Grace & Joy!: Recent Episodes
rowena scotney
On aliveness and wonder for Sensitives, Empaths, Introverts & Intuitives... for living a heart-centred life.
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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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Peace Grid' in the 'Oil Press' Art Gallery, Old JerusalemPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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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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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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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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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Soft Driver'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
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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)
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Wren - superquick ink sketchPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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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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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'La Di Da'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Gulval fields and sky, photographPodcast 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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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' bye.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
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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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An episode of just over 16 mins on Grace and what this might mean... and it's beautiful presence in our lives. With a mention of Leonard Cohen, Alan Cohen, Rainer Maria Rilke and Mary Oliver...
I'd love to know your thoughts on Grace too...
- A reading of Rilke's 'The Poet Speaks of Praising' is at 7mins 12 secs in
- An extract from Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' is at 13 mins 46 secs
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wonderblues'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Peony, cornflower, marsh yellow-cress and red scabiosa' feltingPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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A one minute intro - On creativity, inspiration & joy - workshops & 1-1s for women!
On friendship, thriving, resilience and the warmth of community x
This was recorded for my workshops, as a kind of sum-up of what I love and a vision of women thriving, confident & happy!
- Workshops - local and zoom
- Website - main one!
- Intuitive painting website
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An episode of just over 3.5 mins with two short poems written in the stillness - one whilst watching a spider and one after painting intuitively...
Both poems focus gently on grief, beauty, tenderness...
Chapter markers:
Spider poem - 38 seconds
Fish poem - 2 mins 24 seconds
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Canvas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Clover garden lawn - photographPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 30 minutes remembering my mum who died last week, on Friday December 10th.
I hadn't seen my mum for almost 15 years; it was a difficult relationship for me, but I have such a feeling of love for her and many complex, tender feelings.
I know in my heart that we'll have a true, authentic, loving and warm relationship in Spirit now and that we'll be closer than we ever have been.
I felt called to make this episode whilst remembering times with her when I was younger and the happy memories centred around poetry and music:
- A reading of 'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' by T.S.Eliot
- Memories of 'A Bang on the Ear' by The Waterboys
- A reading of 'The Stolen Child' by W.B.Yeats
There are chapter markers for these too.
- There are articles on my blog around healing
- Also the Intuitive painting workshops for women are mentioned
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Meadowland' from 'Field Report Vol. X- Powell Butte' and 'Feeding Flock'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg)' by Leonora CarringtonPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 20 mins inspired by reading some of Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
This became a longer episode than I thought it would be and includes ponderings on Imagist poetry, including readings of Ezra Pound, F.S.Flint, D.H Lawrence and Amy Lowell...
Also considerations of line and music, nature and soul and with an added bonus of my cat Charley sneezing - many times at one point! (He was standing in a sunbeam from the window :D)
- I briefly mention the 'Grace & Joy Intuitive Painting workshops' and here's the Link to Meetup - for more info and to join.
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Boop'
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Episode cover - Van Gogh bluesPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 7 mins on the Grace & Joy painting and wellbeing workshops for women which are held locally in-person and internationally, via Zoom.
A little bit about how these came to be, the women they may appeal to most (HSPs, Introverts, Empaths, Intuitives...) and the joy of painting in this way as a spiritual practice.
Skip the intro to 1 min 42 in for the start :)
Link to Meetup - for more info and to join
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Flutterbee' and 'Happiness Is'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Intuitive painting workshop collage Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of 9:28 mins on the beauty of slow... snails, stillness & quiet moments...
Sitting with my cat Silver early this morning and listening to the sounds in the garden...and then ponderings and poems emerged x
The episode includes readings of three poems:
- ''Today' by Mary Oliver
- 'Considering the Snail' by Tom Gunn
- ''Clarifications' by A.R Ammons
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Episode cover - 'The Snail & Mt Fuji' - Needle-punch sketch Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 6 mins whichis a short, intuitive morning poem inspired by a few words...
These words unfolded by themsleves into a celebration of the exotic and pleasure in the everyday :)
- Poem begins at 2mins 56
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An episode of 12:39 mins with Val reading the poetry she loves.
I met Val over a year ago when I started to walk her Border Collie Moss each week, via The Cinnamon Trust.
