John Ooi
meditation teacher / spiritual friend / realisation partner
hourly or over multi-week flows
Email me9 places available
Meditation teacher
A practice you can make your own.
Meditation can begin with a simple curiosity: what is happening?
We can explore what meditation is, why you might practise, and what you discover when you do. You don’t need to arrive with experience, a quiet mind, or even certainty that meditation is for you.
I offer simple instructions and help you work with what actually happens. Over time, we may find a practice that grounds you, deepens your understanding, and becomes something you can draw on in ordinary life.
Spiritual friend
Some things become clearer in company.
There is something different about having someone alongside you. Someone to speak openly with, practise with, and return to as things unfold.
You can bring questions of meaning and belonging, difficult feelings, unexpected joy, or something you haven’t yet found words for. We don’t need to make everything into a problem to solve.
I listen, share what I notice, and offer another perspective when it might help. You remain the authority on your experience. No particular belief is required, and uncertainty is welcome.
Realisation partner
Let what you discover change how you live.
Sometimes we understand something before we know how to live it. We recognise an old pattern, sense what matters, or glimpse a possibility, yet find ourselves returning to familiar ways.
We can stay with that gap together. Through conversation, attention and small experiments, we explore what your understanding asks of you in practice: a decision, a conversation, a different way of working, or permission to stop.
This might mean making a change. It might mean discovering that you don’t need to become someone else to meet what is here.
A note from me
I came to meditation when moving to London and starting medical school unsettled a sense of myself I had felt quite sure of. I was anxious, sometimes panicked, and unsure where I belonged. What began as a way to cope became a much wider inquiry into how to live.
That inquiry is still alive. It has taken me through teacher training, travel, leaving medicine, and the less dramatic learning that happens in everyday relationships.
I don’t offer a finished answer to being human. I offer what I’ve learnt, a willingness to pay attention, and a real interest in you. I value depth, but also humour, simplicity, and the possibility that we don’t always need to take ourselves quite so seriously.
If something here speaks to you, you’re welcome to write. You don’t need to have worked out exactly what you’re looking for.
