Rose Sounds - July News From Katie Rose
July is the fullness of summer - flowers blooming, sun at high tide, long campfire evenings.  We have passed through the Solstice Gateway and may be feeling a little stretched in all directions by the recent astrological Grand Cross. The Cross, ancient symbol which forms the structure of medicine wheels and returns us to the Great Tree, reminds us that we are whole beings formed of earth, air, fire and water.  We are fluid beings who can dance to the north, south, east and west.  We are vibrations, resonating through tears, laughter, songs and words.  We are this and yet we are not this.  We are all of it and none of it.  We are absolutely in it and completely beyond it. We are impacted by everything that happens to everyone whilst being also precisely individuated.  So when the waters of the world are polluted, our tears taste oily; when we sing for the creatures of the sea, the vibrations are heard and felt.  We are intimately detached from all that occurs.
The trick is to allow and experience all directions, sensations, emotions, creations, recognitions fully whilst not crucifying ourselves.. or each other!!?
Wherever in the stretch you are, I wish you the ongoing discovery of your innate preciousness as you find your place in the sea of stars, forming and re-forming constellations with those who shine around you.

June has been an exquisite month.  It's very exciting to have released an EP of folk music, fol-de-rose, quite by accident.  A track is featured on the wonderful free fROOTS July Podcast - http://www.frootsmag.com/radio/playlists/10/07/
I had an absolutely wonderful time singing for the trees at the Tree of Life Festival - beautifully held by Joginda and Marketa - check their events out at:  www.treeoflifemagazine.com.
I'm looking forward very much to returning to the magical city of  Istanbul this month, an experience which always touches my heart, sparks my imagination and ransacks my soul to reveal new treasure.
I also invite you to come and celebrate your inner Lion and my birthday in the Garden of Roses this month, it's going to be a truly huge-hearted event - so do be outrageous and wear a pink wig :)
There's all sort of wonderful events this month including the Tibet Festival in the Park to celebrate the Dalai Lama's Birthday, so please do invite your beloveds to take a peep through The Rose Window so they can see for themselves! :)

Love and Songshine  Katiexxxxx

June News From Katie Rose
June promises Jubilation and Re-Joy-cing as Juno, Goddess of Fertility and Celebration invites us to re-cover our Joy this month.
Finding the bliss of our truth can be like hunting for treasure without a metal detector.  We may find ourselves in mental labyrinths or meeting dragons at the door to our preciousness - or maybe our dream got so buried under so much lifestuff that we can't even remember where or what it was... As the roses bloom,  however we may catch the scent of inspiration and dare to dig a little deeper, to break out from the bud and unfold in the summer sun, allowing our beauty to be seen.

May has seen many changes for me.  I wish to extend heartfelt love and gratitude to all those of you who connected with me at Alchemy The Centre.  Special thanks to Nicole Hambro, Amir Jaan, the Kundalini Yogis and all who came to my class.  It was truly an honour to share the Voice of the Soul with so many beautiful singers.  A new space to sing will be coming soon, in South London, where I am now re-locating. I will be singing out and about and working on some exciting creative projects over the summer which I look forward to sharing with you soon ...:)

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ROSE SOUNDS  - May News

It's the foolish time of year again, time to get silly with spring and run impetuously into the open arms of life, to fall over laughing at the utter ludicrousness of it all.  To initiate any change requires admitting we are always at the beginning, starting once again with the fresh breath of a new day. Emerging like chicks from shells we can feel like we crack up as we crack open.  To resist the chaos and madness is just to invite further insanity, so lets embrace it all and dance left-footed with glorious abandon along the spring songlines.
Whatever cosmic jokes life is playing on you, may you tread lightly this April.  Love Katiexxx


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***  HAPPY EQUINOX ****
At last! at last! at last!- Spring is cracking through, with glimmers of sunsmiles, starry flower faces, a fresh new perfume on the breeze and longer, lighter days... :)

As a special Spring Equinox treat, there's a * FREE SINGING TREE CD * for everyone who books an individual Session!:) - Check out the Individual Sessions Page!
Hope you are enjoying  the Freshly Spring Cleaned Rose Window Website for details ...

Dont forget to check out the New Spring Equinox Poem below
And do leave a comment or a poem of your own - I'd love to hear from you!

** VOICE OF THE SOUL TIME CHANGE ** - my weekly class will be at 11.30am on Tuesdays at Alchemy from now onwards  www.alchemythecentre.com
Tuesday 28th March - will be a very special FULL MOON VOICE OF THE SOUL Class.
Do join me for an exuberant celebration of the Moon in Libra.

To celebrate this years Equinox here are two special events-  *enCHANTment for children* & *The Garden of Roses Spring Equinox Celebration.* - see the Events Page for Details

Hope to see and sing with you soon!

Wishing you a Joyous and Jubilant Spring Emerging - Katie Rose xx

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron

Equinox

Golden gateway of possibility
Yawning open at the turn of the year
Streaming sunshards of laughter
Beckoning towards spring

Miniature angels of grace
Lift daylight on the backs of their wings
Redeeming truth
Spinning suncircles of love

This is the springboard to a new realm
A place where the fragrant burst of Creation
Emerges victorious with resonant
Perfumed songs of effeverscent growth

Its time to renew, cleanse, unwind
The clocks to make more time
More light, more passion, more dancing
Of soft clouds puff powdered over blue skies.

