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A short meditation in the Japanese tradition which cleanses and clears your energies with Reiki.
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.
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
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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 Jerusalem
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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 dayand 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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comArtwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Nuthatch - superquick ink sketch
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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 poemThis 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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comArtwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - photo of my garden camellia
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An episode of just over 20 mins with a gentle guided meditation for relaxing the body.
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... :)
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 :)
More info on Self-Realisation Fellowship
' ...you realise that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it. ' - Paramahansa Yogananda
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic - from the Music library at Descript
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
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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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - feltingSupport the show
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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.
The visualisation begins at 1 min 52 secs in More info on Lee Harris
Recorded quite quickly whilst reading his book 'Energy Speaks' ...and also in order to try out a new microphone :)‘
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Soft Driver'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Image of 'Energy Speaks' by 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 :)
I also had to suddenly jump up and paint! - a 1 min painting with inks (the podcast cover for this episode) xEckhart Tolle and the wren (whilst hopping over and under and through the fence (the wren :))) :
... & in the moment, she echoed the words of Eckhart Tolle - on gratitude and abundance!‘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 more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Flutterbee' (tiny bit)
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Wren - superquick ink sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - feltingSupport the show
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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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'La Di Da'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Gulval fields and sky, photograph
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An episode of almost 8 mins on my garden Magpies.
There is also a reading of Ted Hughes' 'Wind' at around 3 mins 55
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 :)
Please see chapter marker 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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Meadowland' Field Report Vol X: Powell Butte
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Garden Magpie - sketch
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An episode of almost 10 mins on poetry for Spring (although before the intro there's a mention of November :)).
Featuring mewing from Brother G too, from about 2 mins 20 in :) x
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
'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
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.Please see chapter markers to skip to each, if you'd like x
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Ringling'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Spring buds & 'The Trees' by Larkin' - sketch (detail)
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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 inAn extract from Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' is at 13 mins 46 secs
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wonderblues'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Peony, cornflower, marsh yellow-cress and red scabiosa' felting
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A one minute intro - On creativity, inspiration & joy - workshops & 1-1s for women!
Workshops - local and zoomWebsite - main one!Intuitive painting website
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!.....................................................................................................
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comArtwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Intuitive paintings - collage
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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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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Canvas'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Clover garden lawn - photograph
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An episode of just over 20 mins inspired by reading some of Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
I briefly mention the 'Grace & Joy Intuitive Painting workshops' and here's the Link to Meetup - for more info and to join.
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)*Support the Show* - Please feel free to click my donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' ! Any contributions towards coffees, pencils and cat treats ...
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Boop'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Van Gogh blues
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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 :)
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Flutterbee' and 'Happiness Is'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Intuitive painting workshop collage
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - feltingSupport the show
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An episode of 9:28 mins on the beauty of slow... snails, stillness & quiet moments...
''Today' by Mary Oliver'Considering the Snail' by Tom Gunn''Clarifications' by A.R Ammons
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:Please see chapter markers to skip to each, if you'd like x
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Happiness Is'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'The Snail & Mt Fuji' - Needle-punch sketch
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An episode of just over 6 mins which is a short, intuitive morning poem inspired by a few words...
Poem begins at 2mins 56
These words unfolded by themsleves into a celebration of the exotic and pleasure in the everyday :)**New** - just adding the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as recently found out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, pencils and cat treats
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Happiness Is'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Clover garden lawn - photograph
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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 :)** Adding the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as recently found out about this!
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - Beautiful Moss listening to Val reading poetry x
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An episode of 21:42 mins on empty,empty, emptiness and the pure fullness and joy of this.
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
Remaining as spacious awareness, & all else flowing through to the earth with a simple visualisation inspired by the Advaita Vedanta teacher Mooji.** Adding the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as recently found out about this!
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'The fullness of emptiness' - quick sketch
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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.
Intuitive poem - 9:53 secsRumi's 'The Guest House' (trans. Coleman Barks) - 13:41 secs
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**New** - just adding the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as recently found out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, pencils and cat treats
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Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.comMusic by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Happiness Is'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Episode cover - 'Grey colour wash' - intuitive painting sketch
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