Ask Your Guides - Live - Musicians Edition! 9/6/24

Ask Your Guides - Musician's Edition - recorded LIVE - 9/6/24 - An unscripted collaboration among musicians/teachers, addressing questions from the Insight Timer community. This was recorded LIVE and might have some background noise.

The following teachers were in this LIVE session: Pablo Villegas, Judy Unger, Blossom Violet, Rob Gregerson, Judi Cranston-Soul Rocker, Manuel Portillo, Cory Davis, and Matias Borracine. Please check out their profiles on Insight Timer and follow them!

Host Teachers: Melanie Underwood and Violet 108

Please join our Insight Timer Group "ASK YOUR GUIDES" to continue interacting with the teachers and the community.

Transcript

So we're very excited because tonight we have a special edition of Ask Your Guides.

We've got musicians,

Eight amazing musicians here with you,

And they are ready for your questions.

I'll start with you,

Rob.

I'll go around from the bottom.

Okay.

I was the one who showed up late,

So I guess this is my punishment.

Okay,

Perfect.

Yeah.

What was the question again?

Sorry,

I'm like trying to work with my settings a little bit.

What's my musical journey?

Just introduce yourself and let them know who you are.

Okay,

Great.

Hi,

Everybody.

I'm Rob Gregerson,

And yeah,

I've been on Insight Timer live streaming for,

I'm coming up on a year actually,

And I've been on Insight Timer for several years because I was a collaborator with a woman named Maria Gallo,

And I did a lot of her background music,

And then realized it was,

They had live streaming,

And I was live streaming through the pandemic on YouTube and Facebook and Reddit and all these places,

And I was like,

I love this community,

So I'm going to come here and start playing here.

So I've been a musician all my life.

I started violin when I was three years old and started performing professionally at five,

And now I'm 45.

So it's been all of that,

And I'm a one-man band,

So probably the way to identify me on Insight Timer is I'm the guy who has all the instruments around me and doing that kind of thing.

So yeah,

I'm stoked to be here.

Very stoked.

Awesome.

Thank you for being with us,

And I know Maria.

Maria's going to be on one of our Ask Your Guides in a few weeks.

Oh,

That's amazing.

Yeah,

Maria's amazing.

She is amazing,

And Corey,

We are going to move on to you,

And by the way,

I want to say Rob and Corey,

Thank you so much for joining.

I literally asked them at the last minute.

Thank you so much for being here,

And Corey.

Thank you,

Violet and Melody.

So great to be here.

Yeah,

My,

So Corey Lee Davis,

I focus primarily on what I call sonotherapeutics.

There's also a whole industry course built on that,

So music that has a direct intention to provide a healing outcome,

And my work started about six years ago.

I lived at a place called Brighton Bush Hot Springs,

And I struggle with chronic illness.

I have dysautonomia,

POTS syndrome,

Which is really difficult to deal with,

And so to kind of soothe my own nervous system,

I developed this album based on recordings of the Brighton Bush River,

And then frequencies,

Which I discovered were really helpful to shift my nervous system,

Shift my state into one of more healing,

And less anxiety,

Less depression,

Less pain,

Things like that,

And they work so well.

I thought,

Wow,

I really would love to share this with the world,

And Inside Timer became a means to do that,

And yeah,

So as Einstein said,

The future of medicine will be frequency,

And I think that's what helps unify us all here today,

Is that we provide frequency for those seeking solutions.

That's amazing.

I love that.

Thank you for sharing,

And Judy C.

,

We're moving on to you next.

Hey,

Hey,

Violet and Melody.

Thanks for having me.

So I'm from New Zealand.

I call myself Soul Rocker because they're the two most important things in my life,

Is my soul,

Journey,

And my connection to Vine,

And use it as a way to rock us out of our comfort zone.

Sorry,

My dog's just decided to start barking.

He loves to be with me in my music time.

So on Inside Timer,

It's really a platform for me to have that deeper connection and a co-creation experience with the listeners.

So I come not even knowing what I'm going to do,

Which probably a lot of us do that,

Just coming,

Singing my soul songs,

Which are more contemporary-ish,

Contemporary-ish music,

Taking shamanic sound activations,

Journey,

And I don't really either have words for what I do,

So sometimes you just have to come along and partake and see what happens.

But my intention is always to set up a chalice where people can bring their motivations or desires or needs,

And collectively weave the power of music.

Beautiful.

Matias,

I'm moving on to you.

Hi,

Everyone.

Well,

My name is Matias.

I'm from Argentina.

Actually,

I'm a musician.

I've been a musician since 20 years,

More or less.

I started to play drums,

Electric guitar,

And maybe five years ago,

My sister told me about this platform,

Inside Timer,

And my ex-girlfriend,

Actually,

She's a teacher also here on Inside Timer,

And she.

.

.

Now I want to know who it is.

She's Pink Moon.

She has like a fantasy name.

Thank you,

Grace.

And she encouraged me to upload my music on Inside Timer.

At the beginning,

I just played rock,

Funk,

Jazz music,

And I started to compose music more for advertising or films.

And when I started to do yoga,

I found this kind of music without.

.

.

