A mindful approach to COVID-19. My top tips for dealing with the Global Pandemic as featured on the
If your feel fearful, anxious or panicky at this time of a global pandemic – just know this means you are totally normal and human. It’s...
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Bridgeen
Mar 25, 20203 min read
Using mindfulness during coronavirus: Northern Ireland expert’s tips on lowering anxiety
This was the headline of the Belfast Telegraph I featured in on 16 March 2020. Here is the full article as published on their website:...
Bridgeen
Mar 18, 20202 min read
What’s happening to my classes during the Coronavirus shutdown?
Due to the Coronavirus Crisis the Namaste centre where I teach my ‘in person’ classes has closed, I will now offer my weekly class online...
Bridgeen
Jan 9, 20201 min read
My 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion Course
Find out more about my 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion course in this short video x #mindfulness #mindfulselfcompassion #8weekcourse
Bridgeen
Jan 7, 20201 min read
What is MBSR and why you should study it with me
In this video I tell you a little bit about the 8-week MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) and MBCT (mindfulness based cognitive...
Bridgeen
Jan 1, 20201 min read
How to practice the 3-step mindful self-compassion break (video)
Tonight sitting in my meditation room I decided to make a video for you all on how to do a ‘self-compassion break’. This short, kind...
Bridgeen
Dec 30, 20191 min read
Early 2020 retreats
Admiring the Waterfall in Glenariff 30 December 2020 I’d a wonderful day in Glenariff today and it reminded me to remind you that your...
Bridgeen
Dec 7, 20191 min read
How to do chocolate meditation (video)
If you come to either my Christmas workshop or charity christmas night I will be offering Chocolate meditation. If you can’t make it you...
Bridgeen
Nov 22, 20192 min read
The tale of the lengths gone to, to get a new bell ‘inviter’ 🔔
So my ‘big bell’ one of many I use in my mindfulness teaching practice went on a long journey from a Buddhist monastery in Asia to be...
Bridgeen
Oct 13, 20192 min read
Happy continuation dear Thay 🙏❤️
The 11 October was my teacher Thich Nhat Hanh’s 93rd birthday. We say ‘happy continuation’ as Thay teaches there is no birth and no death...
Bridgeen
Oct 1, 20192 min read
List of NI based counsellors
Mindfulness training is therapeutic NOT therapy but sometimes the message gets confused. And sometimes it’s not easy to know where to go...
Bridgeen
Sep 26, 20191 min read
Train with me this winter
Come train with me this Winter! ❄️ There are so many options out there now to learn meditation 🧘🏻♀️🧘🏼♂️ I can offer you tried and...
Bridgeen
Sep 12, 20192 min read
Do not die just because of one emotion
The 10 September was World Suicide Prevention day (when this was posted on my Instagram and Facebook ). In 2017 over 6000 people in the...
Bridgeen
Aug 20, 20193 min read
The Good News
They don’t publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every moment, and we need you to read it....
Bridgeen
Aug 6, 20192 min read
We’re all porcupines Interbeing
How wonderful is this tale of our interconnectedness… It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The...
Bridgeen
Mar 5, 20195 min read
So you wanna be mindfulness teacher?
THE most common request I get on email is ‘I’m really inspired/interested in mindfulness can you tell me how I can teach it?’ Or ‘my...
Bridgeen
Mar 4, 20191 min read
YouTube interview on mindfulness and self-compassion
Feeling proud to be part of this interview series by awesome local company Profile Tree and very grateful it’s all in B&W 🤩Here is the...
Bridgeen
Mar 3, 20191 min read
Valentines ‘v’ real love
I know that now really it’s a manufactured ‘hallmark day’ designed to boost retail sales and we shouldn’t distill love into one day and...
Bridgeen
Dec 10, 20183 min read
4 steps to make sending Christmas cards a mindfulness practice
Mindfulness is always mindfulness of something. Mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful eating, mindful washing the dishes… In fact...
Bridgeen
Nov 27, 20183 min read
How to practice hugging mediation
There are many different types of meditation, one I don’t teach very often but which I really love to practice is called ‘hugging...
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