We often have a cup of tea and chat too and Val has shared how much comfort she feels from reading poetry, especially by Patience Strong. She has a wonderful 1930s booklet of her poetry that belonged to her mother and this episode is dedicated to Val reading from this booklet.
- Stay tuned for a Cornish poem at the end :)
- The cover photo is Moss listening to Val whilst she reads x so beautiful :)
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
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An episode of 21:42 mins on empty,empty, emptiness and the pure fullness and joy of this.
Remaining as spacious awareness, & all else flowing through to the earth with a simple visualisation inspired by the Advaita Vedanta teacher Mooji.
- The episode is quite long but essentially the meditation practice is very short and can be done at any time, whenever remembered :)
- Guided meditation begins at 2 mins 30
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An episode of 15:08 mins on 'being with' sadness and other energies in the body and how they may become our familiar companions.
The episode also shares an intuitive poem, 'All is very very ok' written quickly on a piece of paper late at night on this subject and then also a reading of Rumi's 'The Guest House' - relating so perfectly, and so beautiful. Leonard Cohen's song 'The Guests' is also mentioned x
- Intuitive poem - 9:53 secs
- Rumi's 'The Guest House' (trans. Coleman Barks) - 13:41 secs
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An episode of 14:32 mins on the comforts of poetry being read aloud and listening to poets reading their own poetry.
The episode is a reading of three poems mentioned in the first part of the autobiographical trilogy by Janet Frame's 'An Angel at My Table'.
- 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ' - the beginning, and into a little of the 'Once Paumanok' section, by Walt Whitman
- 'Meg Merrilies' by John Keats
- 'The Old Grey Squirrel' by Alfred Noyes
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‘Remain in harmony, wherever possible. Create beauty, wherever possible. Relieve suffering, wherever possible. That is all we ask of you.’
It was truly wonderful to be in conversation with Janni Littlepage, a friend with so many creative gifts and talents, including being a singer-songwriter, artist, writer, garden designer and much more…
Janni shares beautiful experiences, moments and insights that have inspired and influenced her life and the conversation includes thoughts around creativity, sensitivity, being an empath, and gentle advice to our younger selves and others.
Many animals also feature, including dogs, cats, quails, monarch butterflies and beetles… x
Janni reads her poem ‘Transcendence’ which is Pearl 22 from her book ‘Angels in my Teacup’.
**Thank you to Janni’s partner Paul who helped with editing and including Janni’s poem and music, ‘A Delicate Dance’😊
1:54 – Conversation begins
2:13 – Alice in her ‘muchness’ and multi-dimensional creativity!
2:24 – The inspiration for Janni’s song ‘Strange Angels’ – including a stray cat, reading about a rescue and an encounter on entering the freeway in Los Angeles…
10:55 – On garden design and the little creatures within home and garden – celebrating much-maligned insects x
16:43 – Mentioning ‘That Quail, Robert’ by Margaret Stanger
17:30 – Janni’s current projects, including the illustrated poem ‘Lilli Belle the Wonder Dog’
22:55 – ‘The Tiny Kingdom Chronicles’ – Four little books on insect characters
23:22 – ‘Angels in my Teacup – Divine Encounters and Extraordinary Events’ – almost completed
24:24 – Having met Janni in a Lee Harris group. Lee Harris, energy intuitive, has been such a wonderful and important part of Janni’s journey.
24:50 – ‘If my client is not a friend to begin with, they always end up being a friend.’ x Janni’s garden website ‘Janni the Garden Whisperer’.
30:53 – The Buckeye tree – smooth barked, fragrant conical white blossoms…
32:09 – At 7 years old …and also the Butterfly Parade in Pacific Grove, California
34:30 – ‘As I became a teenager and a young person, I had a difficult time knowing where someone else’s feelings began, or ended, and mine began.’ - On the gifts of sensitivity and being an empath…
38:24 – ‘Each soul is sovereign’ – and on developing discernment
41:35 – ‘I had this feeling that I was supposed to do something, with music… Asking spirit and encountering an Angel.
43:58 – Interlude and the song ‘A Delicate Dance’ by Janni Littlepage and Johan Seige and then ‘Pearl 22’, ‘Transcendence’ – Janni reading her poem
45:42 – ‘When you have an idea, whatever it is…be discerning about who you share those early ideas with…
‘Now, as I’ve gotten older I have only very beautiful friends... Really think who you feel safe with… it is like finding a jewel.’
