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Happy Full Moon! Happy Wednesday!

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It’s been an amazing couple of months for me and I am so grateful for all the opportunities I have had to sing my songs, share some yoga, and just be me all over the place. This picture is from the BB&N gym in Cambridge where I was blessed to share some songs and chant with some kids on behalf of Yoga Reaches Out Kids Yogathon. what a blast!  

Before that I was out in Northern California at this amazing place leading a women’s retreat with my great friend and yoga teacher Andrea Spacek. Stay tuned for more retreats here on Cape Cod and in Northern California. I have been playing all over the Cape and have lots of dates in December from the Chat House to new yoga studios in Falmouth.  You can currently download both my CD’s Winds of Sinai and 2012: Isn’t it Amazing? for a DISCOUNTED price through Dec 21. ENJOY and spread the word.

And now the FULL MOON. Join us tonight in Yarmouth at Sounding Still Wellness for the Crystal bowl celebration. I will be singing and it will be a fabulous opportunity to release all that no longer serves you and open to the NEW. 2013 is truly a NEW year and I invite you to allow yourself to be NEW. So often we hang on to our past or our old stories of who we are or how the world works. Everything is new now, so feel safe and be confident in following your heart and being what you love.  I have special deals for energy healing until the new year if you would like some assistance in this process of letting go.

I am so grateful for every opportunity I am given to serve – whether by singing, laughing, talking, meditating, singing some more or doing a Rising Star. And it is because you are open that I get to serve. THANK YOU.

Here is my schedule:

Thurs Nov 29 Cape Cod Chat House 7-9
Sat Dec 2 Be-Fit Yoga Holiday Party 2pm
Wed Dec. 5 MDC Yoga Studio Opening Party  Falmouth 7:30pm
Thurs Dec 6 Cape Cod Chat House (with Fugan Dineen) 7-9
Sun Dec. 9 Unity Church Hyannis 10am service
Fri Dec 14 Creacon Lodge Healing Center 7pm IRELAND (STAY TUNED for a webcast link)
Fri Dec 21 Cape Cod Chat House 7-9
Sat Dec 22 Lululemon, 9-10am Hingham, MA with Jill Abraham teaching yoga

ps. For Dec 12-19 I will be in Ireland for a concert and some wonderful recharging time at my spiritual home Creacon Lodge Retreat Center. If you would like a Rising Star Healing long distance while I am there please contact me.

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October can be a big month of self-reflection and going within. It is also when the veil (between life and death) is the thinnest. I started working on this new song around Oct. 1. feels good to be writing again. hope it will lead to a whole new album by Spring.

In the meantime if you are enjoying 2012: Isn’t it Amazing?, you may want to download Winds of Sinai, released in 2009. some good tunes on it. Come hear this song hopefully finished this Sat Oct 13 at the Chat House or some other time in the future.

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Just keep walking forward, even if you can’t see the love, 

Just keep walking forward, sometimes walking is enough

Just keep singing your heart out, even if you don’t know why,

Just keep singing your heart out,  you know one day we’ll all going to die

 

Don’t you want to feel you gave it your call

Don’t you want to feel you shared your gift

Don’t you want to feel you answered the call

And helped everyone around you lift

just watch everyone around you lift

 

Copyright 2012 Alicia Mathewson

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Happy August. Happy Full Moon.

August has always been a very special month for me, because my birthday falls at the very end. It’s like some sort of internal system clicks into place and I hear my inner guidance say, “Hey you, it’s time to be brilliant”.  I have lived on this earth for almost 41 years now and I am fascinated by cycles. The cycles of nature, the cycles of families, and the cycles of my own thoughts.

Do you notice your cycles? what do you notice? sometimes slowing down to notice can be one of the most powerful choices we make, yet many of us resist it. I believe it takes great courage to slow down and notice, because sometimes what we notice is not always so comfortable. It also takes great courage to move forward. To notice, allow yourself to change and then act.

I have learned that this process of noticing internally what might be out of balance, making a change within ourself and then moving forward requires LOVE. It requires the courage to keep loving yourself and others even when things may feel uncomfortable.

When we summon this courage, anything is possible. And so in August I choose courage. I choose to wake each day, see myself for who I am, love it in all it’s light and dark ,and comitt to allowing change. Allowing change.

It takes great courage to allow change.

May your August be blessed with courage, love and awakening action. And if you haven’t heard my song Isn’t it Amazing yet? download it today. It’s all about courage.

