08/05/08

Overseas travel now scheduled for September (long story). I am renting a house on acreage at Black Mountain (just west of Cooroy). It’s on the property of some friends, who are a short cooee away. It’s all eco and the house has got a great vibe so I’m feeling very nurtured here. It’ll be great to stay put in one place for a while after being an itinerant since January 7.

The scenery is gorgeous from the sunny deck, the world feels a hundred miles away, and I’m back into a comfy bed! (No small thing after some 3 months!) There was a wallaby grazing about 20 metres from the house yesterday morning.

The hang has been taking me on quite a journey, and I’ve only had it 4 weeks! It’s getting more interesting…

I would like to embellish, but I had a lovely massage this afternoon and it feels like I’m doing well to get anything on here at all!

The star of the show finally makes an appearance!

29/05/08

Wow! I mentioned the hang is taking me on quite a journey...it feels more like it's changing my life direction. What is flowing in to me is quite surprising. I haven't gone looking for these adventures, they have come and found me. A couple of weeks ago I took the hang to the Eumundi markets to show it to Krusey (from 'Beat Me Drums' and it ended up with a bit of a crowd around it. Tomorrow night I've been invited to play the hang at a small event, and then on June 9, I'll be playing it at a larger, public venue in an event I'm putting together with some amazing 'sisters of sound' (follow the link from the top of the home page, or the bottom of the hang page). So the last 10 days have been filled with planning this event that popped into existence very unexpectedly and at short notice!

Yesterday I went into the recording studio with Gabrielle (Hart), playing the hang during a guided meditation that will be on one of her CDs. We did it in one take, and it felt really beautiful. I've booked to go back and record the hang on its own for a CD.

Aside from that I'm relishing the gorgeous deck here that allows me plenty of delicious winter sun. It's such a blessing that it has transcended my dislike of winter - and that is truly saying something (those who know me are probably picking their jaws up off the floor right now!)

24/06/08

Cold winter nights are being more than compensated for by yummy sunny days and the gorgeous deck on which to soak it up. Lots of fascinating evolution happening in my life - beyond what I could possibly even begin to attempt to explain in a blog. If all goes according to plan I'll be heading overseas in September, and within that plan, India has dropped off the list of places to go (part of the fascinating evolution). Egypt, Jordan, Switzerland and Italy still have a green tick, with the UK a question mark. I looked into the intentional community/eco village currently underway here on the Sunshine Coast, and while it totally fits my vision/what I've been seeking for years, and everything about it is great, I've been guided not to go down that particular path. Quite a surprise, but I am open to looking back later, with hindsight and appreciating that the path I ended up on turned out to be an even better one.

Meanwhile there are some green work possibilities brewing (I'm open to either temporary/short projects and/or taking on things I can do from overseas and/or setting up some work for when I get back). 

Also the hang continues to get out and about. I was tracked down and asked to play at a winter festival at the local Steiner school, and I have since received and heard Gabrielle Hart's meditation CD with the hang (and me!) in the background, I have booked recording time next month to put my own CD together, and of course there was our Sacred Sound Spa event on June 9. It was pretty 'spesh' and there are stories in that which are really beyond the scope of this blog (twice in one blog entry...what's going on!? ;o)

Suffice to say it was full of grace, deliciousness, flow, trust, gentleness and heart, and the audience of some 95 people were appreciative. We had a video done, and once I've seen it, I will look into getting a web edit of a short piece to put on You Tube. There's a bit of a reflection on the night via a link on the hang page as well.
 
So now I'm off to Brisbane for a few days for the Mind Body Spirit Festival, which I am sure will be amazing and yum...

Sacred Sound Spa: an interweaving of hang, Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls and HartSong (Gabrielle Hart), Tibetan and Japanese singing bowls and voice (Carmen Warrington) and Soprano Saxophone (Fiona Burnett). A delicious evening to enhance peace and wellbeing.

23/07/08

Well, further to what I alluded to in my last update, here I am, with a big chunk of a BIG story that I can now tell. Quite a lovely one too, so best I get to it :o)

Over the last few months my intuition has cranked up heaps, which seems to be part of my accelerated process (and that’s another whole, fascinating story). It has certainly also been interesting, and it has proved to be a wonderful guidance.

Soon after I received the hang I had an intuition that the hang would also lead me to my new man (I had already had an intuition before the hang arrived that it would completely change my life and call a lot in).

