Title: one who has capacity for doing.....

Gender: Male

Age: 27

Sun Sign: Gemini

Chinese Sign: Water Dog

Location: Newcastle, England

Peace & Blessings all.

About this life- I was born in Kettering, England and grew up in Leicester (both in the midlands for non UK ppl). I have loving parents & a 17 month younger brother. My parents split when I was young & my mum had two more kids with her new partner when I was around ten. Around this time we all moved to Durham so she could study psychology there (thats in the north :) ).
I love my siblings a lot & have taken great pride & loving joy watching my half brother & sister grow up, involving myself a lot with their up bringing & learning a lot about myself in the process.
Over the years I have seen my mother, a highly intelligent & strong women, make the same mistake's & go from one bad relationship to another. This has taught me a lot about love & relationships. She is now married & it seems she got it right this time. I send her luck & happiness each time & sit on the cushion.
Throughout my school years I suffered from bullying & bad grades & by the time I left school was suffering from deep depression. I discovered cannabis & began drinking & smoking early on too. Over the years I have suffered with cannabis addiction & bi-polar depression & spent many years learning to be conscious, not hiding from it all in an altered mind state.
When I was 17 I started a course in Graphic Design which was when I first started to enjoy learning. After 6 years of study I had a degree in Graphic Design & other qualifications but was unable to find a job with them.
I moved to Newcastle with some friends & through the band 'Live' discovered Ken Wilber. Reading 'A Brief History of Everything' changed my life.
In the last two years I have stopped smoking, don't drink very often & no longer suffer from depression. I have become a vegetarian, a natural step on from the increasingly healthier diet I was creating for myself. I began meditating last year & now use holosync too. I do yoga almost every day & love it. I exercise with weights & a rowing machine & have started rock climbing recently. I continue to read about an integral life & work towards creating my own integral practice, recently looking into herbal medicine & natural health, dream analysis & art therapy.
I have begun training as an art teacher for 11+ & hope to enrich children's lives in years to come with an integral approach to education & an open mind & caring heart. I am finding my PGCE (teacher training course) incredibly hard work, both physically with the long hours, but mentally too. I am really enjoying it, my mind is alive with all the new information. Anyone who is a teacher/educator/yogi/guru, please engage in conversation with me because it is an enriching experience :)

I have some online art pages if you want to see any of my visual work, though I don't find much time to do any & then upload it :)

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