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You may remember 40 chants in 40 days last year from July 15-Aug 24 that helped raise over $40,000 for SQ Foundation. Because of it’s success and the JOY it brought to me and many others, I am launching a similar campagin this time to raise money for a specific project called LINDA”S LINK. Again through SQ Foundation, this will help fund equipment and resources to get clean water to many families in the Amazon of Peru. Alicia’s fundraising PAGE

In honor of Linda O’Neill who was the epitome of service, I will be selecting 4 chants to compose and offer for FREE on Youtube. I will be deciding the chants in the next 2 weeks, so if you have any requests, please let me know.

Thank you for listening and for your ongoing support. I love what I do and it’s because people like you listen and tune-in that I get to keep doing it!

This was one of my favs from last July NAMO QUAN SHI YIN PUSA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7c6mVSe2YQ&feature=g-upl

Happy Happy Summer!

love love love, Alicia

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It’s time to write a blog and I have seriously started 4 different topics. focus issues anyone?

I was listening to Derek O’Neill‘s radio show The Way this past Monday on dream interpretations and there were two dreams that involved the ocean. Both were very deep and both were connected in some way to being lost at sea. Let’s just say I could relate.
I live near the ocean and lately I have been going to the beach every day. It’s like home. I watch and I listen to the waves and somehow feel something inside say, “yes, this is how it is – ebb flow ebb flow – Trust in trust.”  I long to maintain a center point – a resting spot, and yet the flow just seems to flow completely out of my control. like the breath – in, out, in, out. In reaching for a resting spot or an answer, solution, something –  I see how I am actually pushing it away from me and creating more discomfort.
It’s funny too, because my life is incredibly blessed right now: I live in a beautiful place, I am developing my own business doing what I love and what I feel my purpose is; I just released a beautiful CD; I have friends and family all around me. So what gives? What is this lingering sense of being lost at sea? This feeling that can hit me sometimes leaving me feeling quite uncomfortable and in the unknown?
I am not totally sure what it is, but I am grateful for it. I am grateful because I hold certain spiritual teachings, like “What we focus on expands.” And so, when I am feeling lost, I think “Thank you”. When I am feeling happy, I think “Thank you”.  Slowly, slowly I believe this practice of awareness and gratitude helps to bring the polarizations that live within me into Union, transcending a sense of duality and separation.
I remember one time being at Creacon while teaching music in the middle east and was talking to Derek and sharing some of my struggles. His words often still come to me: “Throw out all the other teachings and say thank you for everything”
so that’s what I continue to do. When I am too in my head scrolling through all the different teachings, I just breath and say, “Thank you”. Try it. It really works.
And in the meantime, why not enjoy the view of the vast deep blue ocean of unknown we are all floating around in right now?
thanks for taking this journey with me. It’s so nice to know I am not alone.
love love love 
Alicia

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2012 Valentines day. How strange for me to be thinking of my mother. Or is it? Yes, it’s true. Every valentines day I always got a card from my mom. I remember one time when I was living in Brooklyn in my late 20’s thinking, really? Will I ever grow up and get a card (not to mention a dozen roses) from my beloved, vs. “just my mom”?

And now, almost 5 years after she has passed, I think. wow, it would be so awesome to get a card from my mom. My mom gave great cards throughout my whole life. Sometimes they were clever, sometimes they were deep and spiritual, but they were always filled with love and true knowledge of who I was. What a gift.  The last one she gave me was really funny and actually joked about (in a very compassionate way) how I had had many many girlfriends and still couldn’t seem to get it quite right.

I was blessed. I grew up with many kinds of love in my house and as a result Valentines Day now is truly about Divine love for me. So often, we can all get caught up in the romance version of love – in the let’s fall in love and run away kind of love, in the “he hurt me, that jerk” kind of love. My mom’s cards held the – “I love you no matter what” kind of love. the “I am so grateful you were born” kind of love.

The Fire of Divine Love.

On March 22, I am releasing a new CD – a CD of songs that holds an expansive idea of love. After writing many many years about lost love, broken love, and when will I get the love?,  it feels great to be offering this CD called : 2012: Isn’t it Amazing? – Songs & Chants for the New Vibration. I am so happy to be webcasting a concert LIVE from the Cape Cod Chat House. It will be invitation only, so if you are interested, please get in touch with me through FACEBOOK or TWITTER.

And so on this Valentines day, that is what I wish for all of you: Feel Loved. Truly loved just for being you. And if there isn’t another person in your life who can tell you that right now, trust that by loving yourself, more and more love will appear and bring you deeper and deeper into your True Source and the highest Truth: You Are Love.

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2012. It’s here. it feels good.

