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‘The Echoes of Stars’-original song/video

Dear friends,

Following my previous post, I have needed to retreat in my cave and tune into all the grief and losses I have experienced this last year so that I could truly witness, acknowledge and honour the feelings with an open heart and find a way of moving forward.

So yes I have felt deeply and it was overwhelming at times. However, this process has allowed me to tap into even more gratitude for what is and more awe for the life that has been given to me. To feel loss means we have connected deeply. To accept what cannot be changed means we are neither fighting ourselves or the universe – which is such extremely liberating, to say the least !

So here in my cave, there were moments of inertia and feelings of drowning but also moments of revelation and light.

Today I want to share my song ‘The Echoes of Stars’ that I posted a couple weeks ago on my youtube channel. I had so much fun making this video. I hope you enjoy to too.


“Come and dance with me
Swirl, fire burn,
Echoes of dreams calling, calling, calling
Fields of gold growing
Then the dance…

Trust the space inside
Swirl, fire burn
Echoes of stars falling, falling , falling
Fields of gold glowing
Then the dance…

Melt the fences defences
Swirl, fire burn
Echoes of freedom soaring, soaring, soaring
Fields of gold flowing
Then the dance…”

So will you come and dance with me?….

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Grief, My Faithful Friend

Grief, My Faithful Friend, I bow to you

November’s magical full moon looking after us …

The power of grief strikes in mysterious ways.

Deep sadness and longing.

Connection and separation.

Emptiness.

Layer upon layer

Undressing our concepts of reality,

Repainting the limits of  pre-established horizons.

The veil grows thinner and thicker, thicker and thinner

as the winds of change caress our soul.

Our heartbeat aches for a whisper, a hand, a laughter no longer here.

As I slip into the velvet feeling of your presence and existence,

The sweet scent of a golden memory

Catches my spirit and brings me back to the ‘no beginnings, no ends’.

Time stops and stretches simultaneously.

And I know,

I know that I am but a keeper of the eternal flame.

– with deepest love and gratitude for you Karen, beautiful friend and fellow seeker… I am beyond blessed to have shared some of this earthly journey with you. Shine bright star, shine…

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‘Flow, Feel, Fly’ – original song video & more!

So….

I survived my first official dislike on youtube! Hurray !!!

And you know what, it wasn’t that bad. It was quite funny actually to observe myself and see how my brain was trying to make sense of this small ‘INconvenience’!

Going through the full spectrum of thoughts in just a few seconds:

-Shock : ‘Oh NOOOO someone must really hate my song and video so much that they go to the trouble of pushing the dislike button…”

-Self criticism: “You must be shit at this Natacha, definitely not good enough… Who do you think you are posting stuff on here?” Etc…

-Disbelief/attempt to feel OK about it: “Hang on a minute, someone must have pushed that dislike button by mistake while trying to push the like button on the small screen of their phone. That would explain it.”

-Looking for whys: “They probably have issues, childhood traumas blablabla…”

But really… what it comes down to is: Someone just didn’t like what I created. And so what!?

I am relieved I could genuinely witness myself and laugh at the whole thing. I now know at a deeper level that fear will not stop me from showing up and that I will never compromise on being myself no matter what people think – which you have to admit is a pretty big revelation for such a small ‘thumb down’?

This gives me hope and wings for the future. The truth is, when you put yourself out there, you are going to push people’s buttons, you are going to be disliked. And that is totally fine.

I am happy that the reasons why you would go and judge someone else’s creation with negativity are beyond me and that I would rather put my energy into creating something, supporting someone’s gifts than putting someone else’s offerings down. Unfortunately there is a lot of this destructive kind of behaviour (to much bigger degrees) in this world.  Because let’s face it, as people, we can be a bit screwed up.

But what I do know is that there are more kind, caring, supportive people than the ones who will spend their time judging and criticising your brave creative input in this world.

So here is THE song video.

You can read the lyrics and more about the song and video once you click on it – and see the text below the video on youtube ;o)

What are you going to put out into this wild world today?

With much love, as always

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Dare My Dear

Dare  my dear –

Dare to be

Dare to feel

Dare to show up

Dare to connect

Dare to fall

Dare to commit

Dare to reach out

Dare to allow

Dare to expand

Dare to shine

Dare to shake

Dare to dance

Dare to scream

Dare to be wild and howl.

