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London Insight Meditation: our story
London Insight Meditation, originally known as London Retreats, was the result of a conversation on a train from Gaia House to London in 1995 between Steve Small and Sallie Rose.
Busy lives meant it was not always easy to travel to Gaia House, and they saw a need for access to insight meditation teachings in London. They called Christina Feldman who suggested Yanai Postelnik as a teacher. Others who taught our early events included Sharda Rogell, Christopher Titmuss, Martine and Stephen Batchelor and Christina Feldman. All of them offered immense support in those early days.
Steve left and Sallie ran London Retreats with Barry Letts, and with the help of Clare Brunt, for many years. Barry went on to do an enormous amount of work single-handedly until Roger Kayes took over.
In 2005, Roger moved on and leadership passed to Chris Cullen. Since then London Insight’s programme of events has grown and diversified under the directorship of Paul Cons, Chris Cullen (again), Anthea West with James Blake, and now James Blake alone. From 2010 onwards we have employed a part-time paid administrator, and in December 2011 we became a registered charity.