Peace Sounds 2 Music
Dear Wake Uppers,
In 2012 Wake Up London had an idea… could we put together a music album of songs performed by the Wake Up...
Congratulations Wake Up London!
Congratulations to Wake Up London for having won The Spiritual Community Initiative Award 2015 at the Kindred Spirit Awards Ceremony during the MindBodySpirit...
The Buddha Path
By Thomas from Wake Up Berlin
The photographs have been taken during the pilgrimage "In the footsteps of Buddha" in India and Nepal.
It was guided by...
Meditating For the Benefit of Another
The bell rings. With legs in lotus posture, twenty young people are sitting on meditation cushions in a circle. A Buddha statue, half the size of...
A Window of Plum Village
A Day of Mindfulness Practices in Camaldoli with Wake Up Arezzo
On Saturday 6th September 2014, Wake Up Arezzo organised its first day of mindfulness....
What is Actually This Thing Called Meditation?
By Maarten Hunink
And what does it have to do with tomato soup?
That’s what I was wondering after staying in Plum Village for two weeks, and with...
Interview With 15-Year-Old Lay Friend From Plum Village
My name is Colia and I am 15 years old. I come from Angers in the northwest of France.
When was the first time you...
Growth in Wake Up Nijmegen
by Manon Wetzels and Reinier de Nooij
The seed for Wake Up Nijmegen germinated during a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Papendal, the Netherlands,...
Breathe, Listen to the Silence, Realise Them
My name is Giuseppe and I am 32 years old. I currently live in Tuscany, in Arezzo. At the moment I am dedicating myself...
Break the Shell
During the Be-In on the last Lay Day of the winter retreat in Plum Village, Cheï from Amsterdam sang a beautiful rendition of India...
New Year’s Eve in Plum Village
How does it feel to spend a morning in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village with the monastic and lay community on the last day of...
Wake Up Cambridge
This month, we travel to an university town in England and get to know a warm, caring Sangha called Wake Up Cambridge.
Happy reading! :D
We Go Sailing on the Sea
On 13 September 2014, Wake Up London celebrated its fourth birthday of hosting their weekly Afternoon of Mindfulness sessions. Afterwards, there was a special...
Feeling Joy in Plum Village
During the week of the Ordination Ceremony that took place in the last week of May 2014, Marianna, a practitioner from Wake Up Rome,...
Introducing Mindfulness at a HIV Charity
By Wake Up London facilitator, Jess Stein
Earlier this year HIV charity Positively UK approached Wake Up London and asked us to facilitate some introductory...