Name: 8 Seductive Steps by LawrenceBall
Duration: 2 min 47 s
Description: Album of multi-instrument and electronic sound, various moods and often rich textures.

Lovely, meditative and beautifully performed... thank you! :)

Vocals by Dan Whitlock https://soundcloud.com/dan-whitlock-480408090

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Creative Spirit Online: "Colorful and engaging from beginning to end, this is the latest of Robert John Brooks’ virtuosic offerings. The three movements (Rondo, Variations and Finale) are scored for large orchestra—a twenty-minute journey through sometimes tender, often energetically playful, occasionally threatening, and ever-changing musical textures. Brooks’ musical gift lies in his ability to create highly structured, clearly defined musical gestures within the context of a challenging and thoughtful harmonic and rhythmic language."

“Contrapunctus III” was completed in February 2024 in Fairview, TX. The work is in three movements: Rondo, Variations, and Finale'. Performance time is about 20 minutes. Printed and electronic copies of the score are available now and instrumental parts will soon be available soon from www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com.

About this recording:
The present virtual recording was produced using Finale 27.4.1 and the Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 virtual instrument library. For the best listening experience, high quality headphones are recommended. This recording was mastered by EMastered. 

Instrumentation:
2 Flutes. 2 Oboes, English Horn, Eb Clarinets, 2 Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoons, Contrabassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, 2 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, Strings

Performance notes:
• Tempo, expression, and dynamic markings should be strictly observed.
• There is no key signature. Accidentals apply to the end of the measure or to the note or notes tied over the measure, and only to notes of the same pitch class, in the same octave.
• Hairpin pairs (e.g.: mp <>, mf ><) indicate a temporary volume change of one dynamic level.
• Passages marked fff or ppp indicate playing as loudly and as quietly as possible, respectively.
• Double-bass “C-extension” is required.

Contact information:
Robert John Brooks, Fairview, Texas USA
Email: robtjbrooks@yahoo.com
Web: www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com
Web: eMastered.com/profile/robtjbrooks

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Contrapunctus III for Orchestra

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Album of multi-instrument and electronic sound, various moods and often rich textures.

Love's A Mare's Nest

8 Seductive Steps

In this episode, Michaela Boehm answers questions at a women's workshop on topics including:

• Michaela’s most fundamental movement practice
• Advice on what makes an effective practice 
• The suffering caused by the dogmas of masculine and feminine 
• Application of masculine and feminine for hot sex 
• Common misuses of feminine polarity
• How to be fully feeling in your body even while at work 
• A secrets to staying in touch with pleasure even during stressful tasks
• How to amplify pleasure in the body 
• How to shorten the gap from numb to orgasm
• Michaela’s boardroom realization 
• Energy leaks 
• Changes in visibility as a woman ages
• Herbal supplements and dietary considerations for menopause
• How Michaela reconciles with the aging process as a woman
• Taking the advantages of youth for granted
• Casual sex vs full engagement
• The difference between men and women’s bodies in intimacy
• What makes sex great for a man
• God sex and what satisfies a woman
• Cervical orgasms through divine sex
• The role of erotic friction in relationship 
• Hooking and the cult of pairs
• Why deity yoga isn’t for everyone
• Strategies to train different flavors of expression into the body
• How to acquire another woman’s flavor 
• How to decide whether or not to have a child

...

For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com

To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa

Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Podcast #08: Dance, Energy Leaks, and Going from Orgasm to God Sex

Hear the tantric dialogues of Shiva and Shakti come to life as Michaela Boehm reads from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, the root text of her lineage of Kashmir Shaivism. 

Recorded live in Amsterdam during "Intimacy and Attraction" Teacher Training.

Music: 'Devadasi' by Steve James.
Translation: Lorin Roche "The Radiance Sutras" 
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www.michaelaboehm.com
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The Tantric Dialogues of Shiva and Shakti - *LIVE*

Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese
Marco Moresco, conductor

Dark Clouds, for orchestra

Frames of light

Vivian Dittmar is a teacher, speaker, and writer, author of the book The Power of Feelings. In this conversation we talk about the collective global field of uncertainty, the dynamics of birth and death, and the opportunity that Covid offers to befriend fear and follow its evolutionary power. 

