Sound as a healer and transformer 

working with the voice as our main tool of healing and transformation
 and  other sound instruments
‘The creation of Sound is an alchemical process for which we are an instrument.
’In this workshop we will learn some principles of sound-healing We will also work with our voices to explore our own inner space and the expressionof inner truth through sound individually, in relation to others and in symphony with the whole.
We will learn about the alchemy of sound, healing with sound and about the alignment to the Service of sound, working with intention and the willingness to surrender to becoming an instrument. We will then expand this to working with other sound-instruments such as singingbowls & gongs and others as well as the voice, creating different vibrational fields in which we experience sound as a healing and transformational force.

Dates for sound workshops: 

 13th Jan: London

 2nd Feb:  Dublin

12th April: Austria

21/22June: Yorkshire (as part of solstice celebration w/e)

there will be more sound-workshops coming up at different times during the year 

Sound and Nature Retreat:

8^th –11^th Feb 2008 Lundy Abbey Leicestershire , UK

‘Energizing, healing and aligning retreat with Sound & Nature,’
with Roz Crampton and others
(for more info see www.earthdance.gb.com)

Workshops with Nature : 

Journeys into the consciousness of  Nature and into conscious partnership and co-creatorship with the Earth, with sacred sound-work building bridges between the worlds.

A journey into the world of devas and Naturespirits     
Carcassonne   France 25-27April 2008

A transformational journey into partnership and healing    
Beduers     France  2- 7 May 2008

Both of these journeys will be co-facilitated with Terry Frank , who is a wonderful  healer and emissary for the Nature Kingdoms.
Together we are arranging a tour of workshops  starting with these two in France and then touring in the States(NC,VI with Margaretta McIlvaine) and Canada(BC) to raise awareness about the importance and joy to live and create in partnership with nature and offer tools and experiences  for deep inner connectedness, from which we can learn to live in harmony with our precious earth!

We are excited about these workshops , each of them will be a very unique experience as we work with the particular consciousness of the land and the beings connected to it.

so for us too it is an ever alive and evolving journey, taking us deeper into the mysteries of the Earth and  our evolutionary partnerships.

May 23rd-25th Hawkwood College, Stroud England
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Workshop: working with Nature and the elements and sound.
  ‘From unconscious creator to conscious co-creator’; 
 www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/hawkwood/course.asp?id=142  

Sept 7th Hawkwood College, Stroud, UK 
‘Sacred Stone Setting’ workshop
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/hawkwood/course.asp?id=49  

Personal Transformation Workshop Retreats

in the Scottish Isles

with De Fano - Sacred Spiral Essences-
(vibrational Healer and Essence practitioner)
( she moves energies effortlessly before your eyes aligning your body back into flow and is also known as the ‘brat-fairy’ for good humour and love of chocolate)

In the magical wildness of the land as well as the ancient memory of the stonecircles and sacred sites - Record keepers of ancient cultures of the earth and beyond will we attune to and re-awaken the ancient Knowing inside to assist in the Earth changes.

Sept 13th  – 18th Orkney Islands of Scotland:  
aligning to purpose within the celtic wheel and sacred sites: 
‘return, remember and renew your soul’s purpose’
with De Fano

Sept 20th -25th Island of Iona, Scotland  
‘Beyond story into Essence‘ workshop retreat 
with De Fano

for individual flyers email:
 gabriellasongbird@googlemail.com

 Schedule of events for 2010

Workshops concerts and tours:

for more info on each event please email me at gabriellasongbird@yahoo.co.uk :  

UK

January 2010

Devon 

1st Jan 2010 8pm Sound-weaving concert at Hazelwood House/Devon                2nd/3rd Jan 10 Visioning and setting the tone for the New Year-a new years gathering at Hazelwood House, Devon www.hazelwoodhouse.com

Sussex

24th Jan 2010 5pm : sound-weaving meditation/ceremony for ImbolcThe Hayloft Emsworth / Chichester

25th/26th Jan 2010 Emsworth/ Chichester: individual sound-healing sessions available:

to book contact: Varianne Cowan 01243 780518  variannec@yahoo.com

February + March 2010

Tour USA 4^th-Feb – 16^th March  (please email for workshop and concert schedule)

12-14th Feb at ‘Celebration of love’

www.CelebrationOfLove2010.com

 England

22th/21stMarch 2010  -Equinox- gathering at Hazelwood House, Devon www.hazelwoodhouse.com

Weaving the polarities of darkness and light into balance and wholeness

April 2010

 tour in Germany

^9th/11^th April: Alanus Hochschule Alfter/Bonn:

Weekend Workshop : Art, Music and Nature. In co-creation with the Nature spirits and the family of Earth.

