Mary Niker Mindfulness

Mary Niker Mindfulness Mary Niker is a member of the mindfulness association and qualified facilitator of the MBLC. Check this

Mary Niker is an International Iyengar Yoga teacher, Oncology massage therapist and mindfulness teacher. Mary is a member of the mindfulness association & has trained with the mindfulness association in mindfulness, compassion & is qualified as teacher of MBLC.

04/02/2026

‘There was a day when, in my sitting meditation, I said to my father, who had already passed away many years ago: “Father, we have succeeded.” I meant that we had succeeded in realizing the stopping and peace that is the fruit of meditation. While my father was alive, he was a civil servant and hardly ever had the time to practice sitting meditation and feel the joy of stopping. Now as I sat in meditation, I saw that as I meditated, my father was also meditating.

In meditation, you realize that your parents are in every cell of your body. When your parents die, they continue to live in you and in others. If you never knew your parents, you can learn to look deeply into your five skandhas in order to discover your parents there. Feelings, emotions, and ways of perceiving the world come from your upbringing, education, society, and friends, but there are also vestiges of the feelings, emotions, and perceptions of your parents. Mindfulness of your feelings and mind in daily life helps you recognize these traces.’

Thich Nhat Hanh - The Blooming of A Lotus

28/01/2026

You are a story the
ocean is telling
the sky

the stars speak your name
the moon sings
in your veins
the selkies who swim
through harbor and lagoon
remember you
with liquid eyes

come home
to the timeless tide
to the truth of you
hidden like witchlight
under your skin
come home to your
true story
the one hidden like
sunken treasure
beneath
who you think you are
and who the world
told you
you could be

daughter
mother
sister
wife
worker
healer
helper
friend

you are more than
the roles you play
for others
and the ones you try on
for yourself
you are more than
your fear
more than your
longing
circumstances
and pain

come away
from the harsh
dry land of limitation
move away
from the shoreline
of approval
the sharp rocks of fitting in
will only bruise your
luminous skin

lay down
all you think you know
abandon
that habit of smallness
relinquish
the sting of bigness
let what is unworthy
drift out from you

feel

allow the waves
of possibility
to cradle your
soul-drenched heart

float

on the current of ancestors
those who burned and bled
who gave all so you
could embody
what they could not
so that you could become

more

spread your arms wide
like hope
and your legs wild
like abandon
feel your spine loosen
with silk and
starlight

you belong to She who holds
the deep in her lap
She is not afraid of the dark

She is the dark

and you are
the pearl
she is crafting
from chaos and crisis
look at you shine
every bit of you
treasure
___________
poem by - my new book "Unmasking the Myths" AVAILABLE HERE: https://angisullins.com/shop-3-2/

this poem is also available as an original MUSIC MEDITATION on the W.I.T.C.H. album by angi and here: https://silastoball.bandcamp.com/album/witchlight

art by Michael Parkes

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25/01/2026

“I believe that education, and only education is the key which can open the dungeon of ignorance and allow our youth to share in the glory of a life lived joyously.” - MayaAngelou

Today, on International Day of Education, we celebrate education as a fundamental human right and a powerful pathway to peace, dignity, and possibility for every child and every community. With millions of young people still out of school worldwide, this day serves as both a reminder and a call to action: education must be inclusive, equitable, and accessible for all.

Dr. Maya Angelou understood this deeply. Her work reminds us that education is not just about information; it is about liberation, empathy, and the courage to rise.

In her iconic poem "Still I Rise," Dr. Angelou demonstrates how knowledge and self-understanding empower us to transcend adversity. And through her timeless guidance, “When you learn, teach. When you get, give,” she offers a blueprint for how education becomes a collective act of uplift and responsibility.

As we honor this global day, may we recommit to ensuring that every learner, regardless of background, geography, or circumstance, has the opportunity to rise, to imagine, and to shape a future worthy of their brilliance.

