Recommendations


I just wanted to tell you how much I feel I have benefited from your teaching on the focusing retreat...I've come back home with a different & braver approach which is allowing me to ask for support where I need it and be a lot truer to myself. Your enthusiasm for what you do shines through and I feel privileged to have been taught by you - I think you are quite gifted. Thanks for the great intro to focusing.

Lindsey, Scotland



" I like focusing because it honours my sense of what is right, my pacing and my wisdom - it doesn't try to impose ideas or hurry me."

"I like focusing because it reflects my own intuitive sense that 'the answers' I'm looking for lie in my body and not in my mind and that life involves an on-going unfolding and discovery of who we are"

"I have really enjoyed Manjudeva's worshops. The always seem very relaxed and unhurried but by the end I have really gone places and learnt loads. I have a sense that he deeply understands and honours what focussing is about and is able to communicate it in a very sensitive and clear way"

Joy McKeith - Consultant



I really enjoyed the workshop and found it very useful. I work as a counsellor /psychotherapist and would be very much into this therapeutic tool as an intervention. I found the workshop personally challenging and found the group work really good, the dynamics within the groups that I was in were really good. I really enjoyed the amount of time we were given for the practical work. Your handouts and explanations were very easily understood.

From Dave Murrey, Dublin



I love focusing because it is simple, short and sociable.  It works in a precise way with everything in us that is imprecise.  It considers the small, vague and half-formed parts of ourselves as important as the louder, clearer, more certain parts.

A teacher of mine once told me that great art is two things: inevitable and surprising.  For me, focusing is a little like that.  We already know how to do it, we already have all the tools, nevertheless there is so much to discover.  It's tempting to say that focusing is like many other healing practices, yet it isn't really.  In my view, it sits somewhere between meditation and therapy.  But with focusing, even though it was invented by a therapist, you don't need to pay one to do it.  You can practise it on your own, or with a friend.  And it's sometimes easier than meditation because it works directly with all those indirect, niggling feelings and thoughts we try to acknowledge and struggle to 'put aside' in order to get on with meditating.

Manjudeva once said that whereas meditation is like meeting a friend on the street, saying hello and moving on, focusing is more like stopping to have a chat.  Manjudeva certainly makes it easy to have that chat.  His approach to teaching focusing is passionate yet unobtrusive.  He meets you as an equal and fosters an environment where you might finally, quietly, discover your potential

Sinead Rushe - Actress/performer, London


It was indeed a wonderful lessons that you gave I felt you have a very warm and human approach when you try to give us the insight on Focusing our innermost self and into our disturbing emotions. I enjoyed it and learned a lot and I hope you will come again soon.

Vera Bettencourt - publicist and entrepeneur. Portugal



The focusing workshop I attended came at a perfect time for me.

I was struggling with a dilemma but had been unable to gain enough clarity about what the essence of my struggle was. Whilst taking part in a focusing session with a colleague I threw away my usual incredibly complex way of
thinking through every minute detail and became involved in the process of really listening to myself.

I spend a lot of time in my head, at the moment, and the real power of this experience for me was the way in which focusing brought about the re-connection of my thoughts and feelings. This realignment 'lit up' the essence of my dilemma and helped me to begin to explore ways forward

Annette Quinn



Manjudeva's enthusiasm for focusing is contagious. His workshops have certainly helped me broaden my understanding of my meditation practise and connection to the wisdom of the Body. A very refreshing way to look at our experience and delve into the corners where the dust and cobwebs have settled.

Jayaka, London