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Hi I’m Bindi!

I’m a meditation guide, life coach, poet, healer and I listen deeply to my soul’s journey. Welcome to my blog posts on my learning through this thing called life!

Love, Bx

Living Diwali through the year

Living Diwali through the year

'Make friends with your mind' is a concept which I gained from the Bhagavad-Gita, a text I started learning during my Ayurveda studies. Making friends with your mind, means knowing the mind, being aware of yourself when you can see that things are turning adverse....

Your Luminous Self

Loves.... I led a beautiful, soul-filled online program a few years back called Heal Thyself - it was full of wonderful meditations, conversations and the intention to move through with life, and healing business offerings, despite the challenges which we were...

An Identity Crisis All Round…

IDENTITY is always complex, nuanced within the black and brown culture. African Americans not knowing the exact country in Africa of their ancestors. British Asian children not learning the language of their ancestors due to assimilation into the country, or other...

My Writing Journey

My Writing Journey

Last year was all about writing for me. I started the year working on my life-coaching and meditation book. The dark months over the winter were ideal to do this and after a traumatic few years, it was a healing time. Then in April 2018, my writing opened up to...

Self-Care

Self-Care

Self-care...self-care...self-care... How much do you do? And how much do you actually need? I think we could all do with getting more self-care. This video gives you some more information on self-care and also a self-care meditation which you can do....

Why Meditate?

Do you meditate? Why do we meditate? In this video I explore the benefits of a regular, consistent meditation practice and start you on your journey to your own home practice with a simple meditation. https://youtu.be/zQOydGPYDos Let me know your thoughts on the video...

Stay in your own lane

Stay in your own lane

Are you familiar with the phrase 'stay in your own lane?' I heard this for the first time a few months ago and it really resonated with me. I was on an online call and one of the participants said she keeps reminding herself to 'stay in my own lane' as she was...

Root more… Centre more…

Root more… Centre more…

Last November saw me beginning my daily yoga routine with the Tree Pose. This happened very naturally, completely without me thinking about it. My usual practice was to start with Sun Salutations, but one day I went into the Tree Pose and felt myself ground and...