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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
- 5 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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 19, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 4 min
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 3, 2017
- 5 min
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 20, 2017
- 6 min
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 28, 2016
- 7 min
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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