This is a picture of me, in the early days of my love affair with football. 'The beautiful game'. It could also be so cruel. I remember standing next to my dad at Maine Road football stadium in Manchester, as thousands of men sang to the referee...
Reflections
A Love Letter For You
Peeping Through The Stained Glass: a story about optimism versus realism
So last night in Manchester I was headed to my Five Rhythms class and was really looking forward to it. (For those who don’t know, Five Rhythms is a dance movement practice designed by a brilliant therapist called Gabrielle Roth in the 1970s.)...
Immunise Yourself from The Capitalist Mind-Virus
My Dear Friend, When the world is telling you you aren’t enough. When you have lost touch with a sense of the sacred. When your relationships have become means to an end. When the logic of utility and efficiency have sidled into even the most...
Fall In Love With Your True Self
The myth of Narcissus is at least 2000 years old. Human beings have always had a tendency to fall in love with their own reflection. Snoop Dogg said “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the top dogg of them all.” I’ve noticed a lot of people...
Your Body Is Your Guru
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe” - Rumi Your body is amazing. Not the six-pack or thigh-gap type of amazing. Across millions of years of evolution and through billions of tiny...
Wildfires: a review of 2020
Thank you for being here now. Below I will share some of the best books, podcasts and songs I discovered and enjoyed on repeat in 2020. But first, would you join me for a moment of reflection? Let’s cast our minds back to January 2020. Do you...
Growing Through the Cracks
We grow through the cracks. The ground opens beneath us. In beauty we rise. Have you noticed how nature finds a way? Flowers rise through concrete, trees grow from ruins, and a family of foxes have taken nest under my shed. When the human...
Treat Your Body As Your Beloved
Recently, I've been going deeper into the practice of relating to my somatic experience as it arises. Somatic experience is simply what you feel in your body without describing it in words. Everyone is capable of doing this. We were born...
Lost Souls Swimming in a Fish Bowl
By the time you have finished reading this sentence, your attention may already have started to wander, according to the latest statistics on attention-deficit. The average attention-span in 2013 was just 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000,...