Music – Page 2 – TIME & SPACE CONSULTING

Published July 20, 2014 by ifc

More Divine Dramas – Daghda’s Harp

I went to another storytelling event this Sunday and brought my harp. Just in case. This is all quite new to me, especially the part around playing the harp in public. It’s a funny thing, because I’m really not as shy as I am as when I have my harp with me for storytelling. Does that make any sense?

Anyway, I’m getting over it all and really having fun sharing tunes & stories with whomever will politely listen. I don’t need applause. My ego disappeared a saturn cycle ago.

This time I wove together a personal story (which is actually written up here) along with the ancient Celtic myth of Daghda and his magical harp. Ancient people understood the power of music and story and I’m thrilled to explore this journey of the bard with a group of talented storyteller’s.

My application to tell a story at the NJ Storyteller’s Festival on Sept. 21 was accepted! The details for the event are here if you’re in or near NJ.

I haven’t put my story together yet for that event even though I had to describe it on the application. I wrote:

A HOME-GROWN YOGINI
Challenging times are when wants, needs, wishes and responsibilities collide. This is a personal tale of struggle, renewal & transformation as experienced using Yoga, Astrology, Feng Shui and the Harp.

Hmmm. It shouldn’t be hard to put that story together at all! But, telling my personal ‘story’, in ‘public’, as ‘entertainment’? Oh well. It’s all good. Om shanti. May all beings be peaceful.

Love this painting! “The Bard” by John Martin – http://www.wga.hu/cgi-bin/highlight.cgi?file=html/m/martin/bard.html&find=bard. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bard.jpg#mediaviewer/File:The_Bard.jpg

Ancient Wisdom Harp StoryTelling

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Published April 8, 2014 by ifc

Divine Dramas………

Wow! Sunday was my first-ever storytelling performance with a harp, and the audience was delighted. I recognized some serious applause and I was told later that everyone was talking about me, although, I don’t think it was really me they were talking about….it was really about the harp. Once again I forgot how utterly mesmerizing this instrument is to most people….and me too, of course. For all the worry, anxiety, and practice….the music just flowed exactly the way it was supposed to.

In the first person, I told the story of Chiron’s Birth and why he came to be living in a cave with his harp.

This centaur, known as The Wounded Healer, is a mythological story that has captured my attention for the past 20 years or so and I’m frequently referring to his symbolism in my lectures/workshops and yoga therapy classes. He’s got a powerful story for our times, for sure. So many of us feel wounded, shamed, abandoned and just plain old sad. I’ve blogged a bit about Chiron, the asteroid, and this post gives a pretty good overview of the astrological Chiron. Today Chiron is traveling thru Pisces which supports healing thru music.

This was the first time, in a long time, that rather than teach or facilitate, I practiced Performance & (intentional) Drama. I was totally unprepared for the sheer joy that I experienced after it was over and thruout the following day. It was wonderful to find a new, creative outlet that brings together so much of what I love to do, and still challenges me in new ways. But four minutes is nothing when your hands are on the strings, you know?

Already, I am planning Chapter 2, and expanding my story to maybe 10-15 minutes? Who knows? For now, Storytelling is a new hobby/activity for me and I am so excited to see where it takes me.

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Astrology chiron Harp healing mythology pisces storytelling storytelling performance

Published July 29, 2013 by ifc

Instantly Calm…………….

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Metta

Om Asatoma Sat Gamaya

Published December 19, 2011 by ifc

Om Asatoma Sat Gamaya

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Buddhism Music Yoga

chant om

Published December 12, 2011 by ifc

Sonnet

I am in need of music that would flow, over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, with melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.

Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head. And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool heart, that sinks through fading colors deep to the subaqueous stillness of the sea, and floats forever in a moon-green pool, held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

–elizabeth bishop

Neptune approaches Pisces. Ommmmmmmmmm.

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elizabeth bishop

Published October 13, 2010 by ifc

The moon has joined the pack……

Today, for me,( because we’re all on different ‘clocks’, right?), started with the moon……, I can feel the conjunction with Pluto/Nodes coming. My dreams are more vibrant, I am inspired to write again. ..and maybe play the harp, too. My emotional body (manomayakosha) has demanded my attention, yet, again.

