A Conversation with Singer-Songwriter Judy Collins

Aired Monday, July 19, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET

To be steadfast is to be faithful to what we know is true. Singer, songwriter, activist, actress, and author of numerous books, Judy Collins, sings and writes with truth-seeking intensity on the sweet ache of being alive. One of the most iconic folk singer activist divas of our time, Judy continues to inspire audiences with sublime vocals, daringly vulnerable songwriting, and an unwavering commitment to social activism. Join Kara Johnstad and Judy Collins in a heartfelt conversation, creativity, music, healing, and voice.

Connect with Judy Collins at https://www.judycollins.com/

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A Conversation with Singer-Songwriter Judy Collins

Phyllis Cole-Dai – Staying Power: Keeping Faith and Fostering Resilience

Aired Monday, September 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET

Life in a pandemic requires a particular sort of staying power. Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad and Author Poet Phyliss Cole-Dai in a heartfelt conversation on rebuilding our resilience and navigating the uncharted territory of the “new normal.” Phyllis Cole-Dai writes about human connection. Phyllis reminds us that staying power involves more than mere stamina in her newest inspiring collection of soulful musings and poetry. It involves exceptional commitment to trust, community, nurturing gratitude, and appreciating the beauty of what’s true. It consists in reminding ourselves that our spirit is bigger than our anxieties, wounds, and losses.

To connect with Phyllis Cole-Dai, go to https://phylliscoledai.com

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Phyllis Cole-Dai - Staying Power

Giorgia Fumanti – The Voice of the Mystic

Aired Monday, November 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET

Albert Einstein said, “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad and singer, composer, producer, and arranger Giorgia Fumanti in a heartfelt conversation on the “Voice of the Mystic.” Born and raised in a small Italian village and guided by deep intuition, Giorgia discovered her powerful voice by chance. Decades later, she has established herself internationally as one of the top female Classical Crossover singers.


 
Thousands of admirers testify to the therapeutic effect of Giorgia’s music. Like a bright star, her voice radiates a genuine celestial feel. With her new album, Mystic, she invites us to explore our own love stories and divine calling. Join us at VOICE RISING and listen to Giorgia’s fabulous tale of destiny, vocation, love, and above all, hope for our world.

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Paul Levy – Wetiko: Healing the Mind Virus That Plaques Our World

Aired Monday, December 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET


 
What is Wetiko? And what does Wetiko have to do with our voice and creating a healthy, sound world? In its Native American meaning, Wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people’s minds leading to insatiable greed and consumption as an end in itself. Its presence can turn our intrinsic creative genius against ourselves and destroy our planet.

In today’s VOICE RISING conversation, voice visionary Kara Johnstad and author and pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy, explore how Wetiko – the poisonous mind virus – is embedded deep within our psyche and remains almost undetectable. If we are to succeed in its eradication, we need understand how the virus spreads. In a unique and original synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, evolutionary mysticism, shamanism, quantum physics, transpersonal psychology, and the insights of C. G. Jung, Paul Levy shows us how to alchemically extract the healing remedy from the poisonous mind-virus known as Wetiko. How is this possible? By bringing forth the creative spirit that is thirsting to be born within—and through—us.

Discover the role your authentic voice, imagination, and innate creativity play in healing humanity and our planet. In these times of great unrest, bringing forth your creative spirit has never been more paramount.

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Paul Levy - Wetiko: Healing the Mind Virus That Plaques Our World

Amy Ringle

I will not die an unlived life. 
I will not live in fear 
of falling or catching fire. 
I choose to inhabit my days, 
to allow my living to open me, 
to make me less afraid, 
more accessible; 
to loosen my heart 
until it becomes a wing, 
a torch, a promise. 
I choose to risk my significance, 
to live so that which came to me as seed 
goes to the next as blossom, 
and that which came to me as blossom, 
goes on as fruit. 
Dawna Markova.

Fully Alive: By Dawna Markova, music Christian Lindquist, Narrator M.J. Hummingway

Aired Thursday, 3 January 2019, 9:00 AM EST / 6:00 AM PST

Sirgun Kaur - Reclaim Your Happiness

Kara’s guest today is Sirgun Kaur, sacred songstress, healer and Kundalini Yoga instructor.

Sirgun’s understanding of the transformative and healing potential of music was discovered through her education in Kundalini Yoga, chanting and mantra. Today’s topic is, is chanting directly connected to happiness? How can we use chanting on our path to creating a sound mind and sound body?

While there are numerous ways of “chanting” Sirgun’s effective method is through the voice, which resonates the entire body with a harmonizing and aligning sound. These sacred mantras can lift people beyond their limited reality into a blissful and ecstatic space, where healing spontaneously takes place. Sirgun has released five albums of sacred chants: -8, Reclaim Your Happiness, Dayaal, The Cosmic Gift, and The Music Within.

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Sirgun Kaur - Reclaim Your Happiness

Kara Johnstad , singer-songwriter and founder of Voice Your Essence™ shares with us the story behind her brand new song RELEASE. It is the 8th single in this years Naked Thoughts Album Series. 

“Kara knows how to guide us with her voice and reconnect those lost pieces.   She knows that space of releasing deeply held pain and releasing it, surrendering to it, transforming it into joy and laughter. Often through this deep let-go, new possibilities arise.”  www.cdbaby.com

RELEASE is the 8th single in Kara’s NAKED THOUGHTS ALBUM SERIES, intimate and pure, just her singing at the grand piano.