It's like a path,

We say,

Musicians,

I couldn't understand me.

It's like a path,

Like this kind of music without melodies,

Without distraction.

And I found that that kind of music is amazing to just relax yourself,

To find a moment,

To find your inner peace.

And I started to realize that this is the music that I want to do.

Not just music,

Like to become a rock star or something for my ego,

Since I just want to compose music to help people,

Because I think we are living in a crazy moment in the world in general,

And we need to calm down.

And this kind of music,

I think it's amazing.

So since two years,

I've been composing music for Inside Timer,

And I think it's amazing all the feedback that I receive,

All the love,

The message.

This is amazing.

So it's like I found my way like a musician.

This is an incredible platform.

Absolutely beautiful.

Yes.

Blossom.

Hello,

Everyone.

I'm Blossom Violet.

That's the name I use on my profile.

I no longer use Violet because otherwise I get confused with Violet 108.

We are twins.

Yeah,

I came on the platform as a meditator in 2016.

And even though initially I wasn't using it very much,

Back then I was basically in a few years after that,

I was in a complete mess with health and got to a point where I was just saying,

I was just like,

You know,

What to do,

Like help and all kind of thing.

So Inside Timer and all the friends I've met on Inside Timer,

You know,

They're just been wonderful.

And then I was called to go back to piano playing again after hearing Joseph Nimmo.

This was after 34 years of not playing much piano due to piano related trauma.

So this has changed my life.

And yes,

It's amazing here.

So I was called to go back to play the piano and I wasn't sure what music I was going to play because I used to play classical music.

And after decades of not playing piano,

My fingers were not working very well.

And initially I was going into my limited self.

And I didn't want to go back to playing classical music.

I wanted to play something different,

Like maybe with a bit of hint of jazz music.

And I didn't know where to start.

And then,

Yeah,

And then slowly I found my way with help of Phillip Wade and Gunter Goerge,

A teacher,

Helped me with all the technology suggestion.

And yeah,

And then I found my foot,

I guess,

That's how you call it.

And yeah,

My reason for being here,

I guess the reason I'm called to do is to bring relaxation music to everyone in the world and send my love through the music.

So,

And I play music that flows through me.

So I no longer have to think of what I play.

So each time I go on live,

I just play whatever that comes to me and I never know what I'm going to play.

So it's an exciting journey and I'm so happy to be here with all of you.

And thank you,

Violet,

For the invitation.

Glad to see all of you.

Thank you for being here.

And thank you for being the one who made my favorite journaling track,

Dance of Inner Peace,

Because,

You know,

I've played that a million times.

So Pablo,

We're going to move on to you.

Hi,

Everyone.

My name is Pablo Villegas.

I am a night-timer.

Last November,

I am very night-timer.

I have a degree in psychology.

Then for many years,

I tried to align my main subject,

My life.

But I spent all of my last years doing only music more than psychology.

But then in pandemic days,

I do an album,

A musical album about seven nocturnals for to fall asleep.

And I start to link the psychotic.

And then last year,

A friend of mine,

She was recording here a handpan.

And she told me about the Insight Timer app.

And I started searching.

And I understood me because I use this kind of meditate and sleep and for breathe.

But for me,

I use like I do it for myself.

Then it's amazing that now I can share that music with other people and grow together.

All of us need to grow.

And music the last 100 years is almost entertainment music and no music for to heal our body.

And then Insight Timer musicians do the body and the mind through the music.

Love that.

And I should add that I listen to everybody's music here.

You know,

Helps me relax and sleep and do a lot of other things.

Manuel,

We're going to move on to you.

Hi,

My name is Manuel Portillo.

You can find me on Insight Timer with that name.

I'm a musician,

A composer,

And a classic guitarist.

Back in 2020,

I jumped into the internet and began to compose and produce meditation music.

And it was funny because it was like a coincidence because we got the pandemic.

And at the same time,

I wanted to jump into the internet.

So I had like that little push that I needed.

And since then,

I've been focusing mainly on meditation music,

On sort of ambient music,

Instrumental music,

Sometimes even like cinematic kind of music.

And since then,

I've been in this journey of trying to find my my way to compose and produce music.

I feel like I'm very early in that journey because before that,

I was just playing guitar.

And something that I found very interesting was the same thing that Pablo said about music is usually seen as entertainment only,

But it has so many uses.

So that's the main thing that made me want to be on Insight Timer.

So here I am.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for being here.

Manuel,

Am I correct that you said you were from Mexico?

Yes.

Okay,

Because Grace asked and I wanted to make sure I had everybody right because I had Colombia,

Mexico,

Argentina.

What was the other one?

Was that it?

Okay.

What was that?

Well,

I suppose but I was born in New York.

But yes,

My my parents were born in Puerto Rico.

I've actually not been to Puerto Rico yet,

But I'm still fluent in Spanish.

And Judy,

You're next.

Thank you.

Well,

I learned to play the guitar when I was 15.

And I stopped playing when I got married at 21.

My life was not easy.

I just I went through not a great marriage.

And then I had kids.

And my first born son had a heart defect and died when he was five years old.

So I considered myself to be in survival mode for the next 18 years.