Also, while I had planned to start travelling after the hang arrived, once it did I got guidance from Spirit that I would meet my man in winter. So I decided I soooooo wasn’t going anywhere! (I only mentioned it to a couple of people because energetically the sense I have is that the more you talk about something that hasn’t manifested yet, the more you dilute it…and I didn’t want that!) I also had a sense that my man would be travelling with me, so I needed to wait for him to get here first. Meanwhile, there were a couple of other good reasons for me not to have left these shores so soon, so it’s all been good (apart from the winter bit, said the cold frog… :o)

Gabrielle (dear friend who does intuitive readings) also told me that my new man (on my recently chosen new path) and I together would be a sacred union with a big role to play to make this world a better place. (Seeing as she had a bit of an insider perspective, I also shared with her all my intuitions ahead of when they came about.)

In late June I went to the Mind Body Spirit Festival in Brisbane, to help Gabrielle (who was performing with her Alchemy crystal bowls), but I also took the hang with me as I had an intuition that I would be on stage.

On the first day of the festival I was asked to fill in a spot on each of the three days of the Festival because one of the main acts had to pull out at the last minute. This meant I would need to stay on an extra day, as I had intended to leave on the Saturday to be able to attend a friend’s birthday party on the Sunshine Coast. (However, I had already had an intuition that I would be staying longer so packed extra things to cater for that!)

Anyway, a few days before the festival, I got an intuition that I would meet my new man on the Sunday, and while I was on stage on the Sunday, just near the end of my time on stage, I felt the energy of my new man nearby. Of course I kept my focus on my playing, but I had a huge smile on my face!

After I came off stage and people were around me asking about the hang, there was a man there who I had a feeling about, who I chatted briefly with after everyone else had left, but then he had to go on stage (to play the native American Indian flute). So we exchanged business cards.

If I had not been there playing the hang, our paths would not have crossed, but as it has turned out, he is my new man. I sat back to let it unfold, and to give him space to choose it, which he certainly did…courting me with intent! The upshot is, he’s a very special and beautiful soul and he and I are incredibly well suited for each other. (I believe this is the relationship I have been searching for all my life.) And he’s definitely for keeps (aside from my own deep knowing about that, and his, Spirit’s let me know that too). He totally blows me away and then some…everything I ever wished for and more. (Pinch me!)

We also have begun to get a little bit of an insight into a huge role we are to play together, but really it’s yet to unfold and we anticipate it will blow us away.

There is more to the story (also amazing), but this is just the brass tacks to get everyone up to speed :o)

Howzat for amazing…?  His name is Sahayak (pronounced Sha-hi-yak), which is a name that was given to him by Sri Chinmoy. It is Sanskrit and means ‘to serve’.

Sahayak didn’t get to hear this huge, amazing story straight away, as I wanted to be sure he was making his own, clear choice, and he came to his own conclusions pretty quickly. (And once he got to hear the story a couple of weeks later, he loved it!)

I could offer a whole profile on him, but I’d rather let that unfold over time, not only through this blog, but also expanding into other areas of this website. (‘Inspiration unlimited’ very much applies to him also.)

And yes, he and I will be heading overseas together soon (September), and indications are that it will be for six months. So this blog will soon be used for what it was intended for all along (only seven months later than first planned :o)

Where to start...all so amazing! Here I can share with you a nice double mug shot of Sahayak and me that we whipped up on the weekend, and one I took of Sahayak down by the billabong (at the place I've been staying at Black Mountain) with one of his beautiful flutes. We are rapt that we are both photographers, so we each now get to have someone around to take nice pics of us...the usual scenario for a photographer is they take lots of nice pics for everyone else and don't get to have any themselves. What a bonus...yay!

17/08/08

At last the travel plans are locked down! (Some may have wondered if they'd ever see the day...) Another great reason for there to have been a delay is that Sahayak is coming with me :o) We are now based in New Farm (Brisbane) in a house sit until we leave on September 2, with the first stop being a week somewhere in South East Asia - a surprise for my birthday (September 6). Sahayak has been plotting and planning that one, and we are both enjoying that.

From there, we fly to Zurich on September 10, to stay with a friend of mine there. We also have an appointment to visit the hangbauhaus in Bern (where my hang was made) so that will be something special.

Then from there, around September 20, we go overland to Italy, where we'll spend a couple of weeks wandering around the region I was born (Piemonte) and take in the festival of the truffle. We'll also likely visit Damanhur - a spiritual community known for their amazing 'Temples of Humankind'. There's also rellies to catch up with.

Then we'll spend a couple fo weeks in the Tuscany/Umbria region, also catching up with two different sets of friends.

Then on October 20 we will go to Torri Superiore - an ecovillage on the Italian Riviera. We'll stay there for at least a month, with the intention to stay longer if they like us and we like them!

From then on, we plan to wing it - allowing for synchronicity and flow, and people we are yet to meet who may well influence our plans. Somewhere in amongst all that there'll be a trip to Egypt and Jordan.

So, the countdown is on...yay!