I left England at the beginning of December 2007. After a deeply difficult 3 years of dealing with my fathers illness and subsequent passing, a relationship and engagement breakdown, challenging living situation and precarious employment.
I had always meditated and been a spiritual seeker, but this severely difficult time, pushed me further and further into a surrendered space.
During the day, I would function in my professional work roles as a university lecturer and Speech and Language Therapist, and at night I would go home and sit for hours and hours in front of a photo of Mother Meera. I was lonely; something had profoundly changed in me and living amongst people who were not intersted in a spiritual world, I had no frame of reference or map for how my life would continue. Somehow I knew to stay in this severe pain and something would happen. Which it did.
One day things began changing with a deep knowing in myself that I needed to get my