Singing sap rising in the pulsing veins of trees
As they stretch their budding arms towards heaven
Tiny tears of leaf laughter burst at their seams
Exuding intoxicating nectar of spring's almost-blooms

I can taste spring, I can feel it ruffling my hair
Whispering to me - "Step into a new adventure
Dare to ride bare back on the wild wild wind
Its time for change

For admidst the green daisy strewn fields
Secret paths await discovery,  Trees stand tall
With silent mysteries to share, Birds are calling
Come, come, come - step, dance, fly!"

Katie Rose March 2010

All You Need is Love - thats the song for February.  Amidst the blatant commercialism and cliches of Valentines Day lies a seed of truth -  Love is the foundation tone of reality.
As we pass through the gateway of Imbolc, moving gratefully towards lighter days-  we can enter more deeply into the true romance - the re-union of the soul within and without.  Whether you are sufi whirling, dancing the tantric path, yogically yoking your soul to the divine, saying Hail Marys, singing AH to open the heart, travelling the Tree of Life or simply getting on with Being You, the invitation into more love is present in every breath. Reclaiming our inner-sense enables us to remember that we are love and to express ourselves generously, creatively, flamboyantly, divinely in the Grand Symphony of Oneness..
May this Valentines remind you that you are your own Beloved, that you are Deeply Loved and that your Love is much needed and appreciated in this world! XXX

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Let's join together this Full Moon to send our Love & Support to Haiti

Help for Haiti - Fundraising Event

Join the Tulip Community to raise energy, awareness and money for those in need.

Cost: By Donation
Date: Saturday 30th Jan
Time: 14:00-17:0)

• 14:00-15:00 – Yoga Various Teachers
• 15:00-16:00 – Shakti Dance- Salema
• 16:00-16:30- Meditation and Chant with Katie Rose
• 16:30-17:00- Final Relaxation/Sound Bath – Katie Rose

Where are you Living Now - a Song for Haiti - Kim Koren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAd8sWcZL
Special thanks to Kim Koren for the use of her song
CD BABY is donating $1 from every CD or download sale of Kim Koren’s “Sun Went Down” and Punchbuggy Yellow’s “Simple” to Haiti relief efforts

Tulip Yoga Studio. 3b, 9 Park Hill, Clapham, London SW4 9NS

t: 020 7622 7274  e info@tulipyogastudio.co.uk

www.tulipyogastudio.co.uk

Other ways you can help:

Send an email to ask for Haiti's debt to be cancelled

A New Year and a New Decade dawns...  a time to reflect - to look backwards and forwards - like Janus - to lovingly release that which we leave behind as we step through the gateway into 2010...
This time of Initiation - when we make resolutions and commit to changes in our lives - urges us to become leaders in our lives - mastering ourselves inwardly so that our outward leadership becomes clear and bright.
True healing, lasting change occurs when we have transformed the many levels of our being by tuning in and listening for the resonance of our heartsong. 
This may require a tuning out and letting go of old conditioning, thought patterns and behaviours to make space for our true soul sound to resound.
At this time when the magic of nature is happening underground, we can dig deep in the roots of our being to find our true needs, desires and intentions, and align with the authentic source of our being.
Wishing you a bright, beautiful and insightful start to 2010 xxxx

XXX SOLSTICE BLESSINGS! XXX

In the deep winter night we celebrate the light
In the flames of the fire we find our hearts desire
In the branches of the tree we set ourselves free
In the roots of the earth we find our true worth

The light returns - and we begin our voyage towards Spring...

The Astrology of this Solstice is immense - Jupiter - planet of expansion and success, Neptune - spiritual and magical awareness and Chiron - the wounded healer -  are all aligned in Aquarius, sign of innovative service to humanity.  This Solstice therefore presents a gateway into new realms of being- an invitation to heal and dance into greater understanding of the cosmic whole.  Following our dreams is no longer just a whacky motto but is now an imperative to live our truth - this is a powerful time to re-dream our reality.. to learn from the deep and difficult teachings of our personal and collective wounds and to draw out the 'Vein of Gold' (Julia Cameron) within and without...
For more Astro wisdom go to www.astrozo.com or book in to see Zoe, the resident Astrologer at Alchemy - she's amazing!

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Wishing you a beautiful rising of the Sun and celebration of your natural radiance this Solstice!
Love Katiexxx

December Blog

Advent - the Adventure towards the Deepest Darkest Point of Winter -  we voyage carrying flaming torches towards Solstice.  Like the Roman Feast of Reversal, Saturnalia ,when slaves became masters for the day, Solstice is an invitation to seek out and celebrate the light within the dark and the dark within the light.   It is to the evergreens that we look for inspiration midwinter - to the Holly with its bright red berry nestled like a winter rose amongst the thorns, reminding us that beauty and the beast sit side by side at lifes banquet, to the gift-bearing Christmas Tree, the kiss bestowing miseltoe or the Buddha's Bodhi Tree whose leaves whisper the wisdom of enlightenment. 
Wishing you deep midwinter peace amongst the branches of the Tree of Life..xx

The wonderful things about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley, 1905-1978

I find this quote remarkably reassuring.  Have just read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda and found it absolutely mind blowing and very inspiring.

Not only are the Yogi's in it capable of extraordinary happenings - de-materialising and re-appearing at will, reading the future, providing insight into the deeper mysteries of the cosmos to name but a few - but they are also wonderfully human.

To celebrate our humanness is to allow ourselves compassion and to share in the huge crazy learning experience which is life on the earth plane. In our weakness and vulnerability, so I am repeatedly reminded, we find our strength.  It is the courage to be in the midst of the chaos which makes sense of it all.

Wishing you a beautiful day!
Katie