Speaking at PintOfScience event in York on Monday 22nd May on the benefits of yoga and psychology on mental health pintofscience.co.uk/event/holistic…

Presenting Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy (YiP) at the European Congress of Psychology in Brighton thanks to Psychology @ YSJ @YSJURO

Book launch for the Bloomsbury Introduction to World Philosophies Series 'The Philosophy of the Yogasutra: An Introduction' SOAS University of London October 18th King's TRS Bloomsbury Philosophy SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies eventbrite.co.uk/e/karen-obrien…

How does the practice of physical yoga result in liberation? This talk will look specifically at the early history of Haṭhayoga, which was a type of yoga known for its physical methods. Register for this Wise Words online talk 👉 events.unimelb.edu.au/CSC/event/3434…

New research: CBT + Yoga = more effective for sustaining reduction in depression and anxiety link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Handbook of Social Justice is published, with our chapter. Proud to have contributed to this with my fantastic colleague Dr Byron Al-Murri York St John University Psychology @ YSJ

Proud of our graduate doctors of counselling psychology, today at York Minster. Congrats! York St John University Psychology @ YSJ

Today sees the launch of the UK's All Party Parliamentary Group, Beyond Pills, aiming to reduce epidemic prescribing of antidepressants. Now the job of counteracting years of drug company propaganda and medical collusion #beyondpills #informedconsent

On the 22nd of March, you can see the interview with Dr Jo Barker on how yoga therapy has resolved some of their waiting list issues at Southampton CAMHS #yogatherapy #CAMHS #reinventingmentalhealth youtube.com/watch?v=a8QjPD…

Neuroscientist Camilla Nord explores how the gut doesn’t just respond to emotional feelings. It influences them, too time.com/6960278/gut-fe…

Join us for the documentary ‘The Other Effects of Meditation’, featuring insights from our own academics. By acknowledging the full spectrum of meditation's impact, we pave the way for a practice that truly flourishes, nurturing wellbeing comprehensively. youtube.com/watch?v=gYiema…

The department of psychological sciences at Monash University 🇦🇺

“Mindfulness should be used 'with' rather than 'as' public health.” Dive into the groundbreaking insights of Julieta Galante & Nicholas Van Dam in their latest paper 📄 ‘Mind the Echo Chamber: Mindfulness as a Contemplative Practice That Can Contribute to Public Health’. (1/4)

Mindfulness or McMindfulness? Come and listen to Dr Julieta Galante’s cutting edge research on the concepts and issues surrounding the practice on 10 July 3pm. York St John University @YSJURO York St John Communities Centre eventbrite.co.uk/e/mindfulness-…

Published paper, Introducing a new model of psychological therapy: Yoga-integrated Psychotherapy (YiP) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Don’t get trapped in pop psychology. #psychology

Read it here: theguardian.com/society/2024/n…?

Fantastic talk today thanks to ⁦⁦NIMHANS, Bengaluru⁩ doi.org/10.1002/capr.1…

Prof Bhargav and Dr Daivik showing me the Dept of Integrative Medicine at NIMHANS ⁦NIMHANS, Bengaluru⁩ ⁦York St John University⁩ ⁦Psychology @ YSJ⁩

Nearly 40% of women have a "mental health condition" says survey. Can't we ditch that language & the ideology it propagates & rather say: such women are in emotional pain, often for obvious socio-relational reasons. This take obliges a different response. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…