Zeenat Cameron

I have studied and practiced extensively for around twenty-five years in the Buddhist, Taoist, Yogic, and Tantric wisdom traditions. This has included travelling in India and spending time in ashrams in India and elsewhere. In particular I now practices on the Kaula Path, a branch of Kashmiri-Shaivism, under the guidance of my teacher Ma Parvathi Nanda Nath Saraswati, lineage holder of several Tantric traditions of yoga and meditation. In this tradition, from North India, we work with yoga, visualisation, energy work, the use of sound in the form of mantra, inner enquiry, and in particular with meditation.

I qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1991, and worked as a psychotherapist, both privately and in the NHS, for seventeen years, being trained in various modalities, including depth psychology, psychodynamic approaches, personal construct theory, and cognitive behavioural therapy. I have a broad experience of working in adult mental health, dealing with many types of issues, from post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction and depression, to relationship and self-esteem issues. A lot of my work as a therapist was very much about enabling people, not only to heal emotionally, but to find their own wellspring of inner resources, and to live the passionate truth of who they really are. In my current work offering consultations, it is very much about working with my clients on their path of spiritual and personal unfolding, using whatever tools and approaches works best for them, from psychological tools to perhaps visualisations and meditation and energetic approaches from the meditative traditions.

Through my company, Insight for Wellbeing, I run classes and workshops on a variety of topics from beginner and intermediate classes in mindfulness meditation, to meditations on the Tantras, the ancient Hindu Yogic texts that describe simple yet powerful methods of attaining deep states of awareness and liberation, to 'Transforming Emotions' where we work with meditations from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to transform the energy of emotion into positive enlightened states such as clarity, joy, bliss, wisdom and equanimity. On the courses there is a strong focus on the teaching of meditation techniques, and on inner enquiry, combined with psychological approaches to understanding ourselves. Again it's very much about helping the people who come along to find their own resources, so they can grow and unfold on their own paths, and to live as the vital, blissful, peaceful and loving creatures us humans are at heart.

I've also trained in massage therapy, aromatherapy and in Taoist pulsation, a system of healing and personal transformation based on Taoist five element theory, acupressure and meditation.