Journal

Sometimes all we need is an excuse to start something new. For me, and perhaps you too, the start of a new year is the perfect occasion to get on top of the change we want to see happen in our lives. So I initiated a 21 day challenge, with 15 minutes each day to offer you a taste of the many different forms of mindfulness and compassion meditations. Curious why I chose to make it 21 days? Read on for that story.

December and the end of the year sparks a flurry of activity, starting with new courses, so that curious beginners can start off January with their new mindfulness and Lovingkindness practices.

Knowing what to look out for to help you find the right meditation practice. Plus, some resources.

Who we find to guide us when we navigate life, whether on rough or still waters, is often what makes the journey. Teaching is a big responsibility, and great teachers are people who give us the space to develop the tools we need for a life well lived. Here, I list my favourites in hope that they too can become resources to support you.

Anne pays homage to the wonderful teacher Sally Kempton.

Updates on courses, a new guided meditation for settling the body and an invitation to join me and my friend Diana Rilov for her Tuscan retreat in June.

I’m excited to be partnering with my friend, the fabulous marketer turned naturopathic nutritionist Neil Bridgeman, for what we dubbed the Food & Thought Program.  After a few conversations, before and after I interviewed Neil for the podcast just over a year ago, we have come to realise that combining our talents to link coaching, mindfulness…

By pausing and exploring the choices we have, the smallest actions we take can be the seeds of the change we want to see.

An ah-ha moment, and making a conscious choice, allows Anne to re-align with her dreams to make them a reality.

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How have you been? Around here, the last few weeks have been hard — practising my daily meditation was nearly impossible for days on end because of an epic chest infection that I am still getting over, four weeks on.   Stillness feels like a dream of the past (oh, the dream). I sit upright on…

Many people—the shy and introverted among us, especially—don’t like to find themselves as the subject of a camera’s focus. Anne, more comfortable behind the scenes (like many PR’s), chose to stay there for as long as possible. A nice and cosy spot where she wasn’t risking any over exposure.

How have you been? Me, I love June. I didn’t love the crazy heatwave we’ve just experienced but I can’t get enough of the light blue sky in front of my eyes, as I type this email to you.  I have some exciting announcements to share with you and, of course, new podcasts and guided…

If you are anything like me, there are plenty of habits that you’d like to change, some you’d like to give up, and others, like meditation, that you would really enjoy developing.
But it’s hard to fit it into our lives. And sometimes it’s hard to just do it!
Yet when we are fully present with our minds, we gain stability and clarity, we find more resilience — doesn’t that sound worth developing?

For a life well lived, we need both wings.
A wise mind alone doesn’t serve us if we don’t know how to live. Why we need to cultivate insights through mindfulness practice, the first wing, alongside the second wing of loving kindness and compassion.

Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of leading a guided meditation on Loving Kindness. Before starting to draw the outline of the talk and meditation, I thought to myself: if I could sum it up in a couple of words, what is the most important thing that I can convey about Loving Kindness?  

It’s time to clear a few things. I don’t mean to clear things up, rather, in my case, I suffer from a light seasonal disorder that I like to call Winter Cleaning. Essentially, it is the cold weather equivalent of the Spring clean that most of you may be familiar with.

The word itself never really spoke to me. Whether or not you are a mindfulness meditation practitioner, here’s a refresher as to some of the many reasons why the ancestral teachings are here not to make us good at meditation, but to make us better at life.

Many teachers have inspired me to explore mindfulness, meditation and yoga. Here are some of my favorites people, books and articles, now for you to discover and enjoy.

A conversation with my shoulders? It might sound strange but that’s exactly what I needed to do to release tension and discover a stronger connection with my body-mind.

Pushing too hard, I struggle with finding balance, making room for the right things in my life.

Be a pirate, get the gold and run! Actually a great piece of advice, when the gold is to find our true voice, our artistic and personal destiny.