Jam of a Lifetime

The One That I've Been Waiting For
Intuitive Song for Christel
music, words & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
from the Honoring Ceremony in Bad Herrenalb, Germany
October 29-31, 2021  / Beate Frey, Host

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes.   Original guitar/voice recording orchestrated in studio after event.

You are invited to attend online honoring ceremonies- see www.innerharmony.com 'events'   For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit:  innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training Online. Three pathways, one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season';  many choose to stay for more than one season.    See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!  

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Lyrics:

Now is the time for me to see
That all of the parts, the parts of me
Are here to be received
Are here to be accepted
Are here for me right now
To let it all be, to let it all be
Exactly as it is inside
Exactly as it is inside

O I've come a long way and now I find
That here so deep inside my mind I'm free
As I let myself be

As I surrender to the one I really I am
I remember and I truly understand
That everything has brought me here to be
The one that I've been waiting so long to see
Yes everything has brought me here to be
The one that I've been waiting for

I'm the one that I've been waiting for
I'm the one that I've been waiting for

The One That I've Been Waiting For

I Let the Healing In
Intuitive Song for Michaela
words, music & studio arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Recorded during Chantwave
June 3, 2022   Maria Magdalena Church
Regensburg, Germany
Susanne Goebel, Host


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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during a ChantWave evening, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to a participant theme.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars, retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

I let the healing in every part of me
I let the healing into me
I let the healing in every part of me
Now I let the healing into me

And I know that I’m really fine at the center of my soul
I know that this life is mine even when I’m not in control

I let now the healing in to every part of me
I let the healing into me

And in this moment I return
To the best inside of me
In this moment I return 
And I come into the place where I am free

I let the healing in to every part of me
I let the healing in and I am feeling free
I let the healing in to every part of me
I let the healing in and now I’m feeling free

And when I stop the turning of my mind
And come back to the place that feels so fine
Where everything is like an angel singing true
Deep inside my soul I feel the light and I can feel it now

I let the healing in to every part of me
I let the healing in and I am feeling free
I let the healing in to every part of me
I let the healing in and now I’m feeling free

I Let The Healing In

Why I Came Here Now
Intuitive Song for Christine
words, music & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
recorded during Honoring Ceremony
SongLife Weekend, Regensburg
June 4, 2022
Hosted by Susanne Goebel

Lyrics:

I already know why I am here
I feel it in my heart right now
I already know why I am here
I feel it in my heart right now

I've come for a reason 
That's beyond my mind
I've come for a reason
And my life has been here to find it
Yes, my life has been here to find
My life has been here to find it
My life has been here to find

That's why I am here, why I am here
Why I am here in this world
Why I am here, why I am here
Why I am here in this world

There’s something inside me that always knows
Knows just where I need to go
Something inside me that knows how to sing
The song from deep in my soul

And I do know why I am here
I do know it so well
I do know just why I’m here
I know and my heart can tell
The story of my life, the story of my soul
The story of my life

I’m here to be remembering
What it feels like to be whole
I’m here to be remembering
What it feels like to be whole
What it feels like to be whole

I’m remembering just why I came to this Earth
I’m remembering just why I came here now  (repeat)

Why I came here now, why I came here now.

Why I Came Here Now

Pure Heart
Intuitive Song for Reinhart
word, music and studio arrangement by Michael Stillwater
June 12, 2022
in Traun, Austria

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded as a Songportrait, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to recipient themes.  Arrangement is added to original recording in studio afterward.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

Wherever you go, whatever you do
Always remember there’s no one better than you
Wherever you go and whatever you do
Always remember the light that shines through you

Your pure heart, your pure heart
Your pure heart it lights the way for you
Your pure heart it shows the way 
Every night, every day it shows the way for you

All of the time, all of the time,
Deep in your soul and clear through your mind, yes
All of the time, all of the time, deep in your soul, tiefe seele
All of the time, all of the time
Deep in your heart and clear in your mind

