Beneath the Noise
A monthly meditation and mindfulness evening in Richmond.
For peace and presence in the chaos of everyday life.
Most of us aren't overstimulated so much as undernourished —
Living a full life that somehow doesn't quite feed us, present in body but somewhere else entirely in the mind.
The overthinking won't switch off. You're rehearsing tomorrow while today goes past unlived, and there's a quiet sense that something's missing, with no clear idea what.
Here's something that doesn't get said often enough:
You're not broken, and you don't need fixing. What's happened is simpler and less dramatic than that — the signal has been drowned out by the static.
Underneath all the mental noise there's a steadiness, a clarity, an aliveness that you've almost certainly felt but can't quite get back to on demand. It hasn't gone anywhere. You've just lost the reliable way back to it.
That's what this evening is for.
Not a lecture, not an hour of being told to focus on your breath, not anything that asks you to become someone you're not.
Ninety minutes of practical tools and conversation with honest questions, in a room full of great people. You'll leave with something you can actually use on the way home.
Come along and we'll look at:
Why the overthinking won't switch off — and why trying to manage it never quite works, and what does
How to meet whatever the day throws at you from somewhere steadier than your racing mind
How to find your way back to the aliveness that's been there all along, underneath the static
July was sold out, so book your place now for Monday 10th August
When?
Next date is Monday 10th August 7-8.30pm
Where?
At Physio42’s Pear Tree Studio, 40 Newbiggin, Richmond, DL10 4DT
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Pear Tree Studio is just along Newbiggin from the corner of Cravengate and Newbiggin down the alleyway next to Pear Tree Cottage
Price?
£10 per seat.
Bring?
Just your good self, an open mind, and all your questions.
Questions now?
Let me have them! Contact me here.
Can’t make this one?
Click here for some free guided audios and to get on the list for future dates
Future Dates for 2026:
(all Monday at 7-8.30pm) 10th August, 14th September, 12th October, 16th November
Who is Arjuna?
Arjuna Ishaya has been a monk and meditation teacher since 2003 — but he first saw what he teaches long before that, as an outdoor instructor in New Zealand. Watching people freeze at the top of a rapid — stopped not by the water but by the voice in their own head.
Most of us never face a rapid. But that same voice runs quietly all day, pulling us out of a full life and leaving it feeling strangely empty — and learning to drop beneath it is where everything he teaches begins.
He's the author of two books and lives in Richmond with his family, out kayaking or running in the mountains whenever he can.