Vessel is not just a collection of four songs—it's a surrender.
Each piece was not composed, but received.
Not performed, but felt.
From the stillness before the first note to the tears that closed the last, this is a journey into being played by something greater.

Handpan becomes heartbeat.
Time melts.
Identity thins into vibration.

The final track, Tears Without a Wound, was recorded as I wept—not from sorrow, but from the kind of bliss that arrives only when you are no longer trying to hold yourself together.

This album is for those who’ve ever felt music as memory, as prayer, as presence.

Held in Silence

Vanish

Where time forgot me

Tears without a Wound

Astrid, herself, described the focus of this class as creating space and control in the hips, pelvis and thoracic spine to enhance stability, mobility, and core connection. Astrid guided us beautifully with great clarity, an  emphasis of both exploration and self sensing at an easy to follow, slow pace. She basically had us explore four movements of the pelvis and lower extremity. Astrid built each movement sequence carefully starting with a basic movement and then guiding us to notice different aspects in the way we were using our body. She often added an additional aspect to the movement such as an oppositional rotation in the upper body with a focus on the thoracic spine. Sometimes she cued us to notice where our stability was coming from, sometimes she cued us to notice our breath or if we were adding an unconscious rotational or lateral flexion aspect. She helped us differentiate between rotating the head of the femur in the hip socket versus  rotating the hip socket around the head of the femur. It was a wonderful class with lots of learning. Thank you Astrid.

8/2/25: Zoom Class: Finding Your Center, Stabilize & Mobilize, Guest Presenter Astrid Cruse

Karen continues recalibrating the 8 basic movement lessons in the book Somatics, by Thomas Hanna. In this class she focuses on the fourth lesson, pp. 116-122, controlling the muscles involving trunk rotation. She continues to brilliantly update some of the language, content, and choice of movement examples based on her experience working with clients and teaching classes.  

After some guided assessment in standing, she had us lie down on the floor. Most of this session was done in supine. Karen is very precise in her instructions which helps us to pay attention to how we are organizing ourselves. Her guidance often leads us to challenge our expectations which may confront our comfort levels and our habituated patterns. This lesson can feel quite complicated because it has so many parts. I personally liked how she focused on the essence of this lesson which ultimately leads to greater awareness of how we are organizing our contralateral patterning most associated with walking.

9/6/25: Zoom Class: Recalibration of Lesson 4 from "Somatics" by T. Hanna, Guest Teacher Karen Meyer

I hope you watch this video many times. One of Lisa's goals is to help you prepare for sitting on the floor. For many people, especially as we get older, we are just not comfortable sitting on the floor. In a future followup class Lisa will actually take us into sitting on the floor; in this class we do not do that yet. However, practicing these movements may have a profound effect on your mobility in your hips, pelvis and related myofascia, such as the tensor fascia lata (TFL). Lisa expertly builds our ability to add greater levels of movement complexity without any sense of being rushed or moving outside of our comfort zone. Enjoy! 

You may contact Lisa directly: flourish@clearsightyoga.com

10/4/25: Zoom Class: Lower Extremities: Hip, Pelvis, TFL with Guest Presenter Lisa Sack

Karen continues recalibrating the 8 basic movement lessons in the book Somatics, by Thomas Hanna. In this class she focuses on the fifth lesson, pp. 123-128, controlling the muscles involving the pelvis, hip joints and legs. She continues to brilliantly update some of the language, content, and choice of movement examples based on her experience working with clients and teaching classes.  

Along with some guided assessment in standing and walking, we paid attention to where we were focusing our eyes, as a way of not only noticing our habitual use of our eye gaze, but also as a way of monitoring how we positioned our head on our neck.

Karen began the floor work with micro movements of the head and neck. This created a wonderful balance to the lower body work which took up the majority of our class.

This lesson involves moving and noticing how we organize and coordinate our feet, knees, hips and pelvis in relationship to the rest of our body. We worked with the foot movements of inversion and eversion, which involves turning the bottom of the feet inward and outward. How we organize our feet predicts how we organize our whole lower extremity and on up into the rest of our body. Karen's slow and careful guidance not only builds our awareness but also often challenges our ability to organize ourself in comfort and without force.

You will gain many insights by repeating this lesson.

11/1/25: Zoom Class: Recalibration of Lesson 5 from "Somatics" by T. Hanna, Presented by Karen Meyer

Ancestral Currents moves like living light — a slow, ritual bass journey where the wisdom of those who came before flows through the body. Golden currents, spacious pads, and deep organic percussion carry you into a state of remembrance.

This track is made for movement meditation, breathflow, ceremony, slow ecstatic dance, and inner journeying.
Let the lineage move through you.

If you feel called, bring your voice, your instruments, your medicine.
Let’s move as one.

Somattic - Ancestral Currents (extended)

A slow-burning ceremonial journey from the red earth to the luminous sky.

Deep sub-bass heartbeats meet ritual hand percussion, warm reggae-infused skank, and rising elemental textures ~ didgeridoo breath, ember sparks, turquoise pads, and whispered mantras weaving through the groove.

This is medicine for the dance floor.
Ground. Breathe. Surrender into the roots.
Let the pulse lift you into ecstatic flight.
Root in love — rise in light.

Blessed be. 🌿🔥🌀

Somattic - Root to Rise (extended)

Somattic (Matt) creates ceremonial ecstatic dance journeys where rhythm becomes prayer and movement becomes medicine. 

Somattic’s ancient future world-fusion music is inspirted to move, pray, and play inside of. I invite you to bring your voice, your instruments, your flow toys, your medicine. Add your rhythm to the field. Let’s move as one and weave a vibrant living tapestry of sound and movement.

Holla: me[at]mattprindle.com

Disclaimer: These recordings are for educational purposes only.  Please do all somatic movements comfortably, slowly, and without pain or force. Please consult appropriate medical or health care providers if you have any concerns about whether the movements are suitable for you, especially if you are dealing with an illness or injury, are pregnant, or have other health, balance or mobility issues.

On our journey of life,  experiences beyond our physical dimension are hard to express using Ordinarly language..

The magiK of love; is only fairly expressed through the heart, whom knows no language but contains all….

.Music serves as the barrier in between the dimensions beyond our physical reach and translates their frequencies into a tangible experience, and hence hear me out…

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