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Coming Home To Our Heart

Dec 05, 2020, 5 smiles When we were planning for last week’s London Virtual retreat, we chose the title and theme “Embracing Life’s Unexpected Gifts”. It was an experiment that invited deeper ways of personal and collective transformation during these uncertain times. But how can a virtual space hold that energy in the ways held by an in-person retreat? How do we create a virtual safe space with people who do not know one another? How do we create the connection with others without being able to touch their hand in a comforting gesture? How do we create the ambience - without warm welcome hugs - or intricate mandalas or soul filled music? How do we send angels to sprinkle anonymous tags of kindness? These were questions we were exploring as we put our heads, hands and hearts into offering a hybrid, online and offline retreat, which had been inspired by our Moved By Love ... Read Full Story

Kindness Circle In London!

Nov 20, 2018, 10 smiles Last Tuesday, on World Kindness Day, Vicky, Shamash and I had an amazing day and Kindness Circle at a local junior school near our home. We were quite blown away by the wisdom of the children! First we started the morning with a couple assemblies. Shamash and Vicky crested a few slides on what kindness means with some fun interactive quiz questions for the assembly, such as “Put your hand up if you think doing acts of kindness can help you live longer.” :) It was so interesting for all of us, including the teachers, because they backed up answers with real statistics. We shared the Unsung Hero video from KarmaTube, which was loved by all. We explored some deeper aspects of the video, too, such as the contagious nature of kindness. Afterwards, we had two smaller Kindness Circles with the older students. They seemed to pass in a blink of an eyelid -- simply ... Read Full Story

Connecting Heart To Heart In Service-- Karma Kitchen

Aug 23, 2017, 2 comments, 14 smiles It is beautiful and heart-warning to witness again and again how simply holding space for an intention in unconditional generosity can move different people to tap into the inherent well of generosity which is deep in all our hearts to serve others and give of ourselves in creative and inspiring ways. Last week's Pop-Up Karma Kitchen was a heart opening experiment which took place at London's first "Happy Cafe", The Canvas Cafe. We were warmly invited back by Ruth, the owner -- who is wonderfully experimenting with generosity with ways in which the Cafe space can be utilised as a blank Canvas to bring about positive social change -- to be part of the Canvas Cafe's Summer of Change Festival. Small Things with Great Love... A spirited team of almost 20 volunteers, (with a wait-list of 12 others) -- almost all of whom had never served or dined at Karma Kitchen ... Read Full Story

From My Heart To Yours ...Â

Aug 23, 2017, 1 comments, 6 smiles The invitation to last week's Karma Kitchen event in London included links to RSVP to serve, or to dine, as well as suggested ways to be involved, such as making pay-it-forward gifts for the kindness basket or writing anonymous Love Letters ... One diner, who would have liked to have volunteered at the event yet had found the practicalities would not work for them, expressed their wish to serve in another way, by writing 10 Anonymous Love Letters, which they later refer to as Letters "From My Heart To Yours", to connect with and share loving kindness with another person, an act of service to hopefully uplift the heart of the recipient as well as warming and filling their own heart with gratitude and joy. In an email afterwards, they expressed all the details of the thoughtful process of aligning their head and hands with their heart, ... Read Full Story

Coming Soon: Karma Kitchen Pop-Up On August 12th In

Jul 13, 2017, 7 smiles Following a heart-opening Karma Kitchen pop-up in March this year, we're hosting another Karma Kitchen on the evening of Saturday, August 12th, as part of the Summer of Change Festival at The Canvas Cafe! We know many folks in the ServiceSpace community know others in London who might like to come along that evening and experience "growing in generosity" first-hand, so please do feel free to share the invitation below with them. You're all invited to join in at Karma Kitchen at The Canvas Cafe (just off Brick Lane in Central London) on August 12th. Run by volunteers, at Karma Kitchen our meals are cooked and served with love, and offered to the guest as a genuine gift. To complete the full circle of giving and sustain this experiment, guests make contributions in the spirit of pay-it-forward to those who will come after them. In keeping this chain going, the generosity ... Read Full Story

Paying Tribute To Alice Herz-Sommer

Feb 24, 2014, 1 comments, 5 smiles Paying tribute to Alice Herz-Sommer oldest holocaust victim who passed away aged 110. "I am looking for the nice things in life. I know about the bad things, but I look only for the good things.” Everything is a Present KarmaTube video:

Ripples From The London InnerService Retreat

Feb 20, 2014, 1 comments, 5 smiles As part of our one-day retreat in London, we wrote anonymous love letters to women at a local homeless shelter and bundled them up with lovely canvas totes, which said "A smile is the best thing a girl can wear!":) along with a wooden heart ornament that had a positive message on it. Last week, on Valentine's Day, I went to visit the Women's Group at the Whitechapel Mission, as I do every Friday. It was a day that flowed with much love and good energy. Following a delicious lunch of chilli/rice/ salad and fresh raspberry sundae, I explained to the women how friends of a meditation circle had been inspired to gift these bags...(thunderous clapping when I read the caption :) )... and that these friends had written anonymous love notes...more clapping with loud "oohs". :) We didn't give the bags out until the end of the afternoon. However, as the women ... Read Full Story

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