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A short meditation in the Japanese tradition which cleanses and clears your energies with Reiki.

So useful for Reiki practioners before and after treatments and for any time on order to feel clear and calm. Beautiful for non-practioners too x

• The meditation begins at 1 min 33 seconds in.
• https://www.reiki.org/articles/we-are-creating-world-peace  for a beautiful article on Reiki and World Peace by William Lee Rand.

Thank you for listening and I hope you've enjoyed this meditation x

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A tiny episode of just over 2 mins with a garden nuthatch who sang a few words to me :) - I write automatically as she chatters... 

So resonant and the perfect messge x

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‘Sliding scale musical joy is here every day

and I run, creep, sleek up and down it

as you do. 

Si Si Siiiiii! Smooth…and bubbling merry under, my call.

This heart glows radiant soft, timeless – 

beneath my orange-pink underfeathers and

you have my blue-grey artist back,

a colour-wheel, complementary creeper

plus tree – perfect!

Though I disappear into deeper woods, it’s true,

I return when you do, 

with clear focus, black stripe precision sharp

direct through the eye

and point to our purpose, our poise,

our protection.

Swift, sure and true – 

I am an inner fire of blessing.

Si Si Si!

As are you.’


Thank you, Nuthatch x 

& thank you for listening.

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An intuitive poem of 2 mins 45 written in a few minutes after listening to 'The World at One' on Radio 4 and then looking outside. 

Feeling a  great need for calming ... and the birds and the trees spoke to me x

So wonderful writing these, having no idea really what will emerge...
the process of writing and then reading them is always so surprising and calming for me.

'This is the news' – an afternoon poem

This is the world at 1.45 says the news presenter on Radio 4. 

This is the news, firmly, this is the news at 1. 45. 

This is the news, says the wood pigeon outside my window. 

This is the news, says the collared dove who comes 

to eat at the bird table with her. 

It's all okay Rowena, it's all okay. 

After the fighting, after the darkness, after the killing, 

after the bruises, it's all okay Rowena.

And then the purring, the mala all along, its Buddha beads, 

my cat, in orange and white, breathing and purring 

like beads. Ginger. And softly sliding 

through different doors. 

A myriad to ignore, these doors.

It's all okay Rowena. 

Feel the earth in your hands. Gritty, grounding. 

Outside of culture. Voices. Life out there. 

This is life. This is the world. 

To in here. In this culture, this extraordinary richness 

in this soil. 

The morning spins and it is gone. 

The birds are still here. 

Onka, onka, onka. 

Flitting through myrtle leaves.

One thing, one thing, one thing, one leaf.

One shiny, one satin, one thing, Rowena, one thing. 

The sycamores in their perpendicular bowing are in agreeance. 

Their branches are knotty, one thing, one thing. 

Bare, weighing up the wind. 

Comme ci, comme ça 

they say in the breeze.

The camellia is full pink, blooming pink, and so healthy, so well, 

so new, full of buds and blossoms, 

she calls to me.

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An episode of just over 20  mins with a gentle guided meditation for relaxing the body.

This meditation was inspired by listening to a Self-Realisation Fellowship (SRF) talk on Youtube - 'How to overcome Nervousness'   and a body scan was suggested - mine grew from this and became much longer than anticipated :)

• The meditation begins at  1 min 26  (see chapter marker)  Apologies for abrupt ending of music! My audio editor has changed and I can't quite work out how to do fade ins/out yet... :)

' ...you realise that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it. ' - Paramahansa Yogananda  

• More info on Self-Realisation Fellowship 

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An episode inspired by and referencing the wonderful book, 'After the Ecstasy, the Laundry' by Buddhist teacher and writer Jack Kornfield.

Looking at Chapter 7 and discussing enlightenment, meditation and peace...
 
Julian of Norwich and Zen poet Ryokan Taigu are mentioned amongst others, as are  Mooji and Eckhart Tolle.

In preparation too for my own meditation offering soon of '7 days of peace' - connecting with the peace we already are  x

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An episode of 7.5 mins on trust and love, with a short guided visualisation by the wonderful  energy intutuitive and channeler Lee Harris. 

Recorded quite quickly whilst reading his book 'Energy Speaks' ...and also in order to try out a new microphone :)

• The visualisation begins at 1 min 52 secs in 

• More info on Lee Harris

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A tiny episode of almost 4 mins on a little garden wren who decided to sing a few words to me :) 

... & in the moment, she echoed the words of Eckhart Tolle - on gratitude and abundance!

• I also had to suddenly jump up and paint! -  a 1 min painting with inks (the podcast cover for this episode) x

• Eckhart Tolle and the wren (whilst hopping over and under and through the fence (the wren :))) :

‘Be grateful for your experience 

in this moment, 

whatever it may be

and if you can’t be grateful,

allow it to be

because, well…

it already Is’ 

‘You might as well do this tiny little thing’,

said the wren,

‘because then …

if you did this tiny little thing

you will lessen

your

suffer

ing.’

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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Flutterbee' (tiny bit)
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An episode of almost 12 mins on a Saturday rambling dog walk through the fields in West Penwith, Cornwall.

Also singing the Heart Sutra, from the Mahayana tradition which has been so beautiful for me recently and also reminds me of when I stayed in a Buddhist Monastery many years ago...
** I'm not a singer - so my voice isn't the best! :) - this podcast is for confidence around voice and all being perfect just as it is x

Gate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi swaha
(Sanskrit: गते गते पार गते पार संगते बोधि स्वाहा)

-  Buddhist mantra  found at the end of the Heart Sutra and included in the Prajnaparamita ('Perfection of Wisdom') section of the Mahayana Buddhist canon. It is also known as the Heart Calming Mantra.

It can be translated as 'Go, Go, go beyond, go completely beyond the beyond, such awakening, so great! (hallelujah!) ...in going beyond illusion to true reality. In effect staying as that which Is and not being affected by all that is not.

Thank you so much for listening x



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An episode of almost 8 mins on my garden Magpies.

This was inspired by an element in the course I'm currently running 'Birdsong, Flight & Wonder' - Meditation, Painting and Friendship

My magpie decided to share a few words with me :)

• There is also a reading of Ted Hughes' 'Wind' at around 3 mins 55 

Please see chapter marker x

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An episode of almost 10 mins on poetry for Spring (although before the intro there's a mention of November :)).
 
This was recorded in late April but have only just had time to create it and publish. I had a bit of a fluey/cold when recording this!

Initially this was only going to be poems by e.e.cummings but then the big ginger neighbourhood cat Brother G inspired me to read Neruda's wonderful 'Ode to the Cat'... and he sat and listened all the while:) x

• Featuring mewing from Brother G too, from about 2 mins 20 in :) x

The episode is a reading of five poems  - the first four short ones by e.e.cummings and the last, longer one by Pablo Neruda.

• 'Who are you, little i' by e.e cummings
• 'Spring is like a perhaps hand '- by e.e.c
• 'In Just Spring' by e.e.c
• 'In Spring Comes' by e.e.c
• 'Ode to the Cat' by Pablo Neruda

Please see chapter markers to skip to each, if you'd like x

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