Meditation teaching
John has taught meditation since 2022. It started during COVID, guiding sittings for friends, and led him to train: the two-year certification with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and later David Nichtern’s teacher training at Dharma Moon. His teaching draws on both.
He is drawn most to instructions that are simple, and has taught people from very different backgrounds — often people who want to change how they show up, in their relationships and in their life.
“John’s words are clear, lucid, and deeply supportive.”Manansh S, founder and UX researcher
Spiritual friendship
Spiritual friendship is a relationship. It means wanting the best for you, and being someone who can stay alongside you in your own exploration without needing to direct it, know the outcome, or decide what is best for you.
What John knows of it, he knows from the other side. Teachers and mentors supported him along a path that was his rather than theirs, and that is what he offers in turn.
He has made a fair number of turns himself: leaving medical school, travelling alone in several countries, wild camping, starting a business and a podcast, moving countries.
“John brings a friendly, quiet confidence. I feel like I’m learning that just by spending time with him and will carry it forward with me.”JT, product designer
Realisation partnership
As John sees it, realisation has two sides. One is interior. Something comes clear in your own experience — an insight — and in time it can settle into wisdom, and then into how you actually live. That last part, the living of it, is the realisation.
The other is worldly. Part of your work here may be something only you can offer. A realisation partnership can help you get clear about what that is, and move precisely into bringing it into being.
“The concept of engaging with the world intentionally has changed my life. A frame of mind that’s neither better nor worse, just real.”Sean P, founder and industrial designer
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. I came for relief, and found a much larger question.
That inquiry is still alive. It has taken me through teacher training, travel, leaving medicine, and the quieter lessons that come from living alongside other people.
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 reach out. You don’t need to have worked out exactly what you’re looking for.
You’re welcome to if what you’ve read here makes you want to explore working together. You’re just as welcome to .
Now and then there’s room to work with someone who can’t meet the reduced rate. You can explore working with me on a dāna basis.
John