With deep sadness, we share that our beloved tutor, Anna Parkinson (born 5 August 1954), passed away suddenly on Thursday 28 August 2025. Our heartfelt thoughts and love are with Anna's family, as well as her students and friends at this sad time.
Anna Parkinson was beloved by all of us at The College of Psychic Studies – staff, tutors, and the hundreds of students who have attended her wonderful workshops and courses over the past decade. Anna inspired so many of us with her approach to healing with the body's wisdom, and will continue inspire through her books, Change Your Mind, Heal Your Body and Beyond Sex and Soup: Living a Spiritual Adventure.
Dear Anna, we are filled with gratitude for your inspiring teachings, your generous heart and your warm, loving spirit. You will be so deeply missed by all of us at The College of Psychic Studies. Thank you for everything.
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Anna's family would like to share one of her poems with you. They discovered this shortly after Anna's death and it was likely written only days before she died.
Continuum by Anna Parkinson
At the train, I take the front.
I know my place is way along
the platform, at the narrow end
where the lines merge over the abyss
that haunts the platform edge.
I take my place up there, set
to take the brunt of a collision
And we are moving now
transporting to a world
where stars will greet me.
This is a milky way of wonder
where nothing is known but everything
knows, seeing unseen the feeling below.
It is my destiny to ponder
everything I did and failed to do.
How I wished but could not keep
my promises to you. How I longed
to make you happy and never let it go.
How in the end we both know
it was never so.
At last when I departed
it was just to see below
the land I have loved and left
more sharply than before.
But the sweeping stars have started
to soak my thoughts away.
I have dissolved and entered space
where I'll live but cannot stay.
So it will begin again
and I will join the rumbling train.
Sitting at the back this time.
Perhaps we'll meet again?
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Anna's sister, Sarah Jane Pearson, shares this tribute:
"Anna's healing journey started at The College of Psychic Studies several decades ago, through attending talks and workshops which inspired and empowered her to heal herself from an inoperable brain tumour. She went on to share her newfound commitment to a path of healing with others through her practice, talks, workshops and books; touching and enriching the lives of so many who knew her. Her daughter, Clara, describes her mum as living life in technicolour! She certainly was living life to the full with recent travel over the last year to family in Australia, Nepal, two solo pilgrimage walks in the Pyrenees, all the while immersing herself in her teaching, writing, and doing what gave her much purpose and fulfilment, giving healings with clients, even on the morning of her death.
Anna was devoted to her family: Her husband, Russell; two daughters, Clara and Daisy; and her four-year-old grand-daughter, Neve, who shared Anna's love of gardening, and for whom she was a constant and loving presence."
