Connect With The Universe
Reveal Your True Self

Join me on a journey connecting your inner and outer universe to uncover the wonder and awe of being in every moment.

As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher, I offer a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage you to find a deep connection with the cosmos.

Although you’ll spend time with the stars, my approach is down-to-earth and straightforward and will help you develop life-affirming experiences.

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Books

This pocket-sized book explores how knowledge of the workings of the universe can deepen our levels of awareness and connect us to our internal worlds.

This lovingly-written book will take you on a fascinating journey through space, time, our mind, and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Stars presents 20 unique pin-hole constellation map cards for helping families and stargazers find the shapes in the night’s sky, along with a companion book exploring the significance of these stellar patterns.

Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People

This is a unique guide to coping with challenging people using practical Zen and mindfulness tools. It helps you find how these people are your best teachers in life.

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★ Guided stargazing meditation (audio recording)
★ Guided mindfulness meditations (body scan, awareness of the breath)

“We are deeply connected to everything in this vast Universe of ours. In fact, we’re not just connected: we are this Universe. Nothing is separate. No one and no thing.”The Mindful Universe

What i offer

Mindful Stargazing

Learn about mindful stargazing and its benefits.
Find out more about my books.

Yoga

Practise yoga with me.
Learn to teach yoga & develop your teaching skills.

Mindfulness

De-stress and slow down.
Learn mindfulness with me.

Zen

Learn Zen meditation, listen to my talks.
Find your true nature.

Mindful Stargazing

Mindfully looking up

When was the last time you looked up at the night sky with your whole attention, with wonder and curiosity – like a child might?

Mindful stargazing helps us feel calmer, more connected and at home. It has nothing to do with star maps, coordinates or science facts. It is the pure, immersive experience of looking up at the night sky with inquisitiveness and wonder.

You can even do it at home – from your own back garden, or even out of the window. To find out more about how to stargaze mindfully, click here.

When we look at the night sky with wide-eyed curiosity and wonder, instead of the stars seeming cold, distant or irrelevant to our life here on Earth, we feel more in touch with the cosmos. We might start to feel awed and amazed! Rather than just feeling like we’re observing from a distance, we may even start to feel part of our great cosmos. And when that happens, we realise the night sky is just part of our home, here on Earth.

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When we start to observe things mindfully, just as they are, we start to find the secrets of the Universe revealing themselves before our eyesThe Mindful Universe

Rekindle a deep curiosity about the stars and universe

If you enjoy walking in the woods, watching birds on your bird-feeder or listening to the waves crashing on the beach, then you’ll love mindful stargazing.

Mindful stargazing is great for:

  • Anyone who’s gazed at the night sky with wonder – like any activity done with mindfulness, stargazing can help you slow down, de-stress, connect with your surroundings, feel more aware and alive, and help you (re)discover a childlike curiosity about the world around us.
  • Mindfulness practitioners who would like to apply their mindfulness practice to the activity of stargazing.
  • Amateur (and professional) astronomers – looking upwards with refreshed openness and presence can rekindle a deep sense of wonder and awe that might’ve got lost in amongst all the coordinates and starcharts.
  • Parents – mindful stargazing can be a great fun experience to do with your children. You don’t need any specialist knowledge of the night sky – just look up and share the wonder.

“When we gaze up at the stars we are sharing that view with all our ancestors… There is no other view in our human experience that we can share with so many others back and forward through time.”Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

Yoga

“The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit.”Rumi

When we examine our inner universe – including our body and how we move in life – many of us find restrictions, stiffness and tension. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

I teach Zen Yoga. The 17th Century Japanese Zen master Hakuin, famously said that “Buddhas are like water and ordinary people are like ice”. In my classes, you’ll find out how we can melt the frozen or stuck parts of ourselves so we can become more like a fountain – alive and full of vitality!

Zen Yoga is based on a Zen Buddhist philosophy. It emphasises awareness, physical alignment, and the flow of energy in the body (through the acupuncture meridian lines).

When you come to my Zen Yoga classes, you’ll learn how to re-balance and re-connect the body and mind in order to find stillness in movement.

Mark yoga reverse prayer posture

Mindfulness

Learn Mindfulness

Mindfulness means bringing 100% awareness to what’s happening in this moment. It also means not judging what you find to be good or bad, nice or ugly, better or worse – or wishing it were different.

All of us can be mindful now and then, but just because we can doesn’t mean we’re mindful very often, or do it voluntarily.

Learning mindfulness will helps you to focus on the present moment – anywhere and anytime. It will help you to de-stress, slow down, and connect with what’s around you (be that nature, your kids, or a work colleague). It will teach you how to be okay with that present, so you can act with awareness, rather than on impulse.

Mindfulness is about finding the vibrancy of every moment. It also offers you the opportunity to deeply explore the reality of life and how things really are.

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Zen

I’ve been studying Rinzai Zen since 2007 with Julian Daizan Skinner Roshi, founder of the Zenways sangha. In 2016, I became a junior-level dharma teacher.