Why sound...my altar...my prayer

For me, although voice is my first instrument, sound is more than singing.
It is drumming and chiming and striking and stroking and plucking..

I sound because it is my spiritual practice.
I sound because it nourishes my soul and makes it glow.
I listen deeply to the known and the mystic and
I sound to give 'voice' to the sonic mysteries swirling through the cosmos.
Sounding gives me roots to ground and wings to soar.
Sound brings me back to harmony when I am out of tune.
Sound brings me balance.
It reaches out to all the places I have stretched myself and offers
an alchemical container where I can return to my peace in the chaos.
Life is my altar and my body is not a temple to sit with hard, structured
boundaries unused waiting for a moment of occasional spirit ritual.
My body is my instrument. Constantly tuning and adjusting to life's symphony.
I chant it. I dance it. I sing it. I make mad passionate love to it. I breathe it.

Sound is my song, it is my dance, it completes me.

Sonic Blissings, Anny

Time Flies, Sound Travels

Wow! Time Flies and Sounds Travels.....Earthdance was wonderful....it was surreal...I was just talking to a participant today and I was telling her that I honestly don't remember it. I was it a sort of in a bubble and everything that was happening around me. She said that often happens when we are the organizer of an event. Pictures will be up soon on the website and I'll brave the video edits, I promise.

Creatively I feel like I'm ready to burst into something new and I will have a new stage/pen name to bring with me. In fact it's a very old name, an old family name, the one my mom calls me, Anoushka. It carries with it some of that old gypsy ancestry we recently found. I've always felt somewhat alone in this journey and this makes me a little more connected. It's a nice sentiment. It brings a whole new energy to my creative presence and I'm looking forward to all the positive vibrations that will ripple out.

With more time on my hands, I'll be blogging more....Sonic Blissings, Anoushka