~Story Time for Singers~

I rarely post anything on FB but lately I have felt a rare pull to just express something, …and maybe there will be more somethings. I don’t really feel the need to speak here, or anywhere actually, unless I have something to say. For me, FB could be like a public diary of my thoughts, of what inspires me. So here they are…

I feel something has shifted within me after a prolonged period of navigating mountainous terrain. I have no evidence that this has changed on the outside- more just a feeling, like peace has rested on my being, my soul, and that somehow, everything is somehow different because of that.

I have always felt a little like I was not grounded in being from Ireland, because one of my parents is Mediterranean.

We didn’t have the deep rootedness of belonging that made me feel like I was home; But something in me has changed. Through years of much self work, it seems that unbeknownst to me, roots have grown in my feet while I still dream and stretch in the blue and white of the sky.

It’s as though I have fallen in love with nature in Ireland, in my neighbourhood, in my secret garden, in a way that’s so deeply personal, like I have embodied it, and integrated it into my tiny home -chaotic, brimming over with arts-with music and magic and walnuts from a couple of obliging neighbourhood trees. To me, it is one of the most real and beautiful things we can experience at this time of great change and destructuring.

My friends are the squirrels who cheekily munch on my strawberries on the garden wall, while I look through the glass door in amused exasperation, and they look back with a little embarrassment, the little mouse who became a lodger in his little house behind the wooden herb shelving in my patio, who also kept a strawberry in his kitchen, the little birds on the maple tree outside my house that call out with a chirp literally as a reminder to leave out some sultanas and bread crumbs, the duck family, who holidayed here, and bathed in the fountain, the family of foxes, who occasionally check out the little potato crop, (my patio takes up acres in and of my heart), the family of herons who live nearby, high up in a coniferous, and wake me with Jurassic cries in the morning. I am immersed in Song. All of these experiences is the Song of Nature herself, the Song of the Earth… -and speaking of Song,

I am also incredibly grateful for my understated work life. I am quietly proud of my students’ triumphs and rooting for them when they feel frustrated. I am experiencing a feeling of incredible gratitude for the absolute privilege to teach, and to be able to do that privately, outside of performance and my other creative endeavours. I have the honour of being able to support absolutely wonderful people, to help them unlock their potential not just as singers, and overall incredible creative artists, who want to make music as well as sing it, but as beings with infinite potential. Singing (and music making, writing, etc) is more than just about opening a voice,- it is a key to opening a life, a path, a way and outlet to express and to create when things are tough and when they are a joy; a form of self healing, through the power of sound created by the self, a journey of self discovery and self empowerment. When turned properly, the Key unlocks a door to infinite forms of creative expression, composing, song writing, poetry, to name a few.

I realise now more than ever, the sacredness of this work, the deepening of the hollows within my own being, and I am extremely blessed to live such a life..So I am sending this message out to the universe because somehow, I feel the calling to do so, so that perhaps the deep gratitude and the blessings that I feel may ripple out and bless life.

While so much seems to be falling apart, I choose to focus on the beauty and wholesomeness of life, and of Earth, with so much gratitude for the absolute privilege to Be here and to experience and share the great loves in my life- nature, music and the unfathomable journey of the Song of Self.

If you feel called in this direction, please get in touch through DM. I offer singing lessons, online courses to unlock your voice and creativity, and private retreats where you will find your community, your nature, your haven, your heaven, your home.