Podcasts
Welcome to my podcasts! I created these podcasts to explore the many ways mindfulness is taught, practiced, and lived.
On the Cushion: The Mindfulness Educators Podcast focuses on the art of teaching mindfulness - how educators guide others and hold space with authenticity and care.
Inside Mindfulness takes a wider view, exploring how awareness and compassion shape everyday life through conversations with people from all walks of life. Together, they offer a space for reflection, dialogue, and inspiration, inviting you to deepen your connection with mindfulness, both on and off the cushion.
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On the Cushion: The Mindfulness Educators Podcast
Join me as I sit down with meditation and mindfulness teachers from around the world to explore how they teach, guide, and hold space for others. Each episode dives into the pedagogy behind the practice, unpacking teaching methods, challenges, inspirations, and the evolving landscape of mindfulness education. Between interviews, I’ll share short episodes introducing key educational concepts, theories, and philosophies designed to deepen your understanding and enrich your own practice or teaching. Whether you’re a fellow teacher or a curious practitioner, this podcast offers rich insights into the art of this important discipline.
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Inside Mindfulness
Join me as I explore the many ways mindfulness is cultivated, practiced, and lived in everyday life. I speak with people from all walks of life - healers, creatives, entrepreneurs and academics - who bring awareness and compassion into their work, relationships, and the wider world.
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On the Cushion Episode 1: Clive Holmes
Based in South West Scotland, Clive Holmes has over 25 years’ experience teaching meditation at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and international Samye Dzong centres. He has completed a year-long intensive retreat, studied with teachers across Asia and Europe, and holds a degree in Western Philosophy. Clive co-edited Taming the Tiger and Restoring the Balance by Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche and holds an honorary Teaching Fellowship at Aberdeen University’s School of Education. In this podcast we explore his inspiring approach to teaching mindfulness.
Listen here.
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Inside Mindfulness Episode 1
This podcast is in construction.
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On the Cushion Episode 2: Bill Paterson
Bill Paterson is a long-standing member of the Mindfulness Association, having begun his journey in 2011 and completed the Mindfulness-Based Living Course teacher training in 2017. Over the years, he has undertaken extensive study in mindfulness, compassion, insight, supervision, and person-centred approaches, and has taught the MBLC to more than 60 diverse groups across Scotland in the public, private, and third sectors.
In 2017, Bill developed a Fife-wide mindfulness-in-schools project - later adopted by Fife Education and supported by Fife CAMHS - and in 2019 played a key role in launching Mindful Nation Scotland at the Scottish Parliament. He now integrates his mindfulness and compassion training into his counselling work, offering walk-and-talk therapy in natural settings. Bill has also published research exploring how mindfulness and compassion training influence men’s perceptions of masculinity.
In this episode, I talk with Bill about his lived experience of mindfulness, and how it shapes both his teaching and his therapeutic work in the world.
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Inside Mindfulness Episode 1
This podcast is in construction.
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On the Cushion Episode 3: Karen Atkinson
As founder and CEO of MindfulnessUK, Karen Atkinson leads its growth and development while pioneering innovative initiatives. Author of Compassionate Mindful Inquiry in Therapeutic Practice (2020), she previously chaired the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) and remains an active member.
MindfulnessUK is a BAMBA and EAMBA-affiliated training organisation, with courses regulated by the CPD Standards Office. Karen, an Honorary Lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast, began her mindfulness journey in her 20’s as a way of managing the suffering experienced as a result of insidious trauma throughout her childhood.
A yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga, she deepened her self-compassion practice during cancer recovery in 2013 and, when diagnosed with her second primary cancer in 2023, responded with deep self-kindness and equilibrium. These experiences empassion Karen to deliver trauma-informed teaching and training globally and she has become an acknowledged specialist in her field.
She enjoys gardening, sea swimming, and cycling on her electric bike, Bluebell.
In this episode I talk with Karen about how she came to mindfulness and how her background influences her facilitation of mindfulness.
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Inside Mindfulness Episode 1
This podcast is in construction.