For anyone who watched our short film, The Mitoté, and is curious about how it all came together, here's a fun interview where Frank and I discuss a pretty wide range of topics including the creative process, finding the 'flow state', & transcending fear & anxiety to live a life rich in passion, creativity, joy and freedom :) I couldn't really take myself seriously at the start... or the middle... or the end for that matter... so there's a bit of laughing to listen through! B

My debut novel Maya of the In-between was recently reviewed by book blogger Laura Sandonato. Here is a summary of her review and a link to her Blog :) You can read the full Review Post Here ~ https://pickingbooks.com/blog/a-new-ya-dystopia SUMMARISED REVIEW OF MAYA OF THE INBETWEEN "Maya of the Inbetween combines dystopian themes of environmental destruction, government control, and survival. In Maya of the Inbetween, Bennet adds Tolkien-like world-building to a YA dystopia a

*That I've read. Books that explore Higher Consciousness, Personal Transformation, Enlightenment, Toltec Wisdom, & the Nature of Existence. I'll begin by saying that my repertoire isn't massive. I've never deep-dived down the rabbit hole of reading a lot of spiritual books, wary of soaking up too many spiritual ideas and it becoming a heady quest for knowledge rather than an experiential exploration of truth and self. BUT, these books have all had profound influences over my

In just a few hours The Mitoté will be released on Vimeo! The Mitoté is a 30-minute experimental short, co-written and created in partnership with my brother Frank Bennett. We had planned to screen it at film festivals before a public release, but when the pandemic happened, we decided to release it for free on Vimeo for anyone looking for more though-provoking entertainment during isolation... "Mind-bending & Enlightening" —IMDB Reality starts to appear less real as Max wake

Behind the scenes of The Mitoté with the film's Director Frank Bennett. Share a bit about your experience creating the Mitoté, from writing, what it was like co-creating, then actually filming. The writing process for the Mitoté was much different from any other work I had written before. It all started after watching Tarantino’s newest film at the cinema. I was drifting off to sleep and there was one shot from the film that I particularly loved that wouldn’t leave my mind. E

I've been guiding yoga classes to a small group of dedicated Yogi's for about a year now, and in response to Covid19 social distancing have taken the class online. The videos will be public on youtube, so all are welcome :) As I've spoken about in other posts, Yoga has been a journey of deep healing, transformation and discovery for me. A continuous softening, opening and sinking into expanded layers of presence, awareness and love. Offering the practice of yoga to others in

Reality starts to appear less real as Max wakes up to the illusionary nature of existence through a series of seeings into the subconscious

Crisp. Clear. Present. Invigorated. Alive. Energy moving. Life-Force flowing. Heart beaming! Thus is the feeling surging through every cell after a simple swim in ice cold water. Addictions and cravings for substances ~ drugs, caffeine, sugar, food, adrenaline~ arise, often out of a desperation to be stimulated into life. We often forget there is an infinite source of life resting within that can be returned to at any moment. And when we return, there is no need for any subst

A collection of Poems on Emptiness, the substance of all life that is unimaginably full. I re-found these in one of my journals I was flicking through :) ~ It is in stillness. It is in silence. It is in quiet. It is in life. It is in love. It is in heart. It is in peace. It is also in sadness. It is also in grief. It is in pain, hatred, relief. It is in everything, for it is everything. And I am it, as are you. ~ Falling, Floating, swimming in stillness. An embodiment of some

Returning home, de-cluttering the mind, discovering higher states of clarity, buoyancy, aliveness, freedom. Just wanted to share this elegantly captured video from a Meditation Retreat with Rohan Heaton held four times a year in Yallingup Western Australia, where I teach yoga and cook! Videography by my unbelievably creative brother, young filmmaker Frank Bennett Love Sita #yoga #meditation #yallingup #yogaretreat #awakening #awaketeacher #natureretreat #wakeup #howtowakeup #

We were born of love, as love, created by the act of love merging. Maybe you remember what it felt like to rest in that state of unconditional love as a child. The sense of lightness, open-heartedness, freedom. The capacity to fall in love with anyone, anything, at anytime. Fall in love with life itself, as it is, for no reason. Because there was an understanding, without being conceptually understood by words or thought, that that's what you were. Before the labels and the p

Sharing my story as a deeply introverted being in an extravert society, in hopes it might shed light on yours. The heightened love and pain of being sensitive in a desensitised culture. If your reading as someone raised in a western culture like me, it's brave to acknowledge that you feel, because most of us are conditioned to ignore the fact. That feelings are weak and must be supressed. But without acknowledgment of feelings, what are we? In a way we might as well be dead..

When we drop from our mind to experience the world through our body, our heart, our senses; all resistance drops away, and our natural intuition can shine through. Can you feel it when you take a deep breath? The rich sense of presence that resides deep within. Unshakable peace. Beyond thought and mental comprehension. Beyond the mind itself. That wide open space, where your heart pours open and becomes your primary source of intelligence, a space where your own intuition can

Cultivating a morning ritual that opens you up to meet the day with vibrancy, clarity and buoyancy. Sometimes I get asked what I do to get in the 'flow-state' as a writer, so I thought I'd share it here for anyone else wondering how to up their efficiency, and strangely it begins with a morning ritual that has nothing to do with writing. Having a morning ritual was something I began as a teenager to align with myself. A deeper self than the one I yet knew, but sensed beneath

How clean, conscious eating helped free my mind from limiting beliefs and unlock higher clarity, energy and joy! When I was young I was sick a lot. I have an extremely sensitive stomach and system that reacts severely against anything remotely toxic, but when I was younger, I didn't understand this. I just thought there was something wrong with my body, and when I was having little luck with traditional doctors in figuring out what the 'wrongness' was, I started looking at

Everywhere you look, someone's doing yoga. But why? Why are you doing it? Say Yoga was a tree; the fit, toned, nimble body you might be stoked about would be one of the leaves. Just one. A flimsy bi-product. Your sense of connection with yourself and the healing you might feel each time you hold a pose long enough for a deep emotion to rise and release; the branches. The sense of stillness, and silence you might find by the end could be the trunk. But the majority of people a