My Mission, Your Invitation
Join me on the Healing and Awakening journey,from Music making to Philosophy.
How do we Heal our psyche? How do we awaken our potential? What is the nature of consciousness and reality?
Hi, I am Kat Bonny: Singer, Writer, Mystic and trauma survivor living with chronic illness.
I am on the hunt for empowering Ideas, Practices and People, exploring how Music making, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality and Art can help us find ourselves, become whole and awaken our potential.
In these correspondences, I share what I find. The music I make. My experiences. My practices. My People.
And I would love for you to be part of my community. To find yourself and each other.
We are all on the Healing and Awakening journey, whether we know it or not. Purposefully or unconsciously, skillfully or clumsily, productively or destructively. We all carry personal and collective traumas, it might live in our DNA, it definitely lives in our cultures.
We have all been handed out limiting beliefs, illusions and culturally acceptable destructive behaviours, all bound to remain blindspots unless carefully examined. We all inherited millennia of abuse, war and oppressive societies. When ill-equipped to heal it, we are overcome by the urge to look for someone to blame and act out our pain, passing on the baton of suffering instead of noticing that no generation came out of it unscathed
Our ancestors didn't have internet. They had very limited access to the kinds of knowledge, tools and modalities needed to shift the toxic patterns etched by that much pain. What they couldn't resolve got passed on to us.
Will we free ourselves or let it weigh on us and future generations?
So we have a responsibility. Some might say a burden, but maybe it is an exciting opportunity.
To start healing and awakening. To do the inner work. To cry the tears and throw the punches. To forgive. To free our voice. To find our inner peace and power. To do things differently.
So, if you too are a sentient being, looking for better ways to navigate the intricacies of being alive, you are in good company.
Where do we begin? I am not there yet so why listen to me? This is just the path I walk, this is the story I write, this is the song I sing.
Let's journey together.
My work
I write folk songs and poems inspired by my own feelings and realisations, giving voice to the light and the shadows.
I channel sound journeys for us to meditate, sing or dance to, using the art of Vocal Improvisation to tap into universal and primal expression.
I explore the art of voice activation to also help others find and free their voice.
And I write articles, especially when I am too ill to do the other things.
When I wake up in the morning, I wonder: Who can I inspire today? What kind of music wants to be made? What's an insight, idea, tool, practice, or human experience someone out there needs to hear about?
And sometimes, I am just in too much pain, too dizzy and too confused to function that day. I proceed to wonder if my body has finally given up on me, if my brain has become chemically depressed, or if my kundalini might be rising sideways through miss-aligned chakras?
Hell knows...
Either way, sometimes it's just too overwhelming and I don't create or share anything new. And that is ok. This is not a clockwork newsletter, this is my life's work, and the schedule will be flexible.
I will keep trying again tomorrow though. Like all of us.
With love
Kat