Class start up again September 16th, 2008...Supportive container for nuturing the creative flow. Come, invite the muse into your world with song.
- classes on the art of being
-dissolve old patterns with ease
-celebrate life in alive presence
-generate outrageous fun!
Facilitated by Nicola Gordon and Audrey Hazekamp
Take the leap! Email for more info:
nicola@sbceo.org
Nicola's been quietly working on a project over the last 4 years: a collection of songs inspired by the book ‘The Gift; Poem by Hafiz, the great Sufi Master’, translations by Daniel Ladinsky. Hafiz is a fourteen century Sufi Poem from the same lineage as the better know mystic poet Rumi. The poems are magic. Ladinsky, gave his blessings on Nicolas CDs:
"I feel Nicola Gordon has helped complete these poems with her fine, fine music and gifted voice. I bet Hafiz thanks her." --Daniel Ladinsky, best-selling Penguin translator of 'The Gift'.
Welcome to the world of the sacredly ordinary.
Filleted Fish (From the 'The Gift')
Today love has completely gutted me
I am lying in the market
like a fillet fish.
Speechless, every desire, every sinew, absolutely silent
But I am still so fresh
Everything is now the same to me. Listen...
The touch of a beautiful woman
as she lifts me near
Drawing my scent into her body;
as she thinks about taking me home
The soft caress of a luminescent fly,
Drinking my vital fluids
through a strange-shaped flute
The sun lays its radiant gaze upon my cheek
Human voices and the breeze from a passing horse’s tail
All send, miraculous currents
through my world
God’s beauty has split me open
Throw Hafiz on a scale,
wrap me in cloth,
and take me home.
There's videos on the website- http://www.nicolagordon.com/ song samples on myspace-
http://www.myspace.com/nicolagordon.
Enjoy.
“Your music, the two Hafiz inspired CDs, continue to bring my so much joy, I can't tell you. I am very grateful.”--Murat Karaorman