Writing
Essays, reflections, and practice guides.
The writing here explores the territory this work moves through: attention, the body, breath, relationship, and the mechanics of genuine change. Essays take a broader, reflective angle on psychology and contemplation. Practice guides offer focused instruction in specific skills. Use the filters below to find what is most relevant to where you are.
Can Meditation Make Anxiety or Dissociation Worse?
Meditation can help many people, but it can also intensify anxiety, unreality, or detachment. Here is how to recognise the difference and respond carefully.
What Happens in a Five-Session Counselling Process?
A clear account of Sangham's five-session wellness counselling process: what each session is for, what happens between sessions, and what it does not promise.
How Confidentiality Works in Mentoring for Teenage Boys
Teenage boys need a private space to speak honestly, while parents need a clear safeguarding process. Here is how confidentiality and parent involvement can work together.
Can Meditation Make Anxiety or Dissociation Worse?
Meditation can help many people, but it can also intensify anxiety, unreality, or detachment. Here is how to recognise the difference and respond carefully.
How Confidentiality Works in Mentoring for Teenage Boys
Teenage boys need a private space to speak honestly, while parents need a clear safeguarding process. Here is how confidentiality and parent involvement can work together.
How to Find a Mentor for a Young Man in South Africa
What to look for in a mentor for a man aged 18 to 25: role clarity, relevant experience, trust, professional boundaries, and a process that builds independence.
Meditation Experiences: When to Pause and Seek Support
Unusual experiences in meditation are not automatically dangerous, but some changes in sleep, perception, mood, or functioning are good reasons to pause and get support.
Online Wellness Counselling in South Africa: Scope, Cost, and What to Expect
A practical guide to Sangham's online wellness counselling for South Africans: professional scope, rand fees, privacy, session format, and when clinical care is more appropriate.
Spiritual Emergence, Psychological Distress, or Both?
Powerful inner experiences do not always fit neatly into spiritual or psychological language. A careful response can hold both possibilities without rushing to certainty.
Wellness Counsellor vs Psychologist in South Africa: What Is the Difference, and Which Do You Need?
A plain account of how psychologists, registered counsellors, psychiatrists, and wellness counsellors differ in South Africa, and which form of support is right for what.
What Happens in a Five-Session Counselling Process?
A clear account of Sangham's five-session wellness counselling process: what each session is for, what happens between sessions, and what it does not promise.
You Are Not the Beggar You Think You Are
On the strange dream most people are sleeping inside: the posture of the beggar, and what is waiting underneath it when the performing stops.
Authenticity as a Mask
On the people who have made a performance out of being real, and how the ego colonises even the work of unmasking.
The Art of Becoming Invisible
On the unfashionable wisdom of strategic concealment, and why the wellness world is wrong about always speaking your truth.
The Body Is Already Speaking
If you watch the body closely enough, you begin to notice that very little of what it does is random.
Breathwork Explained: Beyond Relaxation Techniques
The word breathwork has gathered a lot of meanings over the last few years, most of them pointing in slightly different directions.
How to Sit: Building a Body That Can Be Still
Before getting into how to sit, it's worth taking a moment to understand why it matters at all. Most people assume that when meditation doesn't work, the problem lies in the mind.
Preparing the System: Why Most People Do Breathwork Too Early
Most people arrive at breathwork looking for a lever to pull. Something feels off, so they look for a method to change it.
Softness and Power: Two Ways of Meeting the Body
If you begin to pay attention while you move, even in something simple like walking or lifting your arm, it becomes clear quite quickly that the body is never doing just one thing at a time.
Training the Body: Strength, Awareness, or Control?
When people begin training the body, it usually looks like a simple choice. Strength, fitness, appearance, flexibility. But if you stay with it long enough, it becomes clear that you are not only shaping the body.
Using the Breath to Stabilise Attention
Many traditions, separated by culture, language, and metaphysics, kept returning to the breath.
When Breathwork Goes Wrong: Safety and Cautions
It is worth being very clear about something before going any further. Working with the breath is not neutral.
When Effort Drops: The Shift Beyond Technique
The shift that most people miss in meditation is not an obscure one. It is too simple.
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These pieces were written during years of traditional training and practice in India. They reflect the contemplative traditions in their own language, metaphysical claims, classical framing, and all. They sit alongside the counselling work without replacing or contradicting it; they are notes from a different mode of inquiry.
How We Love
There are certain encounters in life that arrive without warning and leave you undone. I have come to see that human beings tend to relate to love and connection in three distinct ways.
On Living
You do not need to know where you are, or even where you are going, if you remember who you are. Home reveals itself wherever separation dissolves.
What is Hatha Yoga?
Hatha yoga is widely misunderstood today, largely because its depth has been reduced to form without context. At its root, hatha yoga is not an exercise system. It is a precise spiritual science.
What is Meditation?
Meditation is almost universally misunderstood. It is commonly spoken of as a practice, a discipline, or a technique. In truth, meditation is none of these things. It is a state of being.
On Human Relationships
Human relationships are rarely approached innocently. Most of us enter them with an invisible hand extended, hoping to receive something. There is another way to stand in relationship.
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