“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...

I am writing this after spending an absolutely perfect warm sunny weekend pottering in my garden in Devon. Being in nature, wide open...

I was fortunate to grow up in a family in which traditional values of honesty, loyalty and caring for others was important. My parents...

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...

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,...

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...

Checking for the real deal Plagiarism and Passing Off October 4, 2019 | Sheila Whittaker I’ve written before about the Course I have run...

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...

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...

Life is really one great teacher. If we can surrender and allow it to flow unhindered and without manipulation, taking us along with it,...

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...

The Gong Ethics are a set of guidelines set up within the College of Sound Healing Gong Practitioner Course, as a recommendation of how...

Recently I had the great pleasure of attending a gong-making workshop in Germany with master gong maker Broder Oetken. For those of you...

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...