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Healing sound and music therapy – What makes sound healing?
If healing sound is not confined to musical styles, from where does the ‘healing quality’ in music originate? In every moment we have the potential to offer healing with sound and music: this is great in theory but what principles apply and how can we put this into practice?
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Heaven’s Joy – ‘Under the Stars’ album review
The Album ‘Under the Stars’ from Heaven’s Joy brings to sound the grace of true love as a divine expression in brother and sisterhood, reflecting the power of togetherness.
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How to free yourself from performance anxiety and stage fright
Most people say they would rather die than face this. But how bad can it be? From shattering nerves to knowing her full voice, Jenny James writes of her own experience in overcoming stage fright.
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Jenny James – ‘She’ album review
She is an album that connects us to our beingness – it is richly endowed with truth and deeply evolving for the listener, delivered with the lightness of one who has walked the path to her own innermost.
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Religion is being held hostage; I want it back
We have lost true religion, our birthright, and our freedom to explore our relationship with God and the Divine. We want it back!
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Love is Love: Gender and the truth in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a dark, bittersweet comedy about Love. Shakespeare pulls the plug on the folly of human behaviour that we subscribe to when it comes to gender, love, and desire . . . all of which we have imagined love to be but which actually sets us up to keep love at bay.
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Carola Woods
Singer, songwriter, composer and a ‘natural’ with performing, Carola Woods is without a doubt a powerhouse vocalist. Carola will tell you that her ‘sole purpose for music is to share music from the Soul for the Soul – that is, music about us all, for us all’.
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The Merchant of Venice and the ancient grudge
Is The Merchant of Venice ‘the most scandalously problematic of Shakespeare’s plays’, or a powerful, comical, vivacious, colourful expose of the turbulent state of division in which humanity still chooses to live to this current day?
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Appreciation of some extraordinary men
Now thriving in his 64th year after having been written off as permanently incapacitated over 30 years ago, Chris James works full time as a presenter and musician and travels worldwide. What changed for him?
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“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare said “If music be the food of love, play on.” Was he onto something about music’s effect on our wellbeing when he wrote these words?
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World Voice Day – our voice reveals everything about us
Do you know that your voice reveals our state of being? Your voice carries a detailed read-out that can be easily discerned when we between the lines and feel the essence of the message being spoken, sung, even whispered!
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History repeats itself, war after war: on Greek tragedies, Love Actually and a true beginning to the end of war
Greek Tragedies from the 5th century BC describe to a T exactly how soldiers are feeling when returning from war this very day. Why haven’t we learnt from the past? Why is it that history keeps repeating itself with atrocities that nobody who has ever experienced war wants again?
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The music in the bell-tipped grass
A personal encounter of how one can feel so innately at ease with nature’s music from an early age, yet let this go in the process of growing up.
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The not-so-secret secret of how music informs and forms us
Just like fashion, music styles reinvent rapidly – never have there been so many genres to cover every aspect of the human condition on a global scale. How does music married to lifestyle influence the way we view life, what choices we make, our behaviours and even the words we speak?
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‘Divinity Is Birthed’ by Victoria Warburton - album review
If you were ever in doubt about our divine origins, if you ever felt lost, caught up in the chaos of the world, or struck by a hurt, then these ten tracks will serve as your guiding light.
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Anita C
Anita is a student of the Soul, composing, singing and writing from her deepening religious intimacy with all that she is. Her music communicates that we are multidimensional Soul, reverberating across space and beyond time.
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Victoria Warburton
Deep religiosity speaks of the innate Oneness of all humanity. This is the purpose that moves the divine Victoria Warburton through the expression of music.
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Expression is everything: Thyroid disease & the Ageless Wisdom
Every part of our bodies is designed to teach us something about the wholeness we are to live here on earth. One of the most beautiful and delicate teachers in our body is the thyroid gland.
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I hate my thighs
What is really going on when we ‘hate’ a part of our body?
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The sleep deprived world
What happens during the hours we sleep? Is it the body, the so-called ‘meat suit’ we are in – our organs, blood, muscles – that is the beneficiary of the rest, or is there more to it?