23^rd Symposium Bonn

 England

May 2010

 15th May 2010 1 day introductory workshop Damerham Hall SP6 . New Forest

 ‘learning to live in co-creative partnership with the nature spirits’

with Juliana Freeman and Heather Cowen (click on title for details)

16th May 2010  Glade Gathering with Sacred Sound at Monksglade, Woodborough, Bath

June 2010

19th/20th June Solstice Gathering with Nature and Sacred Sound

Temple Druid/Pembrookshire/ Wales: 

24th-28th June 2010 Temple Druid/Pembrookshire/ Wales:

‘Living and working in co-creative partnership with the elements, the elementals, the land and Earth’

4 day workshop facilitated by Deirdre Edwards and Gabriella 

(click on title of workshop for details)

July 2010

3rd/4th July 2010 Weekend workshop at Old Sarum, Salisbury / Wiltshire http://peace-trails.com/workshops-and-tours/workshop-journeys-retreats/awaken-to-the-song-of-the-land

‘Enter into deep listening to the land and co-operative partnership with the beings of the land, expanding your consiousness, awareness - taking you deeper into a life connected with the Earth in step with the Earth changes’

facilitated by: Juliana Freeman, Heather Cowan and Gabriella

17^th July 8pm: Sound weaving Concert/Alignment in co-creation with the Nature spirits

Hawkwood College, Stroud, http://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/events/

entry: £8/£6

18^th July : ‘A Day with the Nature Spirits and Sacred Sound’

 Hawkwood College, Stroud ,http://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/courses/view.php?id=396

£60 for the day incl lunch & refreshments. Bring outdoor clothing.  

 August 2010

7^th August 10.30am Matinee Garden Sound Weaving ConcertWith guests from Holland: Ton Akkermans and Carrie Schomper, who have handcrafted most of their many healing sound instruments themselves

 honouring our connectedness with Nature

followed by a potluck lunch in the garden by the stream (please bring food to share)

suggested blue pot donations to support the work: £8-10

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14th August: Poland: Co-creative sound Concert with other artists in Kascimierz/ Poland as part of The Kazimierz summer festival of sound and music,

In the spirit of moving forward with the Earth changes, I will be offering several workshops together with my healer friends - along with the Elementals and many others .

Later in September I will be joined by De Fano - Essence practicioner and magical healer on Iona/Scotland

20th-24th August 2010 Salisbury, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Avalon

20th August Sound weaving Concert 

21st-24th August: 3 day workshop - working with the energies of Albion, Ancient Britain and Avalon

detailed info will follow

27th - 29th August World Peace Centre, Dumfries, Scotland

27th August Sound weaving Concert  

28th/29th August: weekend workshop facilitated by Margaretta and Gabriella - working with the beings, energies and frequencies of Peace- gathering and weaving scattered strands into wholeness

 September 2010

11-16 Sept 2010 ISLE OF IONA, SCOTLAND:    A Gramarye: “the listening to the land and the secret, magical teaching and healing she offers…”. It is quintessentially important to GROUND to MotherEARTH each day. As she shifts – we need to shift with her to hear her. We will be listening/walking & weaving the sacred Divine Feminine and Masculine Element aspects of EARTH into wholeness, again.  Using key Essences & SoundHealing we will work with the Spirits of the land on Iona & the Isle of Mull to claim/reclaim our deepest level of grounding and aligning and EARTHing yet. Co-facilitated with De Fano - vibrational healer and essence practitioner.

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October 2010

1-8th October 2010 Pilgrimage on the Santiago del Compostelle in France 

 ‘Open to Nature and align to your connectedness within, walking the Pilgrim’s Path of France’

this year we will walk a different part of the path getting to know the beauty of yet another landscape

2 /3 October: Cele Valley, Southern France

weekend workshop connecting with Nature and preparing for walking on pilgrim’s path:

4-7th October  walking on pilgrim’s path of France

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16^th/17^th October, Somerset: : ‘Entering the Song of the Earth’

weekend Workshop with Anthony Thorley and Gabriella

(number 1 in a series of 3: Trilogy: The Song of the Earth)

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You speak to us through every wave and layer
Each ripple brings a new face to the light.
Dimensions come and go with every player
In the fabric of creation made of light.