Dare to embrace the path that is in tune with your soul’s calling and heart .

You can do this.

You are never alone and always guided.

 

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‘Rock with Me’ – Original Song video

I am really excited to announce that I will be more present on this blog very soon. Many seeds have been planted and projects are emerging which I will tell you about in my next post.

In the meantime I have a song video I posted on youtube a few weeks ago which I haven’t shared with you here and want to share with you now :O) So here it is. With much love always ????

Original song and video by Natacha Dauphin with medicine drum, Tibetan bowl and voice.
Grief takes you to strange places – some difficult places, some beautiful places. This summer I played my drum until its soothing heart beat reached mine and brought me comfort. I felt my dear friend Keith by my side and inside my own heart. And this song came – with this phrase over and over again “Rock with Me…”
…. I rocked until the tears stopped flowing.
The footage is a big mixture of clips I have taken over the last few months. The gnome sculpture from a garden in Gloucestershire, umbrellas in Coppergate in York, the High Force waterfall in the Dales, the candle from a Diwali Festival, me on the swing in the middle of nowhere on a walk in the Dales (Thank you to Jonathan Tapp for filming this one), The Tree full of ribbons and colourful pieces of cloth in Lithuania.
Writing on a bench in Rowntree park in York (Thank you Jeanne Chanet Garcia for filming this one)

“Rock with me
‘Till our loving tears are set free
Rock with me
‘Til you feel my heart in yours beat
Rock with me
For as long as you need
Rock with me
I am gone but I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I’m holding you tight
Lifting you up – higher
Into all forms of being
I’m holding you tight
Holding you tight
Deeper
Separation’s far from real
Hear me
I am with you, always
I will never leave
I am with you, always
I will never leave
Rock with me
Through those dreary days and rough sea
Rock with me
‘Til you feel my spirit laugh and be
Rock with me
For as long as you need
Rock with me
I am gone but I will never leave
I am with you always
I will never leave
I am with you always
I will never leave
I’m holding you tight
Lifting you up
Holding you tight…”

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‘Twisted Reality’ – Original song/video

Distortions….

They carry on their journey as if they were kings and queens ruling the world – and yet there is nothing royal or noble about them. They simply live absorbed in themselves and prisoners of their own created image and cage.

The mist can be thick, the fog suffocating and yet the piercing eyes of the heart will break through any illusion, any “twisted reality”.

I invite you to look beyond the veil – both within and around you.

Notice what emerges, what just is. Resist the temptation to grip, to judge, to fix. Simply allow the dance of all that is to find its own rhythm, its own flow. Allow yourself to be blessed by the power of movement and the grace of stillness.

I invite you to enter your sacred temple of darkness and light. It is filled with colours.

Yes darkness and light share the same house and have made it a rainbow HOME. They are not at war; they have never been. They are simply in love.

Start putting an end to the wars inside you by no longer supplying the weapons… Breathe, feel the ecstasy of full presence and openness in this very moment. It all starts here, now.

Rise from the truth of your being into the sacred flame of the universe.

You are made of magic. Truly.

 

“Turn down the light
Switch off the radio,
Give up the fight,
Soften, surrender, let go

Twisted reality
Finding new ways to be
Amongst the flowers
Amongst the weeds
Amongst the wasted seeds

My fire burns on
Stronger today
Winds in my sails

Twisted reality
Finding new ways to be
Amongst the flowers
Amongst the weeds
Amongst the wasted seeds

My fire burns on
Stronger today
Winds in my sails

That dreadful morning
When all grew still and quiet
I should have given up
Instead I chose to rise

Between the shadows
Between what’s left and gone
I could have given up
Instead I chose to rise

Twisted reality
Finding new ways to be
Amongst the flowers
Amongst the weeds
Amongst the wasted seeds

My fire burns on
Stronger today
Winds in my sails”

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‘The Spirits Are Calling Now’ – Original song/video

The drums called me home a while back. They whispered, sang, howled, and beat until I listened. I don’t know where home is but I do know that there, there is a drum. A drum beating to the rhythm of my own heart, to the rhythm of the earth, to the light of the stars, to the dance of the whole universe.

