You know you're coming to the end of a vibrant year when you're already buzzing with ideas (and a burgeoning schedule!) for the next one! Earth Heart needed a new calendar this week, to start keeping track of all the exciting offerings that are seeding themselves in the early autumn soil... Here's a snapshot of some of what's coming:
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​Happily, you won't have to wait until April to join us for some beautiful Nāda yoga! We'll be joining a whole host of talented holistic practitioners at Winter Reset 2027 as Adventurine Wellbeing and Forever Cacao team up once more to offer a second year of mid-winter wellbeing.

As we prepare for our next full day of chanting, meditation and Hindustani music inspired by the ancient principles of Nāda yoga, it was a rather delightful side quest to devise a new sound journey to close the July Forever Cacao Club...

This is a journey of sound woven with Raga Yaman on sitar and the mantra of Amitabha Buddha. Amitabha is an archetypal Buddha of light and life and is especially associated with compassion. Situated in the Western quarter of the Five Buddha Mandala, his time is sunset; when the full, nourishing splendour of the sun can be directly looked at. We can therefore understand the radiance of his compassion as being especially gentle and approachable. Raga Yaman invites us into a place of surrender; not in terms of giving up but in terms of letting go, like the soft release of a falling leaf. We hope this sound journey will provide you with an opportunity to softly let go into a gentle space of compassion and healing.

If our last update wasn't exciting enough, we are so pleased to announce our first full day event that brings into being our new year goal to craft "longer sound journeys, partnered in with our Holistic offerings to include guided meditation". We've spent nearly three years exploring how Annabeth's practice of Buddhist chants meets and relates to Nik's experience in classical Hindustani music as a sitar player; now we're really ready to share!

So, we are delighted to offer a whole Saturday of meditation, chanting and music inspired in essence by the ancient principles of Nāda yoga. You are very welcome to come for the morning or afternoon as stand-alone sessions but we'd love for you to join us in a whole spacious day of complete immersion in the sacred dance between sound and silence. 

Each ticket gives you the option to include a homemade, vegan meal from the Earth Heart Kitchen (of course prepared with seasonal produce from the Earth Heart Garden!), or you can choose to bring your own. 

We're offering a wide range of ticket options because we want to meet as many different needs and schedules as possible; but we have to make sure we don't overbook in total, so we've given ourselves quite a mission on organising the tickets! If you'd like to join us but find we're sold out of the ticket option you want, please email us. As long as there are still spaces available, we can probably have a wiggle about and free up the tickets you want! Equally in the interests of inclusion, we've got limited spaces available for anyone who would be financially unable to access our tickets at the full price we're asking. Though we've done our best to make tickets affordable and believe they're really good value, we would genuinely like to hear from anyone who feels moved to come but just can't meet the cost. We understand. We want you to share in this. Let's talk.

It's also such a joy to say that as we come to write this post, less than 24 hours after going live with tickets, we've already filled about a third of our spaces! We're looking forward to continuing that trend and sharing our mutual love of these ancient and profound practices with as many people as possible. Are you free on Saturday the 30th of May? Might you be one of them? We really hope to see you there!ICKET UPDATE! Wow! We've  

As we share this exciting update, it seems like forever since we posted the news that we’d had our planning application validated. Well, maybe not forever but six months back at the end of July. We knew we then had to wait until September at the earliest to hear if we would be granted permission to erect ‘a glamping yurt with decking for holiday use, bicycle store, bin store & WC/shower structures and all associated works’. 

Then came the nervous waiting, anxious checking and fretful rechecking for further comments from different council departments. We were fearing the worst after so much effort and expense to respond to the various issues but finally, at the beginning of November we received the news we’d been hardly daring to hope for; our planning permission was approved! There followed at least 45 minutes of cautious jubilation until we read the small print, which was frankly boggling and demanded further information (and another chunky fee) for yet more approval under the worrying title of ‘discharge of conditions’. ​

Happily, in mid January the condition of our discharge (it didn’t say how many grams) also met with approval, and now we merely have the trifling task of making it happen. Thankfully we’ve got five years to recover before we get started. Not that we want to wait even half that long at all!

So now what? There we were thinking the planning application process was complex and expensive enough, but now we’ve been through it and we’re in a position to turn diagrams into manifest reality, we know how woefully inadequate our original budgeting was. Maybe it’s kinder to say ‘wonderfully optimistic’ but ‘uneducated’ is more accurate. So what next? Where to start?
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Cue ‘visioning’. The first month of 2026 may already be behind us but last weekend we sat down at the Earth Heart Kitchen table (so oft the centre of operations!) and started thinking ahead to the rest of the year. The first question was how much we wanted 2026 to look like 2025, and how we would choose for it to be different. What do we want to cultivate and make more time for? What then, do we want to let go of, in order to make more time for it?

We started by revisiting our central ethos, our values, passions and driving motivations. ​

This helped us sketch out a slight shift of perspective on which of these petals to give more or less attention. We know we want to nourish and cultivate the Holistic whilst pursuing a different emphasis on the Creative. To resource that, there will need to be a little less Kitchen, though we’ll still be excited to cultivate as much Garden as the Welsh valley will accommodate! (It appears to be the wettest February on record so that might be a bit beyond our control.)

Sounds all very theoretical doesn’t it? What’s it actually going to look like? Well, it’s back to those petals and here are some things to expect from Earth Heart as 2026 gets underway:

We’re hoping the Lake Vyrnwy Farmer’s markets will continue from April and we plan to keep attending the Welshpool Car Boot Sales. ​

We were delighted to return to Forever Cacao Club last week, on a particularly special evening as part of the Reset and Restore weekend of wellness in collaboration with Aventurine Wellbeing. It was a real honour to be at the close of the Saturday night cacao dance and offer a journey of sound woven with Nat Bhairav on sitar by Nik and Maitreya's mantra by Annabeth. Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, the enlightening of consciousness that will arise again when our current world system has fallen away into darkness. This piece is therefore a love song to our individual and collective potential, a yearning for the evolution of consciousness itself. We hope you enjoy it!

With many thanks to Pete of local Art Blanc Combo fame for organising the afternoon, to The Cross Keys for hosting and to all the audience members for joining us! Watch this space for more performances soon!