The past five years of my life have been incredibly awakening, challenging, expansive, ridiculous, regressive, fabulous, strange and familiar. and now here I am. and every message I receive from the Universe. is LET GO OF THE PAST. LET IT BE. TRUST.

so, how do we do that? It’s easy to read quotes, reference teachers, and even write songs (at least for me), but how do we truly look back for the last time and step forward with a new heart. And is that even possible? A part of me says it is, and yet I can feel how much I love to roll around in my past – hold on to it – feel it like I am still there, mine if for wisdom and creative inspiration. I mean come on, there’s some pretty cool stuff back there. like the 80’s. Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The rubix cube. Hanging with my cousin Elizabeth in Ahlignton Centa.

One of my favorite astrologers, Michael Lutin says that the planetary energy we are in right now is 1983. yikes! I was 12 going on 13. kind of a happening time for the little being I was. Last week I had a beautiful experience of stepping into my future with ease, joy and grace. I had the privlledge of sharing myself musically in service of a group chanting party right here on Cape Cod. It was one of those moments when you can feel the Divine Blueprint of your life clicking into alignment. Awesome and filled with Grace!

And so, after growing up here on Cape Cod in the 80’s, it was magical and almost surreal to drive up to a lakeside/woodside  home that had an energy of love and transformation and service to the Divine that I thought I needed to go to California or somewhere else to experience. It certainly didn’t exist on Cape Cod. And then, in the way the Universe loves to show you who you are, the host says to me, there is someone who is excited to see you. It was my 7th & 8th grade Science teacher. YES. 1983 baby. What a gift. And in that moment I remembered something he said, “You may have a job in the future that doesn’t even exist yet”. And I smiled thinking. “This is the job. This is the future and I am here”

And so, it is now and I am here. I am aware I have far more wisdom, willingness to serve, and intention to be in my Truest self than I ever have and yet, the truth is, sometimes I just feel like I’m 12. So, hey, maybe that’s what 2012 will feel like for a while. It’s not the end of the world, though some may experience that way.

I choose to LOVE. I choose to LOVE me – the 12 year old and the 40 year old. The Being that transcends all labels and ages and times and emotions. I choose to LOVE like I’ve never loved before and then laugh as everything unfolds in a brand new way.

If we are creating everything, what do you CHOOSE to create?

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Yesterday was a new moon. And no I am not talking about the teenage vampire movie.

What is a new moon and why should we care? Over the last five years or so I have become much more conscious of the cycles of the moon and how I might “tune in” to them as a way of being present in my own life and creating what I dream is possible.

I have always had big dreams. This is really not my issue. What I have struggled with is the practical application of day to day practices that help realize these dreams in a realistic, sustainable, and satisfying way. The moon cycle is helpful in this.

Each month there is a new moon that leads to a full moon about 2 weeks later. Many people believe that the new moon is a time to plant seeds or intentions. If you study most religions, both monotheistic and others, the moon – where it is, what month it is, and how big it is often determines sacred days of worship or celebration.

I got to experience this first hand when I was living in the middle east, as the official beginning of Ramadan does not happen until the sighting of the new moon.

Each month, now I set intentions on the new moon. They can be as simple and grounded as, “I am joining the gym” or as expansive as, “each time I sing, my heart awakens”. Sometimes I write these intentions down, sometimes I sing them. Sometimes I meditate on them. I don’t like rules, so I let myself be free with it. Then when the full moon comes, just about two weeks later, I can see, did I practice? what has been created? I am often amazed at how much has shifted just because I was conscious and had intentions. And often many surprising things happen, events or experiences I myself couldn’t have even thought of just two weeks before.

This is who we are: constantly creative beings. And for me, the moon is like a deep well of wisdom. A power center of well-being that acknowledges both our most human and most Divine qualities. Perhaps this is why, we have so many myths about the “dark creatures” coming out on the full moon. A “dark creature” is often a deeply passionate and creative creature and does not have to be perceived as “bad”. Not if we allow ourselves to see the truth of who she/he is, and how we honor her/him.

This moon cycle that started yesterday is particularly powerful for me, as it will culminate on the full moon on Dec. 10 while I am in one of my most sacred places – Creacon Prema Agni Lodge

offering a Live Devotional Concert. To be in Ireland, at Creacon and offering the devotion of my heart in song is a dream coming true and my practice with the moon is a part of how it was created. Following Dec. 10, the next new moon is on Christmas eve – how do you love that timing? And so we are in a truly sacred time and when we begin to become conscious, we realize every moment and every moon is sacred. 
To celebrate this sacred time, I will also be offering a Solstice Concert on Dec. 21 right here on Cape Cod at Cultural Center of Cape Cod 7-9pm. I hope you will join us.

so tune in. to the moon and to yourself and allow the deep creative energy within you to flow. flow in service of all you dream and flow in service of all we dream for our world.

