ABOUT SHIREEN

Yes, I was just another stressed out west Londoner. Busy-ness and exhaustion was my badge of honour. I was infatuated with agitation. As a journalist, novelist and mother of three, I saw life as an uphill battle to be won. Littered with lists, relentless self-criticism and unfavourable comparison.

Until I read Professor Mark Williams book about Mindfulness. Everything he explained was obvious, but had failed to see it without Mindfulness practice.

I immediately gained a decisive, calm, spacious joy and so much extra time that dramatically changed the quality of my daily life.
After meditating for many years, finally, I took the plunge and went to study at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Oxford University.
I went on to teacher training with the internationally-acclaimed Mindfulness teachers Martin Alyward and Mark Coleman at the Mindfulness Training Institute.

I am a certified teacher with the Mindfulness Training Institute and accredited to International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

Once you can bring yourself back to being present, conscious and aware of your moment by moment experience, you can so easily navigate the inevitable difficulties, ups and downs that is the stuff of all of our lives.
You have no fear, no anxiety, because you have the ease of knowing you can meet all your experience without resorting to knee-jerk habits and reactions that inevitably hinder rather than help you.

Once you see clearly what is going on in your daily life, you can respond wisely, simply and freely without the narratives and stories we tell ourselves and others to try and make sense of ourselves and our experience.
I really hope that I will have the opportunity to share this simple, yet life changing practice with you.

Shireen Jilla