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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
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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!
We were very excited to offer our latest adventure in sound to the Forever Cacao Club community at the March Cacao Club last Friday! Titled The Birth of Tara, it weaves together the chants of Avalokiteshvara and Green Tara with Raga Bhimpalasi in Alap. Cacao Club is the monthly event held by Forever Cacao, a small, artisan chocolate company who have a direct and highly responsible trade relationship with the Ashaninka community in Peru who in turn harvest, ferment and dry the wild grown, organic cacao that is then shipped to a small Welsh village (not very far from us at all), for alchemising into pure, ceremonial grade cacao and award winning chocolate bars. Annabeth discovered Cacao Club at the end of 2019 and says "it was the first time I'd found a regular place to go sober dancing since I stopped drinking every weekend after losing one of my best mates to alcoholism. The (highly unpretentious) ritual evening begins with a meditative cup of freshly prepared cacao before launching into a few hours of dancing courtesy of the accomplished resident DJ Pablo (who also just so happens to make the cacao), and is rounded up beautifully by a variety of practitioners offering healing sound baths to integrate the evening. Finding Cacao Club was an unrestrained delight and it's become a highlight of my month ever since." So, it was an honour and a privilege for us to bring our latest journey to the event and we hope to do it again some time! For now, you can immerse yourself in the gentle melodic waves of our final practice before the night here (and listen out for Lacey the cat purring her approval at the end)!
They're finally here! This week I took delivery of the first fifty copies of my new poetry collection, A Year of Death and Life in the Tanat Valley. How exciting!
I always try and make sure January is a time of gentle, quiet rest and introspection but in taking that time to hibernate a little, I also find rich opportunity to invest time in creative projects and it's often at this time of year that I find time to collate a year's worth of poems, edit, whittle, select, illustrate and finally self publish.
And if that wasn't exciting enough, this isthe first post to our new blog on the brand new, earthheart.co.uk, the other little January project I've been nibbling away at! You'll still be able to find all 2024's posts; recipes, musings, updates and (old) news at glittermouse.co.uk for the time being, but watch this space for all the new news and updates for Earth Heart through 2025 and beyond! Xx
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