RETIRED DESIGN ENGINEER

Brian is a retired professional design engineer living in Cambridgeshire. He has been married for thirty five years, and has one daughter. He has been practising meditation since 1985 and is convinced that it has changed the direction of his life for the better. He has been teaching meditation for decades and loves to see other people enjoying it as well.

RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER

Felicity was a primary school teacher for over 30 years and has now retired. She has been a practising meditator since the age of 22 , over 40 years. She is a mother of 5 children including twins, a lover of children’s books , gardening, music, being creative artistically and of supporting children and adults alike to lead peaceful, more joyful, balanced lives.

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Adam works as a clinical psychologist and has been meditating since the mid nineties. In his working life he has seen just how important mental wellbeing and a person’s internal world is. Meditation is perhaps the oldest known way of connecting to, and improving, our inner world and self.

Adam also fell in love with Indian Classical Music many years ago and was struck by its ability to deepen the experience of meditation. He has been studying sitar for the past 20 years and is currently a student of Ustad Irshad Khan.

Adam is married with three grown up sons. He works and lives in Devon.

INDEPENDENT TEACHER AND WRITER

With professional studies in journalism and art, Nelly worked in Mexico as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, television, and research for many years.

She is now a Spanish teacher and spends a lot of her time writing children's stories and poetry.

Nelly discovered meditation in 2002. Since then, it has become an essential part of her everyday life.

Meditation transformed her life. With regular practice, she describes being able to feel recharged, with a positive outlook on things, keeping balanced and resilient. She often shares meditation with her students, and for over 10 years she has run a weekly group in her community. A community that has embraced it openly and shares their positive experiences with others.

Nelly is an avid supporter of children's wellbeing and mental health. She loves music, traveling, and drinking tea!

Nelly lives in Wiltshire with her small family and Pedro the cat.

ACTOR

Tim is an award-winning British actor, singer, narrator and audiobook producer, who has practiced and taught meditation all over the world for over thirty years. He has appeared in The King’s Man, The Crown, X Company, and narrated over two hundred audiobooks in multiple genres. As well as appearing in various operas (Don Giovanni, La Boheme, Die Fledermaus) and West End musicals (Blood Brothers), Tim studied Indian classical vocal music and musical therapy, first with Dr Arun Apte at the PK Salve Academy of Arts in Vaitarna (India), and later with the legendary Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra.

As a writer, Tim’s stage play William Blake’s Divine Humanity formed the centrepiece of the 250th Anniversary William Blake Festival in London’s West End and was nominated for the Meyer-Whitworth award.

CHILDCARE SOCIAL WORKER

Lucy has been meditating and experiencing the benefits for the past 24 years. She has a background in fashion design and social work. Lucy worked as a trainee buyer for the Arcadia group before retraining as a children’s and family social worker. She is passionate about children's welfare and wellbeing, and for the last 10 years has been running mediation workshops for children and young people. Lucy is the mother of three children, has lived abroad and loves to travel and experience different cultures and people and explore the natural world.

RETIRED TEACHER/JOURANLIST

Grazyna was born in Poland where she worked as a teacher and journalist. Grazyna married and moved to the UK where she settled and raised a family. She is the mother of two grown up sons. She has been meditating for the past 42 years and is passionate about how it has helped her in life. She strongly believes meditation can benefit society and promote understanding between people and nations, by creating peace within and in the world. She has been teaching meditation for many decades to adults and children with great results.

PAINTER/ILLUSTRATOR

Julia is from Ukraine and has a masters degree in Construction and Architecture and has also completed Music school.

When she graduated from University, she began work in the architectural field.

After she married Julia moved to various different countries and her love of project drawing transformed into a more artistic way of expressing herself, through painting. In 2016 she received her painter’s certificate.

All her family members have been meditating for more than 13 years. Meditation gives her a peaceful, joyful and balanced state. Music also plays an important role in meditation, and all of her family play an instrument.

COUNSELLOR

Antoinette currently works as an Accredited Counsellor. She is currently semi-retired. She is a mother of 5 children and has been meditating since 1978.

Antoinette formerly worked as a teacher and educator for 20 years. For the last 12 years, she has been working primarily with people who have been affected by addiction.

Antoinette is passionate about painting, restoring balance and wellbeing. She also has a great interest in history and current affairs and in genuine spirituality.

FLOWER DESIGNER

Rosemary’s experience with meditation has been nothing short of a miracle in her life. She suffered severe early childhood trauma when she lost her beloved Dad and until her late thirties believed she would always be handicapped by feelings of intense anxiety, low confidence and a debilitating sense of abandonment. Her introduction to meditation in 1982 marked the beginning of her new journey into the reality of the heart - where there are no thoughts and where inner balance, inner peace and inner joy bring the mind to harmony and confident self-esteem.

She is a professional freelance flower designer and after retiring from an exciting career, that has taken her to many memorable venues in the UK and abroad, she now shares all her techniques and professional skills with wonderful students who come along to the Rosemary Hume Flower School. She finds that showing others how to handle exquisite natural plant materials with full attention in the present moment gives them a sense of peace, wellbeing and creative self-confidence and this is the ‘hidden agenda’ of her work. She was honoured to win the ‘Edinburgh Flower School of the Year 2020’. Rosemary is blessed with nine grandchildren and a most loving, supportive family