This song came in while sitting with the first gate of grief (as taught by Frances Weller in The Wild Edge of Sorrow - http://www.wisdombridge.net/the-wild-edge-of-sorrow.html):

Everything you love, you will lose - The Grief of Abandonment

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This is a teaching track for community singing.

Lyrics:

Part 1:
I will allow my heart to be broken
I will allow this river to flow
I will allow my soul to be opened
Breath by breath, steady and slow
Breath by breath, steady and slow

Part 2:
Breath by breath, I grieve you
Breath by breath, I'll know
You will always be here
And I can let you go
Yes, I will let you go

Music and lyrics by Juliana Murphy

This song is intended to be shared freely and sung both individually and in community. If you plan to perform or record it with the intent to sell, please contact me for permission.

Breath By Breath - All Parts

DEMO "The River" by Coco Love Alcorn from her upcoming album New Spirituals scheduled for release Spring 2015.

The River - Coco Love Alcorn (loop Demo) mp3

Beyond Her Smile

by Aly Halpert

chorus and bridge from an Arundhati Roy quote.

recorded by Aly Halpert (voice & guitar) & Margot Seigle (backup vocie)
November 9th, 2016

lyrics:
the policemen have thrown away their guns
they kiss their sons and their daughters and their souls are at peace
no more black boys black girls trans women dying
no more reasons that could ever justify their loss 
and mothers send their teens out at night 
to breathe the sweet summer air and exhale on the ground
the earth was made for them
the earth is made for them
she is on her way
and no one can be silent anymore
every death is a death that my family mourns 
we've traded in our numbness and all of our fear
to fight for the lives we now hold dear
and everyone has come to greet the reckoning
the place where our hearts got smaller and smaller 
now grows to hold the pain
the brokenness that leads to pain
she is on her way
another world's not only possible
on a quiet day I can hear her breathing
and when the world we're dreaming is ours
we'll be tall inside
there will be no more question
as we pray and sing
that we have each other and what that means
we'll finally get to be together
stare with our hearts at what has been
and find some place of home
she is on her way"

She is On Her Way

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert-Hanson

I'm Gonna Get Through  - Batya Levine

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert Hanson

Nechama - Batya Levine

Art by Brandon Boyd in Support of Standing Rock

Voice Memos

May I Be Empty/Full

*for all the tender hearts <333*

hey, you're doin okay
it's gonna take time
it's gonna take time

the heart is a muscle contracting, expanding
feel the waves and learn the lessons
time, it's gonna take time

artwork by Tobe Fonseca

Lessons of the Heart

Song/prayer/meditation to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, & becoming who we are after and through it all.

Aly Halpert's Album

Loosen Loosen

The ethereal voices of Yala Lati meet the colorful voice of Heather Houston for a rainbow of sonic delight! Calling you home to the sacred circle of sisterhood, this album is a symphony for the innermost tendrils of the heart. 

We are sisters of the moon 
And daughters of the sun
We are mothers of the world
Our voices they are one
We are lovers of the earth 
and guardians of the land
We are weavers of the dream 
Together we are standing

For parts to these songs, please visit Heather's public song library at:
https://heatherhoustonmusic.com/sisters-in-harmony-song-library/

12 - Re - Wild My Soul

Singing circle tune I wrote inspired by a feeling that safety matters, hearts and minds can open when we feel safe in ourselves and in our communities of loved ones.

painting by Megan Duncanson