25/01/2026

“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity— to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.” ~ Edith Wharton, born on this day in 1862. 📖❄️✨

Art by Megan Lindsey 🎨🖌️

24/01/2026

WHY INTIMACY PATTERNS REPEAT — UNTIL THE SIGNAL CHANGES

Every moment of closeness is filtered through an internal forecast—shaped by early attachment, lived experience, and the body’s memory of safety or threat. What feels familiar is permitted entry. What is unfamiliar—even when nourishing—can register as danger.

This is why intimacy repeats itself in recognizable forms.

Neuroscience calls this predictive coding: the brain’s tendency to rely on what it already “knows” in order to conserve energy and preserve survival. Repeated expectations are treated as reliable. Over time, perception stabilizes around them—until belief quietly becomes reality.

If intimacy once overwhelmed the nervous system, closeness may feel destabilizing now.
If love required effort, vigilance, or self-abandonment, connection may feel costly.
If safety was inconsistent, the body remains alert—even in tenderness.

Most people are not relating from conscious choice.
They are relating from subconscious prediction.

Attachment patterns formed in moments of survival.
Nervous systems trained to anticipate rupture.
Identities shaped long before language could intervene.

Emotion strengthens these circuits.
What is felt deeply is wired deeply.

Thought becomes pathway.
Pathway becomes habit.
Habit becomes identity.
Identity becomes lived experience.

And yet—none of this is fixed.

A regulated nervous system perceives possibility.
A dysregulated one perceives threat.

When the body begins to feel safe—not intellectually, but somatically—perception softens. Protection relaxes. The future loosens its grip on the present. New experiences become available.

This is where intimacy becomes medicine.

Not through effort.
Not through analysis.
But through the gentle updating of the signal the body is sending.

When expectation shifts, perception reorganizes.
When perception reorganizes, choice returns.

Intimacy no longer feels like something to manage or endure.
Connection no longer requires performance.
Love becomes something the body can receive.

For couples, this is the return to meeting one another with curiosity instead of defense.
Presence instead of pattern.
Sensation instead of story.

Reality is not fixed.
It is negotiated moment by moment between expectation and lived sensation.

For over decades, through study and clinical practice in brain integration, nervous system regulation, and neural repatterning; I support individuals and couples in transforming the internal signals that shape how they relate and love.

This is subtle work.
And it changes everything.

When the signal shifts at the source, relationship reorganizes naturally.

A regulated nervous system perceives possibility.

Those ready to relate from presence instead of pattern begin by changing the signal at the core.

— © Elayne Le Monde
Art: Elayne Le Monde

Empower Wholeness Intimacy

18/01/2026

In the beginning of love, we’re often drawn to what feels alive in the other—their steadiness, their spark, their depth, their fire.
These qualities aren’t accidental.
They are signals.
Complementary notes seeking harmony.

In energetic terms, partners don’t only connect emotionally or mentally.
They complete circuits.

Certain traits we admire are not meant to be copied or consumed—they are meant to meet us. Together, they activate pathways that don’t exist alone. Chemistry. Resonance. That feeling of we become more ourselves together.

But this is where conscious partnership matters. Because in long-term relationship, proximity shapes us.

We become like the people we share our lives with—
not through effort or intention,
but through nervous system attunement.

Breathing patterns synchronize. Emotional ranges adapt. Conflict styles imprint. Over time, our sense of safety, creativity, and possibility is quietly influenced by the relational field we live inside. Every partnership is a shared ecosystem.

This is why the most nourishing relationships are not built on chemistry alone, but on awareness.

Two people learning to recognize what belongs to them individually
and what is being co-regulated together.

Two nervous systems choosing responsibility rather than reactivity.
Two beings willing to pause, orient, and listen beneath habit.

I’ve spent much of my life exploring this terrain—first personally, then professionally—seeking the kind of partnership that expands rather than entangles, that regulates rather than destabilizes.