RELEASE ( single ) The Story Behind the Song with Kara Johnstad

Michael Stillwater – Giving Voice to Our Lives

Aired Monday, March 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET

How can we connect more to our true authentic selves through voice? Michael Stillwater innovates with music, words, and images. educator, illustrator, award-winning songwriter, recording artist and filmmaker. Join voice visionary Kara Johnstad and Michael Stillwater in a conversation on the benefits of creative expression, the power of transformational songwriting, and the role our voice plays in healing.

About the Artist:

Michael Stillwater’s chants and healing songs are enjoyed by listening audiences and singing circles around the world. His intuitive recording artistry provides a unique musical approach for people to feel seen and supported at an essential level, while his original SongSourcing method offers a way for anyone to re-connect to their own intuitive vocal expression.

Following his experience of bringing personal song creation into hospice in America, he created the esteemed spoken word/music book/album Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, (2000), featuring the voices of Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, and other compassionate beings, produced together with his wife, Doris Laesser Stillwater, and film composer Gary Malkin.


 
Together with Doris he also produced a series of three feature documentary films focused on the universality of song. Recipient of 10 Film Festival awards, these are Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen (2012), acclaimed ‘a heartening rarity’ by the Wall Street Journal; In Search of the Great Song: Fifty voices. Twelve countries. One question. (2016) Deemed ‘Beatific’ by CineSource Magazine, it provides a panoramic vision of the creative spirit in all life. Beyond the Fear of Singing: Unlock Your Voice, Release Your Song (2019), inspires those who feel inhibited in their singing voice with pathways for healing and expression. (All films available online and DVD with Deutsch subtitles).

The Stillwaters reside in Helsinki, Finland, offering SongLife Seminars, Retreats and Trainings. Online activities include personal songportraits, musical mentoring and a SongLife Training group. The most recent works are the Stillwater Guitar Method and collected albums of intuitive healing songs.

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Michael Stillwater - Giving Voice to Our Lives

Carmel Buckingham
ONE FOR SORROW

A crow once gifted me
pine needles tucked into a paperclip.
She left it on my windowsill, right beside
the birdfeeder. I think about love languages,
about how long it’s been since I’ve felt
the smooth warmth of another’s skin,
firm muscle wrapped around me,
heavy and solid and safe.


Did you know crows can recognize faces?
She definitely knows me, she lets me get close,
she’s brought me more gifts—a Stella Artois
bottle cap, a glittering earring, a screw head,
and a few shiny pebbles.
I stack them inside, right by the window, 
so she can see that I’ve kept every one.
I wonder if she’d recognize me with a smile,
she’s never seen me like that.


Crows stay faithful to their partners
until one of them dies. I only ever see her
on her own. I wonder if she hasn’t found
her partner yet, or if she is mourning
after a lover now lost.


Crows recognize voices too, so I sing to her
when she visits. Sometimes I crack open
a pomegranate and she pecks at the arils
right in front of me. I wonder if she sees
the stones behind my window; I wonder if
she knows she’s the reason I’m still here.


She always flies away, wings black as midnight,
sails into the sky. I wonder what it is about
people like me, who love spiders and crows,
who let dandelions conquer the garden, who 
keep the one-eyed teddy bear, and sand the 
shattered glass.


I am a defender of all the other broken things,
unwanted things, forgotten things, 
things the world finds monstrous, worthless,
things that I find kindred. She deserves
her hazelnuts, to hop from foot to foot, she
deserves to exist.


And when she brings me another stone,
gray with shimmering specs of silver,
and sets it outside of my window,
I think, maybe I deserve that too.

—from Ekphrastic Challenge October 2020, Artist’s Choice

One For Sorrow, Carmel Buckingham, music ,Goldmund, voice M. Justice

Every Little Cell in Your Body Is Happy
Every Little Cell in Your Body is Well 

I'm so glad every little cell
In my body is well. 

This is a guide track for Kara's Women's Voice Yoga Singing Circles
by Kara Johnstad

Every Little Cell - Kara Johnstad

Kara Johnstad is a singer-songwriter, transformational catalyst and a powerful voice in the time and age of transition.
Author, voice specialist and owner of VOICE YOUR ESSENCE™ Kara empowers audiences around the world via concerts, lectures, workshops and 1-on-1 coaching
Her music speaks volumes and  touches on universal themes that affect us all:  love, relationships, life, death, sexuality and inner healing. Her most downloaded songs include Love Never Fails, Message of Hope, Open Up and Receive, Heal Me Hold Me and Thank You.
Leading change agents, healers, personal development speakers and others recognize her as being a unique source of powerful truth and wisdom.
Kara performs her songs for conscious businesses, organizations and communities that are changing the world for the better: Songs most requested: Message of Hope | Love Never Fails | We Have A Choice
She is available for lectures, masterclasses and workshops for conscious businesses, organizations and communities that wish to learn more about the power behind the human voice.
Her mission is to help our world understand the role our voice plays in fine tuning our body-mind-spirit system. VISIT www.karajohnstad.com
Topics:Becoming and Being, Creativity & Spirituality, Living as a Creative Conscious Entrepeneur, Living Your Essence, New Thought Music, Positive Music, The power of the human voice

RELEASE ( single ) The Story Behind the Song with Kara Johnstad

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