So open your pores and feel the ripples
As they move through the fabric of your time.
Whatever you think stable might be fickle
And new worlds open from between the lines.

See the elfin-stone by the water’s edge as He greets you from the earth,
See his eyes of wisdom burning, lines of crystal on his face.
“Can I come with you, can I dance with you, I will teach you of my lands.”

See the elfin-stone by the water’s edge in the twilight where we meet;
Feel the power of the ages, of the glaciers and the peat.
“Can I come with you, can I work with you, I will teach you of your call,
Can I come with you, can I work with you, I will teach you of your core.”

Chorus:

Everyone has a story to tell, has a secret to reveal.
Everyone has a doorway to show, come and help release the seal.

In the magic of each moment, in the space between the words
Is a place of joy and wonder, come and join us in this world.

Chorus:

Everyone has a story to tell, has a secret to reveal.
Everyone has a doorway to show, come and help release the seal.

As the fairies play and wander with the spirits of each plant
Weaving paths of many colours, rainbow bridges to every land.

Chorus:

Everyone has a story to tell, has a secret to reveal.
Everyone has a doorway to show, come and help release the seal.

Now your time is scarce
And your life full of rush
We no longer meet you dancing by the stream.
You drive cars where we walked,
Look at boxes where we talked
And shared the weaving of the Dream.

We pray, one day you’ll remember:
That time is plentiful
And life full of time
And we’ll meet again by the stream.
The earth is our mother,
The sky is our father
And together we weave the Dream.

As the faces speak through the rocks and stones,
Through the waters and the trees.
Can you hear the songs through the crack of time
From the land of evermore?

At the waters’ edge, where the ethers meet
Stands a solitary standing stone.
Will we follow its call to the end of time
To the land of evermore?

Once there was a heart of love
Once there was a world of peace.

We are singing the world into being,
We are dancing the whole night through,
Dance in the sunlight, dance in the moonlight,
Dance, dance, dance, we are one!

We are drawing the light into shadows,
Weaving the web of life
Dance in the sunlight, dance in the moonlight,
Dance, dance, dance, we are one!

We are playing the game of becoming
Moving the cogs of time,
Dance in the sunlight, dance in the moonlight,
Dance, dance, dance, we are one!

There are songs that live in the fire,
In the water, the wind, the stone,
Sing in the starlight, sing in the moonlight,
Sing, sing, sing, we are one!

Once there is a heart of love
Once there is a world of peace.

Recorded at: Music Pool Studio Germany Mastering: Volker Kascinski  Easter 2008,    suggested donation for Sacred Passage £13

Inspirational Music for Meditation, Healing & Journeying  with cello, voice, gongs, singing-bowls, flutes & others. 55 min.   Sacred Passage is a powerful healing Sound Journey, which leads the listener into the inner world of Nature to remember ever deeper our innate cellular Knowing of our origin, connectedness and soul-purpose. It was co-created with the Intention to weave a vibrational field in which we can heal and release deep ancestral & past patternings and burdens so we can be free to remember and live our Dream of the Earth and the Family of Earth. The Call Remember the Promise Chamber of Healing Releasing The Elements Transformation The Path clears Dawn Honouring The Approach Preparation The Passage Scrying The Message The Annointing Empowerment Invitation Joining The Thrum Grace Closing the Circle to listen to samples: tr-08-dawn.mp3 tr-19-the-thrum.mp3 See also tr-2 ‘remember the promise’ under sound samples on the ’sounds page:http://peace-trails.com/sounds

As I was creating ‘Sacred Passage’ I held the intention and vibration for very powerful healing to occur. It was a very joyful and deep 3 day-experience.. as the world changed from deep winter – snow on the first day - to spring with bright warm sunshine on the last day.

As all the different instruments needed different setups of microphones and equipment e.t.c. the recording wasn’t done in the order of the CD and it was the process afterwards – intuiting feeling the right flow, order and naming. My friend Terry Frank helped me tune in to the frequence and order and as it was complete, she had a very powerful experience of being taken into a very deep inner space and through a passage of initiation to a different level.

I myself used it for months in the car when I was transitioning from one place to another, shifting my vibration and frequency, getting myself ready for wherever I was going.

Until I had a very different powerful experience, which confirmed the original purpose and intent of this recording:

 On December 12/ 12/ 2008 at the last glorious fullmoon of the year I found myself being layed down by a raging fever burning me up hot and cold and knocking me out of ‘ordinary functioning’.

