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:...
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Bridgeen
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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...
Bridgeen
- Oct 24, 2018
- 2 min
Become Unstuck! Say it, Sweat it, Get it!
I have a question for you. Do you ever feel stuck? Like there are so many things you want to try and do and see, but when it comes down...
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