It can be exhausting sometimes…..living in the moon.

Pluto is crawling back and forth through the early degrees of Capricorn and anyone with anything there or in the early degrees of Cancer (and, Libra, and Aries) is feeling this magnetic force that is everpresent these days. The airwaves are full of stories about EMF’s and the dangers of just about everything that is needed to survive something or other. There’s nothing new under the sun. These are generational times a’changing which means taking the ‘global’ view of everything. Capische?

This muddle of planets and nodal action is moving thru my personal 6th house these days and it’s true…..Changing my daily routine is really hard to do. How I manage the gazillion things that must be done on any given day reflects my unconscious behavior patterns or lunar behavior. (my moon is in the 12th houses.

Yet change I must. Or not. The 28 day rule still works well for breaking old habits and replacing them with new, improved, habits. Your local astrologer can explain to you how to live life with the lunar cycle. ( If not, find me……it’s been quite a specialty!)

In the end (and when is that coming, you say?) it’s still our choice vs. no choice in how we want to live our daily lives. We live in a world that perceives it’s environment from a dual-perspective. Most of us. Until that changes, and it is indeed happening in my world, not much can ever get accomplished. It’s time for the human race to evolve….regardless of where we began (a sperm cell or a spark from god’s eye), and that’s another keyword for Pluto….evolve/evolution.

One habit that remains in my daily routine is checking the daily horoscope column. There are so many out there that really try to write a good ‘daily’ but no one does it better than my peer, Michael Lutin from NYC. Thanks Mikey for this timely reminder!!

It’s time for pranayama & meditation now. These are the best parts of my daily routine. Om shanti.

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Published January 15, 2010 by ifc

Do not assume that…….

a sound is good or bad. Please watch your ‘judging’ mind. That is part of the practice. Begin by just noticing sound. In your home. In the environment. In your body. Notice the breath at the same time, because there can be no sound without chi. To learn feng shui, you must understand chi.

To understand something like chi, you must experience it’s effects. Feng Shui has a strong experiential quality……it cannot be learned by the mind, alone.

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chi

Published January 13, 2010 by ifc

Does your home sing?

Sound is a very important element to consider when feng shui’ing your home.
Begin,
today,
to listen more closely to the sounds in your home.

Watch this video for inspiration…..if you like it check out the movie: Touch the Sound. I watched it last night.

Do you have any instruments in your home? Where have you placed them?

Think about it. Meditate….. contemplate silence.

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Published October 22, 2009 by ifc

Why do you play the harp?

the t-shirt was black this year I returned home from the 2009 Harper’s Escape on Sunday. The tunes are still running thru my head, awake and asleep. I am filled with joy and gladness that so much joy and gladness can be shared with harps. Yes?

40 of us gathered strong under gloomy, doomy October skies to learn a few tunes, in community with each other. Angels as well as devils showed up. Spiritual energy/vibration allowed it to be all okay, just as it is.

Om shanti. Peace to all.

On Sunday, we performed as a sort of harp orchestra at the local public library. We were quite the hit; a waiting line stood patiently outside the room for the entire performance hoping for a seat to open up.

I was relatively pleased and content with my own ‘performance’, noticing with every breath how the inner critic is still alive and well!

But, once again I was amazed and awed by the sheer diversity of our group. The harp is what brought us together and held us in-common. Regardless of color, creed, culture, or zodiac sign, we worked together for an entire weekend to create a concert for the public. Peace is always possible.

Astrologically speaking it was a weekend of Neptune/Chiron/Jupiter & Moon energies. Sweet, serious, and silly all together with lots of food, drink, and water…….it rained a lot. The balsamic phase of the moon was occuring in Late degrees of Libra. Read more about balsamic, it’s very important to understand our human need for deep rest.

Gotta go practice……I’m haunted by the Harris Dance.

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harper's escape

Published January 28, 2009 by ifc