The Sound of Healing

'Only Way Out' by Sister Stone

• Jason Amoroso • Season 1 • Episode 6

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Sister Stone blends R&B and hip-hop with medicine music, using soulful melodies and conscious lyrics to spark healing, remembrance, and reconnection with the earth. Her powerful song "Only Way Out" encapsulates her philosophy that true transformation requires facing our challenges directly rather than avoiding them.

• Sister Stone's song emerged from a breaking point when her life completely crumbled
• Living in her car while recording her first EP and facilitating retreats in California
• Finding relief in what seemed like tragedy, recognizing divine intervention in her car accident
• Building a fire and planting a garden after returning home as a way to reclaim wholeness
• Distinguishing between "healing" as fixing something broken versus "holing" as loving all parts of ourselves
• Connection to the Red Road path and indigenous wisdom while respecting boundaries
• Music as medicine that serves both the creator and the listener
• Upcoming collaboration combining Sister Stone's music with Revelation Breathwork on July 12th

Join us Saturday, July 12th from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern for a special breathwork session featuring Sister Stone's music focused on trust and wholeness. Find links in the description or comment "Sister Stone" for details.


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Speaker 1:

Welcome to another episode of the Sound of Healing Show. I'm Jason Amoroso, your host, and I'm honored to be here. Today's guest is a true force of nature, an artist, activist and ceremonialist whose music is both prayer and power. Sister Stone blends R&B and hip-hop with what she calls medicine music and I've heard it at Medicine Music, using soulful melodies and conscious lyrics to spark healing, remembrance and reconnection with the earth and yourself. Her voice has been compared to Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, but her path is uniquely her own. Deeply rooted in the Red Road tradition and sacred activism, she's headlined major transformational festivals like Lucidity and Playthink, opened for artists like Londrell and Perangi and helped raise over a quarter of a million dollars for indigenous and ecological projects. Through her work, through it all, she stays anchored in devotion to her ancestors, to the land and to the power of music as medicine. Welcome, sister Stone.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much. It's an honor to be here.

Speaker 1:

Honor to have you here. I always ask this I don't know why, but like how does it feel to hear your bio?

Speaker 2:

It feels affirming and sometimes slightly awkward, but also like, yeah, wow, that's right that I am awesome that's so good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's so interesting to have different people receive their own accomplishments or like to hear their life in a certain way, so it's great yeah, sometimes, you know, we, it's our own, you know, sometimes we need those reminders and just to hear it back sometimes is like, yeah, just a another sort of spark of, I guess, self-worth or confidence and like, oh yeah, I have done all that, that's right, awesome, cool, I'm doing a good thing, I'm doing a good job.

Speaker 1:

And we're here for we're going to focus on one song. You have so many amazing songs in your catalog, and today we're focusing on Only Way Out, and so, as we like to do here at the Sound of Healing, we're going to listen to Only Way Out together, and then we're going to dive in. How's that sound?

Speaker 2:

Great Amazing.

Speaker 1:

Let's do it.

Speaker 3:

It took me some time to write this, but here I am, here I stand. Sometimes we get broken down To build ourselves up again. It can take a long, long time. Now I'm doing just fine. Blessings sometimes come In the form of hurt or heartbreak. I can point my fingers, I can call it a mistake, but at the end of the day, I had to go through it so that my soul could grow, so that my light could show. The only way out is through. The only way out is through. So pick up all the pieces and build a new you. The only way out is through. The only way out is through. So pick up all the pieces and build a new you. Without being too explicit, I let someone take my word. Though God did not miss it, the truth is that music carried me through.

Speaker 3:

I was living in my car when I recorded my first EP, searching for my soul. Always found it in the deep, found it in an EP Sitting with Pei Xu to tea. Took a year to break free. I'm thankful for the breakdown. It took me to my hometown, remembered who I am, with the ancestors of this land, built my fire, planted seeds, looked in the mirror, saw a whole human being, built my fire, planted seeds, looked in the mirror, saw a whole human being. Saw a whole human being. Saw a whole human being. Saw a whole human being. Saw a whole human being. The only way out is through. The only way out is through. So pick up all the pieces and build a new you. The only way out is through. The only way out is through. The only way out is through. So pick up all the pieces and build a new you.

Speaker 1:

Da da, da, da da da da da da da da da da da da da, da, da da da da da da da da da, da, da, da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. The only way out is through. So pick up all the pieces and build a new. You That'll load that hand that's down. That'll load that hand that's down. That'll load that hand that's down. Heck, yeah, powerful song, sister Stone, awesome. Thank you so much for creating that, for bringing that to the world and, yeah, it's really great.

