Erik Passig founded Mindworks in London in 2012. He later trained Judith Cummins who joined Mindworks in 2016. We now offer individual sessions, courses and workshops in the UK, Germany, and online. Our clients include parts of the UK civil service, schools (training teachers), health organisations, consultancies and other public and private sector organisations.

Erik has been a practising Buddhist since the late 1980s. He moved from Germany to the UK at the age of 20 to join a Buddhist community and subsequently trained as a psychotherapist, gaining a Masters degree in Core Process Psychotherapy from Middlesex University through the Karuna Institute. He was a practising UKCP registered psychotherapist for 25 years in London working with everyone from murderers to porn stars. During that time he also taught meditation and Buddhist psychology in several Buddhist centres. Erik set up his own mindfulness meditation training organisation, Mindworks, in 2012 in London. Erik also practices and teaches Qi Gong following the Hua Gong tradition.

In 2014 Judith Cummins found the spiritual path after attending a mindfulness course. Soon after she gave up her corporate and senior civil service career to pursue Buddhism full-time and was trained as a mindfulness and meditation teacher by Erik. She subsequently became a fully qualified mindfulness teacher with the UK Mindfulness Association and is certified to deliver their Mindfulness Based Living Course. Judith joined Erik at Mindworks in 2016 and has taught mindfulness in a wide range of corporate and public sector organisations. She has degrees in both Business Studies and Art History.

At the beginning of 2018 we decided to focus on deepening our own spiritual practice and went on pilgrimage to the holy land of Bodhgaya in India. We spent the next eight years primarily on pilgrimage in India and Nepal. We stayed in monasteries; studied at the feet of some of the greatest contemporary masters of all the Tibetan Buddhist schools; spent time in deep retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas; and taught English to young monks. We also lived in semi-retreat in the Italian mountains for several months a year. During covid we returned to the UK and spent that time continuing our inner pilgrimage with long periods of meditation and Buddhist study. At the end of the covid period Erik spent a year in retreat before we returned to Asia to continue deepening our practice and learning.

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