Common Threads

Sitting at my computer listening to Zoe Keating in the background.  Hmm... I don't think I have posted any of her videos yet... Okay- first things first first, so you can connect with my musical mindset this morning.

Brilliant...

I am awash with so many thoughts about sound that I don't know where to begin.  My mind is full and at so many points throughout each day I think, "Oh I should be taking notes or blogging about this idea... music... process..." whatever, but it rarely happens.  Now that I am out of Florida and have let go of ambassadorship at the sound healing center hopefully it will free me up for more writing!

I think about my last seven years in Florida and what I created there- a community when I didn't have one. A group of people who came together for many different events- meditations, zikrs, sound journeys, kirtan, classes, workshops and private sound healing sessions of kinds- all with personal goals, intentions and reasons for being there, unique to each one but with the common thread of a love of sound and music running through and connecting each person.

It occurs to me that maybe that's one of the things that makes Zoe Keating's music so compelling... these threads that run through and connect the different parts- entraining and entrancing. Others who come to mind with a similar approach- Phillip Glass and Mike Oldfield.

Common threads...

So what is at the front right now? Reconnecting with people from my past, letting people know I am here and ready to start working. 17 years have gone by since I was in Rhode Island for any length of time but it feels like no time. It's really sort of bizarre- like maybe 5 years have gone by? Except what I have done and what I have learned.

I left here just opening to the world of healing with sound, mostly exploring VibroAcoustic Therapy and healing with the voice. When I left I continued to explore and expand in those fields but have done so much more! Workshops with Fabien Maman, studying drum therapy with Buddy Helm, working with tuning forks, frame drumming with Layne Redmond and Barbara Gail, Mantra Therapy with the late Thomas Ashley-Farrand (Namadeva) and his  wife Margalo (Satyabhama), Nada Tantra with Bhagavan Das, workshops with Swami Karunananda and Vidyananda from Yogaville, Kirtan Camp and lots of weekend workshops with Jai Uttal, massage school (Bhakti Academe of Intuitive Massage and Healing), CranioSacral Therapy, Dolphin Assisted Therapy through the Upledger Institute, Biosonic Repatterning with tuning forks, various workshops in Ba Gua and Hsing-I... and more. Well, I guess it would take 17 years to have done all that...

So, I guess it's time to make a brochure...

Home Again

Hmmm... new Blogger page is unknown territory! Feeling my way through their new set-up.

Anyway, here I am- back in Newport RI after 17 years although it doesn't seem anywhere near that long. Familiarity is an interesting phenomenon- like there is no gap in time... But in that time I have done so much, learned so much, grown so much.

My new pad with massage table set up- sweet!
Tibetan bowls in foreground, tuning forks to the left of table!

Now I have a cozy little space behind an old friends house- a tiny cabin with two single beds and enough room between them to set up a massage table. Gave my first session up here a few days ago. The healing environment- the wellness consciousness- has vastly changed, expanded, opened since I left here, at least it seems that way to me. Time will tell what is really real! When I left very few knew much at all about healing with sound and I don't know yet what the awareness is (of sound as a healing modality), but there are certainly many more alternative healing centers here now so I am really looking forward to the opportunity of presenting more.

Lots of possibilities- my prayer is really to have more work than I know what to do with- I can sort out the overflow later! Meanwhile it is just wonderful to be home in a physical environment that really supports and nurtures my being.

 Florida was a place of such incredible growth for me for a lot of reasons- not the least of which was that I was in an extreme Discomfort Zone all the time- it was physically awful for me. Whenever I would get out of that climate I would feel about a hundred times better... so I am extremely grateful to have found a place in which I can make a transition in a pretty undemanding way. I don't have to make any big commitments. I am just here, feeling it all out- and so far IT FEELS GOOD!

On top of all that I am near two of my boys (grown men!), my mother and my grandson.

Life is good.