Mick Timpson
Founder and CEO
Sue Manley
Managing Director
Anna Kravec
Modern Meditation Trainer
Mick is founder and CEO of beanddo. He has designed the beanddo programmes and leads many of the courses. An award-winning architect, artist and yoga teacher, Mick is also the founder of The YogaLife Project, a popular social enterprise based in Chorlton that teaches yoga, meditation and delivers teacher training to future yoga teachers.
As an architect, Mick has worked on projects all over the world from Mexico City to Manchester, and his professional design work is deeply informed by his own yoga meditation as an architect and artist, and his knowledge of the contemporary cutting edge research being carried out into the use of mindfulness in a wide variety of contexts.
Mick has given many talks on yoga and architecture. He has also taught many yoga and architecture students how to practice creativity. The origin of beanddo can be traced back to when Mick realised that he had been talking about the same thing to each audience – how creativity and happiness are linked and fully experienced when Being and Doing merge.
Mick is a ‘Happiness Architect’, in that all his work, whether designing a new community or leading a yoga class, is about helping others access their inner resources for happiness.
Sue brings many years of professional experience to her role as beanddo’s Managing Director. After starting her career as an architect, she gained a range of experience in major practices and Local Authorities. Her yoga journey has been one initially as an observer for many years as Mick's partner, before becoming a regular participant.
Sue has also been managing a number of design businesses and initiatives for over 25 years and she now provides strategic business planning and day-to- day project management at beanddo.
Anna has been involved with the beanddo initiative from its early days and has helped to develop our Make Happy Work modern meditation programmes.
Anna started her journey of self-discovery in Thailand with the World Peace Initiative, a pioneering organisation that uses meditation to promote happiness and wellbeing. Since then she has been involved in a number of meditation and self-development programmes delivered across Europe and Asia.
Laura Bain
Modern Meditation Trainer
Sarah Baines
Modern Meditation Trainer
Sarah Clover
Modern Meditation Trainer
Laura has been passionate about yoga for over a decade, experiencing first hand the powerful effects yoga and meditation can have on the mind and body. She teaches Vinyasa and Yin Yoga and is a graduate of the beanddo modern meditation teacher training programme. She wholeheartedly believes that meditation is for everyone and could make everyone’s lives happier.
Sarah is curator of engineering at a museum. She is into inner engineering too. She encountered beanddo early 2017, and found the modern approach to meditation engaging and uplifting. Within the year she was trained as one of our beanddo trainers. Eclectic in her interests, Sarah has also studied Art History, Philosophy, Hinduism and Buddhism, and she is slightly obsessed with the way science fiction explores the human condition.
Sarah is a wife, mum to two amazing boys and a Yoga teacher based in Cheshire. Sarah started practising yoga in 2001 and is a Yoga Alliance 200 hour trained teacher. As a Birthlight trained teacher, Sarah loves to share the joy of yoga with all ages from 6 weeks to 80+. Sarah is delighted to have completed the beanddo modern meditation teacher training and to be part of this wonderful team.
Katy Ratican
Freelance Content Writer
Sam Travis
Business Development Manager
Katy is a freelance copywriter, specialising in online content and blogging. With over a decade of professional writing experience, Katy has crafted copy for websites spanning a host of industries. Her quest to live in the moment and no longer sweat the small stuff led her to beanddo, where she is now responsible for the company’s blog and social media.
Sam joined the beanddo team in 2017 and brings with her extensive management experience across retail, property, media and charitable industries. With a wealth of transferable commercial skills, Sam is on-hand to develop beanddo’s relationship with businesses. Through daily meditation, Sam has found a new sense of wellbeing and awareness that she can tap into in any situation.
beanddo by definition
[be-and-do] verb.
being and doing. A purposeful merging of the science of effortless being with the art of spontaneous doing as a way to promote deeper awareness, wellbeing intuition and creativity.
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