Darius Bashar

Darius Bashar is a meditation teacher and creativity coach based in Toronto, Canada, and the founder of Artist Morning, a free online community where people meet on Zoom each week to meditate together and then write. He is also a portrait photographer whose pictures have appeared in TIME and on Oprah.com. For him, making things is a spiritual path, and most of what he teaches is about getting past perfectionism, self-doubt and the fear of being seen.

He has recorded more than 300 guided meditations on Insight Timer, many of them visualisations on courage, joy, self-belief, letting go and mortality, often written with writers and artists in mind. His seven-day Insight Timer course on creativity works with the inner child, the heart and the dreaming mind, and thousands of people have taken it. On YouTube he posts twenty-minute guided meditations and short talks, and his Substack sends out a weekly writing prompt, meditation and video workshop. For closer support he runs The Creative Sanctuary, a twelve-week one-to-one coaching programme of weekly calls, meditation, movement and creative assignments for people starting a book, a channel or another creative project.