“Silence is essential. We need silence, just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us” Thich Nhat Hanh Hello friend - you're here - welcome This day retreat is in association with The Heart Movement [...]
Thanks for stopping in. These are complicated times , maybe this helps, I know it helps me. I'm planning on doing half an hour quiet time every morning and evening through 2022 and opening it up to anyone who feels they'd like to join -please join me anytime to share some silence: meditate/relax/chill/downtime/journal/read/drink tea -nothing [...]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvuvRzfiedU A Little Love was written after an evening in a house share where I lived with friends. We'd have evenings like this where no one had much else going on, we'd sit around the table after dinner, someone would start telling a story, that would lead to another and you'd be there 4 hours [...]
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The Water we drink, like the air we breathe, is not part of our body but is our body. What we do to one, to the body, to the water we do to the other.Natalie Diaz- postcolonial love poems https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/october-to-december/s-CzcNNwLaz2H?si=9669d52ff7fa410395a995f0ef73d522&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Cop26/ Relaxation for Climate Anxiety/ Winter ep / Songs of Plum Village/The Heart Movement/ Refugee [...]
https://youtu.be/u7mi7hUQ9p0 Thank you for picking up this record. It came to be when I recorded half an hour of Plum Village songs to contribute to a film project being made by some friends about the village. I didn't think more about it until 'When I Rise' was used on a little instagram video of the [...]
https://youtu.be/u7mi7hUQ9p0 request a copy here Plum Village as some reading this may well know is the monastery and mindfulness practice centre founded by Monk, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. What began in one location, in France, is now part of a number of Plum Village practice centres around the world. I lived In [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rj-CSSbYHU Over the last year I've been bringing together my next record. Life continues this journey with the great gifts of friends to travel with and visits to them in their homes and them to mine to record. Four songs from the album make up this ep release. ****pre order here (please only what you [...]
https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/july-to-september/s-5Kkgr1oLtXV I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appealDalai Lama Naomi Haigh/Palestinian - Israel Justice/ The Arms Fair/ Home Stage Folk/ Writing from early September and my heart is full of Naomi Haigh, [...]
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