🍃 THE STORY OF THE SONG

The first verses and chorus of this song first landed in 2012 yet over the following years, I somehow couldn't somehow complete it, despite several attempts.

It wasn't until I was offered the great gift and blessing of staying in an off-grid roundhouse in West Wales in the summer of 2022 that it resolved. Finally clearing my head of all the static, this song and another both dropped in effortlessly from the ether.

That was the moment it became clear I needed to move to live off grid in West Wales... I 100% wrote this song for me... and it has been persistent medicine over the years reminding me again and again when I catch myself unconsciously speeding up...

Vaishnavi’s mesmerising, pure voice has been described as “a flute that the Divine uses to carry heart-penetrating beauty.”

Vaishnavi is one half of sacred mantra duo EARTH (www.earthmantra.net) and this is her first solo release. She only began singing when she turned 30 and found her voice through connecting with the Bhakti path of devotion.

This song was received in 2008 whilst she was living on the roof of a Kali Temple in South India. “I had begun a daily practice of journalling my gratitude for one thing each day. On about day three, I chose ’trees’. I began writing words and this song just flowed out, fully formed. I truly believe it came from the trees themselves.”

It wasn’t until 2017 that the song was finally recorded - and it seemed to be very much the right time. “I had spent 2 months living completely Off-Grid, without even solar or wind power, in a Hobbitty roundhouse deep in the Welsh woods. I began to feel the trees imploring me to release this song out into the world.”

“She sings like an angel, touching hearts at a deep devotional level.” Chloe Goodchild

it is a song of the heart… the words and your voice carry the soul’s longing and truth” Jerome Flynn

“serious all over goosebump-making music”

“a beautiful voice that  has powerful healing energy that penetrates into your body and gets directly into your heart! That’s  my experience!”

“Pure Sattva”

“her voice is captivating in a way I have never heard”

“Only one who has braved the journey of transformation can spread the sweetness of its trials”

“a real gift for evoking the divine in your singing”

“Her voice is mesmerizing!!! It reaches your heart and fills it with affection, peace and love. It is a magical experience hearing this enchanting soul sing! I am spellbound!!!”

A slow-build kirtan building into a wild violin and cajon rock-out.

Vaishnavi first dropped into mantra through training as a Kundalini Yoga teacher in 1999 and connected deeply with the bhakti (devotional) tradition through meeting Amma in 2005. Immersing deeply in the practice for a number of years while living in a large Indian ashram, she was privileged to be one of the few Westerners to lead kirtan in the Temple.

Vaishnavi holds sacred songbaths, shares kirtan and offers one-to-ones, workshops and retreats in kirtan, sacred sound and voicework. She loves collaboration and, as well as being one half of sacred mantra duo EARTH with Amy Bisazza, she regularly chants with other like-hearted bhaktas and yogis.

www.at-om.com & www.earthmantra.net

Maha Mata draws on different traditions to support the birthing process, be it for a child, a creative project, a new venture or planting seeds for great dreams.
“Maha Mata”, the Great Mother, the Divine Mother, the creative life force that we are all a part of - and that resides within each of us - is awakened through these sacred words. These mantras are prayers for profound protection, healing and strength, supporting the feminine powers of intuition and creation to blossom and flourish.