Just me: Anna Edgar

My Mindfulness practice is central to my own well-being.

My practice is beneficial in my working and personal life.

I use Mindfulness to enhance my capacity to deal with stress, anxiety and depression, managing my work-life balance, emotional resilience, workplace presence and effectiveness, focus and concentration.

A Mindful awareness enhances my own self care and self connection, looking after my health, nutrition, fitness, creativity and self compassion.

Mindfulness develops my capacity to switch off from the pressure to be doing, achieving, goal driven, productive, and to create space just to be, to recharge, to replenish my energy, find some space and perspective, immerse myself in the experience of the moment. This is very important for healing and integration.

I integrate my Mindfulness toolbox into my professional context as a teacher in a high pressure international school, and of course in my capacity to work with clients as a Mindfulness coach.

While formal meditation is always at the core of my practice, I believe it is equally important to cultivate Living Mindfulness, maintaining a Mindful and compassionate approach at work, in how I relate to life, myself and others, in how I eat, exercise, relax and grow as a person.

Mindfulness is not a cure-all, but it is a way of developing self-awareness, in a compassionate and caring way. With the clarity and perspective gained in my Mindful reflection, I can then make more skillful choices, or apply more measured analysis, to relating with the community I am part of, to the experts and friends I turn to for advice, and in researching the information that will be useful for more skillful decisions.

The elements I cultivate daily in my practice are Mindful reflection, meditation, mindful movement and embodied, somatic practice, mindful communication, empathy and compassion, and mindful Self-Compassion, gratitude and a sense of joy and wonder.

Part time freelance mindfulness coach.

12 years established mindfulness practice.

I am a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, The European Association of Mindfulness Based Associations, Mindful Teacher Community Network, The Oxford Mindfulness Community.

My Mindfulness supervisor is Ratnadevi

Professionally trained to teach the following Mindfulness Based courses:

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Living Mindfulness: qualified through Living Mindfulness, (2020-2021)

Mindfulness Based Cancer Recovery: completed facilitator training through Dr Linda Carlson and Dr Michael Speca at University of Calgory. (April 2023)

Completed training run by Liz Lord of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation to teach the Oxford Mindfulness Introducing Mindfulness course (21 June 2025)

Qualified in the following applied uses of Mindfulness for adapted MBSR or Mindfulness workshops

Post Graduate Certificate in Mindfulness in the Classroom with distinction University of Aberdeen, (2022).

Professional Qualification in The Applied Use of Mindfulness for 12-18 year olds: British Mindfulness Institute: May 2020

Mindfulness in the workplace: New Skills Academy Diploma April 2020.

Mindful communication training

Active listening Cancer Support Group 06 through Eli Cookson 2021.

Mindful communication 4-week NVC Foundation Course (2021) through Carolyn Davies

Various 6-hour Intermediate NVC courses (2022-23 ongoing), Saying No with Courage and Care, Using NVC to support understanding of Power and Privilege, NVC and Anger, NVC for Learning from our Mistakes, Mourning and Apology, NVC and Trauma, NVC Self Empathy and Compassion, NVC and Mindfulness – The Dyad Process. NVC and the Inner Critic “Me, Myself and I” All through NVC Training and Development London.

Internal Family Systems and Non Violent Communication: With Ruud Banders at https://www.mahakaruna.org.uk/ Lead Your Life Foundation Course introducing how to work with parts using NVC. Deepening short Course The Life of Exiles.

Trauma awareness training

Trauma sensitive mindfulness The Mindfulness Project Becoming Trauma-Sensitive: Making Mindfulness Meditation Safe for Trauma: led by Dr David Treleaven December 2020.

USC-ATTC Seminar Treating Trauma with Mindfulness: Helping Traumatized Adolescents Cultivate Mindfulness and Metacognitive Awareness June 15 2022.

The Healing Trauma Program (9 month intensive program) Sounds True by Jeffrey Rutstein (Dec 2022)

Polyvagal training:

Polyvagal Theory: Principles and Practice for Individuals (January 2023) by Deb Dana at the Polyvagal Institute

Polyvagal Theory: Claiming our Evolutionary Heritage as a Social Species (March 2023) by Stephen Porges at the Polyvagal Institute

Courses in Interpersonal Neurobiology (Dan Siegel Mindsight Institute)

Transforming Anxiety and Stress by Integrating the Embodied Brain: Completed October 31 2023

Courses taken to develop my own practice

Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness: 12 month Foundation Course through Fleet Maull Heart Mind Institute (2021-2022)

Frame by Frame 8 week course Oxford Mindfulness Centre facilitated by Liz Lord (March 2023)

G.R.A.C.E training workshop by Roshi Joan Halifax (March 2022)

Deepening Mindfulness 8 week course: by Alex Irving at The Mindfulness Project (August 2020)

Living Mindfulness 8 week course: Having been trained to teach this course, I took the course as a participant to enjoy the journey. by Ratnadevi (November 2021)

Stillness Through Movement, Compassion Through Movement, Insight Through Movement (2021-22) by Jacky Seery at the Mindfulness Association

Fierce Self Compassion Workshop (Feb 2023) by Kristin Neff

8-week Mindful Self Compassion course (October 2021) taught by Zoe Shobbrook-Fisher and I continue to attend her regular mini-retreats online.

10 Week Live Online Mindful Self Compassion, facilitated by Helle Laursen, through the Centre for Mindful Self Compassion (August-November 2023)

Mindful Journaling 4 week course (January 2022) by Natasha Papazafeiropoulou at the Mindfulness Project

Professional experience

32 years classroom experience teaching Eng Lit and mostly History/Geography in secondary schools across Scotland, England and the South of France.

3 years experience teaching MBSR, Living Mindfulness and MBSR for teachers

2 years as Mindfulness Coach for Cancer Support 06 clients running a weekly drop-in Mindfulness Community.

2 years running a weekly, free, online Mindfulness Community practice Breathing Space for graduates of my Mindfulness courses.

My academic qualifications:

Post Graduate Certificate in Mindfulness in the Classroom with distinction University of Aberdeen, (2022).

Masters in Education (Applied Linguistics) Open University, 2006.

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Northern College, Aberdeen, 1993)

MA(Hons) History 2:1 (University of Aberdeen, 1991)

My background

I am Scottish, from St.Andrews in Fife, resident on the Cote d’Azur, South-east France. I have two grown-up children,.