Speaker 2:

What's your experience? Listening to it? It just it definitely always takes me back to the experience of of where I was at in my life and writing it, and every time I listened to my songs I'm always like, okay, I'm still learning that, or like I'm learning that lesson again, or, you know, it's like I never. It's. They're like alive prayers, and I I always tell my audience and my fans, whenever I'm sharing my music, that like just because I wrote this song doesn't mean I've like mastered these teachings or mastered any of these lessons per se, and that you know it's just always, it's not just a constant like less teaching or prayer or lesson or offering to others, but it's a constant one for myself too.

Speaker 1:

And how does this creation come through? How does the song evolve and get created?

Speaker 2:

This one specifically.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, this one definitely came from a pretty broken place, as you can probably hear that. It was a pretty low point in my life, but also like it was sort of me reclaiming the power that I had to to get through it and like the humility that I that I had and gained through through it. And, yeah, I feel like a lot of my, a lot of my music, including this one. Um, it just feels like like a outpouring, just that. It's just kind of builds up and then it comes out in a short setting, you know, and at least the lyrics, as far as lyrics go but yeah, I was living in my car give

Speaker 2:

this time Actually this was after that, so it was me reflecting on a challenging experience that I had just gone through and kind of coming out on the other side. Obviously, only Way Out Is Through. That title in itself is coming from one of my dear elders who had passed over, who I originally found the Red Road through, and he would always say that the only way out is through. And I know it's kind of a common quote, but I had never heard it before that point and I heard it from him first and I remember just how much it stuck with me in terms of just how life is and how we grow through what we go through, and there's no way to like get out of the challenges, the soul initiation experiences that were provided. It's just we have to kind of walk straight through the fire of it, you know. And so that's at least how the title came through, and then obviously every lyric and everything is reflected in that. But yeah, in summary, it was.

Speaker 2:

I was, you know, it was a time where I had just gotten out of a seven-year relationship and I was engaged and I was living in California at the time and I was thriving.

Speaker 2:

The thing about me is that, like I was thriving while, like, my life was a mess because I was living out of my car facilitating retreats, like that, I would organize and go and facilitate myself, also while recording an EP, but also while living in a car and trying to. Uh, yeah, going through this really intense period of my life of a separation and then getting into another relationship shortly after that was quite toxic and uh and quite and so, yeah, it was a wild time. It was my Saturn return, so I was 20. I was like 29, I believe. So, yeah, and after that, like that whole experience and then totaled my car, and then the pandemic hit, and then it was 2020 and then I moved back home, and so the song is all about like this whole period of everything kind of crumbling and crashing down and and like having to like completely start over again back home, where I hadn't lived since I was 18.

Speaker 1:

So and what were some of the thoughts, like to move back home. Was it like, oh, I need this, I like, this is great, perfect timing. Or was it like, oh my gosh, I'm going backwards. Like what was your internal experience?

Speaker 2:

There was two things happening. There's always two things happening for me. There's the one thing that's like knowing that there's a divine order and then also having the experience of resisting the process at the same time. You know, I feel like I have a paradoxical experience often in that way. I'm sure we all do the trust and the like and what's going on, but like knowing deep down that it's all for a reason.

Speaker 2:

And actually there was this interesting experience that happened where, when I totaled my car this is something I was like really proud of I was actually like struggling to the point where I felt like I needed like an intervention, like a divine intervention, to help me like break out of the situation that I was in.

Speaker 2:

And I was driving and I ended up totaling my car, I got hit the person in front of me. I got hit the person in front of me and for some reason I I was in the tow truck and I was like happy. I was like I was like all good, I was like thank you, cause like I knew that that was sort of like the final thread, that was sort of needing to go, so that I had to make a shift, and it was like a line of things. It was my car being totaled plus the COVID starting and yeah, and then my mom needing help and it was just like a number of things. That was like you're leaving California, you're going home, and it was just a little bit of a relief, but also like just a complete tower moment in my life.

