About Robin Amanda

Mindfulness teacher,
Therapeutic Practitioner,
Artistic Researcher.

Robin Amanda is a multidisciplinary practitioner whose work brings together mindfulness, therapeutic practice, and artistic research, grounded in long-term contemplative practice and supported by earlier experience in journalism and the visual arts.

Training as a journalist (early career)

Robin Amanda’s early training was in the visual arts, beginning with a foundation at Chelsea School of Arts, which established an enduring engagement with image, performance, and conceptual inquiry. She later worked for over twenty years in radio and television, primarily as a journalist and presenter. While this period shaped strong skills in research, interviewing, and attentive listening, it now sits as a formative background rather than an ongoing professional focus.

Artistic research & spiritual practice

Alongside her media work, Robin returned to formal study, completing a Master’s degree in Film, Video, and New Media, followed by post-master’s study in artistic research.

During this period, her practice developed into a hybrid form that combined visual and performance art, investigative inquiry, and sustained spiritual practice. She understood this work as a meeting point between different ways of knowing — artistic, journalistic, and contemplative.

Over time, her mindfulness and Buddhist practice became increasingly central. This led her back into academic study through a Master of Science in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapies and Approaches, a clinically informed programme integrating mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, neuroscience, and Buddhist psychology. This marked a decisive shift toward work focused on healing, integration, and direct support for others.

Mindfulness-based therapy & Retreats

Since then, Robin’s work has centred on mindfulness-based therapy, with particular attention to addiction, trauma, and recovery. Her therapeutic approach is informed by professional training, long-term meditation practice, and lived experience, including many years within the 12-step recovery tradition. She later completed training in clinical hypnotherapy, which complements her mindfulness-based work by offering additional tools for working with attention, habit, and subconscious processes.

A consistent thread runs through all of Robin’s work: careful listening, embodied practice, and a commitment to the richness that emerges when different disciplines are allowed to cross-pollinate. Rather than privileging a single framework, her approach is transdisciplinary, allowing therapeutic, contemplative, artistic, and experiential forms of knowledge to inform one another without collapse or simplification.

This website brings together the different strands of her work — therapies, retreats, artistic research, and journalism — as distinct but connected expressions of a long-standing inquiry into awareness, healing, and human experience.