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Dec 20

Magic instead of Power

Merry Christmas🎄and a Happy New Year 🥳 

Please note : I will be with Amma in India 28th Dec – 21st March. I plan to open my full schedule for sessions while there, so my availability is as usual.   

The next Free Online Group Healing is 2nd January 2026 @ 1pm London time. Please note this correction of what I said at the end of the last Group Healing.If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you🙏 

Ric Weinman has discovered that an Assemblage Point or the whole Assemblage Point System can get damaged by various traumas. I can channel Magical Jewel to repair these if so, therefore please ask during your next session. It really makes a difference and only takes a few minutes 🙂 

As I have mentioned before, my journey this time on Europe Tour with Amma is really too personal to share. But there is one story I would like to relay. As I was entering the hall in Switzerland one day, I bumped into a little girl and her father, both of whom are friends of mine. This particular child is deeply gifted. She was being ‘difficult’, so I offered to give her a shoulder ride so she didn’t have to walk. She agreed and promptly climbed up onto my shoulders as if I were a climbing frame – lol! As she sat there, our spines connected, from her tailbone to my neck. My mind instantly went completely Silent………..and I could feel the presence of Divine Mother. At first, I assumed it was Amma, yet I could feel that it wasn’t – this presence was emanating from the girl herself and rippling down into my entire being. The most striking sensation was that of being totally held, on every level. This girl is 6 years old – imagine! I also felt a profound sense of safety, which is unusual for me. Then my breathing naturally deepened and widened on its own and I relaxed. It felt as if I was going from Maya into Divinity. I didn’t know if I would be able to walk in such an ‘altered state’, yet somehow my feet followed through. This is the beauty and excitement of Touring with Amma. You never know what will happen next or where the Grace will come from – and in which form. 

Something which dawned on me while listening to a friend is that it is possible that Amma chants quite different mantras into each person’s ear – not mainly two mantras. So please throw out any previous info from me about this and listen carefully while receiving your next darshan. 

Ric has commented on a couple of things in recent classes which I wanted to share with you. The first is that, Magic is a good term to replace Power. Isn’t that beautiful..? How true. I love that… The other one is that we could think of the kidneys as being the force which holds things together in the body. This is why kidneys are so important for health and why we focus on them in Vortex Healing a lot (as is also the case in Chinese medicine). 

For online private sessions, book here (NB : ‘Schedule’ button must be pressed after payment, or the booking is not accepted and money returned):-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling. Instead, please utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this. It can end up in your junk mail, so please check. (NB: lateness, no-showing, cancelling or rescheduling less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time will result in you being charged in full.) 

Here are two interviews with my mother, Barbara Nokes, who is one of the most iconic figures in the history of Advertising. I’m including them because I’m proud of her and because I think the tale is such an interesting and entertaining one:- 

PODCAST: Barbara Nokes (Pt. 1)
PODCAST: Barbara Nokes (Pt. 2)

There was a synchronicity here too. As I was listening to these, a friend from Portugal messaged me out-of-the-blue with an article from the BBC website. It had ‘randomly’ been written that day about my Mum’s most well-known television commercial :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20251216-the-risqu-80s-jeans-ad-that-created-shockwaves

Happy World Meditation Day + Winter Solstice for tomorrow 🙂 🙂 🙂 

Love,

xDaisy 

Oct 31

Free Online Group Healing : tomorrow @ 1pm 

Hello 🙂 

How are you?

Happy Halloween 🙂 Today is special for me for an entirely different reason because it is the day 23 years ago when I met Amma 🙂  Upon request, here is the message from Her that I cited during the Group Healing last Friday :-

The next Free Online Group Healing is tomorrow 1st November @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

NB : I am here in London until at least May next year without any travelling at all. 

I am offering in-person sessions and will come to you if you live within tube Zones 1 or 2. Please contact me via regular text, WhatsApp or Telegram to arrange this.

Please pay before the session via bank transfer, cash or PayPal – thank you. NB: lateness, no-showing, cancelling or rescheduling less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time will result in you being charged in full. 

Online private sessions continue as usual :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling. Instead, please utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this. It can end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing, cancelling or rescheduling less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time will result in you being charged in full.

