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Accepting Without Preference

Be accepting of what you are as a skier, now in this present moment, and you will become the skier you know you can become. Letting go of the fighting with your judgemental critical self can be the most liberating, valuable process in your…
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Spring Skiing 2026

Mindful Mountains, Spring Fling, 11th to 18th April 2026 Ski More – Think Less – Improve by Practicing Our Spring skiing week is happening this year in Champoluc, the last week of the season for Monterosa Ski area. With records showing…

Inside – Out Instructor Workshop Notes

‘Inside – Out’ an Instructor training session at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead. It was great to meet you all last week, thanks for coming along to the session and engaging with the content, it made it a pleasure for me. Here are…

Cognition To Sensation

Mindfulness is much about being centred in one’s own body, in one’s being, moving through one’s day with a focused knowing of who one is and what one is being. We are aware of each present moment remaining conscious of our internal domain,…

Attitude at Altitude

Making the transition from piste to powder is the aspiration of many skiers who have spent their fair share of time grooving their skills on the red and black graded slopes. This article looks at the ways we approach the adventure of venturing…

Mindful Skiing

In this blog John summarises some of the mindful skiing methods he uses to improve skiers’ performance. As they are methods for learning and coaching, they apply to all ability levels, from beginner to expert and in all terrain, from piste…

Breathe and Perform

It’s all there within us already; we often have the tendency to look outside ourselves for the way forward, ways to live our lives and searching outward to find what it is we desire and achieve. The problem with this is that what we find…

The Power of Purposeful Practice

Here’s an article I wrote in the summer of 2016 about how ‘practicing on purpose’ adds value to the quality of your training. The article was published last Autumn in the Annual Publication of the National Schools Snowsport Association…

From Winter Skiing to Summer hiking and meditation

On the move to Italy in January this year I was welcomed with two metres of snowfall, Champoluc and the Monterosa mountain range were looking magnificent. Everyone skiing in the Alps this winter had the best snow conditions we have seen for…

From Happy Hills to Mindful Mountains

This is the story about a journey from hills to mountains and how, 40 years ago, a handful of teenagers made the journey from their local dry ski slope to the European Alps. In the 1970’s there were no performance pathways, sports institutes…