John Waters & the Centre of Light
John offers the Centre of Light as a teaching space dedicated to awakening and Self Realisation.
Drawing on decades of spiritual inquiry, contemplative practice, and direct inner experience, John’s work integrates presence and healing into a practical and compassionate pathway for transformation.
At the heart of John’s teaching is the understanding that true spiritual growth is not about adopting beliefs or escaping life, but about awakening to one’s essential nature through deep presence, inner honesty and conscious living.
His approach combines psychological integration with authentic spiritual practice, helping people move beyond limitation, emotional conditioning, and separation into greater clarity, peace, love, and wholeness.
John guides students through a progressive journey of transformation that includes personality integration, soul fusion, and ultimately Self Realisation. His teaching emphasises grounded spirituality — awakening that is embodied, heart-centred, and expressed in everyday life.
John presents spirituality in a way that is direct, experiential, and accessible to everyone. He invites you to move beyond concepts into living awareness, where healing, insight, and inner freedom naturally unfold.
Known for his sincerity, depth, and compassionate presence, John creates a space where people can safely explore their inner world, reconnect with their true essence, and awaken to the light within themselves.
John’s Teaching Approach
John brings wisdom and humour to his teaching and counselling.
He introduces his students and clients to awareness techniques that help to quieten the mind and dialogues to manage the ego. John also offers insights about how to deepen in Presence in your day to day life.
Presence-based therapies including simple focusing, meditation, relaxation and visualisation techniques enable you to calm distracted and reactive states of mind. When the mind is focused on tangible sights, sounds and other natural impressions the surface activity of the mind quietens.
It is during these experiences of silence that you have a deeper experience of your true self and the obstacles to your growth.
John’s approach focuses on the integrated healing of the mind, body and spirit, which leads to wholeness and awakening.
More Background
John first offered practical spiritual guidance for people on the spiritual path in 2004. Around that time he had an inner vision about the nature of the spiritual path and it informed his approach to spiritual teaching and counselling.
He has had many jobs including as a zookeeper, foreign affairs clerk, baker, psychologist, lecturer and student. At age 19 his soul reawakened and he trained in classical yoga, joined a spiritual community and learned about the challenges of spiritual service.
After a 3 year program in psychotherapy in the 1990’s John worked as a counselling psychologist in the tertiary education field. His role included psychological counselling, clinical supervision, organisational coaching, critical incident stress management and mediation. John also conducted meditation programs for students and staff and once organised a series of meditation seminars by teachers from 12 different spiritual traditions.
John has practised yoga and esoteric disciplines for 45 years and in this time has had the privilege of learning from a number of respected yogis, adepts and seers from the East and West.
His main spiritual practice has been classical yoga and simply being present. John learnt about the art of seership and the Ageless Wisdom teachings from living and esoteric teachers within the Great White Brotherhood.
John has engaged in numerous soul-directed activities, undertaking shamanic journeys in Western Victoria, Northern Territory, the UK and France, as well as a personal yoga practice in Tiruvannamalai India.
This unique training has given John a depth of experience that enables him to guide people from all walks of life on their journey of awakening.
Please feel free to contact John if you would like to arrange an individual session or attend a group activity.