I am a bit late letting you know about this – sorry – but wanted to bring to your attention a crucial film. I found out about it originally when I was facilitating healing at Kitty Shukman’s show for London Fashion Week. Her family actually came to the show and afterwards I happened to meet her brother, Harry Shukman, as we were leaving. He mentioned being here for the London Film Festival because he was in it, but as he was so understated about it, I was left with no idea at all about the gravitas of what I was about to experience seeing the film. You can watch it now on catch up options for Channel 4. It is called ‘Undercover : Exposing the Far Right’ :-

Even people I love very much have been exploited in their vulnerabilities by being taken in by the far right, under the guise of alt-right theories, conspirituality and ideologies. Therefore to engage with this work, in which privileged white men directly use their privilege to serve all humans, to bring illumination and eventually peace, felt like a sacred moment in history. I was also reminded that my brother, Luke, and I were some of the few white kids I have ever met raised by anti-racist and anti-fascist parents in the 1980s. It brought a lot of healing, passion and relief…  I hope you get the chance to see this film and I hope to see you in the Group tomorrow,

Love,

xDaisy 

Oct 2

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Eclipsed Out 

Hello 🙂 

How are you? 

I am well here in Portugal 🙂 There was a Solar Eclipse tonight at 21 40 (Lisbon / London time). Amma has often said how inauspicious these are and that they show a malefic alignment. So hopefully you didn’t look at the eclipse itself? Don’t worry if you did, it’s just ideal not to. As general eclipse advice (all of kinds) it’s good to be indoors, doing whichever spiritual practices you like, either as a group or solo. You may well have felt the fiery build-up to this, and it is noteworthy that many of us experience more intensity before the event, than during it. We have also been in a kind-of ‘eclipse corridor’ between the lunar eclipse on 18th Sept and this one today. So things will improve now we are through 🙂 

The next Free Online Group Healing is this Friday 4th October @ 1pm Lisbon / London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

Online private sessions continue as usual from here in Portugal :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

I would like to share a few more anecdotes from the U.S. Tour with Amma this summer. 

In many satsangs, Amma gave us a sobering warning, saying that “Because we lack spiritual understanding, we turn to drugs in search of peace.” In another, She said that our heart is like a parachute : if it opens, it can save us and even others. But if it fails to open, we are in big trouble. 

I may have already shared this one, but the thing which most strikes me in what Amma communicates verbally to us, are actually Her words upon arriving on stage :-

“Amma bows down to all of you, who are the very embodiments of pure love and the supreme consciousness”

I often reflect upon the fact that, She actually knows that. The only problem here is that we don’t know it. This is one of the reasons Amma is always so relaxed. During Q&A in Darshan or the Question Line, you could be asking the most crucial of questions from your point of view, yet Amma is totally unfazed by it : perfectly relaxed, yet intimately engaged. She doesn’t need to distance Herself away from the suffering or the dilemma you are presenting and Her beautifully undisturbed manner melts even the most anxious of hearts. She knows exactly what you are, therefore She remains unruffled by your inner kicking and screaming – lol! My friends and I often walk away feeling something along the lines that, if Amma is not worried about this – am I really worried..? 

Love,

xDaisy

Sep 25

I Am Free We Are All Free 

Hello 🙂 

How are you? 

I am well here in Portugal 🙂 The next Free Online Group Healing is this Friday 27th September – also Amma’s Birthday! – @ 1pm Lisbon / London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

Online private sessions continue as usual from here in Portugal :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

I want to say how much I enjoy acknowledging the creative achievements of my clients 🙂 I consider them immensely brave and risk-taking and I see how daunting it is to enter this world as an artist. I think that’s perhaps having grown up amidst the peaks and troughs of my parents’ careers in the golden age of advertising. To continue in the vein of my last newsletter, I wanted to send you this link to Laxmi Hariharan’s new book [NB: her pen name is different] :- 

https://amzn.eu/d/geGA6Y2

By request from the last Group Healing, I am sharing the awakening which happened this year during The Magical Jewel class :- 

There was a meditation in which Ric Weinman asked the class to “use the world as the mantra”. All-of-a-sudden, for some unknown reason, I recognised immediately what was being pointed to. It was as if whatever Ric was instructing, I was able to sense both what he was talking about and where he was saying it from. So when the aforementioned words were spoken, I burst into tears and my breathing completely changed in seeing this : the world itself IS Divinity. 

