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

The Wake Up London Podcast continues with a rich and honest conversation with Ian Sneath — an ordained practitioner in the Plum Village tradition, working at the intersection of Plum Village practice and Insight Leadership. In today’s episode, Ian is interviewed by co-hosts Leo and Lucy, and together they explore themes of trauma, self-love, Internal Family Systems (IFS), addiction, and more — wit...

On a sabbatical since Early 2024, the Wake Up London Podcast returns 🙂 In this: first for a while episode- Joe introduces Leo - the new presenter of the Wake Up London Podcast. They talk about what brought them to the Plum Village tradition, their love for community building and podcasting! Guest on this show is Ho-Ting, the incoming manager of the Being Peace Centre, the new home for Plum Villag...

Welcome back to the Wake up London Podcast. In this, the first episode of 2025 we look back to 2024 and ahead to the New Year from the Gregorian Celebrations a few weeks ago, We hear reflections/prayer and wishes from Wake Up Londoners Charlotte, Lucy, Vedantha, Eugene, Iain and Sam. Thank you to them for contributing. To be aware of; In the shows intro and in the sharings we touch on genocide, vi...

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,...

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 mu...

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...

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...

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 h...

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...

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 Octo...

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, Renuk...

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/he...

This episode looks at Burnout. The a long conversation is with Rachel, who is currently living not far from Plum Village in France helping to run retreats at The Cedres Bleus Retreat Centre. Rachel shares about life as a rock star (!), a refugee advocate and a the experience of burnout that led to Plum Village. We have sharings from Annabel and Charlotte about their burnout experiences. There is m...

This episode looks at retreats. There is a long conversation with Robbie, who currently is on a year's stay in PV following the Rains Retreat. We also hear from Brother Dao Bi about this year's Wake Up Humanity retreat. We have sharings from Max, Twan and Rachel about their retreat experiences. There is music from Nimo and Betsy Rose and Vanessa reads from Thich Nhat Hanh's book 'Fear'. <3 Anna...

Following last episode's conversation with Ieva about growing up in Lithuania; this episode welcomes Sonia, sharing about experiences of growing up in Russia. We have community announcements from Rebecca and Melissa. Manu, Karen and Joe tell us what memories nourish their inner child. There is music from Monica Max West, Message To Bears and Charlie reads 2 of Thay's poems on conflict and peace du...

With the breaking news of the violence in Ukraine, Joe talks to Wake Upper Ieva about growing up in Lithuania; another of the former soviet countries, neighbour but one to Ukraine and bordering Russia. Kirsten and Duncan reflect on the peace sit from Trafalgar Square as it fills up with a Stop The War demonstration. Orla reads from Thay's book 'Creating True Peace'. There is music from Hilary Bich...

In this pilot episode, Joe talks with Catalin Zorzini about his work on the Plum Village app. Hà Dương shares a reading from Vietnam out of Thay’s book ‘Peace is Every Step’. There is music from Elina Pen and Melissa James and a few of our Wake Up members share what their conditions of happiness are. Thanks to Joe Holtaway and all of or Wake Up friends to make this podcast possible. Visit us at ww...