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18/03/2026

A lovely tradition. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a day of silence in the world 🤫

01/02/2026

Make the most of tonight’s full moon. It's called the snow moon and for some of us that may be true!
Stay warm and enjoy.

27/01/2026

How lovely 🥰

After his older brother died, Patrick Bringley slowed his life right down, spending hours in stillness as an art gallery guard...

"I didn't want to just rush back to some office job where I was, you know, clickety-clack, back on the pace of everyday living," Patrick says of the time after his brother's death.

He'd been working on the prestigious New Yorker magazine. But what he really wanted was an "honest, straightforward job."

The job he found, at the age of 25, was to be a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

During that time, he came to understand the value of stillness.

Patrick's brother died from a soft tissue sarcoma, a type of cancer. And while his brother was ill, Patrick became used to a kind of stillness.

"The stillness in hospital rooms is rather profound," he says. "I mean, there was quite a lot of just sitting by the bedside of someone who is suffering and who is dying. And in my brother's case, someone who was doing so with incredible bravery and grace."

A few weeks after his brother died at the age of 28, Patrick and his mother went on a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There, they found a similar kind of stillness amongst the paintings of love and suffering.

Patrick remembers his mother stopping in front of a painting of The Pietà - Christ's mother Mary holding her dead son in her arms - and breaking down.

A few weeks later, Patrick applied to work at New York's Met. The job involved so many hours of standing that it came with an allowance for socks - and a new pair of shoes every year.

Patrick spent ten years quietly communing with the art, or helping visitors if they needed it. In that time, he counted 8,496 painted human figures.

"You don't have any emails to write, you don't have things to do... [you just need to] be a human being, your full self... present in this moment," he says.

Patrick also found family and companionship amongst the other museum guards. Most were much older than him, and came from all over the world and all walks of life.

"I was treated as a peer," he says. "And I learned from them and I made friends with them. And I sort of, you know, gained my footing as a full-blown adult."

But what helped him above all, was the art.

"Every culture from every age has been dealing with this same sort of poignance and fragility of human existence," he says.

By spending so much time with art from all over the world, Patrick has gained a new perspective on life - and slowly come to terms with the grief of losing his brother.

"You realise that your life is not just mundane. Your life is filled with mysteries - the biggest being the mystery of this existence, in this crazy universe, on this planet teeming with life," he says.

🎧 Hear more on Outlook: https://bbc.in/45y8mXf

18/01/2026

The first new Moon of 2026 arrives in Capricorn on Sunday, January 18 at 12:32 pm PT, offering us a powerful blueprint for the entire year ahead. This is your opportunity to establish the routines, rituals, and rhythms that will become the foundation of everything you create this year—and there is much to create.

Click the link in comments to learn more ⬇️

31/12/2025

It doesn't matter whether you occasionally pick up a dumbbell or adhere to a strict weightlifting routine.

16/12/2025

So very true

The past is already gone. It cannot touch you, hurt you, or change you anymore. The future has not arrived. It has no form, no certainty, no power of its own. Yet the mind keeps traveling back and forth between these two illusions and calls it suffering.

Memory replays what was.
Imagination invents what might be.
And the present moment is left unattended.

This is how pain turns into prolonged suffering.

In Buddhism, this is a central insight: suffering does not come from life itself, but from the mind’s attachment to thoughts. When you relive the past, you reopen old wounds. When you worry about the future, you create pain that has not yet happened.

The body is here.
The breath is here.
Life is happening now.

Peace begins the moment you return to the present. Not by forcing thoughts away, but by gently seeing them for what they are — memories and projections, not reality.

You don’t need to fix yesterday.
You don’t need to control tomorrow.
You only need to be here, now.

Freedom is not found by changing your past or predicting your future.
It is found by waking up to the present moment — the only place where life actually exists.

12/10/2025

07/10/2025

Happy full moon 🌝

A quick guide to the 2025 Harvest Moon, a supermoon, rising on 6/7 October, and why you should see it in the night sky.

14/08/2025

Would you benefit from a daily yoga practice in your life?

BWY tutor Tori Lang has written a guide to creating a regular practice for this month’s Yoga Magazine. She suggests that you start simply...

‘Set a daily alarm – stop and get on the mat. Be on the mat for one minute every day for at least a week. There is no ‘practice’ other than being on the mat every day. Sit, stand or lie down, for a minimum of one minute. If you happen to stay longer, that’s a bonus, not an expectation.’

You can read the full article in our newsroom or subscribe to Yoga Magazine using your 75% BWY members discount code.
Yoga WithTori
https://www.bwy.org.uk/about-bwy/news-room/

13/08/2025

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09/08/2025

Look up!

Do you feel the effects of a full moon?

Tune inwards to notice any differences in yourself today while August’s full moon is present. And don't forget to look up!