Mini Meditations.

Why meditating is part of my creative process.

A lot of good things happen in meditation.
Emotions get processed, feelings get felt, epiphanies arrive, ideas appear out of nowhere, and best of all, there’s often a sense of insight and clarity.

As a creative ideas person with a thirst for information and an entrepreneurial mind, I’ve found meditation to be incredibly supportive. It creates space, gives my intuition room, and lets my creativity flow.

So, I’ve created a series of foundational Mini Meditations for you, simple, grounding practices you can drop into anytime, anywhere.

Each one offers a gentle glimpse into the inner workings of your subconscious, the place beneath the surface where clarity actually lives.

These sessions will be released on the SIT STUDIO podcast and are a prelude to the 21-day RESET series coming in January.

You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple, and other major platforms.
Just hit Follow to be notified of each new practice — like a memo reminding you to check in with yourself.

Where my meditation story begins

The image above is the Sanctuary at the Findhorn Foundation, being built — the place where I first experienced meditation at age eleven.

My auntie had gone on retreat to this beautiful eco-community in the north of Scotland. My dad, my cousins, and I went to visit her, and it felt utterly magical. The community spirit was lived-in and bone-deep.

My favourite spot (predictably) was the gift shop, where I bought a deck of Angel cards I still own today… but then there was the Sanctuary.

It was my first encounter with what you might call formal meditation. The instructions were simple:

Go in.
Sit down.
Close your eyes.
Be quiet.
Meditate.

Alright then. No problem.

So in we went, my cousins and I.

The air smelled of sandalwood. The space felt like a cross between a church and a library — a place where silence wasn’t empty but full of something working quietly in the background.

After a few minutes of “this meditation stuff”, we dissolved into giggles and ran outside, leaving the adults to it.

Gone but not forgotten.

Returning to the practice

Years later, meditation returned to me with a different kind of clarity.

I learned with Buddhist monks.
I trained with the Mindfulness Association.
I explored somatic meditation, yoga nidra, in studios across london and visualisation during my psychotherapy foundation at the CCPE.
I studied Transcendental Meditation — loved the practice, less so the army-camp teaching style. Life isn’t a strict timetable your mind must obey. It’s a flow.

One moment I’ll always remember: a fellow student whispering to me how stressed she was about fitting in her twice-daily twenty-minute sessions. And I just sat there thinking, isn’t that ironic — in full Alanis Morissette voice.

Stressed. About. Meditating.

Eventually, I found myself back at a Buddhist centre, learning from a teacher who was also a psychotherapist. Watching him weave Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems into a weekend of meditation helped me find the confidence to teach in my own way rather than simply repeat what had been passed down.

Meditation became a thread running through everything.

And even though thousands of meditations exist online — apps, recordings, untrained teachers everywhere — people kept telling me the same thing:

“Your voice is so calming.”
“You simplify the practice in such a lovely way.”
“Your meditations feel like a loving balm.”
“I don’t usually like meditation, but the way you teach is different.”

And when different people tell you the same thing again and again, eventually you think… maybe try it,

So I did.

Introducing Mini Meditations.

Simplified practices designed for real life.

Each one is short.
Each one is grounding.
Each one is a way back to yourself.

Insight Talks
Short teachings that shift perspective and anchor clarity.

Mini Meditations
Somatic drops into stillness that settle the nervous system and soften mental noise.

Visualisations
Guided journeys for intuition, motivation, and self-belief.

The Mini Meditations (Foundation Series) podcast will be released later this week and emailed straight to your inbox!

Let’s sit.

Esme