this is such sweetness to my ears and heart.  thank you. 

untangling and embodying

Breathe breathe breathe in 
Breathe breathe out

Let it go, let it go, let it go

Trust in what's coming
Trust in your knowing
It's deeper and wider and holy


special thanks to Jess & Dan Pelberg Berlin for lighting the spark to find this song in me

Breathe

This mantra of the 20th Tara (known in Tibetan as Tara Ritrö Loma Gyönma and in Sankskrit as Tara Śabarī (sometimes spelled as Shabari or Shavari or Śavarī/) is a healing mantra that protects against disease and contagion.  This mantra has both wrathful and peaceful aspects: wrathfully subduing the invasive energies of contagion and deadly epidemics and pacifying sickness.  

OṂ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE NAMA TĀRE MANOHARA HŪṂ HARA SVĀHĀ

This is a powerful healing mantra and I am grateful to all of my teachers and fellow practitioners and musicians who helped make this recording possible. And to Lasha Mutual for her generosity in allowing me to include her painting of the 20th Tara in my cover art. This graphic t is meant to evoke those tiny bodhi-leaf thangkas from Tibet and India. 

CREDITS:
Lee Mirabai Harrington - vocals, arrangement, keyboard
Ben Leinbach - guitar, synth
Sasrika Randimal - Bansuri flutes

Nature Chorus: The birds, frogs and insects of the forests of Woodstock, NY (the original lands of the Munsee Lenape) and Kerela, India 

Graphics: Lee Harrington, using an illustration of Tara Ritrö Loma Gyönma by Lasha Mutual. https://lashamutual.com/


May all be free from disease and contagion.


MANTRA OF THE 20TH TARA (Tara Ritro Loma Gyonma/Tara Sabari)

MANTRA OF THE 20TH TARA (Tara Ritrö Loma Gyönma | Tara Śabarī)

Sunday Mornings

I wrote this song in the wake of the Nepal earthquake in 2015. I spent time travelling and teaching English in Nepal in 2011 and felt a personal connection to the people and land there.

Words & melodies by Osprey. Guitar by Rich Glauber. Produced by Geoffrey Mays at SoaringHeart Studio in Eugene, OR.

© 2015 Osprey Huffsmith

03 Grief & Praise

Nishmat Kol Chai - Joey Weisenberg And The Hadar Ensemble

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert Hanson

Nechama - Batya Levine

Your Heart Knows the Way

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

written from the words of adrienne marie brown out of emergent strategy "change is coming, what do we need to imagine to be prepared?" an imagination exercise that she proposes we do to prepare for a world post and/or amidst capitalism. what can we imagine??

change is coming

Chabad nigun named after it's author, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn who was also known as the "Tzemach Tzedek," which means "sprout of justice."

Tzemach Tzedek Nigun

Healing Song by Kestrel Feiner-Homer

Nigunim, Vol. IV: Brooklyn Spirituals

Mozi's Nigun / Ana B'choakh by Joey Weisenberg

Show Up

I Am Willing by Holly Near

Bobover Wedding Niggun

how can I ...

be a little more soft today
feel a little more connected today
get a little more grounded today
be a little more free today 
___ a little more ____ today

A part of the melody inspired by and based on "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus

How Can I

Origin:
Melody by Nava Tehila
Sung by Batya Levine
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Tishrei Nigun - Nava Tehila

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Tishrei Nigun - Nava Tehila

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