Meditation

When I learnt to meditate, the very first meditation class I ever attended offered almost no instruction or guidance whatsoever. We just sat down and the teacher said, “Ok, start meditating now”.

As an absolute beginner, I was utterly bewildered – I had no idea what to do!

So when I came up with the idea of Just Meditation, I wanted to develop a simple but effective way of facilitating a meditation session that would give someone who had never done it before enough to get started, but without boring all the people who already knew how to meditate.

That’s why Just Meditation is a distinctive approach to the learning and practice of meditation that is simple, accessible and inclusive.

SIMPLE because there’s no need to complicate things.
ACCESSIBLE because anyone can do it.
INCLUSIVE because there is no need to buy into any kind of belief system.

Read more about Just Meditation and how it all started here.

Just Meditation: The Book

The Newcastle Meditation Centre

Between 2016–2020, the Newcastle Meditation Centre, at the bottom of Westgate Road in Newcastle city centre, provided a safe, welcoming and ideologically neutral space – wholly dedicated to the learning and practice of mindfulness and meditation.

It was the first independent high street meditation centre in the UK, and it existed to make the benefits of meditation accessible, affordable and available to all. You can read the full story here.

During those four years, before the 2020 covid lockdown forced it to close, the Meditation Centre offered weekly drop-in sessions, as well as a wide range of courses and workshops on a variety of topics related to mindfulness and meditation, together with a number of other activities, including research seminars, discussion groups and social events.