Meditation teaching
John’s meditation practice began with panic and anxiety. Following the breath helped him find steadiness. Over time, he began meeting panic directly as sensations in the body, without getting so caught in its stories. His teaching grows from this: becoming friends with your experience, with kindness, honesty, and curiosity.
He began guiding meditations for friends during COVID and went on to complete the two-year teacher training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, followed by David Nichtern’s training at Dharma Moon. He is drawn to simple instructions, direct experience, and the possibility of beginning again.
“John’s words are clear, lucid, and deeply supportive.”Manansh S, founder and UX researcher
Spiritual friendship
John brings the care and patience of friendship to your time together. There is no rush to work things out. There is space to meet what is present, feel what wants to be felt, and let more become known. Where he senses it would be helpful, he offers words that support, encourage, or gently nudge.
Teachers and mentors supported John along a path that was his own, and he offers that companionship in turn. He has made a fair number of turns himself: leaving medicine, travelling alone, starting a business and a podcast, and 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
John works alongside you as you bring an understanding into your life, or a creative idea into the world. Together, you explore what is moving you, befriend the fears and doubts that arise, and listen for what they are protecting. The direction can become clearer as you go.
There is room for challenge and joy, for attempts that fail and outcomes that take time to reveal themselves. John offers support in meeting all of this with kindness: recognising your own basic goodness, allowing it creative expression, and enjoying what comes to fruition without needing success to make you lovable.
“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
Hey, thank you for visiting this page. You might be curious about me, in which case you can read more about me here. Or you may be looking for something to help you move through the wild experience of being alive.
My offer here is quite simple: space to be. Often life feels so full, fast, confusing, and busy that we don’t give ourselves space to be. Even when we find that space, we may find it difficult to rest or relax. Parts of our life can resurface as unfinished business—memories from the past, worries about the future.
It can be difficult to meet these things alone. I know this from personal experience, and so I’ve made it part of my life’s work to offer space, time, and energy to those who are wondering about, or struggling with, this wild and precious life.
If you’d like to explore working together, you’re welcome to book a free twenty-minute call or a full session. You don’t need to have worked out exactly what you’re looking for.
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