As I decided to give into it and take myself to bed, I had an intuitive hunch that I should put on my new CD ‘ Sacred Passage’ to help me move through some big stuff, as that was what it was created for (I remembered later).

As I let myself sink down into my inner experience, accompanied and facilitated through the sound I found myself following the music:

 ‘remembering the promise’ into the beautiful garden of what felt like paradise, where my heart expanded and sang in harmony with life and Earth.

In this state I found myself entering into a deep inner space, a place, where I was given the choice of alignment, to either align with creation/love (life enhancing, life maintaining and life sustaining)  or destruction/fear ( life annihilation).

I had only recently finished reading the book ‘Robes’ – a book about the coming changes – by Penny Kelly,  in which we are told that at a certain point of evolution we all need to make that choice of alignment, either consciously or by default and that as a collective we need to also make that choice and alignment and then act on it.

That choice of alignment will determine our future evolution.

So having read this very recently and having  had a very deep resonant response from the inside when I read it, I wasn’t surprised that only days later I was in the situation to choose. (Chamber of healing)

I felt my whole being choose the alignment with creation and life and as I was doing so clear and pure, I heard the fire building around me.  I heard what seemed on the outside but I realised was on the inside all the parts of me who were not in this alignment beginning to fight and I felt engulfed by a raging battle which was transmuted by the building fire (the gong – Releasing the grip of the old) and other elements…(Joining of the elements).

As the sounds changed to transformation I found the inner voice of the soul alignment finally rising out of the turmoil, rising with so much clarity and strength, getting stronger and stronger, so much so, that in its simplicity all fighting stopped and there was a feeling of excitement as everyone wanted to be a part of this new strength and beauty and a powerful re-orientation was beginning to happen, empowering the new alignment. ( gong: Breaking through)As silence occurred and the new sound of the flute started to call, I felt myself called out to look around at the new place I found myself in.As I was beginning to re-orientate myself to walk in a new direction in a different way than before, I found myself moved to give thanks to all those who have gone before, honouring their suffering, their learning and everything that had brought me to this place now, releasing the attachment to that suffering and way of being. (the Ancestors)Then the flute called me to follow the new alignment: (the Approach)I was received by others who were already familiar with this level or frequency and led to look deeply inside to where I needed to go. (preparation)Once I was ready, I was accompanied and asked to speak and sing my vision/ dream., as the others responded in co-creation, leading me deeper into the temple as we co-created in and affirmed the new alignment until I was ready to come face to face with the guardian of the threshold, being asked the next deeper question… and my soul responding without hesitation in jubilation and in response I was being welcomed on the other side. (The Passage). But the passage wasn’t comlete yet. Being in this new and very unknown place I had to prepare first to go into the deepest part of my own beingness, so that my creations of life would be aligned with the deepest core of my beingness (Scrying).As I entered with joy, I was reminded of the spiritual laws of this level of vibration and consciousness. With joy my soul responded singing and was led ever deeper…(The message)As my soul entered into its core alignment frequency, everything slowed down into a deep stillness and then once again I was welcomed, this time as a co-creator . (Anointing) and then empowered in it: (Empowerment)As I stabilised in that frequency it led me out again, and I began to notice my environment (the companions) and how the outer frequencies were adjusting to mine and beginning to draw and call to me energies that matched this co-creation frequency.As the co-creator companions arrived (joining), we began to sound and create in harmony with heart of the Earth in a joint rhythm called ‘the thrum’ and then joining as one in harmony. For a long time I stayed in that space feeling very deeply moved and changed and open to a new level of vibration. Every time I hear Sacred Passage, I can come back into alignment.A big Thank you to all who co-created!!!

A sound-weaving meditation live in powerful portal energy of St of Iona/Scotland. Creating the vibrations of peace and wholeness, the songs and healing sounds of the cello and voice in co-creation with the angelic realms lift the veil between the worlds, reminding and reconnecting listeners to their true purpose.

 a capella songs that lift the veil between the worlds, co-created with Nature, framed by inspirational healing cello music. 60 min.

• Opening
• Come with roses in your heart
• Please come back to honour the places
•  The Green Temple
• Iona, land of my dreaming
• Druidwisdom
• The buzzard calls
• I mould my heart
• Love is always by your side
• At the entrance to the garden
• Finale

To listen to sample tr: please-come-back-1st-verse.mp3

suggested donation for this CD: £10