Author Archives: Kris Deva North

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About Kris Deva North

Author, Meditation Coach, Teacher of the Taoist Arts.

Coming Soon To a Download near You: Shiatsu Secrets for Hairdressers: watch this space!

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Kris Deva North

This handy little manual holds the secrets of a unique treatment to transform your hairdressing experience, using special Shiatsu pressure points for relaxation, vitality, and stress relief. It’s easy to give the massage, and the more you know about it … Continue reading →

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A Toe in the Coach Trip

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Kris Deva North

On my way to the Healing Circle, reflecting on last night, seeing my Beloved off at Heathrow to whirl again across the desert dancing round gypsy fires, I had a moment, like you know they creep up on you when … Continue reading →

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Pastiche

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Kris Deva North

A kind of Sundayness led me to where my Auntie Pat lived: a pebbledash house, once opposite a cricket ground now luxury apartments, with her dog Pongo (yes he did), fishmonger husband and three children, one sporty who married an … Continue reading →

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History with Elvis

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Coming January it would be just 20 years to Elvis’s 100th Birthday.  That thought came to me last night at Miss Saigon (a thousand true stories.)  All I remembered from the first time were the helicopter and the faces of abandoned … Continue reading →

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Tai Chi Goatsmilk Quest and Boom, That’s What I Do

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Kris Deva North

What do I do for a living, they asked. Well, I just got back from drinking milk squeezed fresh out of the goat before my very eyes in the breakfast break at Tai Chi Retreat in the wilds of Wales. … Continue reading →

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It’s Not You, It’s Me

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Reading, Seeing and Hearing the outrage from all directions I can understand why we were told never to discuss politics, sex or religion. Then they told us of our government’s holdings of Krupp shares in WW1, and Imperial Japanese War Bonds in WW2.  … Continue reading →

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The Tao of Who

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Tao is Old and Tao is New Tao is False and Tao is True When they ask the Tao of Who Tao is Me and Tao is You

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Garden Dream

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Kris Deva North

After 22 years suspended between heaven and earth I have a garden.  I see it now peeking through the windows of my mind the step I go down to flatten the grass with the souls of my feat, an achievement of … Continue reading →

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First Step Second Step Third Step Quickstep

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Moving home for the first time in twenty-two years, my advice to anyone thinking about it?  Well, I nearly wrote ‘don’t’ but, actually, looking beyond the boxes that fill my vision, I am happy to continue this visit to the … Continue reading →

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The First Step

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Journey of a Thousand Miles – of course you’ve heard it before  – starts with a single step.  But which way?  Witch way or Wizard Way?   When I  dropped my career and picked up my rucksack I just knew there … Continue reading →

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