Upcoming Events

Blake Bauer's internationally bestselling You Were Not Born To Suffer explains why depression, addiction, physical illness, unfulfilling work and relationship problems can be caused by years of hiding your true emotions, denying your life purpose and living in fear. Join Blake at the Watkins' bookshop for this talk, Q&A and book-signing and learn how to slow down and cultivate peace and self-acceptance, freeing yourself from the destructive thoughts, habits and situations that are stopping you from being happy and well.

Join Ali Norell to celebrate the launch of her book, The Truth Inside (O Books) on 6th June 2019 from 6:30PM. In July 2014 Ali's youngest daughter, Romy, died suddenly aged four months. Ali's lifelong belief in spiritualism was challenged in the hardest way possible, but through encounters with spiritual mediums and with several experiences that she found difficult to explain away, she found her way back to hope and positivity. The Truth Inside asserts that our link with our…

Have you ever wondered about what the Masters of the past would have to say about what is going on today? Well, they may not be as far removed as you may think. They are very much aware of what’s happening in the world day, and they want to share their knowledge with us from the other side. Ted Mahr grew up in a psychic family where it was normal to talk to spirits on the other side. His foster…

Dr. Masaru Emoto was a Japanese water researcher who discovered after taking tens of thousands of water crystal photographs that when water is exposed to positive, beautiful words, thoughts, music and vibrations, it creates beautiful, hexagonal crystalline structures. On the other hand, when water is exposed to negative, ugly or destructive words, thoughts, music and vibrations it does not make these beautiful crystalline structures, instead forming ugly shapes. Because both the human body and Earth itself are about 70 percent…

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice in pursuit of an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. In addition to meditations, visualizations and practices for the breath and body, these include elements rather less familiar to yoga initiates in the West including sexual yoga; dream yoga or lucid dreaming; and yoga practices enhanced by psychoactive plant substances. The book includes wonderful…

Martin Shaw is one of the country’s best-loved storytellers and a leading teacher of myth. In troubled times it can be easy to fall into either despair or numbness, and it was a traditional role of the storyteller to rouse both beauty and vocation in such moments. To attend to the grace. In this intimate evening at one of the world’s oldest independent bookshops, Shaw will be talking about his new book, The Night Wages (Cista MysticaPress, 2019), a rumination…