Portfolio Category: Insight Meditation

The Enneagram Personality Types help us understand our deep, specific personality patterns, which we often, mistakenly think of as 'normal', 'universal' or 'unique', making us special, one-off individuals. Used for hundreds of years by Sufi spiritual teachers to help disciples understand themselves, this formerly secret system is now public knowledge and is being correlated with…

The major Chinese "internal" martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan), Baguazhang and Xingyiquan are all based on Yin-yang principles. They share sophisticated, circling body mechanics and energetics (Qi gong) which build up internal and external strength in the practitioner, leading to extremely effective martial skills. Our mind-body self-defence course draws on the strong points…

"You are the result of what you think," the Buddha observed 2500 years ago. Today, psychology, physics, medicine and other fields of study are beginning to recognize the many, specific ways (see Research) in which our thoughts and emotions shape and impact our lives - stress, health, relationships and environment.You cannot know what is truly…

Qigong (Chi Kung) is a mind-body branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which offers a wide range of benefits that modern Research is steadily verifying. Qigong consists of the Three Regulations of Body, Energy (Qi) and Mind, which form a complete system that in China historically included Martial, Medical and Spiritual applications. 'Self-regulation' Qigong, which…