Meditation with Michael

Meditation with Michael Awaken the Power Within

Bring a friend and share the space for half the price. We know that stepping into healing spaces can sometimes feel daun...
26/08/2026

Bring a friend and share the space for half the price.

We know that stepping into healing spaces can sometimes feel daunting alone—and we also know how powerful it is to experience a reset alongside someone you trust.

To make this gathering more accessible, we’re offering 2-for-1 tickets for our upcoming event so you can split the cost and journey together.

If the constant noise and busy energy of summer has left you both feeling a little scattered, consider this your collective invitation to pause.

On Saturday 12th September, 2–6pm, we’re gathering at Studio 38, Prestwich for Liberation: Rebirth. Hosted by Moksha TMD & Ashley Phocou, it is an intentional, four-part journey through a Cacao Ceremony, Breath Immersion, Ecstatic Dance, and a grounding Sound Journey.

Let’s discover who we truly are, side-by-side. Let’s welcome the new season together.

🍂 Saturday 12th September | 2–6pm
📍 Studio38 Yoga Prestwich

✨ Link in bio to book your joint spot.

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21/08/2026

Day 10 of reading my ancient forest journal, and this is the final entry.

After everything peaked, I chose to release my rigid attachment to total isolation. I leaned into the wisdom of a conscious distraction—stepping out of the woods and heading into the nearby town of Castle Douglas to grab some food, watch the Manchester United match, and just exist among people.

That choice led me exactly where I needed to be. I ended up meeting the wise person I had felt a pull toward earlier in the forest. In a single moment, my entire perspective on my life flipped and twisted. They helped me see how I had been creating my own suffering the whole time. I realised I didn’t need to reach some grand state of enlightenment, or become all-wise, all-knowing, and all-powerful.

The desperate chasing stopped. Instead, I was left with a profound, quiet gratitude for exactly who I already was.

This is how the journey in the forest ends. Thank you for walking through the dark, the chaos, and the light with me.

Tune in to the final day.

Link in bio 🙏

05/08/2026

Has summer been a lot? If you are feeling a bit scattered by the constant noise of the busy season, it is time to clear the static and ground yourself.

On Saturday 12th September (2pm-6pm), we are gathering at Studio 38 in Prestwich for Liberation: Rebirth—a deep, 4-part afternoon hosted by Moksha TMD and Ashley Phocou.

Together, we will move through the four essential stages of a true rebirth:

- Cacao Ceremony: We slow down to honor the changing cycles of the year and align with the autumn ahead.

- Breathwork: An active release to spark real transformation by shifting the physical and emotional blocks holding you back.

- Ecstatic Dance: No pressure, no performing—just a room for discovery, shaking off tension and finding new ways to move.

- Sound Journey: Total stillness that allows for a full surrender, integrating the day so we can leave the space feeling more balanced.

If you are feeling the pull to shed what has been holding you back, we would love to have you in the room. Bring yourself exactly as you are, and let’s welcome the new season together.

✨ Link in bio to book your spot.

31/07/2026

Day 9: Accepting Death with Love, Flood of Dark Parts & The Exploding Star | Ancient Forest Journal

Day 9 in the ancient forest shattered everything. My nervous system peaked, my body felt like it was dying, and I completely surrendered to death—only to be met by a depth of love I never knew I deserved.

The next morning, I regressed into a raw childhood memory of being an abandoned baby, holding that tiny version of me with pure awareness.

Later, I broke. I screamed at the universe for the cruel loss of my family, flooded by dark psychic parts from bitter resentment to absolute exhaustion.It ended with a massive nighttime episode—a fear of death like a star exploding in my chest.

Stumbling into the pitch-black woods, I was met for the first time by two human beings. This is where the peak chaos of healing began. Thank you for walking through the dark with me.

✨ Link to the full episode in bio

15/06/2026

I created a poem for the closing ceremony of the latest .revolution.festival at the request of and decided I’d perform it again for the local 🎙️

Because she’s a lovely human my partner .phocou caught it on camera and I thought it would be nice to share it with you lot, enjoy 😊

10/06/2026

Day 8: Darkest Ego Parts, Misty Mountain Insight & Ancestral Grief Hits | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 8 in the forest and I’m reading it back now. This one got heavy. My fearful and averse parts came out strong as my ego showed me its darkest side. Everything felt confronting and raw.

