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An episode of just over 3 mins written in a few minutes after a morning walk down a particular street.
A shining beetle, clouds and 'pinpoint' noticing one morning.
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.
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - beetle - needle-felting Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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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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** - please see the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as so happy to find out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, poetry books and bird seed :)
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Flutterbee' (tiny bit)
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Wren - superquick ink sketchPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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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

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** - please see the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as so happy to find out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, poetry books and cat treats
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Meadowland' Field Report Vol X: Powell Butte
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Magpie - sketch Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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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

** - please see the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as so happy to find out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, poetry books and cat treats
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Ringling'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Spring buds & 'The Trees' by Larkin' - sketch (detail)Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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The first in our Conversations series with creative changemakers!
I was so thrilled to chat with Vimla Sharma and discover more about her life, from growing up in Nairobi, Ayurvedic medicine and wise elders and also being taught massage from her mother, along with her 7 brothers and sisters.
Vimi is open about her personal life events, including devastating griefs that she has experienced and a recent breast cancer diagnosis. She takes us on a journey through homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, Grief Recovery, her Shamanic path in Peru, the Sea, the Universe, the Divine ...and so much more...
I felt honoured to listen to Vimi and share this hour with her and I hope you enjoy the episode too.

• Vimi is currently in the process of gently beginning her business again, of work centred around trauma resolution and if you would like to contact her, please email her at - vimladsharma.gmail.com
• The conversation starts at 2 mins 35 seconds in.

Wonderful takeaways:

• The wisdom of Ayurvedic medicine and tribal elders from a childhood in Nairobi.
• Massage skills passed down through the generations to Vimi, and her own children.
• 'If you're ever unhappy and you don't know what to do with your life, you always have your hands' - Vimi's mother's words.
• Meeting a homeopath and inner knowing - 'I will do this! And then I let go. The secret is, you kind of have to let go of the outcome'.
• Living as a series of 'mini deaths' along the way, as well as the literal.
• How trauma shapes our lives.
• 'I realised I was always looking outside of myself for home.'
• 'The Universe really colludes with you when the time is right - it is about Divine timing.'
• Innate wisdom and Knowing, beyond book learning. 'We are infinite Beings, infinite space'.
• 'I really always have had this innate knowing that everything is going to be ok.'
• On grief: 'The sea understood me, the sea never judged me...I felt that the sea was holding me, was nurturing me and I had to learn to be really gentle and kind to myself because I realised that I was my harshest critic.'
• The beauty and honour of craniosacral therapy - working in the sacredness... and the metaphor of the sea, tides and flow.
• 'I've had to go through the fear. I've made peace with the grief.'
• 'Somatically, we can a dialogue with it...and then release' - on our blocks.
• 'This is your work, take it to the West' - on the Shamanic Path in Peru.
• 'We have to remember who we are, we are children of the sun.'
• Sevika - 'Servant of God' - Vimi's spiritual name as given by Mooji - beautiful spirtual teacher/pointer.
• The Grief Recovery Method - an action programme that's also being taken into schools - about moving beyond loss.
• 'All the work I do is around trauma resolution, in a nutshell.'
• 'We are here to shine our light. We have to show our magnificence.'
• 'I can choose the path of going down the fear route, or I have a choice, and I can choose the love path.'
• 'This is my way of serving the whole.'

Contact Vimla on [email protected]

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