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So having completed this retreat and having been able to keep my practice going on my return to England my advice would be, chuck the anti-depressants away, stop rushing around trying to distract yourself with ever finer distractions, breathe, meditate and bring your attention to the heart again and again until it fills you up. You may be surprised!

NAMASTE.

Nick P.

This dramatic spiritual transformation opened “a whole new dimension…in the experience of being alive” for our client, changing his attitude towards life and “wanting things straightforward, nothing concealed, a higher integrity as if the heart could not stand anything not quite right not straight and authentic.” Although an atheist, Nick suddenly found something more—“something out and beyond my small self, something altogether larger and more powerful than myself, to whom the only right attitude seemed to be praise. This has given my life a new sense of direction in this respect and it is a joyful thing.”

This experience motivated him after going back home to dive deep into studying yoga and especially Patanjali’s Sutras. A few years later, Nick wrote to me: