About Mind Your Head
Hello, I’m Matt. Welcome to Mind Your Head.
Mind Your Head is the result of my lifelong journey through meditation, tea, music, and mindfulness—a path that’s taught me how a daily practice can soften life’s sharp edges and enable us to live our lives skillfully, and with intention.
Mind Your Head is my way of inviting you into that same calm place. Whether you’re new to this or have your own practice, there’s a space for you here.
In the 90s in Hangzhou, China, where I was working as an engineer, I was fortunate to be taken on a tour of the Dragon Well tea gardens and had my first tast of green tea sat in an ornate tea house on the beautiful West Lake. That wonderful experience planted a seed that would ultimately develop into my mindful tea ceremony.
Later, working and travelling throughout Japan, I was able to explore other tea traditions and my love for tea as ceremony, as art and as medtitation continued to grow.
Around the same time as I first travelled to China, my sister returned from India with a metal singing bowl that made a beautiful sound when struck. As a musician its sound must have struck something deep within me too as it sparked a fascination with the effects of sound on both mind and matter. I began to collect these bowls wherever I found them.
I didn’t start a formal meditation and yoga practice until 2007. At first, I leaned on these practices only in tough times, but over the years, I realised a daily practice didn’t just help me cope—it transformed how I lived. The highs and lows evened out, and life felt less like a rollercoaster. I was able to act according to my intention rather than just reacting to whatever the world threw at me.
In 2019, I decided that I wanted to formally share the benefits of my practice with others and took a course with my Zen teacher Daizan Roshi, qualifying me to teach an 8-week meditation and mindfulness programme for health and wellbeing. and I’ve been offering it ever since.
In the last 5 years of my corporate life, I co-led an initiative offering non-spiritual mindfulness sessions but the pain of flowering became greater than the pain of staying in the bud as the saying goes and I left the corporate world behind to start offering my sessions full time.
Alongside the 8 week course, I’ve been providing sessions for individuals and groups based on my other loves—sound baths, tea ceremonies, meditation - and now, after many requests - a 3-hour half-day retreat that weaves it all together.
My work is about sharing what’s worked for me over the years, in a way that’s accessible to anyone looking for peace. My intention is that you come to a session and leave with the knowledge to develop a practice at home.
To support this I provide tea, essential oils, video and audio recordings as well as weekly 1 hour online sessions for those times when only a live guided session will do.
“Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.” ”