Wherever you go, whatever you do
Always remember no one is better than you
Wherever you go, whatever you do
Always remember the light that is shining now and always through you
Always remember the light that shines through you

Pure Heart

All Is Well In Me
Intuitive Song for Heinrich
words, music & studio arrangement by Michael Stillwater
recorded during Honoring Ceremony within SongLife Weekend
hosted by Isabella Kitzler
June 11, 2022
Home of Leopold in Wels, Austria

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

I’m connected to everything
I’m connected to the angels
I’m connected to the song that sings through me

I’m connected to everything
I’m connected to you
I’m connected to everything 
And I’m letting the love pour through
I’m letting the love pour through
Pour through me now, pour through me now

I can feel it, it’s growing inside me
And I know it’s always been
It’s like a thousand suns 
Shining beneath my skin

And I know that I am connected to everything
To the universe shining, to the universe in me

I’m connected and all is well
I’m connected that’s the story I tell
I’m connected and I know that all is well in me
I know that all is well in me, all is well in me (repeat)

All Is Well In Me

It's Gone Away
Intuitive Song for Elfi
words, music & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
recorded during Voices of the Heart evening
hosted by Evelyn Schmelzer
June 21, 2022
Graz, Austria

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

The residential course is held in Melle, Germany, in October. The online course offers three pathways with one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; many choose to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

i dreamed of light, it came inside my heart
I dreamed of light, it poured all over
This light is shining in my heart
This light is shining in every part

This light has come and now I feel
Everything I ever need
Is here inside and I’m not afraid to feel it

The heaviness is washed away
And light has come to fill my days
And music sounds from deep inside my soul

I’m dancing now where once I stood
I’m letting life be O so good
I’m walking through the forest with a smile

And all the while I feel it
This heaviness is gone
It’s gone, it’s gone away
Heaviness is gone away

And now I only want to play
Now I only want to play
And everything is working out for me
Everything is working perfectly
‘Cause the heaviness went away, it went away

The heaviness that once was here
Now it seems to have disappeared
And all I want to do is play with you
Is play with you, is play with you.

It's Gone Away

Ever Free
Intuitive Song for Sylvia
words, music and arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Recorded on veranda of Monastero San Andrea, Assisi, Italy
Honoring Ceremony, Song Sanctuary Retreat

July 8, 2022

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

A residential course is held in Melle, Germany, in October. Online courses offer three pathways with one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; some choose more than one course, or to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

There’s a space inside of you
No one else can ever know it
It’s a mystery, it’s true
And no one ever owns it

It’s free like the wind
It’s free like the mountain
It’s free like the moon
Like the sky overhead, like the ocean too
This space inside of you is ever free, ever free

And you don’t need to know anymore
To welcome this space in your heart
It’s always been and will always be
It’s always a part of you, you know it’s true

This space is ever free, 
It’s shining light inside of thee
‘Cause it opens to the shining sun
That is warming you from the inside
It’s warming you up from deep within
It’s warming you from beneath your skin

You don’t have to go anywhere to find it,
It’s already inside you, inside you, inside you
You don’t have to go anywhere to find
It’s inside you, inside you, inside you
You don’t have to go anywhere to find

And when you let it simply be
You feel that the light that shines
Is pouring through your every cell
Of your body and your mind
It’s a space inside of you

Ever Free

A Simple Life
Intuitive Song for Bettina
words, music & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Original recording: May 13, 2019, Bielefeld, Germany
Studio arrangement: July 20, 2022, Helsinki, Finland

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded as a Songportrait, during which original music and lyrics are created, performed and recorded by Michael in response to recipient themes. Orchestration woven into the original recording.

