On the Cushion: The Mindfulness Educators Podcast

Ali Lambie founded Mindfulness Hampshire in 2011 while studying for a master’s degree in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses at Bangor University. A long-time counsellor, Ali was then working in the NHS as Manager of Southampton’s Primary Care Counselling Service. Ali first began teaching mindfulness to people who had received counselling through the service and wanted to use mindfulness as longer-...

Michael Chaskalson has been a pioneer in applying mindfulness to leadership and workplace contexts. Based in Cambridge, UK, he has fifty years of personal meditation practice and has spent decades helping to bring contemplative practices into mainstream society and corporate boardrooms. Michael is the founder of Mindfulness Works, a Professor of Practice (adjunct) at Hult Ashridge Executive Educat...

Ted Meissner has been a meditator since the early 90’s, is a UMass Center for Mindfulness Certified MBSR Teacher, and is the host of the podcast Present Moment: Mindfulness Practice and Science and the new video podcast Mindfulness Voyage. He has presented about mindfulness to various groups including Apple, UnitedHealth, Optum, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the National Black Nu...

Margaret Fletcher has a great love and concern for our shared Earth. Margaret is the originator of the MBSR & EcoAwareness Project, bringing MBI teachers together to invite life on Earth into the span of embodied practice and into our teaching, all in love, care and service for our precious planet.  Margaret trained and was certified to teach MBSR through the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Me...

Three friends, Joe Glancy, Liz McEvoy and Andrew Carton together make up The Little Company of Calm. Based in Sunderland, UK, they offer mindfulness courses, activities, and retreats for the public and organisations. As a community interest, not for profit company, they endeavour to provide affordable and high quality mindfulness provision for their local area.  In this episode, we dive into their...

Andy Wistreich has been teaching Buddhist meditation and leading retreats around the world for the past 45 years, within the Tibetan tradition.  He has been encouraged to teach by his own teachers, who are mostly Tibetan lamas. In his mid-seventies he lives in Somerset, UK, with his wife Shan Tate, with whom he often co-leads courses and retreats.  Trained as a Further Education teacher, and havin...

Suryacitta Smith  has been practising meditation since 1989 and teaching since 1997. He is the author of five books on meditation and happiness. After many years of practising and teaching mindfulness, he recognised that it did not fully address the root of human psychological suffering - the central concern of the Buddha’s teaching. Around a decade ago, Suryacitta was drawn to the understanding o...

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 reg...

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, pr...

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...