I was a survivor of grief,

But I would never say I had healed from it.

And I do believe it's a lifelong journey.

But in 2010,

I started working with a hypnotherapist and I wrote the story of my son's life and death.

It was so cathartic.

And after that,

I felt so much better.

I began to do things that I hadn't done before,

Like pick up my guitar again after 30 years of not playing.

And it was like a spiritual awakening.

So I wrote a book and I went to publish it.

And then I hired somebody to help me,

You know,

To promote it.

And she said,

You should do a meditation album with it.

So I had been recording my music with lyrics and everything.

And I worked on meditation music and created an album.

And it was found by Mattie Gerard at Insight Timer.

And I had no idea.

I thought it was spam.

But I ended up on Insight Timer in 2016,

And it's been the greatest joy.

I love to share my inspiration that there is hope.

I consider myself now to be healed.

The music that I create is just so healing for me personally.

And then when I share it with others,

It's like my son comes alive again.

He's living on in a different way.

I can't see him grow up.

He died in 1992,

But he lives on.

He's in almost every piece of my music.

So I'm there to encourage others in grief to know that there is hope,

That you can find a key or a way to let yourself feel joy again.

That's beautiful,

Judy.

You're such an inspiration.

And I want to also point out that Judy's son and myself share the same birthday,

Which I thought was amazing when I found that out.

I love that.

All right,

Melanie,

You can take it from here.

I'll be quiet now.

Well,

A couple of questions.

Hey.

My first memory was a musical memory.

And when I was three,

My mum used to sing in a church choir.

And I remember going along to a competition,

Sat and watched her sing.

And then she went home and forgot I was there.

But when she came back half an hour later,

I was still sitting there listening.

And I feel like music drips through my veins,

Like it's not a something that I do or learn.

It just is.

It's a being for me.

So it's always been there.

And I've been able to pick up and play anything that I get my hands on.

Although in saying that,

I do have to practice.

So I can like learn really fast,

About three years worth of playing in about a week.

And then after that,

I have to practice.

So I haven't mastered lots of it.

And now for me,

Music allows me to speak the voice of my soul and the voice of spirit.

So that's my journey.

And I'm 59.

So it's been quite long.

And that's me.

Yeah,

I'll go.

So my whole dad's side of the family is all musicians.

And I was actually named after my grandpa who died when I was five years old.

But he was this incredible musician.

And as I had said earlier,

I started violin when I was like three or four,

I think.

And music just weirdly became really easy to me.

And part of it was probably because I was just surrounded by musicians all the time.

So it was like always playing in our house.

And my dad was always playing and my dad was always harmonizing and,

You know,

Harmonizing,

Singing and putting me into the little jam sessions.

And so playing music kind of from the beginning was like learning to walk in a sense.

And I was just like,

You know,

Or like learning to say my first words.

And my musical journey has definitely had challenges.

I was a jazz student at one time,

And I always joke that if you want to kill your music spirit,

Go to a music school and get a degree in music.

I know that's not the case for everybody.

I know Pablo said he was a music student.

I know Blossom was as well.

But when I started,

It became hard when I started wrapping my self-worth into music,

Because before I was playing for fun.

And then I started thinking it was a reflection of my identity and my worth.

And that became complicated at that point.

But I was lucky enough to kind of grow up in a tribe of musicians.

So,

Yeah,

Very much a gift at that point,

You know,

From being little and being exposed to that.

Yeah,

There's always music in my house because my mom was a self-taught kind of opera style singer.

So ever since she was little,

She wanted to learn piano,

But her parents just didn't have the financial means to even buy her a keyboard.

Actually,

Back then there's no keyboard,

But they couldn't afford to buy her a piano.

So she made sure that,

You know,

As soon as I was able to walk,

I guess,

Maybe a few years after that,

She bought me a piano when I was four years old,

And I could barely reach the key.

I was standing with the,

Playing the keyboard like that on top of,

Above my head,

Kind of head level,

I guess.

So all my life I wanted to do music.

I guess it's because of mom and she's singing all the time,

And she's always wanted me to accompany her.

And she has no stage fright.

And anytime anyone says,

You know,

Sing,

And she would just get up and sing.

And I'm just the opposite.

I was dreading every moment of her wanting me to accompany her.

So anyway,

My dream was to go to Music Conservatory,

Which I did.

I did all the classical music.

And at one point I did want to learn jazz music.

And the only jazz book I found was blues and with blues,

Jazz blues music.

And there were so many notes in that music book.

I just never learned it.

And I ended up giving that book recently to Peter Brook,

Sorry,

Peter Brook in the chat.

So I hope she has better use for it.

So yeah,

There was no,

I don't think in my days there was any,

There was jazz,

Well at least not not in my city where I came from,

Where I was growing up.

There was no jazz music course,

So I couldn't do jazz.

So yeah,

So now I'm listening to jazz music all the time.

And and I try to fake playing jazz by adding a seventh note.

I think all of you musicians here know what I mean.

Having a seventh note makes everything sounds a little bit jazzy.

So yes,

That's why I'm here.

And that's the when and the how,

I guess.

Yeah,

Thank you.