50:34 – ‘A Delicate Dance’ to the end
- Please see Janni's album website: Jannilittlepage.com
- & garden design website: Janni the Garden Whisperer
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An episode of 8 mins 03 secs and a morning poem that wrote itself on a scrap of paper, inspired by me trying to remember what had made a certain sound, years ago, a sound that I felt viscerally and over the years have often tried to remember what it was...
I wanted to remember as it was the only sound that summed up, so truly, a feeling I had about something...
The sound had a deadened resonance, was it a heavy metal dropping on another metal?
I know it was something quite specific but just cannot grasp it...it remains and merges in mysterious grey echoes and past chambers.
- Poem begins at 5.42 mins in.
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Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke ''Coming Down'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Pussy Willow' - intuitive painting (detail)Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of 7 mins 39 secs and a mid-morning poem that almost wrote itself on a Saturday (6th March 2021), after watching a fly cleaning its legs & bathing in the sunshine and then stopping as my shadow passed over it...
This led to ponderings around energies and blossoming, responses, ease and awkwardnesses... and how we shine with some and not with others...
- Poem begins at 2.24 mins in.
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Alphabet Soup'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Pussy Willow' - intuitive painting (detail)Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of 6 mins 41 secs and a morning poem that wrote itself quite early on a Saturday, after an image arising, whilst waking up, of a theatre audience being observed whilst watching a play.
A poem then unfolded around the non-dual pointings of Advaita Vedanta, 'Can the perceiver be perceived?' ... & how the play plays out...
- Poem begins at 2 mins in.
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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Bliss'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'The Audience is also observed' - quick sketchPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of 9 mins 16 secs of a Saturday soundscape walk with Plum the labradoodle. (Proper music element at 7 mins 40 in :))
Features the joy of singing freely to the winds...also birds and passing buses :)
Singing snatches of Queen's 'Radio Gaga' and also 'Dear Prudence' by The Beatles...
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Music by JamKazam - Cover of Dear Prudence
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover -Photo of Camellia Blossom in Gulval churchyard
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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Afternoon ponderings and reflections...
Beginning with thoughts on the critical/negative voice, moving into Woody Allen's Zelig, identity and masks and onwards into the fullness of nothingness, Advaita Vedanta, the dance of our lives …and joy :) xx
*Apologies for the sound quality at the start of the talking - it all eases smoothly after the intro :) ..........................................................................................................................
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Meadowlands' - so beautiful x
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Intuitive dance' - quick painting on cardboard
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of almost 18 mins introducing an approach to EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or 'Tapping' that is wonderful for HSPs.
I've been tapping for a few years and am now training in EFT as would love to share this gentle procedure for emotional and physical pain relief with others.
My approach incorporates other spiritual approaches I love, in order to return us to our natural state, which is one of health, clarity, happiness and peace.
- Jan 2021
I'm currently offering 1:1 sessions (40 mins) on Zoom and would love to hear from you if you'd like a session at a greatly reduced price in exchange for a testimonial :) Please contact me via my website or email rowenascotney@btinternet.com
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'EFT tapping points' sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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Featuring beautiful purring by Charley (he has a very loud purr!) this is a morning poem inspired by the idea of a 'perpetual calendar'... Charley is my own purr-pet-ual alarm clock :)
An urge to write unfolded another intuitive song of celebration!
On early morning, half-asleep, ponderings... and purrings :)
Happy N(m)ew year!
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Purring by Charley
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Charley le chat blanc (et orange)' -felting. Inspired by the painting by Pierre Bonnard... our cats are the same! I just had to felt Charley in the same pose :))
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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A morning poem inspired by overhearing fragments of a conversation on the radio about slugs nesting in a cupboard. An urge to write unfolded a song of celebration!
On presence, dancing, heightened senses and receptivity....and slugs :)
- Poem begins at 1 min 48 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Love Sprouts'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Slugs in the starlight' - crayon and pen sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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A 16 minute guided meditation for peace, calming and centring in the body and looking within for guidance, from our truest and most authentic space, rather than, perhaps automatically, looking outside for answers.
On asking to be shown and being willing and open to receive. This may be around general questions or specific circumstances - we can start to trust what emerges and live from this wise heart-centred space.