Everything began to ‘become’ this beauty…and I couldn’t contain it. My body could not contain the revelation of that because of the depth it reached. Simultaneously, there was a sense of ‘this is the missing piece of the puzzle. This is what I always longed to admit to myself and to surrender to.’ I began more and more to perceive this true beauty and it broke my heart completely… Then the crying and the breathing really exploded even more and my body was breaking apart and melting away into That. I could see that every single thing was as-if being birthed by Divinity as its own Self. There was no longer any subject / object though : it was as if the world was the Divine in a complete and total way. The gratitude to perceive it all and the inherent joy of the world was totally overwhelming……… The beauty was so exquisite that I couldn’t contain in my body what I was feeling and so everything broke, again and again… The insights which were coming in were impossible to record mentally, but it was like a flow throughout the being. When I would pray to Amma, it was like She was melted into the world. 

I was shocked by two things : first of all, how could I have missed this? And secondly, how could I think that anything which had happened was bad or wrong? Then I started to feel this remorse about the things I had said about people or done or thought and I began to say sorry via inner prayer profusely. But when I said sorry, there was this benevolence and Love which met the apologies and were pouring over those “wrongdoings” like a kind of fluid of Love – yet beyond Love. Perhaps it was similar to what Adyashanti calls Redemptive Love. There was this profound sense of redemption of everything I had “done wrong” – and for everyone else too. I couldn’t believe I had ever thought someone had wronged me. That whole sense was completely gone……..and I saw that there was absolutely no truth in it. How foolish I had been not to see that no-one could ever do that and I could never do that. Everything was ‘forgiven’ so-to-speak, and then it was noticed that there was actually an inherent sense of forgiveness in the world itself. The world was forgiving everyone that was doing these things, including even me. And this was the overriding revelation : that the world itself is Divinity. There was no ‘Divine coming into creation’, there were no two different things happening, even though the Divine was birthing the world. At another time, this would have seemed like a paradox, yet there was no sense of paradox. All I could do, was to bow down in front of this beauty… Although there was no subject / object or anything like that, there was a bowing down in true reverence for what was being seen. 

There was an in-loveness with life, yet with everything being the same thing there wasn’t any neediness, attachment or drama. There were also no exceptions being made to this Loving : it was a total and utter thing. It didn’t make exceptions for this person or that person. I was praying, “Let me not forget this. Let me live from this, instead of going back to the old way of acting out and getting into dramas.” I was almost begging, “Let me not forget what I’ve seen. Let me live this now.” Simultaneously, strangely enough, there was such a stillness and a resting and a Silence. It was a recognition of what life actually is and how much I love it. It took me out of this ‘trying to get something from life’ and ending up eventually in despair, which was replaced with, ‘of course I love life!’ There was a distinct returning. It was a return to this absolute love of the world, this total Love…for no reason and with no agenda. From That, naturally arose tender celebration. 

Love,

xDaisy

Sep 9

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Real bliss is within 

Hello 🙂 

“Just as the flower falls away when the fruit takes shape, worldly desires will disappear when detachment ripens. No desire can bind such a person afterwards, whether he lives at home or in the forest. One who has established God-realisation as his goal will not attach any importance to anything else. He has already understood that nothing physical is permanent and that real bliss is within” ~ Amma

Another way of touching on this area, is to perceive – fully, without holding back – that what we want and what we need are rarely related. I’m sorry to break it – if it is news – to you, but it’s true. And yet, in every single moment we are getting exactly what we need. 

The Free Online Group Healings are now weekly. I hope you are as pleased about this as I am 🙂 Other than dates I cannot do, I have begun scheduling these weekly instead of fortnightly. The link below will allow you to book them. The next Free Online Group Healing is Friday 20th September @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

I thought I would share some of my notes from Amma’s U.S. Tour with you now. During Oakland program, Amma explained to us in a speech that we must never try to compare ourselves with others. Instead, always see from the perspective of the True Self. 

