In brief
• This week in focus: Singing Heals
• TAROT
Launching Tarot of the Troubadours
Russell Sturgess’s WA Conference presentation
Youtube - David’s interview with myself
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• Meditation
Retreat-Workshops choose: May | June | October
Spiritual Awakenings Conference - June (online)
• Spiritual Formation programme - dive in!
• Yoga
Balingup
Margaret River
• ASEA Supplement and Renu28 - information and ordering
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This week in focus
Singing Heals
In 1941, during WWII, Peter Deunov, one of the most important spiritual teachers of the 20th century in Europe (based in Bulgaria), is recorded as saying the following to the many thousands who followed his work:
Singing heals. When someone is gravely ill, I say to them: “You should sing.” I tell them: “Sing in the evening; sing even at midnight.” People may say, “You have lost your mind - he is singing with a fever of forty degrees” But I say: as long as a person continues to sing, I guarantee - one hundred and one percent - that they will recover. If they stop singing, I can give no guarantee. As long as a person sings inwardly - in the mind and in the heart - nothing is impossible. Therefore I say: sing within yourself, even under the harshest conditions. Under ordinary and pleasant circumstances anyone can sing, but to sing under the most difficult conditions - that is when your true nature is revealed. There lies the strength of the human being.
Tarot news
When Kat Black created the Golden Tarot in the early days of digital collage, software was rather limited, and the deck she created was (and remains) an incredibly beautiful balance of seamless work - of course criticised by some at the time as she broke new ground with the developing software. Her next deck, Touchstone Tarot, designed in the first instance for Nokia and Motorola screens (before the days of iPhones and its various alternatives), similarly broke new ground and again, when published, showed Kat’s capacity for beautiful work using emerging technologies in sensitively beautiful artistic ways.
And Kat does it again… this time (again intelligently and sensitively) unveiling new horizons through AI to not only generate a new deck, but also to bring her own tarot poetry to music generated through specific forms that coherently reflects the visual design of the deck.
The release of the deck will take place on the 1st of April 2026… but as of a couple of days ago, she has made a ‘soft release’, inviting feedback in case she has overlooked a small detail somewhere…
Even without the feedback, well worth a look… now if only the deck had been based more directly on a classical TdM rather than the alterations introduced in the Waite-Smith! 😉
Check out her YouTube channel and the cards and music:
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Russell Sturgess’s Presentation at the WA Tarot Conference 21/3/26
Aside from listening to a most fascinating presentation, you’ll see, towards the beginning of the presentation, other presenters at the conference, including Kat Black, Mary Greer, David Mitchell, and myself.
And do check his website at russellsturgess.com.au
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Preview some discussion on tarot on In Body In Mind - Jean-Michel with Dave from Kundalini Yoga Southwest...
Reading the Marseille Tarot
Get a copy of my tarot book, Reading the Marseille Tarot here
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MEDITATION - Retreat-workshops
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Meditation retreats include
optional yoga or movement session
optional sound healing session
other optional extras based on location
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Spiritual Awakenings International - 2026 Conference
My presentation will focus one a meditative ascent using Tarot’s major arcana and the Tree of Life as tools of spiritual transformation.
Preview some discussion on meditation on In Body In Mind - Jean-Michel with Dave from Kundalini Yoga Southwest...
Dive in to your own inner journey
Spiritual Formation
Personal Development has traditionally focussed on spiritual formation. In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation. If you are interested in finding out more, please be in contact.
Following an initial consultation, deepening work requires commitment for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired).
Yoga
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KYWA 2025 Summer solstice celebration
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Monday 6 pm - with Alice
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Thursday 10 am - with Jean-Michel
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