- There is a little commentary too before the meditation begins, including the reference to Mr Duffy inthe story 'A Painful Case', in James Joyce's 'Dubliners' - 'Mr Duffy lived a short distance from his body'.
This is another of my own meditations, inspired by my own practice and elements of others I've loved over the years.
- Please see more artwork, articles and info about workshops at www.rowenascotney.com
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - ‘Calm, after gardening' (detail) - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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A short weather report for November 20th 2020, with added experimental fun with my son... some vacuuming and a tiny bit of singing x (First time using Garageband on my phone - and it shows :) hee x
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'This is the sea' (detail) intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of just over 4.5 mins and the fourth in the Wednesday Warmers series, inspired by clothing in poetry.This one is by Jimmy Santiago Baca and is an offering of love and warmth.
- The poem begins at 2 mins 27 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Morning Mist'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'I am offering this poem ... a scarf to wear over your hair' - watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 9 mins, and the third in the Wednesday Warmers series, this one inspired by W.B.Yeats' poem 'A Coat'.
Extended metaphor on identity, art, life, illusion and truth! (Apologies if I ramble on a little in this one :))
- The poem begins at 41 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wonderblues'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'I made my coat a song' - watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of almost 15 mins beginning with thoughts on 'embracing and accepting' the grey, alongside other 'Silver Sisters' :)
Also on general self-acceptance through the many changes, internal and external that we experience in our lives.
The poem began as a consideration of how our days, our lives are a woven fabric and then the theme of time passing seemed to merge into my own siver hair experience x
- Poem begins at 11 mins 28 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Embracing the greys' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of 7:34 mins, and a morning poem written in a few quiet moments after reading the short story, 'You are now entering the human heart' by Janet Frame.
- An intro and then the poem begins at 4 mins 47 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Marsh Wrens (Instrumental)'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Love Within' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of almost 7 mins, and the second in the Wednesday Warmers series inspired by reading Ron Padgett's poem today 'Inaction of Shoes'.
A wonderful, gently humorous poem and quietly profound too.
On doing, being, happening, non-happening, advaita vedanta...and the US election x
- A little bit at the beginning and end and the poem begins at 2 mins 27 secs
- 'Inaction of Shoes' by Ron Padgett in 'The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness and Joy' by John Brehm - a beautiful anthology of spiritual poetry. -
'The Buddha once told a disciple that good spiritual friends are the whole of holy life. The poems expertly gathered here offer all that one might hope for in such spiritual friendship: wisdom, compassion, peacefulness, good humor, and the ability to both absorb and express the deepest human emotions of grief and joy.' - from the back cover .
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'shoes sitting there' - crayon sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of just over 5 mins, and the first in the Wednesday Warmers series inspired by reading Pablo Neruda's poem today 'Ode to My Socks'.
A beautiful poem celebrating the gift of a pair of hand-knitted socks.
There's extra poignancy in the warmth, love, comfort and kindness shown with the gift, and in the joy in receiving too, when considering Neruda's history of exile and writing in many turbulent times... and it's also so gently humorous too x
- A little bit at the beginning and then the poem begins at 2 mins 45 secs
- 'Ode to My Socks' by Pablo Neruda (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'these celestial socks of lapiz and gold' - crayon sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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An episode of almost 8 mins, and a Monday morning poem written in a few quiet moments.
Beginning with the non-dominant hand sketches which have been a recent focus in the intuitive painting workshops, the poem continues with elements of spaciousness, stillness and awareness ... and the Loony-Tunes' 'Tasmanian Devil'! :) hmm... cartoons seem to be a recurring theme!
- Poem begins at 4 mins 26 secs
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Plum eating a piece of old rabbit' :( Non-dom 3 second sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting
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A bonus 'mini episode' :) with a little bit of info on my 1-1 Art & Wellbeing sessions.I thought I'd add a quick audio here in case any listeners are interested...
Main info starts at 56 seconds!
Please also have a look at all the info on my website too if you'd like to know more...
(I also wanted to create a short episode to trial the Descript audio integration - and it's worked! Although the transcript is in one big block of text and the apostrophes have disappeared ....hmmm will look into this :))
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Saturday Song' (detail) intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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A 16 minute guided meditation for relaxation, cleansing and warmth. This is another of my own meditations, inspired by my own practice and elements of others I've loved over the years.
