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Transforming Lives Through the Power of the Human Voice
[Volume 3, Issue 47, Nov 20, 2013]  
Greetings!  
 
George Maurer | house concert Nov 16
 

House concert was a big success!

 

Can we do it all alone? Opportunities don't happen, we create them. By getting clear with who we are and which gifts we have to share with the world, we create new work, new events.

 

It is a natural progression to first get in touch with our voice. To listen to our inner calling and start listening to our deeper needs. And then realize that we want change.

 

We want to understand how to create a successful business based on our own terms and our own rhythms.

 

 

Voice Your Biz™ 
Mastermind 2014

Target group - Women solo entrepreneurs who want to voice their biz.

 

Many of my clients are exactly in that place. They have come to realize that they too, would like to make a successful living as an independent artist and coach. I have been coaching privately biz clients for the last 2 years, now it is time to create a Mastermind Group for 2014.

 

I will be working with a focused and intimate group of women sharing with them the secrets to creating revenue and wealth.


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ENJOY TODAY'S FEATURE ARTICLE
 
 
 
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT -
SEEK YOUR OWN MYSTERY 
  
  
 

 

 Stay Gold, 

Kara 

The 
Voice Your Essence™ Community
is growing every day and reaches around the globe.
 
 
                                                                  
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Voice Your Essence™ AT ITS BEST!
 
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Voice Your Essence client Mattio Martinez wins award for best short children's film 

I am so happy and proud to announce a short film I wrote (and developed with 
Philipp @ Twistville for Bavaria Film in collab with the BBC has won best short children's film at the 2013 Uppsala International Film Festival in Sweden! Yah!! 
 
Mattio Martinez 
Artistic Director and Founder
 
 

"Kara is the real deal, you will learn to use your "voice" in more ways than you could ever imagine." Mattio

 

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Between concerts, writing and studio time,
my personal coaching time is limited.
 
In 2014 I am committed to mentor and coach a limited number of clients to develop a strong voice that will have an impact on our world.
 
 
 
 



P.S. I am only offering the free sessions during December 2013; 10 slots are available on a first come first serve basis.
It has been an awesome year. I too will be setting up my concert and coaching schedule for 2014. I have a very limited number of clients that I can coach one-to-one. I would love for you to to get in. Please, check my coaching appointment calendar for free slots. Here's to your success!

                                                                                                      Special House Concert | Nov 16, 2013

                                                                                                   at Kara's voice studio in Berlin 

 

A HUGE THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EVENT SO VERY SPECIAL!

 

Kevin Steinman, George Maurer, Jeff Engholm
Kevin Steinman, George Maurer, Jeff Engholm

  

 

Our Rilke concert tonight in Berlin was the most spectacular sharing of music ever in my recent memory. An incredible, rapt audience. They would not stop clapping after each song, they were so enthused!" George Maurer

 

 

 

 

images by courtesy of George Maurer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is this unconventional way and this very close intimacy with the performing artist, that makes the listening so enjoyable and special at our house concerts.
 
Thank you all for making this a very enjoyable evening and one that will be remembered for a long time to come.

   

Stay Gold, Kara

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Artist Development 
SEEK AFTER YOUR OWN MYSTERY 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

  

 
 

 

 

We all seem to be running after the next paycheck, the perfect partner, the perfect job, or the idea that it is the diploma that will bring us to where we need to be.

 

So, we scribble down on the to-do list that we need this or that and amazingly enough, with payment plans and a clear goal, society makes it possible, for many of us, to get what we desire.  

 

Yet, what do we truly desire? 

 

Is it the newest gadget? The new sofa? Or do we deep down desire more wholeness and wellness.

 

Most people, once they set foot on the path of a seeker, quickly realize that mystery has to be experienced. It cannot be acquired by any mundane prosperity. The mystery of self-growth and exploration can only be lived, not bought. Yes, it is possible to "get" wellness, but it takes more than money and time. It takes curiosity and trust.

 

What if we put the same amount of energy into exploring our own mystery as we did cooking a meal once a day?  

 

"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed" Thomas Moore 

 

 

What if we consciously said yes to ALL of us: the dark edges, the sweet smile, the round curves, the sassy poignant questions, the clothes that don't always match, the career plan that looks diffuse and foggy?

 

What if we looked at our lives like a wonderful mystery detective novel that we are solving chapter by chapter, case by case? We are going into the dark nights of our soul and walking out with a handful of stars and the lost dipper.  

