2026. Let us lead you into stillness through Yin Yoga (Kailash Mistry), Meditation (Sam Hall), Delicious nourishing food (dietary requirements catered for) (Else-Marie Siebrits Lenton), Inner Discovery Workshop (Sam & Kailash) and more. Surrounded by ancient woodland, the grounds are home to fell ponies, pigs and chickens - all entertaining in their own way and all worthy meditation partners! Follow the links in the Booking Form for full details, pricing and sample menu. Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or Kailash Mistry (details below) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScS_a_q_-T06cNGoSBgWPoD4t5iSQd5QG6ihW0gp66oiRpCzA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=112800962404520797663

14/08/2025

This post is as true today as it was 5 years ago when I first wrote it. Join me at Percival Guildhouse this September where I will hold two separate classes - Mindful Mondays and Mindful Thursdays from Monday, 8 and Thursday 11 September 2025 at 10.00-11.30am. So whether you are new to Mindfulness and Meditation or a seasoned practitioner, come along and join a group of like-minded people to become familiar with, and rest in, the peace and wonder of who we truly area - beyond thought’s distraction.
Check out the brochure and booking details here - https://percival-guildhouse.co.uk/.../PGH-Autumn-2025-web...

Pauses are important in life but something we tend to ignore as we race through our busy days from one task to the next filling our lives, keeping busy, anything but BE with ourselves. Mindfulness reconnects us to the pauses, the stillness and the silence. That's where the real work is done. The senses are more than their obvious attributes they are the connection to the here and now, bringing us back over and over again from our distractions to be in life's gift - the present. Contact me now for a free on-line Introduction to Mindfulness session to include a meditation and details of the 1:1 8 week course and how it can help you.

06/07/2025

Another great review but don't take my client's word for it, experience tranquility for yourself 😌
Choose from a Tier 1, full one hour session at £45 or the Tier II one hour session plus tailored information and meditation for £60.
Discounts available for block-booking 3 sessions - learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AczaPGxgT/
Message me with any questions or to book your appointment - day and evening slots available

30/06/2025

Be cool! It’s one of those days when the temperature soars and, without air conditioning, we can find ourselves getting caught up in self-suffering. Listing all the ways the heat is ‘ridiculous’, ‘too much’ ’unacceptable’. If you find this is happening to you then try this:
Pause, take a deep breath in through the nose and let the exhale go from your mouth. Notice the thought without getting caught up in them, withdraw your attention and instead take it to the body. Notice the temperature of the body, are there some areas that feel warmer than others, be aware of any breeze from the air or a fan and notice the sensations on the skin as it comes and goes, notice any sensations in those warmer areas - trickling perspiration or sense of stickiness behind the knees, in any creases. Notice what gift the senses are offering you right now.
Simply acknowledge any thoughts about what you are doing - criticism, judgement - and label it what it is “thinking”. In doing this it gives space for you to hear the inner wisdom which will suggest running the inside of the wrists under cold water, having a cold shower, if you’re out and about, find a tree to shade under (there’s more oxygen here too). Be with the experience of this moment rather than lost in the story of what it should or could be. It is what it is, experience it rather than think about it.

19/06/2025

Are you struggling with life's ups and downs, or just in need of deep relaxation? Then, like my lovely client Linda (see the full review here - https://g.co/kgs/DrXha7x), you too could benefit from Reiki.
Choose from a Tier 1, full one hour session at £45 or the Tier II one hour session plus tailored information and meditation for £60.
Discounts available for block-booking 3 sessions - learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AczaPGxgT/
Message me with any questions or to book your appointment - day and evening slots available

28/05/2025

Living life in the moment, in the light of what is. Not getting sucked in by the darkness of thought. Living in heart-felt experience not lost in the thinking realm: it’s a dog’s life …. and I’m catching on 😉

18/05/2025

For the final day of Mental Health Awareness Week I wanted to share one of my poems with you:

Really ….