Video about the Honoring Ceremony and Intuitive Songmaking:
vimeo.com/455763823

For a schedule of other events with Michael Stillwater,  including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars,  retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find intuitive song creation inspires your own creativity, you are invited to join SongLife Training Online, either online or residential. Three pathways, one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; many choose to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish for a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

A simple life I’m here to live
A simple life I’m here to give to you
A simple life I’m here to live
Take the moment and be true

A simple life I’m here to live
With time to enjoy
The sunlight on my face and in my heart
Simple joys of living

And as I give myself the gift of simplicity
I’ve got more time for you
And I’ve got more time for me

A simple life to live in harmony
A simple life to live it true
A simple life to be with me
And do what I need to do

And as I live simplicity
I come back home and see
That everything that needs to be done
Is done more easily 

In this simple life
In this simple life

A simple life I share with you
I share with you to let it be
A simple life we live it true
We live it as our destiny

And as we live simplicity
We come back home to what feels right
And as we live simplicity
We feel it every day and night

A simple life that we can share
A simple life without a care
A simple life for me and you
A simple life we’re living true

And everything gets done that needs to
As we take the time for joy
Everything gets done that needs to
As we take the time to let it unfold

A simple life has been waiting now for us
A simple life it’s been waiting for our trust

To trust that it can be this good
Can be this good and fine
To trust that it can be the dream of yours
The dream of mine

A simple life that’s lived most every day
A simple life that we know
Walking the garden and smell the air
And let the breezes blow

A simple life that takes us where we need
Where we need to go
A simple life whether it be raining or even in the snow
A simple life, every day, every night,
Every time is right for us, right for us
A simple life is here taking care of us, taking care of us
A simple life

A Simple Life

Perfectly Me
Intuitive Song for Bettina
words, music and arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Original recording: May 13, 2019, Bielefeld, Germany
Host: Christina Gürtler
Studio arrangement: July 30, 2022, Helsinki, Finland

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded as a Songportrait, during which original music and lyrics are created, performed and recorded by Michael in response to recipient themes.  Orchestration is added in studio to the original recording.

Video about the Honoring Ceremony and Intuitive Songmaking:
vimeo.com/455763823

For a schedule of other events with Michael Stillwater, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars, retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find intuitive song creation inspires your own creativity, you are invited to join SongLife Training Online, either online or residential. Three pathways, one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; many choose to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish for a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!


Lyrics: 

I try to be perfect
Keep trying to work it
Want things to be 
Perfect as they can be
But sometimes it doesn’t look that way

So I’m learning to let go
Learning to let down my perfect,
My perfect demand upon my life
And upon the world I see
My perfect demand upon my life
And upon the world I see

Takes a lot of energy
To keep things lined up perfectly
To keep things like I want them to be
It takes energy, sometimes I just want to let down
And want to be found by peace

I’m here to let peace find me
Just the way I am
I’m here to let peace find me
Now I understand

That not everything needs to line up straight
Not everything needs to turn out great
Not everything needs to be the way I want it to be

And when it is just the way that it is
And I let it now live the life it lives
And I learn to let things be 
Then peace it comes to me, peace it comes to me
Peace it comes to me, peace it comes to me
Peace it finds me just as I am
Peace it finds me now I understand

And somewhere in my heart I remember
Somehow things are perfect the way that they are
Sometimes I just remember
Sometimes I remember to see
Sometimes things are simply perfect
That’s all they need to be

Just the way they are
Don’t have to look very far
It begins with me, I let perfect and let perfect be

Just the way I am, just the way I am
I let perfect be just the way I am
I’m perfectly me, I’m perfectly me, 
I’m perfectly me, don’t need to be anyone else,
Don’t need to be anyone else,
‘Cause I’m perfectly me, 
Yes, I’m perfectly me
Yes, I'm perfectly me
I am perfectly me

The Honoring- Bettina van Amerongen

Perfectly Me

I Know the Way
Intuitive Song for Anne
words, music & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
from Honoring Ceremony during Song Sanctuary Retreat
hosted by Michael & Doris Laesser Stillwater
September 9, 2022
Katve Retreat, Kirkkonummi, Finland

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

The residential course is held in Melle, Germany, in October. The online course offers three pathways with one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; many choose to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

