Practitioners
We are husband and wife co-inspirators, who bring people together in a dream circle to heal through sound, acupuncture and love. The space and how we create it as a couple has been described as "safe," "nurturing," "loving," and "resourcefully meditative." Many have gone home awakening to profound creativity. Others feel they have gone to the depths of their being where peace rests, and were able to live there for days to follow.
ANNA: The Path of the Spirit Farmer
My first, most vivid, most fond memory was when I was 3 years old living in Forest Knolls, CA. I walked out the back door to what felt like a forest to me at the time. With each step I looked at the plant before me, checking under its leaf for spittle bugs' frothy home, squishing snowberries between my fingers, opening wild prickly cucumber pods to roll the brown slick seeds in my hands. I nibbled on minor's lettuce, chickweed, and nasturtium flowers, and picked some to bring home for dinner's salad. This memory has guided me through my life to be an herbalist, to UCLA, to Ten Women Artists Co-op, to Yo San University, Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to Susun Weed, to Well Women Acupuncture, to my friends, my husband, my children and to my garden and to a return to spirit farmer, the child that knew that plants could heal. I am an acupuncturist and herbalist; I tilled the soil in my own body to bear fruit. It is my life's work to show others how to nourish their soil so that it may be fertile to bear the fruit that nourishes them. I am acutely aware that we are all microcosms of the earth, each living thing containing its own temperature, temperament, moisture or dryness, all containing the potential to balance another. Everything around us is an offering for healing.
ANDJRU
I began my exploration into sound and music as therapy with didjeridu's in 1996. I was invited to play didjeridu at a summer day camp for children from unstable families. When I was packed and ready to go, a couple of the counselors came to me and stated quite frankly that they have never seen these children so happy, as a result of me playing.From that point on, I came to recognize the therapeutic affect that sound from this instrument and how I played it had on the body and spirit.
During my 3-year journey to Australia and New Zealand, I developed a music and dance program for children and adults of all ages called In-Didj-In-Us Kids, and also did profound sound therapy with the didjeridu on special needs clients as well as pain management and acceptance processing on cancer patients. As my experience and education developed with sound therapy, I also realized the importance of movement as being an important factor for healing so I was drawn to playing didjeridu as musical accompaniment in bands. I've since recorded and played with RaRa Avis; Craig Kohland and Shamans Dream; Shannon Terry and The Open Door Orchestra; Suzanne Teng and Mystic Journey; and Jacqueline Fuentes. I currently have a trio called The Breathe Deeplies.
I've taught my music and dance program in schools throughout Los Angeles and currently teach at New Roads Middle School and Malibu Methodist Nursery School. In the works is a CD composed of therapeutic healing frequencies of the didjeridu for National Association For Child Development (NACD). With a deep respect for Aboriginal Australia and all indigenous cultures on the planet, I am excited to share this modality of healing.
