This is a transcript of an interview with Authority Magazine - Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we start, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory? Thank you for the opportunity to share with you. I was born in Scotland and lived there until I was 11. I had a very secure upbringing which helped me navigate the challenges I faced moving to England with more ease than may have been the case if

Meditation can bring up a lot of fear. What is it that people are afraid of? Thoughts? Reactions to thoughts? The inability to sit still? Not having enough time to meditate? Probably a combination of all of these. When we spend all of our life trying to avoid the noise in our heads its hard to sit still and shut it out. Through Vipassana I have learnt that sitting still with curiosity and purpose, it is possible to find peace within and not be afraid. Learning to look at our

I get asked all the time about whether meditation is something to consider doing. For me, I would say yes. However it depends on you and what you want to achieve from it. Have you tried to bring meditation into your life? What happened? Usually meditation can be seen as a dogma, as something that has to be fitted into an already busy life. Most of us are generally busy and wonder we will find time to do fit in meditation as well. Have you experienced this as well? Pre Vipassa

There is so much written about meditation and still so much unknown. Perhaps people are trying to understand something that they need to experience…You can read as much as like, but you never really know what it is until you do it yourself. There is a lot of fear around meditation. From what I have learned from my students, most of them are afraid to be alone with their thoughts, since they spend most of their time trying to avoid them by filling any spare time with meaningl