Monday motivation - one minute read A friend told me about an author called Seth Godin, who is a marketing guru and all round clever bloke who writes about brands and business and the like. His latest book of over 20 he has written so far is called "The Practice." The concept is simple, when you are doing anything whether that's writing, singing, making skateboards - just do it. In fact he changes this well-known phrase to "merely do it". "Just do it" implies there is a lack of care or sub standard expectation involved. Instead, "Merely do it" means we are more interested in the process ..read more

Over on Meditation Rocks, we have launched the (Home) School of Meditation Rocks, to help weave mindfulness and meditation into remote learning! For more info - keep reading! We here at Meditation Rocks want to ensure you that we are here for you during this lockdown! So, we have introduced the new package "Home School of Meditation Rocks" - a month long subscription available to schools and individual families that weaves meditation and mindfulness into your remote learning. This is partnered off of our School of Meditation Rocks package where we supply meditation and mindfulness to over 20 ..read more

We are so excited to announce the official launch of podcast, Room 808, hosted by founder Lucy Stone. Room 808 is the imaginary room where we will give you the eight things to make your life, happier, healthier and more comfortable. We give our guest the list of meal, view, guest, hobby kit, luxury item, book, music and life lesson that they would like, when staying in Room 808.  Amongst this comes talks of personal journeys, anecdotes, and reflections on their past.  Our first guest is Amy Williams, gold medal Olympian now personal trainer, who tells us of her journey as athlete, m ..read more

Lucy announced as columnist on Mental Health mag, The Breakdown Founder of YOGADOO, Lucy Stone has been announced as a columnist on brand new digital mental health magazine, The Breakdown which launches on Tuesday 1st December. Launched by Hattie Gladwell, writer for Metro, The Guardian and many other publications, the magazine features writers with either experience or knowledge of mental illness. Lucy will be writing on a wide range of topics based on her experiences and joins TV Chef and author Jack Monroe who is Food Writer for The Breakdown.  In her first column, Lucy examines why a ..read more

The award-winning, Mental podcast invited Meditation Rocks & YOGADOO founder, Lucy Stone to be a guest on the show for the latest episode.  Lucy discussed with presenter, Bobby Temps, how meditation has played such a big role in her life and how it is a key method to tackling anxiety, stress and burnout.  Lucy highlights that there is thankfully a lot more discussion of mental health within the education system, compared to her childhood - where she deliberates whether that is where her anxiety may have began.  Nevertheless, as Lucy points out we do still have a long way to ..read more

I’ve been teaching meditation and yoga full time for five years now, after leaving a high-pressured career in Journalism and entertainment PR. Of course, life in the world of comedy was great fun – especially being able to work with some big household names – but after a series of life events, I knew I needed to change direction.  I re-trained, gaining qualifications in the UK, France as well as training in India, and have since taught many adults and children meditation, yoga and mindfulness at festivals events, at my yoga studio in Bath, in workplaces and most regularly teaching young ..read more

This year has been unlike any other, and now we are back to school,  leadership teams and staff are working tirelessly to keep children happy and healthy. Lucy Stone, the founder of Meditation Rocks and award-winning children's yoga brand, YOGADOO has now unveiled a brand new project to bring meditation to life in the classrooms which has an official launch at Combe Down Primary School on Monday 5th October. You can join TSOMR at any time, your contract can be rolling monthly or over a 12 month period. There is even additional content for the school holidays so children can keep practicin ..read more

MEDITATION ROCKS From Lucy Stone At 8:08am on Wednesday 1 April 2020, during the lockdown in the UK, meditation teacher Lucy Stone went live on her Facebook page, Meditation Rocks and led an eight-minute guided meditation. She had no clue whether there would be one person or twenty people joining her.  “The world had been forced to stay inside, as a single mum and usually very busy person running two businesses, the lack of routine and contact with others terrified me. I knew I wouldn’t be the only one feeling this way. Meditation has saved my mental health on more than one occasion and ..read more

YOGADOO founder Lucy was so thrilled to be asked to work with the team at The Positive Doodle Diary, to create some content for their lovely new gratitude journal for children. I have written some lovely visual meditations and some fab yoga sequences for you and your little ones to enjoy to help everyone feel calm and relaxed. The Positive Doodle Diary, is a mindful gratitude journal for kids and is all about encouraging creativity, self expression and mindfulness in children through daily doodling and simple journaling. It’s packed full of different activities that will lead them to explore ..read more

This morning Lucy was featured on the virtual, Bath Life Business Club: Tales from the Lockdown after being invited to take part by Bath Life Magazine! Alongside Lucy was rugby star David Flatman, Greg Ingham from MediaClash, and Kate Morton from Bath Mind. Even though each person has come from a different background and different business, it was a unanimous agreement that lockdown affects people in different ways - but in the end it unifies us, as the saying goes “we are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.” The conclusions from the panel were that getting outside and ..read more