Speaker 1:

Tower, meaning the tarot card of everything crumbling. I think it's such beautiful and empowering perspective and mindset to be like oh, I know I need to change, and so I'm seeing all of these experiences that other people might judge or label as like tragic or really bad, but it's like. No, I saw it as a completion. It was life actually like ushering me into and giving me a nice little nudge into this next chapter of my experience.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and sometimes you know, I'm just to be, to be like vulnerable, like I was very weak at that moment and I felt like I wasn't finding the strength to get out of the situation I was in and take the next step in my life. And you know, that's where, like, I'm grateful to creator, you know, and spirit for you know, I just you know how we say like everything happens in your life, whether it seems bad or good, it's like it's all. It's all for your highest good, you know, and I kind of knew that and I was grateful for that.

Speaker 1:

It's all for your highest good, you know, and I kind of knew that and I was grateful for that has your experience of hearing this, and I mean this song is like a mantra of like the only way out is through. Does it ever make it easier when you're going through it, or is it just like, oh, this is nice to know, the only way out is through no-transcript.

Speaker 2:

right, the only way I was through, like you know, I'm going to get through this. On the other side, there's there's after the dark. There's always light, like you know, I can always tell myself that, but when you're in the thick of it, I feel like it's just like you're in it. You know you just have to be with the experience and face, because that's all this whole thing about, you know, trust, rebirth and transformation is. You know you're not just going to coast on like the how do I say trust for me is not about like everything's gonna be fine and like I'm okay. You know, right, as we, as you know, as a breathwork facilitator, no, you have to like go through the difficulty of facing everything that needs to be faced and bring it to the light, and that is always uncomfortable and that's what we go through anytime. We are going through any type of challenge or rebirth situation, and the more willing we are to face ourselves right, the more, the more, the greater like benefits or outcome we'll have.

Speaker 1:

Like look at the shadow, to feel the uncomfortable feelings, to accept where we are and to have the courage to keep showing up and keep moving through. What I'm hearing you say is like the rewards are reciprocal to that. So the more we're willing to do the hard work like anything else, maybe working out or whatever it is like the rewards are commensurate to the degree that we're willing to do the work.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly, and sometimes that work is sifting through. You know, when we talk about wholeness and trust, which I know is the theme for our upcoming live breathwork session together you know it's like wholeness is about loving all parts of ourselves and bringing up all the. It's the shadow work really, but, yeah, learning to integrate and love those parts of us. So that's part of the work, but we can't love them without feeling the pain of that. They carry the those aspects of ourselves and the trauma and all of those things.

Speaker 1:

We like to intellectually be like, oh I love myself. And then you know cause we don't want to feel the part of us that may be loathes ourselves or is embarrassed of ourselves, or whatever. It is Right, like to your point it's being willing to, to be with it, to be in it, to feel it. Yeah, what? What kind of experiences have you heard people share about listening to the song and what it means to them? Um?

Speaker 2:

yeah, a lot of a lot of people. Yeah, I think with this one, a lot of people I mean it's hard to say like this specific song, but I can say in general with my music, like people really can really find comfort. I think in it like I feel like people find I see myself as sometimes like a, like a cheerleader through difficulty, because there's other songs I have that are also just like. They're like happy, uplifting songs, but they're about like overcoming challenges, you know, and it's like you can do it, you can do it, you can do it. You got this, you know, and so in some way, I feel like this song is another extension of that and I feel like people have told me that, you know, just in general, my music has supported them, you know, through like some really really dark times and the. You know how grateful they are, which is obviously the point and incredibly beautiful to to know and and to be support and of service in that way beautiful to to know and and to be support and of service.

Speaker 1:

In that way, it sounds like you're writing these for you as well, like cheerleading yourself through your own journey, as well as for anyone who may listen yeah, I think for me, all, all music, that's the thing.

Speaker 2:

Even recently I was talking to my mentorship group in earthbeat that I run about like medicine, music and how you know, really all music is medicine, because even if you're talking about like a regular song, that's maybe you hear on the radio about a breakup or whatever like someone might relate to those lyrics so deep that it might be like healing for them because they just went through that or something. You know what I mean. So it doesn't really have to be like these words that I'm saying about planting, building my fire and planting seeds and being with the ancestors and you know medicine and sweat, lodge ceremony and, um, you know, putting yourself back together after breaking down, or but like it all is medicine, you know, and I feel like it's. It's medicine for ourselves and it's going to going to be medicine for for anyone else who listens to it, that relates to it, that finds like they can hear themselves in it yeah, I love how you just shared that.

Speaker 1:

It's like your path has been through, uh, the red road path and through maybe, plant medicines and other things. But what you're, what I'm hearing you say, is like but that doesn't have to be everyone's path. Somebody's path might be through something totally non-spiritual or whatever it's called the medicine for them. So I guess my question is like what is what is healing? How would you define healing then?

