Alma
About

Practising, not performing, stillness

I hold day retreats, one-to-one coaching sessions, and sound healing practice for people who are carrying a lot and need a proper place to put it down, even briefly.

This work isn't theoretical for me. Mindfulness has carried me through my own personal challenges and through the daily reality of parenting — it's a practice I return to, not one I've mastered and now teach from a distance. I'm a mum myself: I've raised one son who is now a wonderful man, and I also parent a child with additional needs, so I know first-hand the particular trials and tribulations of being a single working mother. That lived experience sits underneath everything I teach.

I moved to Spain at eighteen and lived there for years, and that time shaped how I see the world: fluent in Spanish, and with a real love for different cultures and the many ways people find meaning and calm.

My path into this work started with an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing, and continued through formal MBSR and MBCT teaching training. What I offer isn't about escaping your life — it's about learning to meet it with a steadier breath.

MSc, Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing — University College Cork
MBSR / MBCT Teaching Qualification
Level 1 Certified, The Sound Healing Academy
Practising Mindfulness Practitioner
Alma on graduation day, throwing her cap in the air at University College Cork
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Two traditions, one practice

Modern mindfulness draws on two distinct lineages: the contemplative insight of Buddhist practice, refined over thousands of years, and the evidence base of Western psychology, which has spent the last half-century testing and adapting those practices for clinical and everyday use. What's taught today sits at the meeting point of both — ancient in its roots, current in its application.

Mindfulness is often described as paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and without judgment — the definition Jon Kabat-Zinn gave the practice when he brought it into modern medicine through MBSR.

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Founder, MBSR

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning