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Songs and Singers

This pathway is the companion to the Spoken Word, containing songs from the heart with lyrics to warm the soul

Coming Back to Your Centre

Coming Back to Your Centre

By Judi Cranston - Soul Rocker

Coming Back to Your Centre is a gentle New Reality Journey created to help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself. Through a simple breathing practice, gentle reflections, and two original Soul Rocker songs, you'll discover simple ways to return to your centre in everyday life.

You are welcome to return to this journey whenever life feels busy, overwhelming, or whenever you simply need a few moments of peace. Each time you listen, your experience may be different.

An optional companion artwork is also available if you'd like to colour, doodle, or quietly create as you listen, allowing creativity to become another gentle pathway back to your centre.

18 minutes

Breathless & Becoming

Breathless & Becoming

By Bill Kirst

Songs Finding Their Voices

Breathless & Becoming is a collection of original lyrics written by a man who sees the world through a songwriter's eyes. A poet is but songwriter in a different hat. Each song begins with words on a page, always handwritten, then crosses into unfamiliar territory as it is transcribed into a tool powered by Generative AI to explore melody, voice, rhythm, arrangement, and sound. The voices are synthetic, and the melodies always arrive through deep collaboration with machine learning. The stories, emotions, questions, and words originate from one man's lived human experience.

This is not a finished inspiration for an EP or record. It is more like a living songbook: to see what the words could become someday. Some artist will someday whisper these alive. Some hearts will ache when listened to someday.

Breathless & Becoming documents an apprenticeship in real time. It explores what emerges possible when someone who has spent years writing poetry and lyrics can suddenly trace the phantom echoes of imagined melody brought close enough to touch. Note: AI will never substitute the songwriter and instead sits as an instrument in the box of those at our feet. Perhaps for discovery or inspiration or a way of shortening the distance between imagination and audition. Always in hope that the lyric written in silence finds its way home to a harmony and eventually human worthy of singing it and adopting it.

29 minutes

The Wisdom of the Rose - the Album

The Wisdom of the Rose - the Album

By Judi Cranston - Soul Rocker

More than an album, Wisdom of the Rose is an invitation to journey with one of nature's greatest teachers.

For centuries, the rose has been a symbol of love, beauty, courage, compassion, transformation and the unfolding journey of the soul. Like the petals of a rose, its wisdom reveals itself gently, one layer at a time.

Inspired by a life-changing experience walking the ancient labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France, these songs explore love, truth, courage, surrender, grief and the quiet wisdom that lives within us all.

Each song carries its own unique gift, inviting you to pause, listen deeply, and reconnect with the wisdom already living within you.

In this journey, I'll share a little of the story behind the album before inviting you to simply relax, and receive the music. There is nothing you need to do and no right or wrong way to listen. Just allow each song to meet you exactly where you are.

I wonder what gifts the Rose has for you today?

36 minutes