chapter two: The New Age

My life changed when I started to find true medicine. Bodywork, shadow-work, meditation, nature, a God that surpasses our understanding. I enrolled in a four year somatic embodiment teacher training program, I started doing parts work, men’s work, started talking to trees, tapping into intuition, inner child work, started to let myself live.

And I started to teach: Voice, music, foreign language, body-work, life coaching. after a few years My practice exploded, as I integrated what I had learned in the best music school in the country with new age/eastern philosophy.

reword for moving towards pnsc judaism

My voice, my artistry, and my teaching practice all bloomed and so should I have. Instead, I unconsciously undid the prison around the core traumas of my life, and the parts of me that had gone insane with pain and loneliness that were trapped inside.

But folk wasn’t enough. I started to dig into my roots, singing the earthly Jewish melodies I had learned at summer camp as a child.

And meanwhile I was experimenting. While I still sang opera, I was more and more drawn to all the music I had just ignored for almost a decade. Jazz, folk, indigenous music, you name it, I wanted it.

Here’s what that looked like :

I started to experiment. Here’s me singing Church Street Blues, WRITTEN BY??? Tony Rice.

And I finally started to feel more in my music. A decade of searching for the long-buried emotions I had hid as child feared fruit, as I began to emote more fully for the first time in my life.