About Manjudeva (Peter Gill)

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I came across Focusing on a retreat in 2003, and since then I have not looked back. It has made a huge difference to my life. For me it is much more than a therapeutic tool, it connects to a whole approach to living. Focusing has helped me to contact and live from what I deeply feel and value, it has begun to clarify and resolve deeper tangles and has helped me to develop a deep empathy and acceptance within myself and towards others. Life feels richer knowing focusing. I am finding that the body has much to teach me, and I love teaching this to others.

I became a Focusing teacher in 2005 and am fully qualified with the British Focusing Teachers Association (BFTA) and the Focusing Institute in New York to teach Focusing to individuals and groups. I have trained with Ann Weiser Cornell in "Inner Relationship Focusing" in the USA and Peter Afford in the UK. Previous to this training, I spent 12 years practicing and teaching awareness and meditation skills to groups and individuals.

I am also near to completing the training in a related practice called Somatic Experiencing (SE), a short term, body based approach to healing and easing the effects of trauma on our lives.

I live in Wood Street in East London with my wife and baby son Albie. My name is a Buddhist name, given to me in 1999. I am often called Manju for short.