And if you are looking for more specific info on the moons and cosmic astrology I can’t recommend more highly a new journal by Stephanie Azaria. It is a calendar and an awakening tool.

To stay up to date as to where I am singing and what I am doing please join us on Twitter or Facebook or visit my music page.

Hope to see you at soon share some songs.
love love love
Alicia

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I can’t believe it’s been almost 3 months since I have blogged. wow.

I have had many blog entries in my head, though none of them made it to the page. Here are the top ten titles that passed through this evolving mind:

1. Bhakti Fest rocked my world, you should go next year.
2. Sweet September (just wrote it as a song instead – LISTEN here)
3. The fall on Cape Cod is miraculous – do I really live here?
4. When am I going to make real money? (self-worth is everything)
5. Have I told you about Derek O’Neill yet? Go play with him in Ireland (or wherever he is.)
6. Seriously, wake up and love yourself. It helps
7. Being an Aunt is pure joy
8. I keep having the same relationships over and over again – YIKES!
9. I love living with my Dad. Who knew?
10. Laugh and everything is easier

And here we are now for “Why I Sing”. All ready to write the blog and then….

My Uncle Paul has a heart attack and suddenly leaves the planet. As some of you may know from experience, when someone you love dies, everything changes.

Your sister calls you to watch her kids and you say yes. Your cousin needs a ride from the airport and you are grateful to have a car and the time to do it. Hugs (and food) abound. Love and kindness is flowing and miraculously inside what many of us feel is a horrible experience, there is so much love and healing, you can’t help but smile amidst the tears and shock.

This is why I sing. Because when I sing – all is present – love, fear, anger, sadness, truth, beauty, pain & joy.

In singing I acknowledge that I am human and I am Divine. I am the instrument that practices, so that the LOVE that I am comes through me with more and more ease, grace, and truth.

I have not always been a “good singer”. In fact, I didn’t make my college acapella group because I didn’t have a “good ear”. I remember singing in a chorus in my late teens and someone saying, “Alicia your scooping voice is great but when you sing in a group you can’t do that. Stay on pitch.” Not surprisingly, I chose to sing solo most of my life. Rejection can be very painful for me. And so I often avoid it at all costs.

And let me tell you, there IS a great cost to avoiding rejection.

My need to be perfect and not be rejected has kept me from many experiences – both personally and professionally. That is over now. I choose to be me, be free, sing out, and not care how “good” that is. Now, because I’ve been singing my whole life, the choice to INTENTIONALLY sing and learn to chant devotionally has been incredibly awakening for me..

So, what’s the difference between singing and chanting? Many people will answer this in different ways, because everyone can only speak from their experience. For me, chanting and devotionally singing has been liberating. Because some of my motivation to sing and perform was coming from thoughts like: “Please love me”, “I am not enough” “see me!” “Recognize me!” I often unconsciously created suffering for myself and others as a result of singing (or choosing not to sing out of fear). Chanting allows me to sit back into a space of self-love and acceptance. And then my singing and chanting is in service of my own being and all beings. The practice of chanting exactly as I am, allows me to release old programs like, “I am not enough”. Instead I say, “I am the instrument through which this song comes. May it be peaceful and in service.”

In this practice of chanting and singing intentionally, I apply specific spiritual teachings I have learned, ones like: “I am not the doer”. And “I create my own reality” You know these two teachings? These two infuriatingly paradoxical teachings? When I sing and when I chant, I allow my consciousness to hold the truth of both these vibrations. Through my voice – which is also a vibration, I allow myself to shine in service of my well-being and the well-being of others.

Anyone can do this at any level. In fact, if you think you can’t sing or you don’t like your voice, to begin a chanting and/or singing practice will absolutely transform your life. Imagine releasing your self from the false notion that you can’t sing. Imagine hearing your own voice and loving it.

Be still. Listen to your voice. Love your voice. Share your voice and together we will support each other with kindness, courage, and laughter as we come into exactly who we are. Love. Here to Serve.

And so….

This is why I sing AND why I chant. It gives me courage and joy as I wake each day and face my own fears and the fears of our world. As I allow myself to see the truth in every moment, I breathe and chant and sing and listen.

Can you hear the song of love? YES.
Can you hear the song of joy? YES.
Can you hear the song of anger? YES
Can you hear the song of loss? YES

Can you feel how it’s all here to bring us back to our selves? YES.

So sing it. Whatever it is, sing it and let yourself be free.

As one of my new songs says “In every pain there is a pleasure, and in time you will see, every pleasure has its pain, be still now and be free”

Join us at Creacon in Ireland this December and Sing Your True Song – whatever that is.

And enjoy this special chant H’oponopono that I did during my 40 and Fabulous campaign

LOVE LOVE LOVE!