Yep, it's pretty crazy out there right now!
As I’ve landed back home in the UK, it’s taking time to find my rhythm again. My soft, warm animal body is making many adjustments – to...
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deborahberrymanyog
- Sep 12
- 3 min
Sharing vs Enjoying experience
Well, hello! How the angel are you? Gosh it’s been a while eh? Time feels like a moving slip wind through my hands lately. As I’m coming...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jul 6
- 1 min
Great teachers are everywhere!
Ask me who my most important teachers are, hands down – it’s Trees! They’re so darn audacious and unapologetic; a tree just wants to be a...
deborahberrymanyog
- Apr 6
- 4 min
It’s time for Soul-battical!
“Travel brings power and love back into your life” – Rumi I find myself here…..again, about to disrupt my life in a major way. I seem to...
deborahberrymanyog
- Feb 23
- 1 min
It's the simple things...
A simple walk to feel more connected and more alive. And lord knows, I (we) need to feel this!
deborahberrymanyog
- Dec 1, 2022
- 1 min
Wintering
All life needs, rest and incubation. All of life needs time below the surface - where it can breathe itself full and round, where it can...
deborahberrymanyog
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
Listening is where the love begins
I’ll admit, I have been and can still be, a terrible listener! “My name’s Deborah, and I’m a terrible listener”. There, I’ve said it....
deborahberrymanyog
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
Deepening Practice....what does that even mean?
My first-time meditating was in the 90s. A dear friend told me it was similar to tripping, which appealed to my oh-so hedonistic...
deborahberrymanyog
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Finding your new rhythm
I spend most mornings outside on my deck. The early hours are precious to me – time to connect with life and myself, away from the things...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Unplug your SELF
I usually take a retreat every year, but like for so many of us, it hadn’t happened for over 2 years and I could feel it in my bones....
deborahberrymanyog
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Why I'm calling Bullshit on the midlife 'crisis'
I’ve been reflecting on transitions A LOT over the past few of years. Those of you who come to my classes, retreats and trainings will...
deborahberrymanyog
- Apr 28, 2022
- 2 min
Everything Happens. Period.
Here's a radical statement......I DON'T buy into the idea that ‘everything happens for a reason’. I know, right?! It's almost blasphemy...
deborahberrymanyog
- Feb 5, 2022
- 3 min
Why Mindfulness Meditation NOW?
Meditation has been a refuge for me for a long time now, especially in the past few years with my mum dying, going through a divorce that...
deborahberrymanyog
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas Presence
"The best things in life aren't things," as Art Buchwald famously said. Connection and shared experiences, the love and laughter of those...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
When Life Gives you Lemons
Last week in class we reflected on what we’ve learned about ourselves during this past year. While 2020 was a M.F'ing whopper in terms of...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jan 5, 2021
- 3 min
So Long 2020….. you’ve been one hell of a Teacher!
This year has been hard for all of us. I’m all for embracing uncertainty and impermanence, but jeeez, 2020 you really took the biscuit...
deborahberrymanyog
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
We're all recovering from something
If I’ve learned anything over the past two decades of my own recovery – it is this. We are all recovering from something. Or many...
deborahberrymanyog
- Mar 3, 2017
- 3 min
Dear Life, MY MUM is DYING…
A few weeks ago, my Mum was rushed into a Hospice. The cancer she’d been bravely fighting for the past 7 years seemed to be finally...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jan 19, 2017
- 2 min
THERE’s A LOT that’s Right!
It's easy to look around and see all of the things that are wrong in the world and even in ourselves. Biologically we’re wired to pay...
deborahberrymanyog
- Jan 2, 2017
- 3 min
GOODBYE 2017….It’s a wrap!
It’s true to say that on balance, I’ll be glad to say goodbye to 2017. This past year has been a difficult one - for me personally and my...
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