Jack Kornfield is an American Buddhist teacher. He is a founder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, Calif., where he lives & teaches.

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Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness, called Insight Meditation, is at the heart of all the activities at Spirit Rock. We provide silent meditation retreats, as well as classes, trainings, and Dharma study opportunities for new and experienced students from diverse backgrounds with a willingness to develop their own practice.

T J Fool, a.k.a. storyteller Teri West lives in a state of blissful confusion in a cliff-top cottage in North Devon, where she oscillates gracefully from room to room wondering, mostly, what to do with the rest of her life.

Realising that despite having sung songs, riddled riddles, told tales and rhymed rhymes in clubs, parties, theatres and pubs, at festivals, fun-days, play-days and fetes, in schools,village halls and arts centres, in bed, and in the street, for a quantity of years, one place into which she had never dared to venture was the recording studio.

Then came a chance meeting with the Cre8SoundMaster (he was touting for business from a cunningly camouflaged ice cream van on Welcombe beach). The Song of Wandering Aengus is the result, and has led to a curious relationship with the studio, based on mutual fear and insecurity.


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On 1st December 2017, British folk's best-kept secret - Izzy's Daughter - returns with new album 'Luna'. The solo music project of visual artist Michelle Nichols, 'Luna' showcases a more assured, mature take on the dark, ethereal folk heard on her 2014 debut 'Autumn Flowers', this time flushed out with glacial strings, agile bass and an increased focus on piano - all in service of Nichols' striking, hypnotic voice, which sits somewhere between Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt and the wordless incantations of Lisa Gerrard.

'Luna' follows a recent four-track session for BBC Introducing in Suffolk, and a successful three years that saw Izzy's Daughter perform all over the country in support of her debut, including a triumphant set at Latitudes Festival 2015, and receive radio airplay across BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Introducing.

Words by Javier Wallis

The sounds of biodiversity. Natural soundscapes and wildlife sounds from around the world.

Meditation teacher, author, and clinical psychologist: Tara Brach has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is a teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Her podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times a month.

I'm a collection of evolving sound seeds in a universe of music.  

(I also serve the world as a mental health counselor, life mentor/coach, and Buddhist Meditation instructor. I'm nourished by the world's sounds, listen to the laughter and cries, and provide music to heal. )

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