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“It’s good to be home”. I felt that immediately we touched down in Bristol a few weeks ago after a great teaching trip to Italy. Over the...
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Sheila Whittaker
May 22, 20235 min read
May 2023 - The Garden, and a Poem
I am writing this after spending an absolutely perfect warm sunny weekend pottering in my garden in Devon. Being in nature, wide open...
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Sheila Whittaker
Feb 27, 20236 min read
On Home Cooking, Growing our own Food, and Home Skills
I was fortunate to grow up in a family in which traditional values of honesty, loyalty and caring for others was important. My parents...
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Sheila Whittaker
Feb 6, 20235 min read
Some Thoughts on Death, Grief and the Afterlife
This is a topical subject right now. Many of us seem to be losing loved ones.. death is very much in the air. So I am going to write...
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Sheila Whittaker
Mar 3, 20204 min read
Taking Time Out
Exploring Atlantis.... (well, Madeira!) We all need to take time out of our usual routine once in a while, to re-group, renew our energy,...
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Sheila Whittaker
Dec 14, 20193 min read
Self Care, and Caring for All
Time & solitude We all seem to lead such busy lives these days, and many forget or don’t prioritise time for themselves. It’s often...
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Sheila Whittaker
Oct 4, 20193 min read
Plagiarism & Passing Off
Checking for the real deal Plagiarism and Passing Off October 4, 2019 | Sheila Whittaker I’ve written before about the Course I have run...
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Sheila Whittaker
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Perfect Pitch
Perfect pitch is the ability to identify a note in the musical scale by its correct musical name – e.g. - if someone played the note D on...
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Sheila Whittaker
Jan 10, 20192 min read
Advice for New Gong Players
Just a short piece today, to give a heads-up to people new to the gong world, to those who are just becoming aware of gongs and Sound...
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Sheila Whittaker
Jan 2, 20193 min read
Acknowledging Our Issues
Life is really one great teacher. If we can surrender and allow it to flow unhindered and without manipulation, taking us along with it,...
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Sheila Whittaker
Jan 29, 20184 min read
Gong Training
I wrote an article a while back on buying a gong, as in recent years there has been a great increase in the type and quality of gongs now...
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Sheila Whittaker
Sep 2, 20175 min read
Gong Ethics
The Gong Ethics are a set of guidelines set up within the College of Sound Healing Gong Practitioner Course, as a recommendation of how...
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Sheila Whittaker
Aug 19, 20176 min read
Making a Gong
Recently I had the great pleasure of attending a gong-making workshop in Germany with master gong maker Broder Oetken. For those of you...
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Sheila Whittaker
Aug 27, 20167 min read
Buying a Gong
I’ve been meaning to write an article on buying a gong for some time. It’s very necessary that someone in the know tackles this important...
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