I started my teenage years playing guitar because my sister,

I have a sister four years old,

Older than me.

She wanted to play guitar.

Then my father bought a guitar for her.

Then I started playing with her guitar.

And then I started to sitting in classes on guitar.

But then one day I listened in another room near a violin and I fell in love with that sound.

It was like transform all my body.

And I said,

OK,

I don't want,

I only want to have a violin in my life.

It was expensive in those days,

But I started earning money and then I bought the violin.

From there,

I play all around those years today.

But I started doing classical music in orchestra,

But I am very creative.

And the thing that I most like is compose.

Then in orchestra,

You are not a composer.

You are like a guy doing things that other person is telling you what to do.

Then I start,

I fall in love with Celtic music.

Then I start doing Celtic music.

I have a band that has 23 years.

The name is La Montaña Gris,

Like Grey Mountain.

But then it's not only Celtic music,

But music from around the world.

But I don't do the folk music,

But my interpretation of different folk styles.

For me,

I think it's like this natural drive and need for discovery.

Like my first memory of music is my mom singing a lullaby.

And I noticed that I always been changing from that.

I moved to video games to like video games music.

Then I wanted to play a classic guitar and I have a degree in classic music.

Then I was studying things about early music performance.

Then about these more contemporary music approaches.

Then about cinematic music,

Music for cinema,

Meditation music.

And I feel like I always driven by the need of finding something new.

If I'm not finding something new,

I get bored and I feel like I'm not doing anything with value.

So I'm always in this path of music,

Of discovery.

And yeah,

For me,

That's the thing that drives me since always,

I think the need to see new things.

Actually,

No,

My mother plays also guitar.

But for me,

I didn't want to say anything about my story in music because for me,

It was like I was in the classroom when I was 11.

And a friend told me,

He said,

Mati,

Learn to play a drum.

And I said,

Yes,

That is the beginning.

So it's not so poetic or like a deep story.

When you are a teenager,

You don't think a lot.

So I just say,

Yes,

I start to play drums.

But then I learned to a lot of instruments.

One day I found an old guitar,

The same guitar that I use in the Inside Timer Live session.

And that guitar is from my mother.

So I found that my mother was a great guitar player without knowing about it.

And then I have like a big family.

My grand grandparents,

They were like seven brothers,

Siblings.

And you can imagine that I have like 50,

Maybe more,

Cousins.

And I found that everyone in the family.

So I don't know in which way,

But at the end I was going to become a musician.

But I just learned music from myself all the time.

It's weird.

So that's my story.

It's not so crazy or something like that.

I just say yes to music.

And then I just learned keyboards,

Piano,

Bass.

I studied in the conservatory for three years.

I played flute and I tried to use all that instruments on the live music session.

That's my story.

So it's not for a book or something,

A movie.

It's just normal.

And then what keeps me going is my passion.

I think life with passion is life joy.

I love creating music.

Actually,

I should say I love growing my garden.

I call my songs my song garden,

And they're always growing and changing.

And I enjoy,

I spend many,

Many hours recording five layers of guitar.

All of it is unconventional.

I'm not really a trained musician.

I did in college study classical guitar,

But I don't remember most.

But I look forward to waking up every day,

Which is such a contrast to what I went through with grief.

And the feedback that I receive that I get from sharing the music that I love personally to create,

To give myself joy,

Just magnifies and pounds the purpose behind what I do.

And I hope to keep doing it for many more years.

That's what I live for.

I hate to say it,

But suffering actually is an incredible driver.

When I go through stints for my illness is really teaching me with a stick instead of a carrot.

I want to transmute that.

I want to create something from that place that feels so difficult and love myself from that place and love into another who might be able to find a little bit of change,

A little bit of being seen,

A little bit of overcoming their own challenge in that place.

The idea that somebody else could overcome with a little bit more love,

A little bit more insight,

A little bit more connection to the divine.

Wow.

That's a great thing.

Hi.

Yeah,

It's interesting because I'm listening to all of you and thinking,

I just have one thing that keeps me going.

And I know this is all written in the stars,

So I can't help it.

And that's the fact that I have a deep desire to follow spirit.

And so that's it for me.

I guess in the last maybe 55 years until I started having my more deep,

It was the passion of what I do.

I do a lot of teaching.

I do a lot of encouraging in my music.

I do a lot of showing people how to do music.

But more in the last five to 10 years,

It's been really allowing me to have that deeper connection.

So it feels like it's not what keeps me going as an artist.

It's like,

What's next?

That's how it feels for me.

And sometimes I don't know what it is.

And sometimes I'm walking on the beach and a song just goes doof.

And that's generally how I create now.

And I don't even want to say that it's me creating,

But that's I very rarely would just sit down to write a song,

Unless it's my kids stuff,

Which I do a lot of kids music as well,

Which I can't share lots about.

But yeah,

So that's for me.

I stand for my sacred journey now.

And so whatever comes,

Comes.

Yeah,

I just want to say that,

You know,

I started off loving music when I was little.

And then when I had the piano related trauma for 37 years,

I avoided piano altogether,

Because every time I looked at piano,

It just,

Piano equals trauma.

That was just how it worked.