This is a beautiful meditation for acknowledging, feeling and releasing any tensions and anxieties at any point throughout your day and is also wonderful for centring before intuitive painting.
The visualisation of enveloping in golden light is one of warmth and wellbeing, both for ourselves and others.
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Meditation begins at 1min 30 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - ‘Moonlight evening in May'
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of 8:15 mins, and a poem just after midnight, whispering to me to get out of bed, put on the light, find a pencil and start writing x (Audio voice a little coldy/fluey!)
This one wrote itself, too, beginning with words that emerged last Friday which inspired an intuitive painting - 'Leaping alive - into the green space'.
Then two beautiful phrases and imagery by Janet Frame, a writer I've recently discovered and love - her short stories in 'The Daylight and the Dust' are luminous and beautiful, subtle, poignant and tender...
'Mr Paget's lawn shone like fur in the sun'
&
'The green minus-marks of grass' (after being cut with an old mower)
both from the story 'The Winter Garden'.
The poem is also about creativity, as a wild, warm-hearted and gentle creature... and how, if we can hear, we must listen in and honour and celebrate x
None of this was 'thought out' but I love how it flowed and was determined to be written, in the night hours. :)
Poem begins at 4:24
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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Leaping alive - into the green space' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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With Cornish winds from the very beginning ... do not adjust your set :)
(a little hard to hear in a few places - apologies if it hurts your ears! If so, please skip to 3:30).
An episode of almost 7 mins.
Recording a few minutes of a walk with Moss, my beautiful borrowed dog, on a blustery, stormy day. Starting dry, bright and warm in the sun, after 10 mins the sky had darkened, it turned colder and then the rain flung itself down, all in one go, and we were saturated!
- Poem (recorded out of the wind) begins at 3 mins 30 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'La Di Day'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - St Michael's Mount from Perranuthnoe fields, Cornwall - September 2020
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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‘Do you look behind what’s visible? Do you go a step further?’
Anja Kersten is an inspiring writer, performer and filmmaker with a huge amount of creative offerings full of wonder, depth and intrigue for a magic world.
It was fantastic to have a conversation on topics ranging from sensitivity, imagination, curiosity, wonder, improvisation, courage, authenticity and more...
This is the second in our Conversations series with creative changemakers and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did. Thank you Anja!
- The conversation starts at 3 mins 18 seconds in & there's a short musical interlude at 20 mins 44 secs.
Wonderful takeaways:
- 'Everything I've done before feeds into what I'm doing now, maybe an understanding of our humanness' - on trainings in social work, theatre & education, acting, coaching & more...
- Stories emerging from improvisation and funny occurances such as an aunt's text about a garden dwarf/gnome :)
- '50 Shades of Stuck' - on feeling stuck, doodling and humour!
- 'I love fairy tales' - fairy tales and East Germany.
- 'Being wired differently' - on being an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) and an Empath.
- 'I was a very dreamy child' - on the blessing of attending the Rudolf Steiner School in Nuremberg.
- 'Creating a community of people who feel different, coming together in their weirdness' - 'Dreamy Capuccino - Live!' - On future projects (tea drinkers also welcome :))
- 'Standing in your own uniqueness' - a focus for future 1:1 sessions.
- To young women - 'Really look closely at the messages [you] get from others and instead of doubting [yourself] immediately, look at the messages and doubt them - see whether they're true, or not.'
- 'I don't want to be perfect in anything I do.'
- 'We have numerous opportunities to see something extraordinary in the ordinary.'
- You need to cultivate your curiosity.'
- Anja follows a regular meditation practice and also her own version of 'Morning Pages' inspired by Julia Cameron's 'The Artist's Way'.
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- Contact Anja and visit her website Anja Kersten - For a Magic World
- Settle comfortably and listen in to Dreamy Cappuccino - Inspiring stories, musings & memoirs - beautiful quirky tales of wonder and delight!
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... and more podcast episodes with poetry, meditations and more! here on my Grace & Joy podcast.
Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Episode cover - Anja Kersten
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin'
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An episode of almost 17 mins on the beautiful practice of intuitive painting and how it all unfolds... Inspired by a recent workshop - one of the many I've hosted on Zoom, and locally, for women.
This episode explores themes around being present with all our emotions, and also on kindness, meditation...and on how intuitive paintings evolve by themselves and can become such wonderful, gentle teachers and reminders too.
