Maria Kim Grand

Here is the section for musings.

You will receive 2+ essays a month.

Topics include:

Music, history of music, sociopolitical events that shape music, environmental influences on music (i.e. urban vs rural landscapes, etc)

Health and self-healing philosophies (German new medicine, the paradigm of control in our medicine, and my personal experience abandoning this paradigm and healing chronic issues using alternative medicine)

Astrology/astronomy (such as the current influence of Jupiter on our planet; transpersonal vs personal planets, etc)

SoliLunar practices, which is my method for ordering my creative practice

Emotional issues and their effect on our creativity

Nature, childhood, politics, etc

On New Moons, we gather (on zoom and in person when possible) and spend two hours on abstract topics. These include:

• the emotional blocks that prevent you from being creative

• the beliefs you subconsciously hold about your own worth and how this translates into decisions you make about your work, your art, your money, and your relationships

• practical tools to keep from dissociating and seek more pleasure in your creative process such as dream work, opening/closing the space, working with the vagus nerve, neurolinguistics, strengthening the instinct, visualization, recentering yourself in relationships

On Full Moons, we gather (on zoom/in person) and spend two hours on technical topics. These include:

• transcribing (ex. Bud Powell, the use of turns, the use of rhythmic dancing)

• playing in any time span

• the difference between rhythm and time-span

• studying intervals + compounded sounds

• analyzing songs by contemporary and early composers

• using my SoliLunar methods, with coins, the zodiac, the moon cycles, the endocrine centers of the body to inform your creative practice

You will also have access to the essays I write and the library of live recordings/practice.