Speaker 2:

Well, from.

Speaker 2:

It's interesting because from my studies with the work of wholeness, actually, and through the lens of I've studied with the Animus Valley Institute I don't know if you're familiar with with them and Bill Plotkin and his work, and they talk about healing has a tendency to contain the energy of being like more of a pathology, like there's something to heal, like there's something to fix, and so I have been like more so leaning into holing as a practice and how we can actually add, instead of like I need to fix something, like what needs to be added to my experience of life to make me the best person that I can be with this based on the four directions, which is really cool, because I've delved into that in a Western study and then had my vision quest for four years on diving deep into the directions and have explored this whole body of work about how the four directions are related to your holing process, which I could talk for an hour about.

Speaker 2:

So, in summary, healing and holing. Healing is important and part of the process of remembering and bringing up and out those things that are in our subconscious but having to hold them with love and care so that they can feel accepted and within us, us. That's essentially holing is what holing is about. It's like you, you all parts of you are, um, are lovable and um. They don't need to be let go of or like burned away or like composted. They need to be loved, right, and so that's where then it kind of translates more into like the wholeness, holing aspects.

Speaker 1:

I guess. And what does that look like as a practice? How do you like, what's the how to, what's one way that you've seen or that you do to love those parts of yourself? Do you just say I love you? Is there like a ritual that you do love those parts of yourself? Do you just say I love you? Is there like a ritual that you do? Is it more awareness-based?

Speaker 2:

There's, so there's many. I mean this is more in like the theoretical. I guess there's, yeah, the study that I've done and like the practical work that I have done and have guided others to do, more so than you know, like the plant medicine and things like that. But you know, like the plant medicine and things like that, but you know it's related to which I'm sure you're familiar with, but parts work, it's similar to parts work. It's actually is parts work. It's just like relabeled under the lens of working with nature and the four directions.

Speaker 2:

But essentially, yeah, like writing letters to like discovering a they call like a sub personality of you that maybe it's like you know they're like the escapist is, is connected to the east, so it's like the addict and the person who, like escapes to find, you know, to fill a void or whatever, to like try to.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there's a lot there, but essentially like naming that part of us and then simply like being curious about it, not judging it, but maybe journaling, about interviewing that part of you, these practices that I've guided or learned to guide on the land, where you like go on a walk with your East's escapist self and and sit with them and, you know, put them into an object, like a rock or a tree on the land, and then have a conversation with it. It's really interesting. It's some, you know it's like so those are some of the practices. And and then, yeah, you know it's like so those are some of the practices. And then, yeah, the letter writing is one of the most powerful of like writing a letter from, you know, from my inner mother, to like my most ideal mother, to like my wounded child or my inner child, or things like that. Practices like that.

Speaker 1:

Amazing Sounds very like getting out of the intellect and the head and dropping into a different, accessing a different parts of ourselves. Very powerful. I don't know if this was literal, but there's a. You know. You've kind of mentioned some of the lyrics from the song, but there's one that we haven't talked about which I want to ask you about. It's so you say built my fire, planted seeds, looked in the mirror, saw a whole human being. Can you share more about this process of cause? We all look in the mirror, we all see ourselves in the phone, like all the time, like there was that just a line or was? Is that a practice for you as well? Like what is your relationship with yourself when you look in the mirror and this awareness of, oh, I saw a whole human being, which maybe before I didn't yeah, I mean that the first line is quite practical.

Speaker 2:

I mean the experience of for me, the experience of moving back home to Michigan where, like I was, lived an exotic life. Before I mean, I've been a pretty nomadic and have spent time in all the countries in South America and Central America and spent half of my years there. So I was really deep involved with indigenous people and plant medicines and this whole world and permaculture. And then I moved back home and I was like wow, like there's none of that here. This is like I left when I was 18. So, but it was such a powerful experience because I built. I built a fire in my backyard so I dug out a fire pit and then I also planted a garden with my mother. You know so physically it was actually a really grounding, like reclaiming experience of taking all that I've learned in my life and finding peace. I have all so much, there's so much abundance in that, like for me being home, being on the land, planting gardens, having my own sacred fire that I build, and, um, yeah, and just finding myself again, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 1:

That makes me curious about your roots. Where did you grow up? Was it in Detroit? And what was your childhood? Were you always an artist, always a singer? Were you always into the earth and learning more about the land, or is this something that you grew into once you left home and you came back like the hero's journey?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you came back like the hero's journey. Yeah Well, when I was young, nature was always like my sacred place, like I felt like nature understood me more than anyone else and so you know, that was always my like escape, I guess. And then I've been singing and, like my, I have a tattoo on my back that's a treble clef symbol I got when I was 18. My whole life was in singing lessons and choir and dance and performances. So you know, I've was. It was always a part of my life, um, and nature was always a part of my life, um.

