Leigh Taylor has been running and organising holistic wellbeing and meditation retreats internationally since 2000 for meditation centres, corporate and particularly wellbeing retreats and sacred pilgrimage for women. Leigh spent 15 yrs in Asia doing extensive meditation retreats in the Himalayas, studying with great accomplished masters and simple humble yogis. Leigh is a seasoned meditation and mindfulness facilitator having facilitated, organised and guided retreats since 2000.

She loves being a Wellbeing and Life Coach (UK 2015) and more recently her focus has been on practical Trauma conscious methods using restorative yoga, breath techniques, somatic movement, mental health training and NLP methodology to enrich her offerings particularly for supportive healing to support overwhelm, chronic fatigue, burn-out and chronic illness.

“My aim is to help ease the habit of the stress consciousness and to provide more accessible methods that can be easily and effortlessly integrated into your everyday life. I believe this powerful combination in your personal wellness toolbox offers effective wellbeing habits to deeply soothe weary bodies and overwhelmed minds, creating a life of more alignment, balance, and inner harmony. These practices also serve to remind women of their own intuitive wisdom, loving-kindness and compassion, and reawakens the capacity to heal and nourish themselves and others. Anyone can benefit from these nourishing easeful practices for whole being well-being and serves to nourish ourselves and others.”

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Background & Experience

Leigh has been running and organising holistic wellbeing and meditation retreats internationally since 2000.  Particularly retreats for women and sacred pilgrimages to India. She spent 15 years, most of her adult life in India and Nepal, studying meditation and Asian philosophy.  She has undertaken extensive meditation retreats in the Himalayas, where she was fortunate to study with accomplished humble yogis, and cherishes meeting the Dalai Lama. She studied under the guidance of Ayang Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. She first visited Nepal and India in 1997, where she spent one year living in a simple wooden hut in the Himalayas studying meditation and doing personal retreat. She worked for many years in refugee centres and monasteries in India and Nepal,  including voluntary work to help organise global events for the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Mumbai, India and in South Africa. 

In South Africa she managed the retreats centre for a large international meditation organisation FGS for three years and co-organised the annual Peace and Light Festival.
Leigh co-ordinated the children's charity outreach programmes in underprivileged communities.
Leigh loves creating conducive and nourishing practice and retreat environments and was tasked with the interior design for the urban and country meditation retreat centres.
Leigh spent 6 months in intensive meditation retreat in the Ch'an (zen) meditation centre in South Africa under the guidance of Shifu Hui Re.

Leigh is a seasoned expat and has lived on 3 continents in 8 countries so understands the challenges expats face, especially as women, working in high pressure corporate environments navigating complex transition and change. 
In London she was a research assistant for a large oil company to co-ordinate planning for oil spill prevention and emergency response centres in Africa and Asia, which deepened her interest in protecting the environment and the impact of modern industry. In South Africa she worked for one of the largest medical health companies doing their graphic design, layout and print. She volunteered for many years for NGO's and non-profits doing print and publishing in India.
Leigh was an invited speaker for the international women's movement 'SheSpeaks' alongside Google in Amsterdam in mid 2018 ,where she guided mindfulness and yoga nidra restorative events for busy women in corporate careers, part of Balanced Life Design. She also facilitated wellness events for entrepreneurs at Escape the City (London) and Zoku Amsterdam for start-ups for staff wellness and Delite Labs for expats and Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Amsterdam.

She founded Red Lotus/Sustainable Human Being (2014/2019) and qualified in London (2015), as a certified Life Coach, and Mental Health First Aid support (2020). Her fields of expertise include Trauma Conscious and Restorative Yoga practices, Energy movement and Yoga Nidra Rest and mindful deep relaxation practices. These are based on traditional Sathipathana (four foundations of mindfulness and breath awareness) and Metta (loving-kindness meditation), Pranayama (vital breath) based on the authentic methods from India and Tibet. 

Leigh's passion lies in supporting women with holistic wellbeing and healing for chronic illness, chronic fatigue and burnout. And particularly for healers, carers, leaders and teachers. Leigh's heart lies in Humanitarian work and her most recent incentive is to support charitable projects during the Covid pandemic to overcome burnout and long-term illness. She frequently works with charitable organisations in India and Africa and supports Gender based violence groups and feeding schemes for children and the underprivileged in South Africa.
 

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