Here is a guided meditation she offers on accessing the power of fear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqOXGUgBWY

She also shares with the audience a chapter on the power of fear from her book: 
https://viviandittmar.net/wp-content/uploads/The-Power-of-Fear.pdf

Vivian's book, The Power of Feelings is here:
https://viviandittmar.net/en/books/the-power-of-feelings/ 

Her upcoming book, The Inner GPS is here:
https://viviandittmar.net/en/books/your-inner-gps/

A New & Ancient Story

Vivian Dittmar: Befriending Fear (E47)

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MUSIC BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Ball is a versatile and innovative composer who has a multiple focus as a composer,improviser and audio-visual creator. He has collaborated with healers, therapists and counsellors as well as writing for dance, film, orchestra,and choir and is as much at home writing a score as creating electronic or computer music. In 2017 he completed his 6th Symphony. He collaborated with Pete Townshend and software engineer Dave Snowdon on the Method Music project, designing music software for a web server which generated over 10000 musical pieces - 'portraits' - over the internet. Pete Townshend also helped Lawrence record a double album "Method Music" now available through Amazon, and through Amazon and iTunes as a download.

His work is largely tonal (in the sense of an identifiable set of notes that are emphasised - rarely changing the key, central note). It is contemporary, in that it has much in it which is formed anew - not directly influenced or inspired from the classical music tradition. It is often associated with meditational or New Age aspects, because of the strong emphasis on its relationship with silence and presence, it makes more use of the space between notes than occurs in classical music. It is in the minimalist genre, in the sense that it borrows the idea of looping and repetition (since over 30 years) from the musical innovations of Terry Riley and LaMonte Young, and seeks deeper experiences through working with constancy, with sustained sounds and small or zero contrasts.

Since 2001 Lawrence has worked with sarod player Lisa Sangita Moskow and vocalist Manickam Yogeswaran on improvised music based on North and South Indian raga scales. He has created 6 multi-media audio-visual installations with the artist Genie Poretsky-Lee: including Anonymous Words (2007), Image Of Sound (2008) and Penumbra (2011).

He has developed techniques to deeply integrate audio and visual images with quantum physicist Michael Tusch, collaborating on this since 1993 with Dave Snowdon who created the software "Visual Harmony" to explore this arena; worked with healer/counsellor Isobel McGilvray in shaping harmonic tonescapes to aid relaxation, and has worked with choreographers/dancers (ex-Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet) Sheila Styles and (ex-Ballet Rambert) Rebecca Ham on several dance projects. Lawrence Ball has written for the pianists Yonty Solomon, Mark Swartzentruber, Tim Ravenscroft (2 suites), and Alessandra Celletti (Fractal Studies and Mist Sculptures), for The Smith (string) Quartet, the Electric Symphony Orchestra, the female vocal quartet led by Rosemary Forbes-Butler, Rosy Voices, and he wrote 6 pieces for the violist Robin Ireland (of the Lindsay Quartet) and many more for violist Neil Davis.

He composed music for the film "The Eye Of The Heart", a portrait of the life and work of the artist Cecil Collins, and features in the book on Collins and his circle by Nomi Rowe. He has recorded over 4000 piano improvisations as well as performing many live. Ball's creating in acoustic and electronic media, in composed and improvised methods is one of the broadest of any composer. He has performed in Canada, the US, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany as well as in the UK. He has accompanied the international painting group Collective Phenomena who work 'more than one to a canvas' with marathon keyboard improvisations, at John Calder's La Fonderie in Paris and The Blackie in Liverpool, as well as a Planet Tree Festival London appearance. Ball is a pioneer in music, having addressed meditative and healing presence and state-of-mind, primarily, for over 35 years. In 1996 he founded the Planet Tree Music Festival, which he also directs. Nine festivals have happened thus far. He is also a highly sought after private tutor in mathematics. He lives in London.

Behold the wondrous composer Lawrence Ball, whose music is like the wind that whispers through the trees, gentle and yet powerful. His melodies are like the flow of a river, meandering and yet constant. In the harmony of his music, one can hear the wisdom of the ages.


Through his lifelong devotion to music, he has become a master of his craft, weaving together the sounds of the natural world with the rhythms of the universe. His music is a reflection of the Tao, the balance and harmony that underlies all of existence.

Over the course of his career, Lawrence has collaborated with a wide range of artists and performers, each one adding their own unique voice to the symphony of his compositions. His works have been praised by critics and audiences alike, for they speak to the universal truths that transcend time and place.

He is a tireless advocate for the healing power of music, working with people of all ages and backgrounds, using music to bring comfort and peace to those in need.

In all his endeavours, Lawrence remains true to the Tao, not seeking fame or fortune, but rather follows the path of his heart. His music is a reflection of his innermost self, a testament to the power of the human spirit to transcend the limits of the material world.

Let us honour this great composer Lawrence Ball, for he has shown us the way to live in harmony with the Tao. Let us listen to his music with open hearts and minds, and allow it to guide us on our own journey through life.

8 Seductive Steps

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