This one dropped in while in deep meditation one morning. I often receive little medicine chants while in meditation, but don’t often record them. This one wanted to have wings, so I recorded it while still in a state of calm. If you listen closely, you can hear birds chirping in the background.
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A four-part layer song, written to celebrate the power and healing presence of the Sun. Multiple harmonies and rhythms stack together, bursting with light and energy. For anyone who has experienced dark days of depression, being outside on a bright sunny day is natural medicine.
Lyrics:
Parts 1 & 2, melody and higher harmony:
Sun shine down on me, let my body breath the light Sun shine down on me, let my body feel your warmth Sun shine down on me, help me thaw these frozen bones Sun shine down on me, help me find my way back home
Part 3, low:
Sun shine, sun shine, healing me, setting me free (4x)
Part 4, high:
Shine your light (2x) Shine your light, shine your light, shine your light, shine your light (2x)
With gratitude to Brené Brown and her book, “Braving the Wilderness.” There is a yearning, especially in women, to find their voice and express themselves. For most of my life, I’ve been deferential (particularly around men), avoiding arguments and fearing confrontation, finding it difficult to speak up, even when encountering negativity, judgment, b.s., or polarization (things I know in my heart aren’t helping foster connection). Each time I remain quiet, I give away my power. We “brave the wilderness,” when we act with integrity by speaking up and voicing our opinion (with civility), rather than remaining silent… even when it’s not easy. And the more often we do so, the more graceful our delivery, and the more awesome it feels to be true to ourselves!
3 parts: melody, vocalized syncopated beat low layer, and high harmony
Lyrics:
I’m a woman Who wants to be heard I’m a woman, singing her song I’m a woman, braving the wilderness Speaking my voice And rising strong
We are women Who want to be heard We are women Singing our songs We are women Lifting our voices And braving the wilderness To right what’s wrong
Braving the wilderness to right what’s wrong Braving the wilderness to right… what’s… wrong…
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When anxious, I feel physical sensations of unrest coursing through my veins. It’s an unpleasant feeling – and, when it happens, I know the struggle my body is having is created by patterned ways of thinking (limiting beliefs). Recently, I felt that familiar sensation of anxiety in my body. I wanted to let go of the thoughts creating fear, so I decided to write a Medicine Song to help me shift my awareness. I remembered a powerful essay by DeWitt Jones that I’d read 20 years ago… It deeply impacted me at the time and I wanted to capture its wisdom in a song for myself. So, I re-read the essay, “Stop Flapping,” by DeWitt Jones… and this is the song that came through.
Lyrics:
Quit flapping, ride your thermals Rise, baby, rise Stop struggling, ride your thermals Rise, baby, rise
Trust that they are there No need to worry or be scared Move to your edge Let go and soar… Soar!
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Offered in utter devotion to our Mother Waters. This one poured through me as I knelt down on the banks of the Tuolumne River to express my gratitude. To be sung with reverence and devotion.
Lyrics:
Oh Mother Waters Thank you for your healing song Oh Mother Waters Here I know that I belong
Lyrics inspired by Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris’s book “The Lost Words: A Spell Book“, honoring words from the natural word that have been disappearing from a widely used children’s dictionary since 2007, replaced with modern words which the editors thought were more useful to today’s kids.
Music by: Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew.
The form of the song is inspired by Scottish Gaelic blessings, particularly from a collection of poems, prayers, incantations, and lore called the Carmina Gadelica.
This music video shows the artists creating the song:
Lyrics:
Enter the wild with care my love And speak the things you see Let new names take and root and thrive and grow And even as you travel far from heather, crag, and river May you like the little fisher set the stream alight with glitter May you enter now as otter without falter into water
Look to the sky with care my love And speak the things you see Let new names take and root and thrive and grow And even as you journey on past dying stars exploding Like the gilded one in flight, leave your little gifts of light And in the dead of night my darling, find the gleaming eye of starling Like the little aviator, sing your heart to all dark matter
Walk through the world with care, my love And sing the things you see Let new names take and root and thrive and grow And even as you stumble through machair sands eroding Let the fern unfurl your grieving, let the heron still your breathing Let the selkie swim you deeper, oh my little silver-seeker Even as the hour grows bleaker, be the singer and the speaker And in city and in forest, let the larks become your chorus And when every hope is gone, let the raven call you home
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How many times have we made up stories and run with them, only to find out that they were untrue? Anyone? Okay, maybe it’s just me, and oh boy have I worked myself into some agony, some anxiety, some fear, some disbelief! I get better at catching myself sooner as I grow more hairs of wisdom on my head. And this song really helps. 🙂
This is a super fun and easy quick teach!
Lyrics:
Part 1: You don’t till you know so don’t run and go making up any stories
Part 2: No, you don’t know till you know, you know?