Nick first learnt to meditate in 1990, before later going on to live for 6 years as a Buddhist monk. In 2004, he left the monastery and moved to London to bring what he had learnt into the challenges of urban life. In 2009, he set up a group for teaching mindfulness to gay and bi men in London. His practice evolved to explore more compassion-based meditation, as he found a lot of the people, he was working with demonstrated a lack of self-love, shame and low self-worth as core wounds.