I avoided it.

And I never knew that,

You know,

Something greater would bring me back to music.

And now music is,

Instead of being traumatic to me,

It's absolutely a healing journey.

So I've only gone back to playing piano since 2021.

When I,

No,

2020,

When I listened to Joseph Nemo's piano music here on Insight Timer.

So now healing,

Every time I play piano,

It's,

I'm in a deep meditation,

I mean,

Actually in deep meditation.

And it's,

It's just changed my life.

So that's how it keeps me going,

Because that's the one place that,

That gives me,

You know,

Joy and everything.

I just want to leave,

Read this quote that I learned recently,

Actually from Violet.

It says,

When you put something out into the world,

It's no longer yours.

So when I saw this quote,

I said to myself,

That's exactly it.

When I was called to go back to play music this time,

Music is not just for me,

It's for the world.

And because I'm a closet artist,

I don't perform anywhere.

I'm actually socially shy person.

So playing in my music studio for the world,

It's,

It's the only way to go for me.

So yeah,

So I'm so grateful to have this opportunity and to found Insight Timer.

And it's just been amazing.

So yeah,

Thank you very much for all my friends and supporters out there.

And for coming along on this journey with me.

Thank you so much.

I think human beings need three things for to be alive.

One is to breathe.

We don't have any,

The second one is to eat food.

And the third one is to sleep.

But I need a fourth one.

That is to make music.

For me,

I can't imagine a life without doing music.

And no,

And I am not talking about a study music or listen to music,

No,

For to make,

To make music.

If I don't make music,

I start to,

To feel like I am hungry,

You know,

Then for me,

It's like the heart of my life is that,

That music that like the food or for my soul.

Oh,

That's okay.

One of the things I was thinking about,

First of all,

By the way,

Going back to Judy's compare,

Where did Judy go?

Is she still on here?

The other Judy?

Oh yeah,

You're in the middle.

You're right below me.

Sorry,

On my screen.

I love the garden image.

That's super cool.

I've never heard of that before.

That's,

That's really amazing.

And talking about your songs being like plants,

You know,

Music invites me to be a kid again and,

And be a child,

Because I think some of the best creativity comes when you access your inner child.

And you know,

I was saying,

I made the comment earlier about how one way to kill your fun of music is like,

Go get an education in it or try to find a job in it.

And,

And what I mean by that is I think that the,

The,

The beauty of,

Of music often,

Especially for me,

Because when I was younger,

Because I was a pretty good musician,

I learned that I could get attention and affirmation from being a musician.

And it actually didn't help me as I was growing up,

Because it was kind of a false sense of like building my worth and identity.

And so now,

You know,

Now that I've kind of been through those years,

And I've given up the,

The thought of like,

You know,

I always had the dream of being famous.

I went to Nashville,

I did the whole Nashville thing.

I thought I was going to get signed.

I did,

You know,

All that kind of stuff.

And when I put that aside,

One of the things I just love about art in general,

But,

But music,

But being a musician is,

Is that opportunity to just play and,

And just like,

Allow yourself to just be full,

Fully human.

And so the invitation into that,

I just think music is such a gift,

A gift in that way.

That's all I want to say about that.

Yeah.

Tomás asked in the chat.

I started songwriting when I was six years old.

I remember singing a song to my mother,

And I was going,

Mommy is the best son in the whole world.

You know,

And I would sing these made up song.

I just wanted to add to what Rob said.

I didn't really complete the story about being a song garden.

I wrote all these songs when I was young.

So those were my seeds.

And now at this time in my life,

At the age of 64,

I am growing a garden full of seeds that I started when I was young.

And I think that's amazing.

I do,

It reminds me,

Remember there,

Oh,

The other Judy.

Yeah.

I remember my first song,

And it sounds like I'm on this theme,

And I wonder why,

But maybe that's just me.

But my first song was Jesus Loves Me,

And I sang it in a competition for a church competition.

I was very heavily involved with church for the first 30 years of my life.

I remember singing on stage in a big,

Massive hall,

And I was really confident.

And then as soon as I finished,

I ran down the stairs and hidden my mom's big red coat.

I still remember that.

And that kind of sums up me as my life.

You know,

I've got this on stage,

I'm really confident on stage,

I can do whatever.

But yet,

This part of me that just loves to dive into mystery and be quiet and still and allow everybody else to just go.

And I can be on my by myself for days.

And yeah,

So that's mine.

But I also realized that,

You know,

I've had so much music involved around the sacred,

Before I even knew,

Like this journey now.

So it just kind of reminded me about that with that memory.

So thanks.

I mean,

I love Okay,

So there's none of you for that.

Wow,

These are good questions tonight.

I'm not stumped.

I just don't want to keep talking so much.

But I definitely like the answer came to me immediately.

My favorite instrument of all time is the hammer dulcimer.

I have no idea how to play it.

I could never afford one.

They're like $10,

000.

But holy smokes,

If somebody could play the hammer dulcimer on inside timer,

That would be amazing.

Yeah.

Oh,

Well,

Ask or donate and say I'm gonna fund port.

So now when everyone lives the next live,

I want to make $10,

000.

Okay,

Guys.

