John Richardson (Past Life Spirit Medium)

John Richardson has spent his working life listening, to people and to what he believes comes through for them. He reads under his own name from Huddersfield, where he is known locally as the Yorkshire Medium, and he will be at the Guildhall across both days in September offering past life readings and sitting down with people one to one.

He describes what he does simply: readings of guidance and counsel. Alongside past life work he is a psychic medium, a spiritual healer and a hypnotherapist, and he tends to treat all of it as one thing, helping someone understand a situation well enough to move on from it.

What a past life reading is (and isn’t)

A past life reading is not a performance and it is not a diagnosis. In John’s hands it is a way of looking at patterns, the fears, habits or feelings that seem to have been with you longer than this life quite accounts for, and asking what they might be telling you now. People often come with something specific: a phobia they cannot place, a relationship that keeps repeating, a sense of being stuck. The reading is there to give a clearer view, not a fixed prediction.

Mediumship, healing and hypnotherapy

John’s background runs wider than readings. He works as a holistic analytical hypnotherapist and has experience in stage hypnosis, and he offers spiritual healing and mediumship as well. His own phrase for the aim of all of it is healing through understanding, physical and psychological, and his blunter version is worth keeping: if you have a problem, don’t avoid it, resolve it. He credits his early mentoring to family, his grandfather and great aunt, and to a long-standing friend who taught him the work.

What people come to him for

Most people who sit with John are not after drama. They want a second perspective on something they are already carrying, or a way to loosen a pattern that has not shifted on its own. Some come curious about past lives; others come because the ordinary routes have not helped and they are willing to try a different one. He works privately, in person and at a distance by phone and video, so a reading at the Guildhall is a fair sample of what a longer session would feel like.

Something to try this week

Pick one recurring reaction you would like to understand better, the thing you always feel in a certain kind of situation. For a week, whenever it turns up, don’t judge it, just note where you feel it in your body and what happened just before. You are not solving it, only gathering it. Whether or not you believe it reaches back beyond this life, naming a pattern honestly is the first step to changing it.

John Richardson is one of over 70 readers, healers and stallholders at the Mind Body Spirit & Wellness Weekend, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September 2026, at Stockport Masonic Guildhall. His readings, like every session across the weekend, are included with entry.

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