 

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

Richard P. Feynman

 

What if, we loved the questions themselves,
as if they were clues to where we needed to go?

 

What if, when our voice cracked, we explored the crack? What if, we had the courage to slow it down and listen in?

 

What if, when we were asked to sing our truth and share it with others, we stopped with the excuses and sang? What if, instead of condemning and judging ourselves, we were gentle with ourselves and explored our change in breath, our change in skin temperature, our change in focus?

 

What if, the song we were writing did not have to resolve itself? What if, we dared to change keys in the middle and add a second bridge and perhaps end the song with a question?

 

For this is life.
Life does not always stay in the same key,
and love stories sometimes remain unresolved.  

 

Why do we keep demanding life give us finished answers? We know it is a mystery. We are literally spinning in space. As if this truth was not enough.

 

We demand solutions to problems, and yet a 100 percent answer will always be false. It does not exist. For there are as many possibilities as answers.

 

What does exist
is falling in love with the mystery, 

the process.

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The mystery of life 
is your own personal mystery to solve.

 

The more you try to nail down life and have answers for everything, the more joy and love will dissipate before your eyes.

 

Keep times for structure in your practice, as much as you keep times for undefined play.

Keep times for staying with things, as much as you take time for let-go.

 

Think of a great mystery novel. You are seeking the protagonist's identity. If you put on the cloak and instead of reading a cartload of books, solved your history by seeking your identity? Your true essence? 

 

At the end of the story you finally knew who you were. What you stood for. What you risked for. What you loved and cherished and spoke openly and clearly. Your voice clearing a path in the dark woods that lead to the clearing.

 

Time and time again, I see that the singers who touch deeply an audience and the artists that stay with us, are the ones that seek their own mystery and then bring it back to us all to rejoice in the form of songs and painting and poetry.

 

It is these artists that turn coal into diamonds and nuggets of wisdom into their own song-line.

 

 

The mystery of life is your won personal mystery to solve. No one else has walked in your shoes. No one else understands the clues. Only you can listen in deeply to which path you should choose.

 

Only you truly know which images move you, which tones speak to you, and which steps are the next ones you need to take to come closer to what is pulling you forwards.

 

One day in a subtle moment of awareness, in an integrated moment of consciousness, the false clues become so apparent and the real is revealed to you. It is crystal clear.  

 

Consciousness has no questions. 

 

Enjoy the journey. And share with me and the Voice Your Essence community what works for you!

 

In gratitude and to your continued success.

Kara 

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P.S. Share with us your experience, and feel free to join the Voice Your Essence™ Community over on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voiceyouressence. I'm really excited to hear what you have to say.
Thank you, as always, for tuning in, reading and contributing.

 

  

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TRANSFORMATIONAL SINGER- SONGWRITER AND COACH, KARA JOHNSTAD, IS PASSIONATE ABOUT TRANSFORMING THE WORLD THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE: She works one on one with clients to open their voices, write powerful songs and anthems, create CDs and a lifestyle that allows them the freedom to create and live as independent artists. Kara's vision for 2014 is to get her songs into films and documentaries that are in alignment with her vision of global mind global heart.  www.karajohnstad.com  
 


 



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Kara Johnstad is creative visionary, transformational catalyst and a powerfuvoice in the time and age of transition.
 
She is an acclaimed singer/songwriter with more than 100 songs written - all of which she has produced and published under her own indie label, creator of the Voice Your Essence™ Artist Development Program and founder of the 
Voice Your Essence™ Community.
 

  

Leading change agents, healers, personal development speakers and others recognize her as being a unique source of powerful truth and wisdom. As a top voice expert she has helped thousands with her "break-through" voice techniques and shares with us the secrets behind this powerful instrument and the role the human voice plays in fine tuning our mind-body-spirit systems.

Kara connects each and every week with subscribers from around the world via her 
Voice Your Essence™ eZine 

  

If you liked today's issue, you'll also enjoy listening to Kara's soulful music as part of your daily ritual of reconnecting to source or jump onto the next level and experience personally the power of your true authentic voice with Kara Johnstad's 
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Images of Kara by Joerg Grosse-Geldermann  
Image: "Mattio Martinez by courtesy of Mattio
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Image: "Kevin Steinman, George Maurer, Jeff Engholm" by courtesy of Georg Maurer / www.georgemaurer.com 
Image: "Jeff Engholm performing at house concert" by courtesy of Georg Maurer
All other images by Kara Johnstad
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