{"id":210,"date":"2019-04-01T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2020-09-05T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:34:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/?page_id=210","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been practicing meditation for over 30 years and over the past ten years have been teaching and facilitating secular, non-religious mindfulness classes including the 8-week MBSR Course (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) within a Buddhist temple in London called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jamyang.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamyang<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B-936x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" width=\"206\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B-936x1024.jpeg 936w, https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B-274x300.jpeg 274w, https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B-768x840.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B-1200x1313.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/577F16AE-5E6A-4F0C-8780-F84F38D4488B.jpeg 1233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been meditating and using Mindfulness practices as an integral part of my own life for some time. My introduction into Mindfulness as a form of meditation began in 1994 when I underwent a month of practice and training in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watrampoeng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wat Ram Poeng Monastery in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/a>, receiving the same training that potential monks would receive before being initiated into monkhood. Being very passionate for human rights and charitable work and with passions for the arts, I preferred to return to my life where I then qualified as a lawyer\/Barrister and worked in a number of fields ranging from aboriginal land rights,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">migrant, refugee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tenaganita.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">gender rights<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mac.org.my\/\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Welfare<\/a>\u00a0to name but a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These services were provided through educational institutions, Legal Firms and&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;such as the UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency), Amnesty International, World Animal Protection and other NGOs. I am also extremely passionate about food and the arts, using my Mindfulness Practice to explore and enjoy these passions more than ever before. Having lived and worked in these different sectors, I began seeing how mindfulness could transform the lives of the people working within these sectors and the clients they served. I then received teaching qualifications in Mindfulness from Bangor University in Wales and receive continuing regular supervision from lecturers affiliated with Bangor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please subscribe to my podcasts and YouTube channel if you find them helpful. Also, feel free to drop me an email on <em><strong>vinod@mindfulness.zone <\/strong><\/em>at anytime if you would like mindful solutions to particular problems or for any of the guided meditation sessions to address some particular need that you may be facing. I believe that meditation and mindfulness do offer us answers to almost every obstacle that we face in our daily lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<a href=\"#_msoanchor_1\">[VR1]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been practicing meditation for over 30 years and over the past ten years have been teaching and facilitating secular, non-religious mindfulness classes including the 8-week MBSR Course (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) within a Buddhist temple in London called Jamyang. I have been meditating and using Mindfulness practices as an integral part of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/?page_id=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}