Speaker 2:

But I went into the activism route when I was 18. I got to go to Capitol Hill and get trained by Greenpeace as a campaign activist and it was like this whole thing that I applied for and I wasn't even supposed to do it because I was supposed to be in college, but I was the only high school student that got accepted and it was a really cool big deal. But I was the only high school student that got accepted and it was really cool big deal and it became activism. Environmental activism was a became the first outlet for me of that, because I that's, you know, that's the mainstream way to help the world, the environment. Right, the first step.

Speaker 2:

And then, yeah, it's a long story. Yeah, I loved music. I went off to college and actually wanted to organize people festivals, because that's the other thing is I always used to organize my community at my house and have these days where I'd facilitate like retreat, many retreats of my life, since I was like a child and I just sort of was like weaving it all together throughout the last 15 years in more of like a real way. But I'm really blessed because, yeah, it's kind of trippy, like my mom even has said have thought like how crazy it is, like I was sort of innately had my purpose from one age Sounds like you're doing exactly now as an adult.

Speaker 1:

is what you did growing up? Connected to all of those, those passions, those loves, the, you know, the energies.

Speaker 2:

Right. But it hasn't been easy because I it's a blessing, it's the biggest blessing of my life that both of my parents were like do what you love, follow your heart, like always. But I've also just been like OK, like, and like so, like the matrix and you know, bureaucracy, like finances, stability, like all of that stuff has been like not an important priority for me. It's been like how do I like be of service to the world and just like have amazing experiences and heal and share music and organize community. So I'm still figuring out how to, how to do the adult adulting thing and balance everything.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, what's one thing you've learned that you can share with people who are maybe earlier in the journey. You know where you were maybe five, 10 years ago in terms of what you're just sharing, like following your passions and also like the quote unquote, real world and finding that balance, or you know what can you share that you've experienced? I used to have so much advice.

Speaker 2:

I used to have a lot. I feel like I'm almost like I'm not. I'm not an elder status, I'm only 36. But I've gotten to the point now where I used to feel like I knew everything. In terms of this is like life paths, and my path is my path and someone else's path is their path. And I know that's not necessarily like giving that advice, but it's like I could tell someone like I wish I would have like actually learned more about investments or actually thought a little bit more about creating a deeper foundation of stability in my life at a younger age and yet at the same time, like I would not be who I am if I hadn't gone through every experience that I've had and like had the like amount of death and rebirth, initial processes that I've gone through that have made me who I am and have the wisdom and the connection to the earth and spirit that I do. So it's a trade-off.

Speaker 1:

Who were some of your influences? You said, growing up you were into choir and singing. So how did you? Has it always been hip-hop? And how did you become a conscious hip-hop artist? There are not. That's not a huge.

Speaker 2:

Mm, hmm.

Speaker 1:

Segment of hip hop.

Speaker 2:

I mean I grew up in Metro Detroit so I was around a lot of rappers or like people would do cyphers and and they'd try to get me. They knew I was a singer. I was a lot more shy then but you know I'd participate in some of those things and try to get me in a studio and always listen to gangster rap. I mean I was like I was like, you know, smoking blunts and you know, drinking cold 45 and listening to Tupac and Too Short and you know I could go on and on and you know was really that person for many years growing up, and so it's rap. Hip hop has been part of my life, and then jazz and gospel. I, you know, part of a lot of my private singing lessons over the years were jazz focused. So I learned a lot of jazz songs and, yeah, and I loved gospel. Choir touched me in such a beautiful way and I got to do that in in college.

Speaker 1:

So let so, let's go somewhere unexpected. You talked about singing gospel, but you've also talked about indigenous traditions, and I'm just curious what your upbringing and your path has been between like and how you relate to religion, spirituality, indigenous traditions. Can you say more about that?

Speaker 2:

indigenous traditions. Can you say more about that? Yeah, so I'm technically not Jewish because of patriarchy, but my father's side is Jewish and my mother's side is Methodist technically and we have a little bit of native blood in us. And mostly my religion growing up was nature. I'm grateful because there was no religion that was pressed upon me per se.