During the Washington D.C. program, there was a public Q&A and a young woman (probably 20 or thereabouts) asked a beautiful question concerning what to do when, although we do not express anger  or resentful feelings to a person directly, when we walk away from the conversation with them, these are still going on in our mind. Amma said, if we introspect, we will find that the anger we feel towards someone really arises from expectations or from being judgemental. She continued, saying that sadness also gets expressed as anger or as revenge. We do not understand the mental state of the other person. The world is like a mental asylum, with each of us being either crazy or on the verge of being crazy. 

Although a snake may be frozen in ice, if it is left in the sun the ice will melt and the snake will all-of-a-sudden rise up and could bite us. Only by going through the circumstances of life, will we understand what our own latent tendencies are.

If we get into conflict with someone, immediately we should move away from the situation and contemplate – go within. In order to become aware of the gap between our thoughts and actions, we need patience. Amma said that each situation is our Guru, our Teacher. Seeing any person as a mirror for ourself, we will learn a lot. 

Anger is a double-edged sword, with which we get hurt first. Or it could be likened to a hot iron ball : when we throw it at someone, we get hurt first. 

However, if an animal like a deer is eating our vegetable patch, it is no good saying, “My dear, dear, dear deer, please stop eating the vegetables.” Instead, we need to take a stick, wave it at the deer and shoo it away with words. 

The world is like an examination hall. We need to go through many circumstances in life in order to learn all the lessons. Amma said that we may fail when facing a situation, but never give up. 

‘Awareness’ was the only word which Amma used repeatedly in English throughout this Q&A (the rest being in Malayalam as usual), which I found interesting. Amma continued : whatever action we perform, the first 10% is not within our control. But the following 90% is within our control. If through having the proper awareness, we can make the initial action as positive as it can be, then the rest will follow accordingly. In order to develop such awareness, we need to do spiritual practices like meditation or Archana (the 1000 Names) regularly. 

Amma finished by saying to the woman directly, “Whatever your conscience tells you to do, you should do that.” 

I am currently in London offering in-person sessions until the 16th September and will come to you if you live within tube Zones 1 or 2. Please contact me via regular text, WhatsApp or Telegram to arrange this and please pay before the session via bank transfer, cash or PayPal. NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full. 

Alternatively, here is the link to book online private sessions for whenever you like :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

Love,

xDaisy

May 11

The Magical Jewel (pt. 3) 

Hello 🙂

How are you? 

I am currently repeating the Vortex Healing class Kundalini II and just went to my friend Leila Sadeghee’s yoga class in Highbury, so I am super super happy and excited about life! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m writing to share the next instalment from The Magical Jewel class and to inform you of the next Free Online Group Healing which is Friday 17th May @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them.

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

I also now have TimeLines II and the tools from that class to offer you 🙂 Using TimeStreams, the Divine looks at all infinite possibilities for what is being worked on, choosing the best possible one and creating a brand new TimeLine. It is a very powerful and transformative technique, both for physical body issues, emotional issues and all other kinds of issues too. 

Continuing with The Magical Jewel class experiences : the other insight which arose from the breakthrough I had, happened a day later and I voice-recorded it. I am sharing this with you verbatim, in order to catch the essence of the thing :-

“So, the other thing I’m noticing in this whole awakening embodiment evolution that’s really exploded on this trip, is…there’s no need for resolution anymore. There were so many things I was trying to resolve. Always trying to resolve things with people, or mostly in my own mind : like, ‘this means this or this means that’ and ‘how can I resolve this?’, whatever it was. And that sense has gone. There’s no feeling that anything needs resolution, because the resolution IS already living and breathing within the whole world. Within what I am, within…it is what I am, so there’s no feeling of…I don’t feel so threatened by everything. It’s like, you know, I don’t have to come to some kind of understanding / resolution about every single thing. Something in that sense has just gone. Completely gone.”

I am in London and will now be here for at least 6 more weeks. I am offering in-person sessions and will come to you, if you live within tube zones 1 or 2. Please contact me via WhatsApp, Telegram or regular text to arrange this (price = £100, payable before the beginning of the session via cash, bank transfer or PayPal). 

