The Wake Up London Podcast (Part of The Plum Village Tradition)

In this short Christmas episode of The Wake Up London podcast, Joe reads us one of Thich Nhat Hanh's Christmas messages from 2012: Our True Home. The episode ends with Over The Mountain by Joe and friend, Syrian singer and Plum Village practitioner Christa Awad.

In this mini-episode we listen to 3 extracts from the new Peace Sounds 3 album released on Peace Sounds, a label project within Wake Up London in 2012.Peace Sounds 3 is a fundraising project for The Being Peace Practice Centre, a campaign to establish a permanent home for Plum Village retreats and courses in the UK.The album is launched on Sunday 15th of October with an evening of album playback, live performance and conversation. We will also hold a silence for all affected by the recent escalation of violence in the middle east and for all reported and unreported conflicts in...

Welcome to Episode 12, International part 2: This is the second journey we take into the international Wake Up Community. We have a long conversation with Wake Up Jamie, Jennifer, Rosalia, Phoung, Gabriel and Hulf from Hong Kong and also Arlind, the current Wake Up Co ordinator, who comes by for a sharing. We have a guided meditation this episode from Wake Up London Facilitator Jack and our two music tracks; 'Tender' by Nayar and 'How Sweet Sweet' by Ha Down .https://wakeuplondon.org/podcast/ (donation)Wake Up Hong Kong: https://www.instagram.com/wake.up.hk/Wake Up International: https...

Welcome to Episode 11, MovementThis episode looks at movement. We have a long conversation with Wake Up London Hiking group founder Dave. Short sharings in this episode come from Jasmine and Serena, Wake Up friends who recently shared some time on the Camino pilgrimage route together in Spain,and Tamsin shares about a group of Wake Up Londoners running the 10k in Battersea Park to raise money for The Being Peace Practice Centre.We have a guided meditation this episode from Sibling Yon Ten who also shares about movement from the perspective of someone using a wheelchair and we two...

Welcome to Episode 10, Being Peace Part 2.

This episode looks ahead to the UK Plum Village Practice Centre Fundraising year - that begun with the Fundraiser Launch on March 26th

We have a long conversation with Sister Tam Muoi and Brother Thien Chi from Plum Village who are about to set off on a UK and Ireland tour to coincide with the fundraising.

Short sharings in this episode come from Lama Rod Owens, Christa Awad, Sister Chan Khong and Sister Chan Duc all from the Being Peace Fundraising evening.

2 community messages: Twan...

Welcome to Episode 9, Being Peace Part 1.

This episode looks ahead to the prospective UK Plum Village Practice Centre - beginning with the Fundraiser Launch on March 26th

We have a long conversation with Kasia from Wake Up London and Communications at Plum Village UK about her experience of arriving at Wake Up London, dance and mindfulness and her role at Plum Village UK - which at the moment is helping prepare for the Fundraiser.

Short sharings in this episode about Sangha come from 2 of our presenters for the launch: Rehena Harilall and Monica...

Welcome to Episode 8, International. This episode celebrates the international Wake up Movement, by connecting to some of our international siblings.

We have a long conversation with Ana from Wake Up Madrid about her personal practice and meeting the sangha there and short sharings from Jamie and Holf (Wake Up Hong Kong) and Yoav (Wake Up Tel Aviv).

A community announcement this episode about The Being Peace project, ongoing this year to raise funds to start the 'Being Peace' UK practice centre.

Our reading comes from current Happy Farmer Max from Sweden, reading from...

Welcome to Episode 7, Beginnings. This episode celebrates 12 years of Wake Up London; looking at the early days.

We have a long conversation with founder members Elina and Nick and short sharing with Katrina, Lucy, Ethan and Doran about their experiences of 12 years ago and seeing the community grow since then.

We have a community announcement about celebrating with us on Saturday night (29th October)

We also have a sharing from Kareem about spiritual friendship, monastics and Thich Nhat Hanh's legacy and a reading from Lucy from one of Thich Nhat Hanh's books about...

Welcome to Episode 6, Colours of Compassion. This episode takes a journey with some voices from the BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Colour) Community in the UK Plum Village Sangha.

We have a long conversation with artist Melissa James talking about her life as a singer/songwriter and a singing facilitator with a passion for racial awareness and justice. We have a 3-way sharing between Anh, Renuka and Kareem about their experience of Colours of Compassion and also one from Rehena who also talks about founding Buddhist inter-traditional BIPOC centred space, Buddhists Across Traditions.

Music this...

This episode looks at our Rainbow Sangha. The a long conversation is with Kesley, a therapist working with LGBTQAI+ refugees who also supports events management at Plum Village UK.

We have sharings from Upper Hamlet Happy Farm co-ordinator Mick and Rachel (of Episode 4 fame!) about their experiences with Rainbow Sangha. A community announcement this episode comes from Pia (she/her) and Lena(she/her) of Wake Up in Germany about a rainbow community project in Europe. There is music this episode from Rosanna Lea and Monica Max West (she/her) and Max reads from one of Thay's...