I always knew I was to be a healer, and I just didn't think that it was going to be
with music. It just sort of came together that I was to do something with sound and
integrate the two. I think the journey started about in 93 when I began the didgeridoo. As
soon as you play it, you instantly are connected to its healing properties. It's a very ancient
instrument. I was gifted a rattle and other things that were very percussive that seemed
to go well with the didgeridoo. Music has the ability to shift emotions. You experience
that in your car when you're maybe a little down, you turn on the radio and there's a
song that you know, and it just instantly changes and transforms the energy, your energy.
In that way, the way music transforms your emotional state is the same way you can change
your health. Many of these instruments are about calling in the five elements. There's
earth, wind, fire, water, but there's also vibration as the fifth element. When I work
with these sounds and these elements, I'm actually just offering the element to the
person if they need it in some way. It's up to the person, the client, to take the element
and use that in a way that's going to be most beneficial to them. For example, this is a
Chimu water vessel from the Chimu culture. It's called the Silvadora and it contains all
the five elements. It's got the earth, the fire to make the killing process. It's got
the water in it and it pushes air through the whistle, creating all the five elements.
So if this is played to a person, it's calling to unify all the elements within you. This
is a Condor bone flute. Apparently, there's an area in Peru on the coast where the Condor
has come to die. So there's feathers and bones and things that you can acquire in a responsible
manner without injuring or killing any of the sacred birds. A lot of these instruments,
I think, we're still experimenting on how they're to be used. Some of them have definite
metaphysical history of how they were used, but there's still play in how to use these
tools.
So I see my work as assisting others to raise their frequency, to raise their consciousness,
and it's assisting me as well. It's very healing to play these instruments because what it
requires of me is to be open to the subtleties of vibration that I hear and that I feel.
You know, you can tell a person who's angry, who walks into the room or who's perhaps upset.
You can call that intuition, but I think that's also, there's a resonance to that.
And when I'm playing these instruments, I am focusing and intending to shift that resonance
within the person so that they can feel more whole and more connected to all that is.