My original song and video  ‘The Spirits Are Calling Now’ to share the journey with you. (Most of the footage I filmed in Lithuania while making my medicine/shamanic drum)

“Do da han de du dan do…

Buried
Within the womb of the world
Carried
Most precious jewel – a hidden pearl

Rising from the deep well
Rising within each cell, Hmmm

Deep
Within the bones
Within the stones
Present with every breath
With every death

The spirits are rising now
The spirits are calling now, Hmmm

Do da han de du dan do…”

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‘Des Pluies d’Anges’ – original song/video

Je suis super contente d’enfin publier une de mes chansons en français sur ma chaîne youtube.
I am super excited to post a song in French on my youtube channel ;o)
The literal translation is ‘Rains of Angels’. The song first came to me with many nonsense words; a few of which I have kept. I didn’t mean it to be a song about Mandela but somehow his presence found its way in so I welcomed it :O)
Footage is from Whitby (stones, see water, rocks, cliffs), the clouds are from the plane over France, the tree roots and lake in Bauduen, France, the moon in Aups, the green bits from the little lake in Rowntree’s park in York. I am singing and playing in our front room in York!!!

“E namana kolo, e namana kolo, e nama kolo

Je viens du ciel, du désert
Je viens d’où tout est mystère
Je viens des entrailles de la terre

De pluies d’anges
De forêts de grand-pères
D’une lune qui change
De forêts de grand-mères

Ah Mandela, ah Mande….

D’une poussière d’étoiles
D’un rayon de soleil
D’une étincelle d’histoire
D’un brin de lumière

Ou di anda….

Je viens du ciel, du désert
Je viens d’où tout est mystère
Je viens des entrailles de la terre”

Translation:

” I come from the sky, I come from the desert
I come from where all is mystery
I come from the bowels of the earth

I come from rains of angels
From the forests of grand fathers and grandmothers
From a moon that ever changes

I come from star dust
From a ray of sun
from a spark of history
from a glimpse go light….”

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‘Was this Gold?’ – original song/video

I realize I haven’t shared this song and video here last month so here it is…. Hope you like it ;o)

I took these clips in France, India and Yorkshire – England and wove them together for this one! Recorded the song standing in the bathtub in order to get the mosaic behind me ;o)!!!

“Was this gold?
Was this a lie?
When you stole
Right from the devil’s eye
And you wept ’til the river went dry
And you slept ’til the fire grew too high
Was this gold?
Was this a lie?
When you sold
What was really mine
And I wept ’til the river went dry
And I slept ’til the fire grew too high
Did it satisfy your soul?
Did you reap what you had sowed?
I don’t care what they say
From today I’m living the nomadic way
Follow where my heart goes
Follow where soul grows
Follow where my dance flows
Follow, follow, follow
Was this gold?
Was this a lie?
When you stole
Right from the devil’s eye –

Emerging from the flames
As a true seeker with no name
Body, heart and spirit
I leap into the wild game
Untamed…”

 

 

 

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‘The Mountain’s Guest’ (original song/video)

There are times in your life when you feel you have so much to say and yet nothing to say – almost as if you had reached a bit more of the essence of what is and therefore have no words to describe it. I guess this illustrates in its own way the awesome and uncanny ambiguity of being a human being.

I have come to the conclusion that I am fiercely independent – with a twist! ;o) I love people but I love to spend time on my own. I cannot exist without the other but I cannot exist without myself, first and foremost.

I believe that ignoring our relationship with ourselves is the root of many ailments and destructive behaviours. While falling asleep to ourselves we seek something that can never be found outside ourselves and lose the connection to our own true nature, source, wisdom and guidance.

I am deeply grateful for the ability to be with myself without the need to escape. I am deeply grateful for the knowing that without attending my fire, my wounds,  my beating heart, I only seek outside myself what is so abundant inside; and that this invariably leads to feelings of lack and emptiness. I am deeply grateful for the unlimited gifts of life that present themselves in all shapes and forms.

From the joyful fountain of self acceptance and true reverence for life, there is nothing in the whole universe that can remain unexplored.

“I am the mountain, holy and free…”

And so are you ?

“I howled so loud

To break all these chains

I prayed and I vowed

To let go of the pain.

I feel you sister

Growing inside me

Together we shimmer

With the stars we are free.

’cause right in my chest

A mountain rests

Strong and holy

I’m forever her guest.

I am the mountain

Holy and free

Holy and free

Holy and free.”

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