18 August 2016 To my sweetheart Jeremy It’s exactly 3 weeks today since you left us – and with each passing day I miss you more and more. At present all the practicalities of your death are keeping me busy – first the funeral, then the clearing up of all your stuff – and boy you have a lot of More →
Around 2 years ago my partner Jeremy was diagnosed with cancer. It blew my world apart. Many of you will know that I was travelling around the country training Just Jhoom! Instructors at the time – spreading the Joys of Jhoom! After the diagnosis I realised that I didn’t want to travel as much – I needed (and wanted) to More →
Dance classes When you become a Bollywood Dance Teacher the obvious way to earn money is to start Bollywood dance classes. But that’s only half the story! I earn so much of my income doing a variety of other events, workshops and teaching gigs. Not only does this work out to be hugely lucrative, but it keeps things varied and More →
1) Firstly, because I love to dance… Since my first dance performance at the age of 3, I have loved dancing. When I was 18 I decided to put dance behind me and focus on a business career – and I was miserable. Circumstances in my late 20s (namely being hospitalised with clinical depression) brought me back to dance. Practising More →
As we digest what has happened here in the UK over the last few days – I despair at the results – and what it means for all of us over the next few years – in society, in our communities, in our economy and in our standing on the international stage from all sorts of aspects – humanitarian, conservation, More →
Some of you may have heard of the free programme Compassionate Me – that I created with a group of friends. The programme which was launched in March 2016 originally attracted 100 people to practise compassion and meditate everyday. Well, last week, I was invited to the Cranleigh C of E Primary School to introduce the programme to all the More →
When you first start practicing meditation you may feel a certain resistance to the practises or put up barriers to avoid committing the time to meditating. One of the ways I overcame this in the early days (and I still use it today) is to have a specific meditation space that I go to everyday. I light a candle and More →
Many of you have followed the whole cancer journey with me and Jeremy. And last week I learnt that a young man was running one mile for Race for Life – raising money for Cancer Research UK. This was as part of Park Mead’s fundraising efforts to raise £100 for the charity – in fact, as of this morning they More →