We’re starting a quiet, mindful revolution.
We hope you will join us.
Our mission is simple:
At Levitate we help people find calm in a world of chaos, and shared community in a sea of individuality. We think too many people burn out and suffer needlessly when they think they have to do it all alone. So we work with wonderful individuals and caring companies, to help them to proactively combat burnout, reduce isolation and lower stress. We’d like to live in a world where more people are fulfilled. With your help we might just get there.
We’re guided by these principals:
Support wellbeing.
We support people in their journey to increase mental, physical, emotional (and dare we say spiritual?) wellbeing. We are here to reinforce your self-care. But we don’t stop there…
Build community.
Life can be a lonely journey. People burnout when they try to do it alone. We believe the world is better when we are connected to each other, to our environments, to our ecosystems. When we realise how deeply we rely on community care. At its root, mindfulness is all about this connection. Everything we do seeks to strengthen this.
Nurture our planet.
We live in a complex, interdependent ecosystem. It is not enough to look after ourselves, we need to look after each other, the planet and the life we share it with.
We donate 1% of every purchase to carbon capture technologies, through our partnership with Stripe. Find out more about how the money is invested here.
Help where we can.
A key part of our mission is to love, serve and protect (inspired by the life’s work of Ram Dass). We try to achieve this by offering scholarships and community classes, giving free sessions to NHS employees, championing the vulnerable, seeking diversity in who we work with, enacting compassionate leadership, and through working with underserved communities.
Learn more about our mindful philosophy.
Welcome to 21st century enlightenment.
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Are you looking for a guru? Are you trying to rise to a higher plane of consciousness. Or seeking to learn how to levitate? Unfortunately our name kind of makes that a given!
And we get it. We spent too much time searching tirelessly for the same promised escape. The secret to a life well lived (or less suffered). Because it sucks feeling stuck in the mud of anxiety, depression, isolation that so many of us feel.
But what if we asked you to stop? To consider that what you’re looking for out there might be right here in this moment? That enlightenment is possible through the most everyday of experiences, as we eat our food, walk to work and brush our teeth? Would you be at least curious to try?
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What if we told you we offer something far more valuable? We’ve found a way to keep your feet firmly attached to the ground even as your spirits soar. It’s a philosophy of connection with the world you can feel. A way of living with presence. A path to living joyfully.
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Others call it mindfulness, breathwork, music and movement.
Find out if this is what you’re searching for.
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Highlights from our blog.
We blog about wellbeing when inspiration hits.
We tend to pop links to our articles in our newsletters, but you can also catch up with our latest here:
Some of the benefits of meditation.
(A first draft of something much larger).
If you are sceptical of the benefits of meditation, worried that it is a new age fad, or just plain fearful of all things spiritual, then this is the place for you. Here we dig into the science and the real world benefits, we dispel some common myths, and set out the compelling case for why you should integrate mindfulness into your life, starting today.
The Scientific Benefits
Over the last 30 years exciting developments in science, and work from luminaries such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, have enabled us to study the structure and function of the brain. Scientists at Harvard, Oxford, UC Davis and more of the world’s leading research universities have made huge progress in interrogating the scientific benefits of meditation. We’re able to look at what’s going on in someone’s head before during and after meditation. The benefits don’t stop with the brain, they extend to the nervous system, immune system, digestive system, reproductive system, and even the rate that our cells age.
Soon, we will be adding a section here to outline some of the most exciting benefits of meditation, along with links to the studies in case you want to dive deeper.
The Emotional Benefits
Mindfulness is good for your mental health. Here we explore why that is true. Equally we dive into why in some cases mindfulness gets a bad rap, and how we can integrate it along with other healthy habits into our already busy lives.
Soon, we will be adding a section here to outline some of the most exciting subjective, emotional benefits of meditation.
The Spiritual Benefits
You don’t need to become a Buddhist to get something out of meditation. You can hold any faith, or none, and benefit from this secular mental practice. We like to define spiritual (with a small s) as the journey that each of us takes through life, as we discover more about ourselves and our purpose. Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris refers to mindfulness as the “Large Hadron Collider“ of the mind (as opposed to it merely being an executive stress ball). Viewed as such, meditation is not passive acceptance of what is, but rather a platform for exploring the contents and workings of your own consciousness. Simply put, meditation is a tool that can create clarity and give insight into what you want and why you want it. Here we explore why that is the case, and how you can apply the insights you gain to your life off the cushion!