What is Lucid Living?

Like water, life flows in each moment with the only constant being change. When our conditioned self is not in the way, there is the possibility to flow like water and transform at any given moment. We respond to life as it arises in each moment rather than react automatically. Realizing who we are beyond our conditioning, beyond the body, we connect with and embrace the greatest intimacy of all, the tingle and vibration of life, which is eventually found within. In this space the potential for totally new possibilities arises.

Are you flowing with life? How free do you feel to live your life fully, authentically? Are you happy? Do you feel there are areas in your live where you are not living up to your full potential? Are you holding back in your relationships, your career, your creativity?

Lucid Living is a community organisation for awakening, enlightenment and life. We offer powerful programs that jump-start your spiritual growth and personal development. We provide courses, ongoing groups, retreats and individual sessions online and in person that will support you in living more fully and freely.

We are a group of friends who share a passion for life, growth and exploration. We feel excited about challenging our automatic patterns and beliefs, and moving beyond our conditioned limitations. We love being simple and real with each other. And, we have a lot of fun! Discover how to share yourself authentically and openly, a profound and life transforming experience.

People who participate in our events share a passion for life, growth and exploration. Our life is about waking up, recognising that you and I are one, and encouraging each other to realise our highest potentials. For us, this impulse of awakening has taken root. It is the driving force of who we are and what we do. It is a great joy to share this with you and with anyone and everyone who feels these impulses emerging in their own heart. We offer this with lightness, humor, love and a challenge to embody what you know to be the deepest truth in your being. To live life unconditionally, without excuses, without holding on to the past.

We love to bring like-minded people together to engage, inspire and support each other on our journey of self-discovery. If you are ready to live your life with more excitement, courage, curiosity and depth come along. We would love to meet you!

What we do

At different times and stages in our life we are open to and attracted by different paths. Some look deeper through traditional meditation teachings, some prefer contemporary spiritual teachings or teachers, and some take unconventional paths of Self-discovery. All share a common thread pointing towards the unity underlying the apparent separation. At Lucid Living you will find a variety of these approaches. We share what we have found to be the most fun and effective support in our awakening, personal development and spiritual growth. At the heart of everything we do is what we call Sharing? »

• Lucid Living courses, groups, retreats & individual sessions
  We offer facilitated courses », ongoing weekly groups », retreats » and 1-to-1 sessions » predominantly in London, UK and ONLINE and on occasion in other parts of Europe and the USA.

• Guest teacher events
  There are a myriad of traditions, teachings and systems easily accessible to us these days. We are grateful for this variety, which supports our unfolding through study and continuous opening to more insight, depth and knowledge. It is our pleasure to share with you those teachings which have touched us in a particular way.

• Lucid Living website
  Inspired by living in a lucid world this website offers information about our activities and events as well as a blog » and links to interesting resources, audio and video », books » and people we find inspiring. We update our blog regularly with information about upcoming events as well as inspiring articles and our own thoughts and realisations about awakening, enlightenment and life. We love hearing from you. Share your comments!

Each moment holds unlimited possibilities

As a child we were unconditionally open to experience life. Growing up we learned that the world is not unconditional. In order to feel safe, loved, accepted and to survive we started to adapt to our environment by imitating rewarded behaviour, taking on the conditioning from our parents, families, friends, teachers, religion, society, culture, etc. who have been conditioned by their previous generations. Fear taught us to protect ourselves from painful and unpleasant experiences. This conditioning forms the basis with which we relate to and cope with the world. Without being aware of it, this is our identity. It is who we think we are.

In Sharing we actively look for our conditioned self that is expressed through the patterns of behaviour that run unconsciously and automatically in our lives. Being present in the moment and paying attention to what is really happening on the inside, we start to see ourselves more clearly. We learn to respond to life as it arises in each moment rather than react from an automatic place. Realising who we are beyond our conditioning, beyond the body, we connect with and embrace the greatest intimacy of all, the tingle and vibration of life. With this, the potential for a new possibility arises.

Do you want to be free?

What we usually take ourselves to be is a combination of our genes and conditioning, much of which is based on fear. Whether we are aware of it or not almost every act stems from this place – at home, at work, with friends, in the supermarket. It is the main driver of what we say and do until we become aware of it.

As the strategies and automatic behaviors that we have developed to secure our survival in our early stages become our identity we feel safe with what is familiar and threatened by what challenges us. So we keep doing the same things in the same way over and over, holding on to what we think we know. This is a way of getting by. It is, however, limiting. It is not present. It is not alive.

To break out of this cycle, to become aware of our conditioned self and to experiment with a new way of living, it takes everything we have. It must be the priority in each moment. We have to want it more than anything else, more than feeling comfortable. Most of all it takes an absolute commitment to being honest with yourself.

Another way of looking at it

Another way of looking at reality is as a vibrational frequency. Everything we call our manifest world vibrates in this frequency. The chair you are sitting on, the computer you are using, the room you are sitting in, the internet, the space in which this all happens, the cosmos, everything we can think of and imagine… and You and Me. Ever wondered why you feel more drawn to one person than to another? We could say that it is their type, education, interest, culture or physical appearance that attracts us but another way of explaining it could be that we are drawn together by our vibrational frequencies. We resonate with similar frequencies.

Looking beyond the physical, mental, emotional and psychic realms our innermost being reveals. It is our spirituality, the true Self, cosmic life force, the evolutionary impulse. The more we are realised in this innate place within ourselves the higher our energy vibrates. We all recognise this in each other. It is when we say people have an aura or presence.

So what influences this vibration? Everything does, but first and foremost your thoughts. They are at the root of your actions. What we think is what we put out into the world. Our energies vibrate with each other, they flow through and immerse in each other. What we radiate is what and who we draw to us. So being justified in anger, frustration, complaint will most likely bring more of the same. Likewise when we are grateful, balanced and loving. Being surrounded by these higher levels of frequency we feel inspired and supported.

Through coming together in on authentic community we immerse ourselves in a strong and supportive energy field that helps us to see and accept who and how we are, and calls us to be more present. With growing sensitivity and awareness we naturally open and true life transformation starts to happen of its own accord.