My album Medicine Songs Wins TWO AWARDS in the 2020 Just Plain Folks Music Awards!

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Kathleen Dunbar

My ambient, trance, journey music project—my CD entitled Medicine Songs by my shaman-singer pseudonym Blue Lilah has won TWO awards in the 2020 Just Plain Folks Music Awards!

Brian Whitney, CEO and Founder of Just Plain Folks, writes of the nomination, “It’s a big deal: 17K albums and 240K songs were entered for the current awards, which cover the expanse of time since the last awards in 2009.”

3rd Place for Best World Music Album is Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. TO LISTEN TO THE MEDICINE SONGS ALBUM and BUY IT click: https://bluelilah.com/store
2nd Place for Best World Music Song is the song Bleyso from Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. To LISTEN TO AND BUY BLEYSO click: Listen to Bleyso

Blue Lilah’s music is my offering to you to celebrate yourself in the dance that is the connection of all life. It is a gifting of my music, voice, energy, and sounds for your pleasure. It is my invitation to you, my listeners, to dive into a healing journey. Please use it in whatever forms “move” you!—Dance, meditation, journeying, relaxation, movement exploration, yoga, birthing, healing! Who is Blue Lilah? Imagine being taken on a journey in the dream language of a medicine woman, with luscious percussion, backwards guitar, a whale’s voice, a thunderstorm . . . and that’s just the first song!

Blue Lilah’s website is bluelilah.com

Photos by Tamarind Free Jones

Take-Anywhere, Awesome Reset Practice

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Kathleen Dunbar

The Body says:
I am a fiesta.
-Eduardo Galeano

Here’s an easy practice to press your reset button. It quickly gets your brain and body producing harmony-hormones instead of stress-hormones.

Take-Anywhere, Awesome Reset Practice:
Big stretch
Yawn
Sigh out loud with a sound, Ahhh
Follow the warmth, release, flow
Three breaths, in nose, out mouth with a sigh.
Enjoy the stillness.

Say you’ve been slumped over looking at your computer for several hours. Did you know that the brain reads posture like opening a software program!

When you are slumped or hunched over, you literally can’t get a full breath: your lungs can’t fully expand because your ribs are contracted. The result is that blood flow—and thus the amount of oxygen delivered to your brain—is noticeably less. Here comes the software program part:

Because there is less blood delivered to the brain, and thus less oxygen to the brain, the brain reads “less oxygen” as “threat.” The brain doesn’t know you are just sitting too long staring at a screen. Instead, it reads the less oxygen as threat and signals your organs to produce hormones that deal with threat, and you start to feel a vague background sense of unease.

In order to wash the stress hormones out of your system and bring a brighter view of life back online try the following. You can do this seated at your desk:

Stretch your arms up and arch your back
Yawn—a big one—show your fillings!
Make an audible sigh while you sigh, a sound, ahhhhhh. Making this kind of actual sound signals to your nervous system the you are safe.
Follow the warmth, flow, release from the stretch and yawn. Savor these feelings, like you’d savor a bit of biscotti dipped in a latte. Sit with the pleasure a few moments.
Now slowly breathe in your nose and out your mouth three times with an audible sigh on the out breath.
Lengthen yourself by “finding your sits bones”— wiggle your sits bones a few times, then let your spine rise from your pelvis, and sense your head floating naturally on top of your spine. It’s fine to use the back of the chair for light support. Don’t “sit up straight” as that is effortful. Instead find your sits bones and your body will naturally find peace with gravity.
Finally, visualize something beautiful or remember a kind act you witnessed.
Then “take the elevator down” into your chest and let the felt sense of this fill you for a moment.

If you’d like some relaxing music, please check out my award-nominated Blue Lilah trance-ambient-worldmusic album Medicine Songs

My ambient-trance album Medicine Songs is NOMINATED FOR AN AWARD!

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Kathleen Dunbar

My ambient, trance, journey music project—my CD entitled Medicine Songs by my shaman-singer pseudonym Blue Lilah has been nominated in TWO categories for the upcoming Just Plain Folks Music Awards!

Nominated for Best World Music Album is Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. TO LISTEN TO THE MEDICINE SONGS ALBUM and BUY IT click: https://bluelilah.com/store
Nominated for Best World Music Song is the song Bleyso from Blue Lilah’s album Medicine Songs by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews. To LISTEN TO AND BUY BLEYSO click: Listen to Bleyso

Blue Lilah’s website is bluelilah.com

Photos by Tamarind Free Jones

Blue Lilah is Here!

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Kathleen Dunbar

The CD art is in the done . . .
The CD is mastered . . .
And the website is up! Find her at www.bluelilah.com

Let Blue Lilah take you on a luscious journey with her new world music CD “Medicine Songs” Here’s a tantalizing dip into one of the songs!

Video by Kathleen Dunbar
Photos by Tamarind Free Jones

Blue Lilah is Here! Join Her On A Magical Musical Journey!

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Kathleen Dunbar

Blue Lilah is Here!
How about a succulent musical dive under the sea with
the wild sea witch inviting you to dance deep with her among the corals
and the fishes and her long armed octopus friends.
And that’s only one song!

Blue Lilah is Here!
Experience the Journey at www.bluelilah.com

Be Beguiled, Bewitched, Becharmed

Let Blue Lilah Take You On A Luscious Musical Journey!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Kathleen Dunbar

Here’s a tantalizing dip into Blue Lilah’s new world music CD,
Medicine Songs. Find her at www.bluelilah.com

Let Blue Lilah take you on a luscious musical journey! Here’s the sneak preview with a little video! Bring your eyes and ears, let your body move,
let yourself enter the dreaming,

let the journey begin………

Video and Photo by Kathleen Dunbar
Dip into the song Icons of the Doi on Blue Lilah’s new CD: Medicine Songs
Find Us! www.bluelilah.com

Who Is Blue Lilah?

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Kathleen Dunbar

Who is Blue Lilah? Imagine being taken on a journey in the dream language of a medicine woman, with luscious percussion, backwards guitar, a whale’s voice, a thunderstorm . . . And that’s just the first song! Blue Lilah is here! Find the experience at bluelilah.com

Photo and Video by Kathleen Dunbar