About
Wherever you are in life, there are simple practices to help you pause and begin again.
HELLO, LOVELYÂ TO MEET YOU!
I'm Helen Errington a mindfulness teacher and writer with over thirty years’ experience as a meditation practitioner and teacher.
My practice includes twelve years living and training as an ordained Buddhist nun—a period that deeply shaped my understanding of attention, discipline, and care. Those years continue to inform my teaching, not as something finished or perfected, but as a living practice that keeps unfolding.
Alongside formal meditation, my work has been shaped by long periods of time spent in nature and by creative writing. Both offer complementary ways of listening—through the body, the senses, and the imagination—and support a slower, more intimate relationship with daily experiences.
In more recent years, chronic pain, illness, grief, and experiences of PTSD brought my practice into the immediacy of daily life. During that time, I deepened my training in trauma‑sensitive mindfulness and became accredited to teach the Breathworks’ Mindfulness for Health and Mindfulness for Stress courses. These trainings continue to inform the compassionate, accessible approach you’ll encounter in what I write and teach.
Now, I share trauma-sensitive mindfulness and meditation through guided practice and reflective teaching, supporting those living with loss, facing health challenges, or navigating life’s uncertainties.
About Mindful Pause
Mindful Pause grew out of my deepening relationship with mindfulness—not as a technique to master, but as a way of meeting life as it unfolds, again and again.
At its heart is a simple question: how do we live fully in times of uncertainty and change?Â
This work rests on the understanding that awareness deepens through kindness, and that steadiness comes not from avoiding difficulty, but from learning how to be with it.
Mindful Pause is committed to offering guided meditations, reflective teachings, and simple, steady practices that support calm, clarity, and care in everyday life.
These are shared through workshops, courses (online, hybrid, and in person), and one-to-one support, in forms that are accessible—and where you are held with care—suitable for those new to mindfulness, while still offering depth for more experienced practitioners.
This is a space for returning—to the body, the breath, and what matters, one pause at a time.
Our Commitments
At Mindful Pause, we are committed to:
Authentic mindfulness
Free from jargon, pressure, or the promise of transformation on demand.
Equity, diversity, inclusion
Creating spaces where difference is respected, and people feel welcomed and included.
Holding practice with care
Attentive to safety, appropriate scope, and when other forms of support are needed.
Teaching with integrity
Grounded in lived practice rather than trends or quick fixes.
Honouring slowness
Allowing learning and insight to unfold in their own time.
Spaces of belonging
Where people feel safe to arrive as they are.
The Mindful Pause Manifesto
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At Mindful Pause, we believe that:
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A pause is not a luxury — it is a necessity.
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Awareness deepens through kindliness and care.
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You do not need to leave your life to practise mindfulness.
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The natural world is a quiet and faithful teacher.
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Creative expression can open new ways of seeing.
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Change is not a problem to solve, but a reality to meet.
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Presence is something we practise together, not perform.
Mindful Pause stands for a mindfulness that is grounded, ethical, and alive—rooted in tradition, responsive to modern life, and shaped by lived experience.