So step it up.

Oops.

Oh,

No.

Okay,

I'm sorry.

I just love my acoustic guitar.

I bought it in 1984.

Because I just wasn't able to do music.

I was kind of busy with working as an artist.

That's my profession.

I was a commercial illustrator.

So I bought this great Irish guitar allowed in and it's just been in my closet for 18 years.

And then when I decided I had felt lighter and a friend said,

Do you ever play the guitar anymore?

I picked it up.

And it was like so painful.

I had no calluses.

But just it was like a spiritual moment and awakening.

So that same guitar it is my baby.

Yeah,

For me to the guitar is the acoustic guitar,

Not the electric one.

The acoustic guitar is an amazing instrument because I have I had a spiritual trip we can say with my guitar.

And after that,

I had like an amazing connection.

It's like when you play the guitar is connected to your body directly to your body.

So you can feel the sound.

It's not just to play.

It's just the connection that you have.

It's like you can have the guitar.

So in that way is you are connected directly connect with your with the sound with the vibration.

And I had once an amazing meditation with my guitar.

I just played my guitar and that way and I have like a just like a one second like a wow,

Enlightenment moment.

And I think that that actually I prefer like acoustic instrument.

I try to play acoustic instrument.

I have a piano here,

But it's an electric piano.

It's not the same.

It's like a synthetic.

So I just I try to play always guitar here on the side timer.

And I would like to I would like to buy the hand band.

But here is a little bit expensive.

In Argentina is like not a lot of people build that kind of instrument.

So you need like a special we say that's a French word for the people who build instruments.

But handpan will be like my dream.

I'm going to put it out there again.

I actually bought a lot of instruments with all the tips that I don't have the nation that I received from everyone.

So I I'm so grateful for that slowly,

Step by step.

So maybe the next one is the handpan.

I think that that question is like,

I could speak about that like the whole day,

Because every instrument is like a new world that can give you so many different things.

So in I can't choose really,

But if I have to choose something,

I will simply go with human voice,

Simply like so nuanced and powerful and with so much expressive range like is like huge.

And that's why I also love a lot of choirs and choirs are amazing because they can go everywhere.

Like if you are talking about film music,

Video games,

Spiritual music,

Obviously,

Religion,

Religious music,

The human voice in the choirs are like inherently what we are like our first instrument.

So,

Yeah,

I will go with a choir.

And if you donate,

I can hire a choir for my instant timer.

I've got to reply to that.

First up,

Yeah,

I'm I've just had got enough donations after a year to record a song.

But I was just thinking handpan is my is something I'd love.

So I'm going to go for that.

It's taken me a year to get enough for a song.

I think it would take about five years to get enough for handpan.

But hey,

We'll start somewhere.

But my my favorite is my piano.

It feels like I have a line in the song that says,

Let my fingers play the song of my soul.

And because I can really play piano well,

It's my play.

My dream is handpan.

And I would just say,

Don't worry about her.

And now I just cringe.

The question is,

I feel the same way.

I can't sing or play a musical instrument.

Someone asked me,

What would I learn?

And it was definitely the piano.

I love the piano.

When I was about 13,

My mom put me in a in a class to try and learn.

And I was horrible.

And I was like,

No,

I'm not doing this.

I'll just have to listen to the music that other people play.

I just want to say that musical instruments don't have to be the conventional musical instruments.

Go back to the days when you were a toddler,

You were banging on,

Sorry,

Not the word bang.

You were playing on pots and pans.

Those were music.

So anything can be turned into music.

You can use,

You know,

If you if you search the other elsewhere,

You'll see people playing on all sorts of things to make music.

So music is from your heart.

It doesn't as long as it comes from your heart and it makes a sound and has sound and silence for sure.

And that is music.

So yeah,

Don't restrict yourself as to you have to play a musical instrument as long as you enjoy it and it comes from your heart.

The instrument,

It doesn't have to be a musical instrument.

It can be anything.

Actually talking about that,

I saw a video of an orchestra and the main performance had a few buckets of water and she was using her hands.

She's and she was seriously,

This is a serious video I saw.

She used her hands and tap on the water.

There was water flying everywhere.

And there was must be a few microphones and she was making music from playing using her hands on the water.

So if she can do that on the stage with an orchestra,

We can do we can do anything.

So go for it.

I'm encouraging each one of you to play your own music from your heart.

And Pablo,

The question.

I think,

Yes,

Everyone,

Because music is as diverse as people and you don't have,

As Blossom said,

You don't have to play an instrument like in the traditional way or you can play any instrument you want in any way you want.

Like I learned to play guitar and now I am learning to how to make music,

Music in a computer using samples.

I recently read this book called Wellness Well Played.

I recommend that book and it has very interesting ideas about curating a playlist for your wellness.

And it has a very interesting idea about music expression.

She says that even if you are only curating music,

Just the fact that you are curating something is a form of your voice,

Your expression,

You put it out there in the world.

So I think that music expression is not limited to music instruments.

And so,

Yeah,

I think music abilities is like a natural virtue of the human being.

I think Blossom and Manuel really said it well.

I couldn't say it any better than they did.