There's a river in me always flowing
Flowing to you, always growing
Like a stream down to the sea
Life is living through me
And it's finding its way, this I know

And this river of life it's always showing me the way
This river of life it always shows me where
Where the energy leads me, where the energy needs me
Needs me to be, where it all is leading me
Where it all is leading me
Don't have to know
Just have to let go and let the river carry me
Just need to let go and let the river carry me

And as it carries me I know that I am on my way
Into the place where I feel the grace of my soul
As it carries me I know I'm on my way
Into the heart of the sea, into the heart of me
Into the heart of the sea, into the heart of me
Right now, into the heart of me right now
Into the heart of me right now

And when this treasure inside needs to flow
Where it's going I do not need to know
I'm just trusting more and more every day
I'm just trusting more and more that I know the way
I know the way for me

I know the way for me
Yes, I know the way, I know the way  (repeat)

And the river keeps flowing on
It's living at the heart of my song
The river keeps flowing, bringing me along

I Know The Way

Here In My Heart
Intuitive song for Annette
words, music & arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Recorded during ChantWave
Bad Herrenalb, Germany, November 25, 2022
Beate Frey, host

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This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during a ChantWave evening, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to a participant theme. Orchestration added in studio after the original recording.

For a schedule of all events, including ChantWave, Song Sanctuary seminars, retreats, and SongLife Training, visit: innerharmony.com/events/

If you find this way of intuitive music inspiring for your own creativity, I invite you to join my SongLife Training, either residential or online.

The residential course is held in Melle, Germany, in October. The online course offers three pathways with one creative pulse: Guitar Artistry / Songwriting / Intuitive Songmaking. Each course is a seven week 'season'; many choose to stay for more than one season. See details here: innerharmony.com/songlife-training-online/

If you wish to have a personal songportrait with Michael, visit: 
innerharmony.com/songportraits/

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

Here in my heart I am at home right now
Here in my heart I am at home
Here in my heart I am at home 
With you I feel at peace

Here in my heart I am home, 
I'm not alone I know
Here in my heart 
I am the one I came to be
Here in my heart 
I am the only one that's me

And here I am home 
Like I always knew it would be
There is no worry in me 
When I'm feeling at home
At home with you.

I am at home right now with you
I am at home right now with you
I am at home right now, with you I am at peace
I am at home right now with you.

Here In My Heart

Touched by the Grace
Intuitive Song for Sylvia
words, music and arrangement by Michael Stillwater
during Honoring Ceremony/Song Sanctuary Workshop
April 8, 2023 in Cinigiano, Italy
hosted by Katriona Munthe

This is a spontaneous, intuitive song recorded during an Honoring Ceremony, in which the music is created and recorded by Michael in response to participant themes. www.innerharmony.com

Thank you for listening!

Lyrics:

I am touched by the grace
I am touched by the grace of life
And I’m grateful for this way
That shows me everything I need to know

I am touched by the grace of life
And it shows me all I need to know
Yes, it shows me all I need to know

I am touched by the grace of life
And it shows me all I need to know
Yes, it shows me all I need to know
All I need to know

And it finds me in the morning
Like a gentle breeze upon my face
It finds me in the nighttime
Like a dove whose wings they find me
Like a dove whose wings they find me

I am touched by the grace of life
And I’m shown all I need to know
I am shown all I need to know, all I need to know

I am touched by the grace of life
And I’m shown all I need to know
Yes, I’m shown all I need to know, all I need to know

And I breathe it in, into my heart
I breathe it in to my soul
I breathe it in to my body
It’s all, it’s all I need to know

I am touched by the grace of life
And I’m shown all I need to know
Yes, I’m shown all I need to know, all I need to know  (repeat)

All I need to know, all I need to know
All I need to know, all I need to know
All I need to know

Touched By The Grace

In the Name
Words, Music & Arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Recorded during Voices of the Heart evening
Freising, Germany
May 24, 2023

Lyrics:

We sing in the name of the one, eternal infinite being
Who has many names yet is beyond all names and forms
We come together for healing, revealing who we are

In the Name

There Is A River
Words, Music & Arrangement by Michael Stillwater
Recorded at ChantWave
St. Clare Kirche, Nürnberg
Hosted by Georgina Demmer & Michael Grubert
19. May, 2023

From original intuitive song for Karin during Honoring Ceremony in Hamburg,  6. May, 2023.

