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About Uma

There are moments when ordinary life asks you to seek out more. When something stirs beneath the surface, and you find yourself looking for answers that the usual places cannot provide.

That is what brought me to this work. First to teaching, and then to writing. The books grew out of what my students kept arriving with: the same deep questions, the same quiet longing for steadiness. It became clear that these conversations needed to exist somewhere beyond the room.

As a teacher, I have sat with hundreds of people and the questions are always recognisably the same: what lies beneath the noise of ordinary life, and what it means to feel genuinely at peace. Not everyone arrives at those questions the same way, or with the same urgency. But they arrive.

What drew me deepest was not the modern self-help shelves. It was older. It was the wisdom that had been sitting in India's ancient texts for thousands of years, waiting, patient, available to anyone willing to slow down and listen. I have spent time in serious study and practice within this tradition, sitting retreats, immersing in teacher training in India, returning again and again to the source. I have been teaching
meditation for ten years, alongside other work and an ordinary life.

I have travelled to India and spent time with the people who hold this knowledge, not as museum pieces, but as living transmission. What I found there confirmed what I had always suspected: that this wisdom is not historical. It speaks directly to what we are carrying right now.

My background is in writing, communication, and the performing arts. I once made theatre for young people, searching for the same thing I search for now: how to illuminate something true and bring it a little closer. What I bring to the teaching and the books is not a fixed system or a claim to have arrived somewhere. It is a genuine curiosity about the inner life, and a deep conviction that ancient wisdom has something real to say to the modern world.

The books are designed to give you the tools to begin, or to deepen what you have already started. They are not meant to create a dependency on anything outside yourself. They are meant to make you more self-sufficient. More steady. More at home in your own awareness.

And for those who want to go further, to receive meditation instruction in the traditional way, and to encounter the source of these teachings in person, I lead small, carefully designed retreats to India. You can read about those here.

I live in Australia. I write as Uma because these books belong to the teaching, not to biography.

With love,

Uma