So I want to emphasize that and hope everyone takes that in.

Me,

For example,

I grew up in a punk rock band.

That was the instrumentation that I knew,

Which anyone who's into music knows that's very rudimentary.

So when I wanted to make meditation music,

I learned Ableton and other software devices in order to take what's in my heart and mind and somehow compose it in some way.

So I consider myself a music hack more than these beautiful professionals and well-practiced individuals that are surrounding me in this group.

So I'd say if you've got a song in your heart,

If you can look at music as everything that kind of sings to you in a unique way,

And if you can find some kind of joy,

Love,

Peace,

Excitement,

Whatever emotional charge in it,

Then by all means.

For me,

The answer is absolutely yes,

Because I think it's impossible to be a human being without music.

You know what I mean?

To walk is to do music.

To talk is to do music.

When you are eating,

You are making music.

Everything is music around us.

We are music.

The heart,

We have,

All of us have a drum in the middle of the chest that is,

Then the day when we die is because the music finishes.

You know,

The music of the heart finishes.

Then everything is music.

To breathe is to do music.

You need a rhythm to breathe.

Everything is music.

Now,

To play an instrument,

The only thing that you need to do is to practice a lot,

Because it's a thing you need to practice.

It's the only difference for it to be a natural musician than a musician that plays an instrument,

The practice.

And in these days,

As Manuela and Corey says,

In the past,

You need to have like too much skills with your hands and with your brain and with your legs.

But now with the computer,

All the days you need less hands for to do music with a computer,

With Ableton Live.

You can do a lot of things that in the past it was impossible.

I can do my own symphonic orchestra in my house.

That in the past was impossible to do.

Then each day is more easy for musicians without to practice two hours or four hours a day because of the computers.

Then please be among everyone.

Hey Pablo,

This question is for you right now.

Sorry,

What was the question?

Are you married or do you have a partner?

No,

I finished a relationship in March this year.

Oh,

There you go,

Everybody.

I had a girlfriend for five years,

But we broke up.

I am in love with music.

Music is my wife.

Well,

I think all that passion is igniting a sight timer.

I agree.

BD has a good point there.

I'm going to have to do a dating version of Ask Your Guides.

Does anybody answer that question?

Everybody's laughing,

Crying right now.

Yes.

Well,

This has been a wrap up.

Now,

A lot of people are aware that they know the best way to support you.

But other than that,

What do you want?

Do I have to call on someone?

Let's call on you.

I didn't mean I had to go first.

I was just saying,

Yeah,

You better call us.

I'm Judy Cranston,

Soul rocker on Insight Timer,

And I do most of my work on live organics.

So please come and check me out.

But I do have a few songs up there,

Including a song that Blossom,

What's the word,

Inspired me to do,

Which is called Blessing.

So it's a blessing song.

And if you've only got two minutes,

Then go check that out and allow your soul and your life and your everything.

I listen to Judy's blessings every morning.

Thank you so much,

Judy.

Every morning,

I don't turn on my phone straight away,

But when I do,

To do my meditation,

And I listen to that song and yeah,

It lifts me up.

Thank you so much,

Judy.

Yeah,

Everyone,

You can find me on Blossom Violet.

I go live this Tuesday,

Which is Monday for most of you at nine o'clock,

And I play the piano.

And I'm also going to talk a little bit about what I know about return rate.

So if you don't know already,

Have a search,

Insight Timer.

You can search the word Insight Timer return rate,

And that's how you can help many of us teachers.

And please support us and share the links.

And yeah,

I'll go into more details during my life again.

I'll repeat that.

So what's the question?

Oh,

Yeah,

You can follow me,

Blossom Violet.

So I've mostly piano music for now,

But I'm trying going to try other things.

So I won't say what it is until I know I can do it.

So thank you very much for your support.

And thank you,

Violet,

Melody,

And everyone here.

Okay,

You can follow me as Pablo Villegas.

I have one course about a musical breathing technique that is a technique that I developed.

I don't want to practice breathing,

Counting,

Or thinking in an app with a triangle.

But recently I did a course to do that.

And now I am finishing a course about the different techniques for to sleep.

Then being tuned is like in two weeks the different techniques that I know about how to sleep.

But the idea of the course is that you discover your own technique or the technique that fits more.

Thank you,

Violet and Melanie and all you teachers for the meeting.

Amazing.

Thank you so much.

And I hope you want to raise your vibration and gain that perspective on whatever it is in life that you're contending with.

May that be a chronic illness.

May that be just your state of meditation and you want to change your state,

Get some relief,

Find better sleep,

Etc.

Find me,

Corley Davis.

And yeah,

Thank you both.

And thank you all for having us.

It's really a beautiful thing to to share our love for music.

So,

Yeah,

I can't get over the fact that nobody asked if I'm single or married.

And is it just because I sound like a dumb American because I don't have like this awesome accent?

I mean,

I'm hurt.

That's all I have to say.

No,

I'm just kidding.

Um,

No,

I you can find.

So,

Um,

A few things.

One,

I'm the I'm like the one man band guy.

I know there's other people doing looping and stuff like that,

But I'm the guy who has like a green screen behind me and all that stuff.