There Is A River

I can see you as you truly are
I can see you as I open up my heart  (repeat)

There is a river, a river in me
It's always flowing on to the sea
There is a river, a river in me of love  (repeat)

There Is A River

Spontaneous Chant by Michael Stillwater from Song Sanctuary seminar in Bielefeld, Germany;  Nov. 4, 2018.   

Lyric:   We are returning to the heart of our lives in song

for more of Michael's music, films and events, visit www.songlife.org

Heart Of Our Lives

Michael Stillwater is an innovator with music, words, and images.
An award-winning songwriter, recording artist and filmmaker, he provides
artistic and transformative reflection upon core societal issues, catalyzing
creative expression in people of all ages.

musical artist / songwriter / filmmaker / intuitive musician / educator / producer


MUSICAL ARTIST/SONGWRITER: Stillwater’s interfaith chants and healing songs are enjoyed in singing circles, gatherings, churches and communities worldwide, with multiple recordings by other artists as well as himself. An interfaith minister through the Chaplaincy Institute, he ministered through Heavensong, a
non-denominational church based in California and Hawaii, from 1978 through 1990.

FILMMAKER: Through Song Without Borders, the nonprofit creative arts agency he co-founded, Stillwater produced films and other programs applying song to personal and societal transformation. He created his first film, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen (2012) together with his wife, Doris Laesser Stillwater. Acclaimed ‘a heartening rarity’ by the Wall Street Journal, the film received four Best Documentary awards at US film festivals and enthusiastic response from a global audience, including Europe and South Africa. The movie tells the story of the life and music of National Medal of Arts
recipient Morten Lauridsen, recognized as the most performed choral composer of recent times.

The Stillwater’s second film, In Search of the Great Song: Fifty voices. Twelve countries. One question. (2016), received two Best Documentary awards, including at its US Premiere, Moondance Int’l Film Festival in Boulder, CO. Providing an existential and metaphorical context, the film serves as a conversation starter for exploring our inherent creativity and essential spiritual unity. With interviews recorded worldwide, including at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, the film was screened at the Parliaments in both Salt Lake City (2015) and Toronto (2018).

Their third film, Beyond the Fear of Singing: Unlock Your Voice, Release Your Song (2019), winner of three film festival awards, focuses on the inhibition so many feel about their singing voice, together with healing pathways for overcoming limitations and the rewarding discovery of expressing one’s voice.

INTUITIVE MUSICIAN/EDUCATOR: Stillwater’s unique intuitive recording artistry provides a way for people to feel seen and supported at an essential level. His intuitive songportraits demonstrate empathic connection, while Song Sanctuary seminars and retreats combine a variety of interactive elements in a
one-day, two-day, or longer program. SongLife Training serminars, both local and online, provide anyone with a forum for unlocking their musical aspirations individually and with others.

PRODUCER/AUTHOR: With Emmy-award winning film composer Gary Malkin and Swiss contemplative psychotherapist Doris Laesser Stillwater, he co-authored Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying (over one million readers/ listeners) and Care for the Journey: Messages and Music for Sustaining the
Heart of Healthcare, created for reducing stress in healthcare and palliative care practitioners. 

Since 2020 he has published a monthly column in Meer, an international online magazine. Together with his wife Doris he leads Song Sanctuary Retreats in Europe and America, providing support through contemplative, creative and personal growth practice. A resident of Europe since 2005, he now lives in the Alps of Switzerland, travelling frequently, offering online and local musical events and creative educational programs.