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About 21awake

Rohan started 21awake as a blog project in 2008 and the name is something to do with the fact that it looks to explore the question: what it is to practice awakening in the 21st century?

As his writing, understanding and inspiration developed, it has now grown into a meditation design studio hosting a portfolio of projects all of which still connect to this central question.

About Rohan

Rohan first got interested in meditation just weeks before being offered a job with one of the world’s leading management consultancy firms.  And while he’s no longer with that particular company that creative tension between the seemingly opposite worlds of meditation and 21st century life & work has become the central narrative of my life since 2003.

You can hear more about Rohan’s inspiration to practice here this interview.

Rohanhave practised meditation pretty much since 2003, mainly in the insight meditation tradition, and has trained with some of the world’s leading teachers in Europe, the USA and Asia.  Rohan also happens to have extensive experience in management consultancy and digital/social innovation and is currently leading a major new digital innovation initiative with the Edinburgh Festivals.

We are  incredibly fortunate to feel part of a generation of people skilled in meditation  who are translating that experience and ongoing learning into the language of our times.  We are passionate about what is happening as more accessible forms of meditation becomes more mainstream in our culture and hope to be one of people who helps put on that particular party.

Now living in Glasgow, when in London Rohan helped run Europe’s leading urban insight meditation organisation and last year was famously our fair continent’s only representative in a poll for Hottest Male Buddhist Blogger 2009 which as you’d expect was hotly contested.  Rohan likes Lucy,  cricket, and udon noodles and recently scored his first touchdown for the Glasgow Hornets.