This month I’d like to introduce a ‘guest artist’ into the Heartpower community – an old friend Martin Green. Martin lives in Warwickshire and has been playing the guitar since he was a teenager. He has made a number of acoustic guitars, trained 10 guide dog puppies, has written and recorded a number of albums,…

Snowdrops and daffodils poking through the sodden ground – spring is almost here.  And to mark the change of seasons, two new pieces recorded during the cold, gloomy nights of winter: ‘Dark Secrets’ and a new version of ‘There’s Something Wrong With My Head Today’, on the ‘Dark’ EP. Ivor

We are very nearly into the last chorus of 2023, and I’d like to close out the year on Heartpower music with another couple of Mudlarking offerings and a new version of The Heart of You (with kind thanks to Vaughn Jones…) Thank you for being part of the Heartpower community over these past 10…

A couple of years ago I had a coaching client who lived by the Thames in London. He shared with me how he would often spend a few hours when the tide was out looking for treasure on the riverbank. More often than not his finds would be old pieces of Victorian pottery or perhaps…

Summer, for as much as it was, seems to be fading and already the nights are beginning to draw in. Another turn of the seasons as autumn prepares to unfold. Here’s my latest offering in four parts: The Heart of You – an expression of the longing of the heart for healing, integration, wholeness, and…

I was recently prompted by events occurring in many parts of the world, including here in the UK, to return to a song I recorded in 2019 – Tooth and Claw. ‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’ is a line that might be familiar. It’s from ‘In Memoriam’, a long poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson…

Our world is filled with the noise of non-stop information, news, analysis, opinion. It comes at us from every direction. It’s hard to get away from it or drown it out. And sometimes it can be overwhelming. How then can we find a clearing in the forest, a resting place on the journey, a space…

As a general rule, we human beings are not very comfortable with uncertainty. We tend to crave information and answers about how things will turn out. We want to know what is going to happen next week, next month, next year so as find some sense of solid ground on which to live our life.…