During COVID Lock-down Mick’s yoga students insisted that the classes continued on-line. Here is an un-edited recording from January 2021.

Roll out your mat and join in at home.

Join Mick as he introduces some of the core seminal ancient yoga texts. After awhile you may want to deepen your yoga practice through further study and reading (Jnana Yoga) of the Yoga Sutras (Raja Yoga - the yoga of perception) and the Bhagavad Gita (Karma Yoga - the yoga of action).

Ever wondered what makes your yoga teacher so good? Mick shares 8 top mindsets that will underpin a caring, inclusive and inspirational yoga class for everyone.

Mick talks about talks about his unique 8-part class structure designed to follow the yoga path inwards and outwards.

This is great for budding yoga teachers on how to compose and manage an effective yoga class, but also for all yogis who are developing their own regular home practice.

Mick introduces effortless-effort, or actionless-action - one of the key principles of meditation. This is an aspect of regular practice which enables one to take part and be a collaborator in their own lives and the flow of the world around them.

Watch the original promotional video which was created in Manchester when Mick founded beanddo.

Meditation doesn’t end here. It continues in how you live and act.

This is about action… where attention, awareness, and attitude come together. From here, action becomes clearer and more aligned. Less reaction. More response.

In A Modern Way to Meditate, this is where practice becomes something you live, moment by moment.

How you meet your experience shapes everything.

This meditation explores attitude… the quality of mind you bring to each moment. Judgement and resistance can soften into curiosity and kindness. It’s a subtle shift, but a powerful one.

In A Modern Way to Meditate, changing your attitude opens the way to greater ease, resilience, and clarity.

If attention places the mind, awareness opens the space around it.

Here, we move beyond focus… into noticing thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they arise. Awareness is already here. It simply needs recognising. As this grows, there is more space and ease.

In A Modern Way to Meditate, this is where practice deepens into a more spacious way of being.

This meditation begins with attention… learning to place the mind with intention.

Instead of being pulled outward, we gently choose where attention rests, returning again and again. Nothing to force. Just notice, and come back. This is where meditation begins.

It’s also the first step in A Modern Way to Meditate, where attention becomes the foundation for clarity and change.

Discover four key practices to maximise the power of meditation so you can take conscious control of your mind and redesign your life from the inside out.

Using a unique visual approach, yoga and meditation coach, artist, architect, teacher, and author Michael Timpson invites you to shift your perspective, open your mind and empower the authentic YOU. Whoever, wherever, and whatever you do, you can be free to Be different and Do differently in the world.

Discover your hidden artist

Enjoy this short moment of pure flow from one of Mick’s Art of Flow workshops. You dont need to be an accomplished artist to take part. Using Modern Meditation based techniques participants explore process over product, the moment over future output and discover how to tap into deep creative flow.

Mick delivers a live in-class yoga nidra. Roll out your yoga mat, close your eyes, breathe though the nose and relax. If you are having trouble sleeping at night play this guided nidra while you are in bed and let it guide you into a deep refreshing sleep.

Mick introduces how creativity can be enhanced through simple meditation techniques. There are three aspects to the creativity process - Intention, Action and a middle space which we can call conscious awareness, the space through which creativity as a force flows. The key is to join all three aspects together into an undivided flowing wholeness. Meditation is key to switching on and utilizing this wholeness, so that everything we do can be a meditation.

Mick introduces how different yoga and meditation practices impact on the brain. With an emphasis on how neuroplasticity Mick creates a simple diagram showing how the brain rewires through yoga techniques upgrading and enhancing conscious awareness and wellbeing.