At one point I headed up a misty mountain path and got this really poignant piece of insight that landed deep. Then it took a turn. Out of nowhere I felt the grief of an ancestor explode inside me. For a moment I was her, and she had just lost two children. It was intense and completely disorienting.

By the end things got properly strange. I didn’t realise it at the time, but panic attacks were in full swing and my sensitised nervous system was dragging me through hell.

It’s a weird one. Hard to listen to in places but it feels important to put out there.

If you’re following along with the journal, this is where it starts getting really unpredictable.

Tune in to Day 8.

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20/05/2026

Day 7: Energy Explosion, Midnight Forest Walk & Finally Feeling Dad’s Death | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 7 in the forest is when s**t really hit the fan. I woke up with this massive surge of energy ripping through me — it felt like I was going to explode or straight-up die.

For hours it just kept building. I couldn’t stay in the van anymore, so I grabbed my head torch and went walking around the forest in the middle of the night, trying not to completely lose my mind from how overwhelming it all was.🤯

Eventually I calmed down enough to get some sleep. When I woke up again, it was like a dam had broken. Years of pushing down the grief about my dad finally hit me full force. 😓

And right after that, this really ugly, unlovable part of me showed up — my hatred. All the stuff in life I’d been carrying resentment for came pouring out. It was brutal and messy, but weirdly beautiful too, just letting it be seen and released like that.🤬

I’m still sitting with a lot of it, but reading this one back feels important. It was raw as hell.

Tune in to Day 7 if you want to hear what it sounded like when everything finally exploded.

Link to the full episode in the bio 🙏

14/05/2026

Managed to catch S2 Ep15 of Who On Earth? with yet? 🎙️ 🌍

In this clip from the episode Leo is inviting you to reflect on the judgement you may be holding onto about a person of thing. That this very judgement is actually strengthening the connection.

And the way to truly cut the cord and liberate yourself is by removing the judgement, by taking away the thought pattern that the person or thing is better or worse than you. ✂️

Instead you can reframe that person or thing as an opportunity to allow that trapped emotion to move through you and be released. ✨

Catch the full episode in the bio or at www.meditationwithmichael.co.uk

12/05/2026

Day 6: Alien Abduction...Maybe?, Hellish Purges & Total Surrender | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 6 in the forest took things to another level. I was already raw from the day before when this wave hit me harder than anything I’d experienced.

Oh and I totally forgot to tell you, but the other night I became completely convinced aliens were coming for me. No exaggeration — the feeling was absolute.

Back to day 6! A purge erupted out of me like nothing before. Sounds came from deep in my body that I didn’t even know I could make. They were guttural, horrible, straight from hell. I was shaking and retching while these noises tore out of me.

Then my body started moving on its own. It felt like something else was guiding it, twisting me into positions that brought intense, crippling pain. It felt like it was going to break me in two it hurt that much, but I didn’t fight it. Strangely, it felt right to surrender. So I let it happen.

I stayed with it through the whole thing — the fear, the sounds, the pain, and that eerie sense of being worked on by forces I couldn’t see. It was one of the most surreal and brutal days of the entire trip.

I’m still processing everything that came up in Galloway Forest, but sharing it exactly as it felt in the moment is part of the reason I’m putting this out there.

Tune in to Day 6 to hear what it was like when everything intensified.

06/05/2026

S2 EP25 of Who On Earth? Out Now 🎙️

Becoming No One: on Ego Death, India & the Quiet Shift into Fatherhood 🌍

Somewhere between India 🇮🇳, stepping away from facilitating 🧘 , and facing himself without the usual roles to hide behind, something loosened. Not a dramatic reinvention—more like parts of him quietly fell off 🍂 that were never really his to begin with.

We circle ego death (more than once) 🌀, what it actually feels like when identity starts slipping through your fingers 🫥, and the strange calm that can follow . There’s a shift here—from doing the work to living it—and it’s not as polished or performative as you might expect.

At the time of this conversation, Leo was also on the edge of becoming a father 👶. There’s something subtle but weighty in that—like life asking, “Right, who are you really now then?” 🤔

As always, we wander 🚶‍♂️. India , masculinity , truth 🧭, illusion 🎭, presence… the kind of tangents that don’t feel like tangents once you’re in them.

A small note—this was recorded before my own run-in with chronic pain, fatigue, and panic disorder. Life’s moved since then, for both of us 🔄. Still, this one felt worth sharing exactly as it is ✨

Link to video & audio available in bio & at www.meditationwithmichael.co.uk 🙏

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