Not bad for a simple age-old meditation technique.
"I don't always have a lot of interaction with other Buddhists outside my practice," said Ari Goldfield, a 42-year-old meditation teacher from San Francisco who follows Tibetan Buddhism and attended with his wife.
But a keynote address was delivered by a Third Metric expert: Andy Puddicombe, a forty-two-year-old British meditation teacher.
It's a nice change from old-fashioned meditation, which she has tried, and respects, but... "This isn't so complacent that it gets boring.
Based on centuries-old Buddhist meditation practices and breathing exercises, it is prescribed to thousands of patients on the NHS each year to help prevent anxiety, depression and stress.
"I came to meet younger people, who you don't always come across," said Anuska Fernandopulle, a 41-year-old vipassana meditation teacher from San Francisco.
Mindfulness is a way of organizing your thinking based on age-old Buddhist meditation practices-and has been used to treat anxiety, stress, depression, chronic pain, and sleep disorders.
Interestingly, Headspace's users are almost split equally between men and women (respectively 45percent and 555 percent) and touches very broad age groups — the company's youngest users are 4- or 5-year-old children learning meditation with their parents, and the oldest user is 92 years old.
Her individual spirit infuses the whole of the New Inn Brilley – you can't miss the Stupa draped in prayer flags near the shower hut, and there's an old barn turned meditation space, where you can arrange to have guided sessions.
Hoepfner, too, saw the potential to create worlds in his home, and inspired by the immersive theater format of Sleep No More, transcendental meditation, old computer games, and the human psyche, he converted the house into a surreal theater experience called Houseworld.
