The founder
G’day, I’m Richard.
I started Still as a place to find stillness. For the body, the mind and the soul.
The vision
As many doors as there are people walking through them.
My vision for the studio is a place where we can find stillness for our body, mind and soul, and more than one way of getting there.
Yoga. Meditation. Breathwork. Singing. Dancing. Quiet. Sound baths. Whichever one works for you is the right one.
Why I built it
I live with Parkinson’s.
When I was diagnosed, I set out to find every aspect I could add to my life that would let me live with the disease, cope with it, and maybe come back at it with something of my own.
What I kept arriving at was this. Stilling the mind helps me. Mindfulness helps me. Anything that takes the pressure and the intensity out of the body, the mind and the soul helps me.
I’m not a doctor, and I won’t tell you what any of it will do for you. I can only tell you what it has done for me, and that I wanted to build somewhere other people could find out for themselves.
What comes next
Back to first principles.
The practice is the start of it, not the whole of it. As the studio grows we’ll be looking at the rest of it too: diet and lifestyle.
Getting the plastics out. Organic where it counts. Preservatives and the unnatural things out of what we eat. Coming back to first principles. What the body actually needs, and what it actually wants.
In short
A place of sanctuary. Somewhere you can come and still your mind.