It’s only when we tune out the chatter
in the silence, we discover the things that matter
and realise we’re not really as mad as a Hatter

Those voices telling us all the things we are not
regurgitating pressures of the things not yet got
and how without them we’ll never really be that hot

There’s only one voice we need to tune into
the inner one that wants us to be, not just do
and then we’ll understand what really is true

We are enough, just the way we are
whether black, white, with a blemish or scar
and it’s this knowledge that will really take us far

So within this uncertain given time and space
let’s explore all we are, in that inner place
and really move forward with compassion and grace

’cos life is to be experienced, right here and now
no fear, or questions, ‘what me, but how?’
really be adventurous, time to step into your ‘WOW’

17/05/2025

Mental Health Awareness Week - Saturday. One of the first things we learn through mindfulness and meditation is how a thought is just a thought - it's not fact and certainly not who we are. The thoughts aren't even ours - if they were we wouldn't have the majority of them, would we?
Thoughts are mental events: they are like seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, feeling/touching - always active, but we don't need to lose ourselves in them - simply notice, acknowledge and be the knowing of the thinking, the sensing.
Worry is thinking about something over and over with the addition of 'what if', 'should' and 'could': some of the most futile words in our vocabulary and ones that can stir many sensations causing stress and suffering.
We also often wear worry like a badge, with pride - seeing it as an expression of how much we care about someone or something. Or see it as a natural response to dealing with situations. But are either of these things really true? Sitting with questions like these in meditation is a great place to start.
Worries are borne of fear. The fear of losing: face, money, love. The fear of life not being the way we want it to be, for us and/or our loved ones. I'm not talking about the wonderful creative, productive type of thinking here but the regurgitating, incessant chatter. Worry is misplaced imagination running riot. ​Constantly focusing our attention on what was, or what might be, is diluting our direct mind-body experience, distracting us from now, from our true nature. We should allow each person/situation to be what they are - not always pleasant or what we would choose, but just as they are - warts and all!
Emotions such as anger can stir us to take action, to move against injustice but worry merely keeps us in a state of negative bias and distanced from the reality of now.
Things will be what they will be, it's awareness that determines what we see.
We can go through life second-guessing and letting our imaginations run riot on all the things that might or might not happen, or we can live now - aware of the body breathing, the senses alive and alert ready to receive when the conditions are right, allowing experiencing to take place.
I recently read a quote which inspired the poem below: "Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace"

16/05/2025

For Mental Health Awareness Week - Friday, I wanted to share a previous post. So many of our troubles are created by our thoughts ….

The thinking mind is like a double-edged sword - on one side you have a wonderful tool for planning, analysing, inventing - helpful thinking. On the other, you have an attention-seeking, ruminating (past), worrying (future), opinionated chatter-box - unhelpful thinking.

- How many conversations have you had today - but only with yourself?

- How often do you find yourself taken away from life’s experiences - eating; catching up with a friend; watching tv/reading a book - because a thought has jumped in with its expectations, judgements and promises of something more?

- When did you last sit with an uncomfortable feeling rather than engage with the story around it - why it’s there? who’s to blame?

Mindfulness and meditation turns the focus inwards. By dropping into the body, getting out of the head, you practice tuning into the senses. Being aware of what is actually happening rather than being distracted by unhelpful thoughts and their narrative of how life should/could or ought to be. You realise thoughts are fleeting, not generated by you and certainly not who you are. This understanding is liberating - and was a life-saver for me.

Without attachment to the constant commentary and chitter-chatter of unhelpful thinking, there is more space in which to receive the helpful thinking and there is also more quiet in which it can be heard.

In this way you learn to really live life rather than just thinking about it.

Contact me for information on 1:1 or Group courses and you too can connect with all you are - beyond the thought-created worries and striving - enabling you to fulfil your potential from a place of peace and ease.

14/05/2025

Wednesday of Mental Health Awareness Week 2025. After an amazing day of offering Reiki energy healing, I wanted to share that spending time and money on yourself is not selfish- it is necessary. Have a great evening 😍

06/05/2025

The magical power of Reiki, come experience it for yourself, or send along your loved ones. As I say in the video, Reiki is perfect for children too - and they don’t need as much so each session can be as little as 30 minutes including settle and feedback time at just £22.50. Message me via WhatsApp or Messenger to arrange an appointment.