That inquiry shaped the way I work with couples now.

Not by teaching communication strategies alone, but by helping partners feel how they influence one another beneath words—how tone, presence, pacing, and regulation create safety or fracture it.

Because the relationships that thrive long-term are not the ones that “complete” us.

They are the ones that amplify us.

They support growth without urgency.
They stabilize the nervous system rather than constantly activate it.
They invite coherence instead of compromise.

Divine union, in this sense, is not about merging identities.
It is about choosing proximity with someone who supports your becoming—
and being willing to offer the same.

When partnership is approached this way, love stops being something to manage
and becomes something that organizes the system toward wholeness.

And that changes not only the relationship—
but the lives built inside it.

©️Elayne Le Monde
Art: Elayne Le Monde
https://EmpowerWholeness.com/mentorships

Empower Wholeness Intimacy

17/01/2026

At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books: To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

15/01/2026

The Hare of the Hollow Moon 🌙🐇
She comes from the pause between breaths.
From the moon when it is neither growing nor fading, but hollow — a vessel of remembering.
The Hare of the Hollow Moon is one of the Five Great Elders of the Soulwood.
She is keeper of cycles, thresholds, and the soft power of return.
Not the rush of beginnings, but the moment before ,
when the unseen gathers its shape.
In old ways, hare is the messenger between worlds:
fleet-footed, watchful, carrying lunar memory in her bones.
Here she appears doubled — two faces, two directions — looking both forward and back, holding the spiral of time open.
Within her cloak live the symbols of the Hollow Gate:
the spiral of return,
the moon held as seed,
the path that curves rather than cuts.
She teaches listening.
She teaches when to leap — and when to wait.
She teaches that not all thresholds are crossed by force; some open only to stillness.

✨ The original wooden figure of the Hare of the Hollow Moon is now available,
created as a singular Soulwood Elder,
and will not be repeated in this form.
She comes with her full lore and teachings,
for those who feel called to walk with her.

This is the beginning of her path in the Soulwood.
Others will follow —
but she stands first at the gate.











15/01/2026

The highest intimacy we can find is neither touch or or**sm, it is comprehension.

There is nothing more intimate than to be understood as well as understanding one another and having our intellectual and imaginative faculties completely aligned and met. The most beautiful thing about a person is never in the what we can see, feel or otherwise sense with our bodies. But it is what we can sense with our minds and hearts.

To be so completely understood in the depth of our being like no other can offer. That is true intimacy. That is the basis for tremendous growth. We have to be able to dive deep together in consciousness for our intimacy to reach incredible heights.

Otherwise we will plateau in our partnerships and not keep rising. This is when one or both partners outsources their thoughts and feelings to a third party in order to have unmet needs met and this is when intimacy fails.

Seek not so much someone who entices the eye, but seek someone who entices the mind.
Who ignites your search for intellectual riches and go in search of someone who shows not only deep compassion, but also deep comprehension.

There is no greater intimacy than that of two people who can unravel mysteries together that nobody else could even comprehend with either of them.

This is when the spiritual heart feels fulfilled. She may be stunning and yes that is lovely,
but her beautiful mind is something I treasure more than a set of gorgeous eyes and a perfect body. A mind able and willing to travel beyond the frontiers of human consciousness as we expand past the firmament, now that is a whole other level of sexy.

- Ulf Haukenes
Art: Pinterest

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13/01/2026

Feeling a little flat this January? You’re not alone, studies show that mood and energy often dip in the weeks after the holidays.

But research from the Journal of Happiness Studies (2023) found that people who regularly volunteer report higher life satisfaction and emotional wellbeing, even when controlling for income and health.

At My Cancer My Choices, our volunteers often tell us the same: giving a few hours a month gives back tenfold in connection, perspective, and calm.

💚 If you’ve been looking for something meaningful to start your year, this is it.
Find out how: https://mycancermychoices.org/volunteer

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