If you if you have come across my lives,

I get a lot of people who reach out to me about like using technology and stuff like that.

And I'm totally happy to help blossom.

Viola is one of them.

And her and I've become friends through that.

But I've also on here,

I've also shared a lot of my story of being an ex pastor and struggling with mental health issues.

And so I've helped people a lot with that.

Basically,

My point is,

Is I use inside timer is like a service oriented thing.

So reach out on my profile.

You can go to my links in my profile.

And yeah,

Just happy to help anybody and hurt that nobody is curious if I'm single.

Okay,

Bye.

Well,

Everyone can find me as Mattia Borrasini.

Now I'm putting more energy on the live music session.

I like to compose like ambient music.

I sometimes I compose just drums,

Music or something like that.

I have a small drum here.

So I compose everything with this.

And the idea is,

I don't know,

When I feel inspired about any kind of energy,

I try to put all that in the music.

So sometimes I don't know what I'm doing.

I just flow.

I think that's the idea at the end.

And I usually plays play on Friday,

6pm for me,

But I don't know,

United States,

More or less one hour of difference.

But yeah,

It's just that I just play every Friday.

So next Friday,

I will try to come back.

So today,

I just I say,

Okay,

I'm going to be in this meeting.

So I cannot play,

I will do everything fast,

But say no,

Because so yeah,

You can find me as Mattia Borrasini.

And I just want to say thank you to all of you and all the people on the chat because the energy that all the beautiful energy that I receive is amazing.

So it's made me feel that I'm doing the right thing.

So just thank you.

I am in love with my acoustic guitar.

And I have 52 songs,

Which could be a full deck or one for every week of the year.

They all have lyrics,

And I enjoy recording them.

And I have been sharing them as tracks,

Mostly on premium tracks,

Medleys of each song.

But most of my popular music on Insight Timer is instrumental.

But the feeling comes across when I compose a song.

If it makes me cry,

Then I know it has a healing property.

I love my lives because I do get to sing.

I don't consider myself an A plus singer.

But I definitely sing from my heart and the love that I receive in the community.

It's like family live for my life.

So I love having Blossom at my lives.

She's been a regular for many years now.

And it's been fun watching her.

So I love Insight Timer.

And if you are interested,

I have a lot of acoustic guitar.

And again,

There's a lot of meaning with my songs.

I have three courses about them.

Thank you,

Everyone.

Oh,

I just want to say that,

Judy Unger,

You inspire me so much.

I connected with Judy because as soon as I heard that she hadn't touched her guitar and do music for so many years,

I knew I had to contact her because my,

You know,

History or journey was similar.

I hadn't played the piano for 37 years.

So I had to get in touch with her and we've become friends.

And she's continued to inspire me.

And same with many of you musicians on the panel here.

And thank you all.

Thank you all for your music,

For lighting our hearts up.

So thank you,

Everyone.

Thank you.

You can find me as Manuel Portillo on Insight Timer.

And I make music of very like ambiental music,

Like ambient music with no lyrics.

It's like a musical landscape.

And I try to make my music with this kind of vibes,

Like very calming and grounding and lifting.

So that's the music that I have on Insight Timer.

And feel free to reach me out and ask a question or a complaint or whatever you feel like.

I would like to be able to share or teach a bit more about music appreciation.

But I also need a bit of feedback of what people around me are curious about.

So I would love if you reach out and talk about that.

And thank you so much for having me.

It was a pleasure.

And I was a little bit nervous because I'm very shy,

But I feel very comfortable with you all.

So thank you.

Thank you for being here.

I love hearing that because believe it or not,

I'm very shy too.

So I,

When I hear other people say that,

It makes me,

It makes me happy because this has broken me out of my shell.

Who are we up to now?

Did we get everybody?

We did.

We got everybody.

Oh,

Okay.

Awesome.

I wasn't sure if there was anybody left.

So thank you everybody for being here.

This has been amazing.

Thank you all you musicians for everything that you give to us.

I,

For one,

Love everybody's music.

I've listened to a little from everybody and,

You know,

I play these tracks at night to sleep.

I play them in the morning during the day while I'm working.

So it's been a real honor for me to have all of you here and such an honor when I ask,

You know,

People,

If they will join us,

How the support,

You know,

How willing they are to give of their time,

Even at the last minute.

So thank you everybody.

Please be sure to follow our amazing musicians.

As I said,

A million times,

Their links are in my teacher's profile.

I make sure I put them in before we start this live since unfortunately we have no way of doing that through insight timer.

So if you click on my link,

You will find the link that says my link trees in there.

And then it says,

You know,

Follow the teachers and anyone who's here now or has been on any of the ask your guides will always appear through there.

So please continue to follow them.

Thank you everybody for being with us.

And I'm excited.

I see Elizabeth saying she can't wait to hear all the music.

I'm excited that,

You know,

This is exposing you to new musicians because there's so much to offer on insight timer.

Hey,

Jill.

So nice to see you.

All right.

So with that,

Unless anybody has anything they want to add,

We are going to end the life as much as it pains me to do so.

So thank you again.

And we'll see you again soon.

Thank you.

Thanks guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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