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Meditation CDs are ready!
By Cornelia Powell | December 27, 2007
Both of my meditation CDs are being shipped — my first online products! OPEN YOUR HEART Meditations for Brides and OPEN YOUR HEART Meditations for Women.
Each CD is a series of three guided meditations inspired by the “Take a Breather” column in my online magazine, Weddings of Grace….each meditation and relaxing exercise is accompanied by divinely-guided music.
The story of how the CD recordings all came about is a lovely bit of serendipity that I think you’ll enjoy:
I met Daniel Sperry—a man of creative ideas and immense musical talent—while I was writing a script with the idea of recording a meditation CD for brides. When he learned I was planning a trip to Ashland, Oregon (where he lives), he suggested a collaboration of sorts, like a performance piece: he would play the cello and a friend play the keyboards while I read the guided meditation.
However, there was a bit of chaos prior to the magic! Three weeks before the recording date, someone stepped on Daniel’s prized cello after a practice session, breaking its neck. Then the keyboard player was not available at the last minute.
But Ashland is not only a collective of magicians of the spirit, but magicians of musical instruments as well! Daniel found a master restorer just down the street—who repaired the cello just in the nick of time—and then was guided to the musical wizard, Richard Raven Williams, who also had a studio we could use.
Richard plays a variety of Japanese flutes and exotic Middle Eastern string instruments. His light-filled studio, Lightsound Recordings, is nestled in the Ashland high desert countryside near Eden Farms; a peaceful place where mistreated and sick horses are taken to be tended to and loved. It made a serene, healing environment to work and a glorious collaboration indeed happened! Daniel and Richard’s improvised and heart-infused music created a heavenly background to my readings.
I can’t wait to see what you think!
-Cornelia
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