Alternatively, here is the link to book online private sessions :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

Last, but certainly not least, yes – the rumours are true – Amma will tour America this summer! 🙂 🙂 🙂 For the first time in 5 years, Amma will return to do U.S. Tour 🙂 No dates, venues or any other details have yet been released, so stay tuned for that. It looks likely to be the month of July. Here is a natural high to get you in the vibe :-

Love,

xDaisy

Apr 19

Session schedule available :-) 

Hello 🙂

How are you? 

I am great and yes – I am back in London 🙂  

In simple terms, being with Amma in-person for three and a half months (the longest single stretch I have ever spent with Her) was a huge reset. I have so much to say about that…… One thing I realised within being reset is, any question I have, Amma will answer at the right time.  

On to practical matters: firstly, my sincere apologies for all the tech and connectivity problems in India. You did so well to tolerate – thank you for your patience.

The schedule for Private Sessions has now opened up again. Here is the link to book. Please keep checking availability, as spaces can shift around, so what you wanted becomes available again :-

Please do not contact me regarding scheduling, rearranging or cancelling : instead, utilise the email you receive from Calendly for this purpose. It could end up in your spam, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing or cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time, will result in you being charged in full.

I am currently waiting to hear back from a venue I have in mind for in-person sessions. Regarding Groups, please bear with me as I have only just integrated my return from Amma’s form / living in Amritapuri.

I will begin telling the stories of my adventures with Amma in the next newsletter. For now, I leave you with these searing words from a bhajan I love to sing with Her :-

“Chidananda rupah

Sivoham! Sivoham!”

I am pure awareness-bliss

I am Shiva! I am Shiva!

And :-

“When we surrender to a True Master, we surrender to the entire Creation” ~ Amma

Love,

xDaisy

Feb 8

In Wild Heaven 

Hello 🙂

How are you? 

I am great 🙂 Being here with a direct physical incarnation of Divinity, living in harmony with nature,  people and animals and having an awakening focus to everything each day, feels like wild heaven… In fact, I heard a wonderful song of similar name on the plane jukebox flying here: R.E.M’s ‘Near Wild Heaven’. 

It occurs to me that the more we willingly relinquish in favour of Truth, Reality, unconditioned Love – the happier we are. Or at least, the happier we end up: it can involve a process, sometimes a rather long one – lol! I believe this is also why Amma recommends seva (selfless service) as the primary awakening practice for all her devotees. In the deepest place within, it quite simply makes a human being happiest to serve without personal gain. 

My friends and I have been sharing that it is actually difficult to do paid work here at the ashram, because one feels as if going against a great tide…as if, in the very air and atmosphere of Amritapuri, this dharma is flowing.  

As such, I have settled on a new schedule for Private Sessions while I am here with Amma. I have not yet settled on the same for the Groups, I am still feeling into that and patiently awaiting intuition. Therefore, for now I have cancelled all existing Group Healings, so please note this. 

I will be available for one Private Session per day on Zoom in the usual way, but for 7 days per week. Sessions will be at 2 30pm IST (9am GMT) each day. This begins on the 17th February. As a  reminder, I am returning to London on the 12th April and will adjust my availability accordingly at that time. Apologies if any of this is an inconvenience you. 

Here is the link to book Private Sessions (NB any which have been previously booked will not be affected and will go ahead) :-

I would like to share a couple of short points, from things I have learned by listening to the satsangs and my experiences here. 

One aspect of compassion is viewing all experiences which come to us – the good, the bad and the ugly – as gifts from God. When this attitude becomes true and real, the mind immediately becomes tranquil. 

Something crucial I find about Darshan with Amma, in particular when asking a question, is that – whatever I bring – Amma consistently responds with such a relaxed feeling and way about Her. It makes me feel that, if Amma is so relaxed about this, perhaps I can relax about it too. That is one of the greatest gifts Amma has given me over the course of my lifetime (and possibly many lifetimes – who knows?). 

One devotee shared a very beautiful thing which Amma once said : “At the end of our days on this earth, after all our successes and failures, the measure of our life will be how much we have loved” ~ Amma  

Love,

xDaisy