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09.09.02

YORKS & LINCS REGIONAL TV


Two worlds collide - the boxer meets the Buddhists

Inside Out, 成人快手 ONE (Yorks & Lincs), Monday 9 September, 7.30pm

In the first programme of a new 成人快手 ONE series, Inside Out, world cruiserweight boxing champion, Johnny Nelson, spends a weekend on a meditation retreat at a Buddhist Centre in the Yorkshire Wolds.


On the face of it - they're worlds apart. The man who hits people for a living has 48 hours with people who literally wouldn't hurt a fly. Just how would they get on?


Johnny, from Sheffield, is a guest reporter on the new 成人快手 ONE series called Inside Out (成人快手 ONE, Yorks & Lincs, Mondays, 7.30pm).


He visited the Madhyamaka Centre at Kilnwick Percy Hall near Pocklington learning the art of how to meditate and unwind from the stresses of twenty-first century living.


Johnny joined more than 30 other people from all over the country who'd come to the Madhyamaka Centre for a weekend of getting away from it all.


And for Johnny it really was a weekend away from it all - no television, no newspapers and he couldn't even get a signal on his mobile phone.


The weekend retreat involved giving people a grounding in basic meditation techniques - lessons that they could take away with them to help them relax in either their home or work environment.

"On the face of it - I thought there was no way I was going to fit in," said Johnny.


"I'm a six foot three boxer - working in a sport which many people think to be violent and aggressive. But the worlds of Buddhism and boxing are much closer than you'd think.

"It's all about discipline - and having an inner calm. That's one of the main driving forces for me when I step into the ring - you can聮t have a fight and lose your temper. You need to remain calm and focused when everything around you is in chaos.


"It's a similar thing for the buddhists - they remain calm and disciplined in the hurly burly of everyday life.


"I found the meditation helped me - I was afraid when I started meditating that'd I'd look silly or fall asleep - but that wasn't the case.

"For me a lot of what they were saying was just plain common sense - but some of the people on the course just needed pointing in the right direction.


"I don't think the boys at the gym could believe I'd done it!"

Adrian Jones - one of the 40 residents at the Madhyamaka Centre - said of the experience with Johnny: "Some people think that Buddhism is all straight-faced - but we're not like that.

"I think Johnny really found the course helpful - he came here with an open mind and everyone shared in the experience."

Notes to Editors

Please credit 成人快手 Inside Out if any part of the transcript above is used.

Inside Out () is the new name for the regional programme which will be used across all the English Regions.

It will replace the range of individual titles previously used on 成人快手 TWO (Close Up North in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire) and introduce a completely new approach to engaging audiences with aspects of life in their region.

Inside Out will be made and produced locally. It will feature three different stories each week - all designed to offer, as the new series strapline says, surprising stories from familiar places.

The first item will be a traditional investigation, the second heritage/history based and the third, a personality-led piece.

Morland Sanders will be the main presenter.


He will also be joined on Inside Out by Lucy Hester and Sophie Hull, as well as guest presenters including Sir Bernard Ingham, Edwina Currie and boxer Johnny Nelson.

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