The Way

I am / We are.m4a

This song moved through me while I was hiking miles and miles in beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore - thinking about just how amazing it is to be made entirely of earth, water, air, and fire. Elemental beings. Interconnected and Woven. I am a forest school teacher and we love singing this one when we enjoy snacks and food together. A nice way to give thanks!

Roots Song

Where is home? Here is home. Where is home? Here is home. This conversation goes. As the waters flow and winds move and the laws of impermanence are ever impermanent. A song that helps me center and call myself to the here and now.

Home

This song moved through me while intentionally losing myself in the deep green forest of the Olympic Peninsula. Crossing over a rushing river belly down on a mossy log, the feeling was something like, “if this were it. Just me, this river, this log, this forest, with no “going back” or anywhere else but here, I would still choose to be here.” And this song comes from that moment with the river, moss, forest, my heartbeat. Feeling wild, alive and connected; aware in my bones of how deeply the earth was holding me and loving me ... and is holding us and loving us ... even through times of pain and confusion. May this song be good medicine. May you feel held and connected as you sing.

I do not fear

These songs find me now and again as I walk the earth and listen. Listen deep to the rhythm of Life in whispers and waves. I share these simple melodies in hopes that they will be good medicine for heart and soul - singing alone, singing together, harmonizing, improvising, feeling Life move through lungs, feeling body and voice as instruments to be played.

Ashleigh Shepherd