Mooji is mentioned and also the transformative NARP programme by Melanie Tonia Evans... and Qigong too!...and how all are intertwined x
This is a completely unscripted episode, just to see... (amazed that I spoke for almost 17 mins and no pausing!) ... and it is also part of a personal practice on confidence, visibility and voice, and on self-acceptance and self-love.
- Please see my intuitive painting site for the painting in full and for details of the Zoom workshops.
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'The mirror, the heart & the glowing bird' (detail) - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of 4:55 mins, and a Sunday morning poem, after a week of morning poems...written in a few quiet moments.
The themes of cycles and recycles emerged, from birth and death & the seasons to broken things, laundry and washing-up x (Also exotic blue manakins!)
Dedicated to an astounding little mouse who appeared at the end of writing the poem.
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Walking through the fields' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of 4:43 mins, and a morning poem written quickly after noticing how I was reading a sentence.
On how we constuct meaning, on making sense...and this led to the Hindu Maya - the play of existence, non-dual, Advaita Vedanta, literary theory and celebration! ...and the garden jackdaws x
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Play in colour and shape and a blue bird' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of just over 3 mins, and a morning poem written in a few moments before work, after listening to a super short weather report.
On the weather, the river, 'tup of the flock' and Eeyore x
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Reflections 1' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of 4.5 mins, and a morning poem that arrived with the rains...
On windows, falling rain, garden flowers, birdsong, morse code and Angela, so much missed x
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Morning rain & jackdaw' - intuitive painting
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 Vimladsharma@gmail.com
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofp
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An episode of just over 2.5 mins, and a morning poem of calm, the day after the winds...
On toes to ear-tips, darting great-tits and Charley dreaming...
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Charley dreaming' - quick watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An episode of almost 5 mins, and a poem that wrote itself after a night of high winds.
On inner and outer, energies, fences and a woodlouse...
Poem begins at 1min 20 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Night' - monotype
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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A two minute episode, celebrating a heightened moment of hush ...
Sitting in the garden this morning and there was such a sense of pause, a hush, for a moment so intensified, so palpable, all senses heightened ... I had my diary with me - and a poem came through the drizzle, so quickly written x
... and then a 5 min intuitive sketch, with crayons, on cardboard from an old catfood box, inspired by the poem x
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Morning Poem - crayon on cardboard
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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Visualising a quiet, beautiful room of one's own, for calming, centring and coming home.
A simple, gentle practice that can stay with you for years, visioning a beautiful space... another way to connect to the deeper space of peace that is always within, and is who we truly are.... no-matter how difficult or distracting the externals may feel to be.
- Skip to 04:24 mins - for details of the visualisation (I hadn't realised I'd talked quite so much beforehand!)
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Colours on the Water' - oil on board
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
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An audio version of a blog post written a little while ago, with much added! ...including Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd ...quite surprising how they jumped in :)
On managing energies, and becoming a skilled empath... from initially noticing, then returning to sender... to ultimately not being affected at all, and remaining as the witnessing space x
I will be adding the transcript/or link here, as soon as I work out how to do it :)
- Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.com
Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
Episode cover - 'Return Energy to Sender' - intuitive painting
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An 18 minute guided meditation for relaxation, grounding and presence. This is my own meditation, inspired by my own practice and elements of others I've loved over the years.
This is a beautiful meditation for centring before intuitive painting, for allowing all to emerge without the 'thinking mind' of judgement and 'ought-to-bes' taking control.
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Meditation begins at 1min 12 secs
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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass' and 'Floating in Space'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
Episode cover - ‘White Owl flies into and out of the field’ - intuitive painting. Also inspired by a poem by Mary Oliver.
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A one minute reminder-to-self that might also help you too, on remaining in and as that space within that can never be overwhelmed...
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This is a first upload, a beginning tester... just to see! (and no overwhelm, despite my lack of tech savvy!)
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Also after editing my intro and outro in Audacity...trying to fade the music in and out and connect elements together...will improve :)
I'll be creating a more podcast-style format as I learn and go along.
Thank you for tuning in :)
rowena
Please see more via my website Rowenascotney.com
- The wonderful music for the intro and outro is 'Wavy Glass' by Podington Bear Soundofpicture.com
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