Live An Ordinary Illuminated Life

Living From Your Soul - London Retreat
Uncovering The Hidden Path in Everything

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16 & 17 May 2026

You will notice that we have priced this retreat so that it is accessible to everyone. Some of you have expressed surprise at this, but it is our way to treat those we sit with in The Light That is Throughout as family. If you wish to honour and support our ability to share more in this way, and you have the means, you are welcome to donate or become a benefactor. - please find more details here.

In all of life and within every sincere act of compassion, love, tenderness and faith there is a simple path of knowing God that is present and always available to us. In this beautiful two day retreat author and sacred teacher John Siddique will share the practices which can help us actually know the tender drop of God in your own heart, and you will be invited to explore how you can confirm and allow the truth of  what John calls ‘The Light That is Throughout’ to illuminate your simple ordinary human life in all its expressions.

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Featured Meditations
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Meditations & Practices For Real Life

Join The Open Space for monthly communal practice, talks and access to John’s archive containing all of his meditations and talks, and to our community for those committed more deeply to living an ordinary life of illumination.

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The Open Space community receives a special monthly video satsang, and we also meet live monthly to practise and share together.

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John Siddique is a sacred teacher, author and speaker whose work brings sacredness back into ordinary life.

Over 3.8 million people have practised with his meditations and teachings, and more than 33,000 students worldwide have gone deeper through the online courses Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity and Magical Moments.. For those who want a steady companion for the human path, John’s book Signposts of the Spiritual Journey offers practical guidance for genuine growth, meaning, and everyday enlightenment.

Featured in Time magazine, Women & Home, The Tablet, Platinum, The Spectator, The Guardian, and the BBC.

These teachings are shared in clear, human language, rooted in lived practice. Their heart is simple: to support you to unearth and express your true state of being, meaningfully, here and now, through authenticity, love, and awareness.

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Signposts - Your Life is The Path

A practical book for anyone who wants greater meaning, and a way to meet your real life with steadiness, warmth, and honesty. Signposts brings deep teachings into your ordinary days, so the path becomes usable again, in your body, in your relationships, and in the life you are actually living.

Winner, Best Spiritual Book 2022, The Platinum Awards.
Published by Watkins and distributed by Penguin Random House.

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Signposts of the Spiritual Journey offers clear guidance for the day-to-day human path, the moments of difficulty, the moments of change, and the quiet longing for what is true. It is written for people who want something simple, honest, and usable, and who value a clear, human path.

  • Inside the book

  • Clear guidance for meeting anxiety, grief, uncertainty, and change with wisdom and grace

  • Simple practices you can return to: attention, breath, inquiry, and the art of coming back

  • Teachings rooted in humanity’s long contemplative traditions, offered in direct, modern language

  • A steady companion for the everyday path of work, love, family, longing, belonging

  • A book to revisit over the years, as your life opens and deepens

American Library Association Review
"Part self-help, part spirituality exercise, Signposts is both introductory and thorough, welcoming and not aggressive . . . the book provides a framework for self-realization that even the most uninitiated can understand through easy but deeply thoughtful points for reflections. For those seeking guidance in their spiritual journey or those needing an honest and kind approach to clarity, Signposts will be helpful at any point on the journey's path."

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Published by Watkins and distributed by Penguin Random House.

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TESTIMONIALS

  • I don’t have the words to adequately express my deep appreciation for John’s teachings and the profound awareness and shifts that occurred within me. His approach and presentation was so loving and profound. In the countless meditation courses I have taken part in over the years, this one resonated with me far more than any other. John’s inquiry, his timing, his words, and the spaces between his words helped me reach a place of peace and resolution on something I have been struggling with for many months. I am so very grateful, truly.

    Student Review - Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity Course

  • I have been “trying” to find love for myself for so long. I cried with joy when I felt the freedom of realising that I had a checklist of things I felt was wrong with me when in actuality, those were the exact things I have always been looking to connect to. Those were the parts of me I had been denying were real or important. I wish I could tell you what this means to me. I’ve never felt the conviction I feel now to own who I am. I feel joy and love.

    Student Review - Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity Course

  • John has a voice that sounds wholly in tune with a deeply kind and generous heart and spirit. In this course, John gently and clearly invites others to join him, step by step, to explore who they are and to find ways to remember that they've always been these same selves.

    Student Review - Self-Acceptance Through Authenticity Course

  • ‘So full of humble wisdom. Every word spoken resonated with my heart on a profound level, 
like something I already deeply understood but was fragmented and confused, 
John gathered it all together in a beautifully eloquent, present and human way, full of love.’

    Emily - UK

  • ‘I’ve been meditating for 10 years and have come across a number of teachers on my path. 
John’s teachings are special, focusing on the inner space that needs to expand and take its place in our lives.’

    Marianne - Norway

  • 'John reveals the simple true path to authenticity. 
He teaches practical wisdom which makes understanding 
our true authenticity so accessible.’

    Stephen - USA

  • ‘A transmission of deep presence and heart-centeredness. John seems to know exactly what to say 
and when to say it, to draw you in to a deep meditative state.’ 

    Richard - Sweden

  • ‘I will carry your teachings with me in the basket of things that really matter to me.’

    Larry - USA