PURE LOVE PROJECT / MUSIC RELEASED ON iTUNES / REVIEWED

Here is a review from Felicia Case of the album just release on iTunes

I have reviewed your Pure Love Project from iTunes.  I burned to a CD and began my journey of exploration.  The energy was really spiraling and ethereal and I loved it.  Then, lying down to prepare for sleep, I journeyed through your songs again in yoga nidra, and let the ‘ingredients’ of the songs weave and meld.

This morning I have taken a moment while listening to express what I feel and see in your music — a tapestry of impressions, imagery (with the art of Lauri Blank, an artist I admire) and my art through words. Though everyone will likely take away something novel from your music, I believe there is yoga in your core delivery. I hope you enjoy glimpsing how your art reflects through my eyes.

Nurturing Source:

Here she comes … the Sun. … I really liked the sense of  ‘quickening’ and birth with the crisp beat and harmony with the voices. I thought of a great condor waiting earth-bound, caught in that gap between night and morning …with a maximum wingspan of 9 feet, not able to fly when wet and weighted — he waits for the great mother Sun to dry the dew of sunrise from his wings … waits for her great heat to expand the thermal currents high in the wind that will support his flight. … Muladara padma, the bliss of the physical body, and the transmutation of taking flight.

Mother Walks In

For me, Mother Walks In feels sacred and erotic. Mysterious, and naked in pure love. The building drum resonating, and then that sensual flute …. weaving and beguiling … I felt the dance in, around, and in between … Swadhisthana padma, the watery oneness of sexual intimacy and the alchemy of ojas to tejas shakti.

Obstacles Removed

I felt the shared connection and gratitude to Krishnamacharya while listening to Obstacles Removed.  The love of Father, … and his helping to direct our will, at the solar plexis, the flame of heat stoking the fire to burn the dross and reveal the gold.  The strings and the chanting felt for me, like very masculine father energy … Manipura padma …strength found at the core and the obstacles of ego removed.

Love Srim Supreme

My heart resonated to the airy quality of the chimes in wind and the heightened vibrations, high and cool…  I found myself in mountain air, a feelong of vast expansiveness, with thinner, faster currents, and tighter energy … the Anahata padma — before, as an unstruck chord, now vibrating sweetly on the waves of our emotions birthing love.

Strength Received

My throat literally began to vibrate back to front, front to back, as all the voices in Strength Received began to layer into a type of abstract odd-numbered harmony, compatible with the resonance of 5 … the Visshuda padma transporting energy, gaining strength through receiving, from air into the ethers.

You are Loved

Yes, you are loved!…. your music is pure enlightenment with so much brilliance.  I find myself wondering why I immediately interpreted this work as each of the seven major chakras in the progression of your songs … did you mean it to happen this way? was this conscious or unconscious on your part?  Is it just me? Then, an amazing thing happened … when I heard You are Loved I found myself awakening in the Brahma Muhurta and hearing the primordial ~OM~ !!   Ajna padma … such a gift you have given in capturing this sacred tone and key in such pure exactness with indigo wisdom.

And you Love

I feel loved.  What a journey this has been to be totally immersed and stand in the gap between each note of pure tantra that is your music … iridescence … Sahasrara padma … a thousand petals opening and whispering on the winds of expectancy as Shiva awaits his Shakti and the individual self is dissolved.

I am honored you asked me to review your music and hope you have enjoyed my unique way of reviewing! I could do no other than be very thorough and present <smile> and I enjoyed it too.

Felicia Case

GRACE IS HERE / MALE FEMALE MEANS BY WHICH SPIRIT TAKES FORM / RAM DASS ON YOGA

My daughter is giving birth. I am deeply moved to see the natural state in her, as her, the extreme wonder, intelligence of Life appearing as Mother as new Life. I am filled with awe for this Life and all life, for me and for YOU. Male female are in union. Spirit has taken form as you and me and my daughter’s child, named Grace Dyani. Source has appeared as this ordinary seen reality.

I said that it would be very positive for humanity if the leaders of the free world were a couple in a polarized relationship where the wisdom of both male and female dynamics of nature made the crucial decisions for humanity. I suggested that Hillary and Bill would approximate this yoga equation of male / female mutuality and that it would be recognized in secular thought because they would both be known as “President”.  America would have to deal with it. For me this was a Yoga dharma consideration not a political endorsement. I think also that Barack and his wife will express this mutuality in the White House more than ever before in human history. We may see the ending of the lopsided male power structures that are not surrendered to the feminine. May this happen quickly! It would be like “what if the Pope had a wife of equal social visibility and status.” What society would that have created. Yaah!

We know yoga to be the natural and actual means of participation in the male female union by which spirit takes form within and without. Yoga is so easily practiced and is a natural healing activity that is available to anyone who has breath. It is for everyOne everyWhere including individuals who do not have normal physical movement.
My friend Ram Dass was showing me with great joy how he had adapted his Yoga to his needs. One side of his body is paralyzed. He holds one arm with his good arm and moves the whole body as breath. It makes him feel well and joyful. It brings health into his system. He wanted to know why he had not been taught this earlier in his Life when it is clearly devotion. It is bhakti yoga to which his Life has been devoted. It is the direct intimacy with our Nurturing Source. In a poignant moment he tearfully apologized for hatha Yoga being so poorly represented in the West.  He said he never had a chance to do it because all his hatha yoga teachers were show offs. They would teach him extreme exaggerated, heroic things to do in the dualistic psychology of trying to get somewhere idealistic, imaginary enlightenment. Not the direct intimacy where each person participates in the wonder of Life already Given, in us as us.
So he was crying.. so sweet. “I have it now” he said. I love this man.