Meditation Room

31/10/2025

Meditation Room every Tuesday evening at 7.30pm in Hilperton BA14 7RL, and every Monday online - join from anywhere in the world!
Or try meditating with the sound of the gongs - fortnightly in Hilperton from 7th January 2026.

29/10/2025

Next gong sound bath meditation is at the Wiltshire Music Centre on 12 November, 7-8pm

25/10/2025

Take some time for yourself to rest and relax before the usual festivities at the Winter Solstice Sanctuary.
There will be a special guided meditation and gong sound immersion to rest and realign our mind-body; a fire and cacao ceremony to open our hearts and restore our spirits; some Kirtan call-and-response chanting to uplift; with a chance to have some fun with a drum, or to shake, rattle and roll (instruments provided) or sit, create a community, and have a laugh with some kindred souls, to welcome back the light.
South Wraxall Village Hall BA15 2SE, 21/12/25, 3.30-6pm.

11/10/2025

Meditation Room is online on Monday, and in person in Hilperton, BA14 7RL, Tuesday.

11/10/2025

Last 3 places for the Autumn Gong Bath Meditation in Bradford on Avon next week. See details below to book.

07/10/2025

Gong Sound Bath at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, next Wednesday, 15th October, 7-8pm.
And delighted to announce that from January, I'll be sharing the sounds of the gongs every fortnight in Hilperton, BA14 7PJ.

07/10/2025

07/10/2025

PEOPLE WHO OFTEN HUG HAVE STRONGER IMMUNE SYSTEMS, STUDIES SHOW

There are three types of people: touchy-feely people who always greet you with a hug, those who hug on special occasions, and those who find displays of affection uncomfortable. Interestingly, your touchy-feely friends may also be happier and healthier, as research is now identifying the hug as a viable mental and physical health boost.

One study investigated whether the effects of a good hug can soothe you throughout the day - even if you face conflict afterward. Researchers found those who were hugged were less affected by “conflict exposure”, or interpersonal conflict, than those who weren’t hugged. The gender of the huggers didn’t matter, and neither did the context of the relationship (romantic, familial or platonic).

In another study, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in the US found a correlation between how much hugging people did and how well their bodies were able to fight off colds. They interviewed over 400 healthy adults to find out how much social support and how much conflict they had in their daily lives, including how often they hugged other people. Then they exposed the participants to a common cold virus.

They found that people with stronger social networks and those who hugged others more frequently had less risk of infection. And of those who did get sick, more frequent hugs resulted in less severe symptoms.

Being able to give someone a hug from the heart is healing. It’s healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that.

07/10/2025

Sit, so you feel centred, balanced, but most of all comfortable, and then, breathe, still your mind, watch and listen without judgement to this beautiful offering from Dynasty Electrik...

Lemurian Water Codes are the vibrational memory and light frequencies held within water — a living library of cosmic wisdom. Water is the ancient mystery tha...

10/09/2025

'Music is the language of physics' communicating directly with your subconscious.
The underlying reason why meditative sound baths are so popular right now perhaps?

The Universal Language of Music

10/08/2025

07/07/2025

In Meditation Room every week, we practise mindfulness, starting by paying attention to our breathing and our body, but there are so many other ways to become fully present in the moment.

In my aqua-fit class, we pay attention to how our body moves in the water, the resistance the water gives when we angle our hands, the feeling of weightlessness as we change positions. In Tai Chi, we do the same, noticing the resistance of the air as we move, the bend of a knee, the stretch as we reach for the moon.

In fact mindfulness can occur any time when we come out of our heads and pay attention to the now.

So often we fail to notice how beautiful the trees are, the bright, shiny full-moon, the dog do-do on the pavement, because we are so wrapped up in thinking about something else. Something that’s not even here now. We worry about some possibility in the future, or something horrible that happened in the past, and then project that into the future! Our imaginations are very creative that way. If we do it often enough, we reinforce the neural pathways in the brain and synaptic connections in the body, and consequently re-set our systems to notice even more things likely to cause us distress. Of course, it works the other way too - you can re-train your body-mind for the better. So take some walks in nature, look up at the night sky, try a movement class, or come meditate with us.

We’ll be online tonight, Monday 7th July, at 7.30pm. Tomorrow, Tuesday 8th, we’ll be in person in Hilperton.

And if you can’t come to either, try a gong sound bath next week with me in Bradford on Avon, or take a deep breath or two, soften as you exhale and come down into your body and gaze at the full moon this Wednesday for a few minutes. You're worth it!