Speaker 2:

My mom raised me, so we were in our own deeper exploration with what spirituality was and learned at a young age about the laws of the universe and metaphysics and how to manipulate time, energy, manifestation techniques etc. And so that was one thing for me. That was like learning about spirituality and the laws of the universe. And then nature for me was more of like this feels like real, this feels like real spirituality for me. I always felt like that's the place that I could really connect to, like I was like this is, this feels like me, it's. You know, it's harder, harder to explain, but I feel like there's the spirit Right, and then there's the earth and there's the different realms, you know, and the spiritual realm and then the earthly realm, and I feel like I was starting to understand that at a pretty young age until, yeah, one day I was in college and I was studying music business college and I was studying music business and I remember this from my mom. My mom tells the story. She thinks it's hilarious because I was just, like you know, in the busy city streets like calling her, crying.

Speaker 2:

I'm just like I can't do this anymore, like I just want to go live, like I don't know, in the like, in on the land, with, like indigenous people or something like. I didn't know what I was saying, I didn't even really understand it at that time. I was, like you know, 18 or 19 at the time and I didn't know what I was saying, but I just felt the call that there was something guiding me to to that. And you know, year, a year or two went by and then I learned about like community living, land-based living, and I like sold all my stuff and went on a really long journey to learn about our connection to the earth and homesteading and when I always felt like I wanted to be in wild places.

Speaker 2:

And then over the years I had the opportunity to connect with the Red Road Path and meet lots of different indigenous people and elders throughout the Americas and really informed and affirmed my connection to nature and learning about ourselves through the elements and the directions and plants and sacred plants, which for me is, you know, that whole indigenous spirituality perspective. For me it's like I don't walk around claiming that I'm indigenous or Native American and so I'm always respectful and really humbled by just the opportunity and the privilege to even receive this wisdom and these teachings and how it's informed my life and how I've, in my music and my path and pretty much my life's been since then, been centered around like where, where are my elders? So I'll go there this winter and be with them and help them with their ceremonies, or, you know, it's been like that for me for I don't even know, like nine years. So centered around supporting elders and ceremonies and and then sharing those teachings and my processes and my healing processes through all of that in my music.

Speaker 1:

What is the Red Road path for all of us that you know?

Speaker 2:

the blood is the thing. The red in the blood is life. You know, it's the path of life. It's the path of walking on behalf of life, creating life, tending life, whatever that means for all of us. The red road is essentially a path and it's also often called the beauty way of different kinds of ceremonies. In the Lakota tradition they have seven ceremonies, and I won't get into all the details of that, but the ones that I've participated in are supported Sundance ceremonies, which I'm sure you're familiar with or have heard of and a lot of people know about, and then the Amblecha ceremonies, which is a vision quest, and then there's the sweat, the Inipis as well. So, and then there's the Tipi ceremonies, native American church, and that's been my path as well for a very long time and sitting up in those ceremonies and learning and praying together. So Wow.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's awesome what kind of people are drawn to your music that you've seen.

Speaker 2:

I think what I've heard is like it's like like this is refreshing. There's a there's this, the spiritual new age kind of culture and I was also in that for a long time kind of that, more of that ethereal kind of can be like somewhat bliss head, spiritual bypassing vibes, I transformational festivals, sexy like showing off I don't know. And then I was so yeah, so what I'm getting at was essentially like people that were also maybe tired of that energy and they were looking for something like more grounded as far as the spiritual path goes. And I feel like there's a lot of people that listen to my music that are are finding like their um, like a different connection to spirituality, to through through my music. That is a little bit more grounded, I guess. And yeah, I think.

Speaker 1:

Awesome. So let's talk about the event that we are going to be collaborating, co-hosting together. It's bringing combining the music of Sister Stone with the modality of Revelation Breathwork, and I had the honor of facilitating a one-on-one Revelation Breathwork session for you and I'm curious to hear your experience from just this practice also breathing to because you chose the playlist of music that inspires you and kind of met you where you're at so breathing to inspiring music, and then we also breathe to one of your own songs, and what that whole experience was like.

Speaker 2:

Wow. So, to be honest, I had only done a little bit of breath work before that and I was blown away. I was completely blown away by the amount of emotions that had moved through me. Like, by the amount of emotions that had moved through me, like it was as if there was stuck emotions, stuck feelings in my body that were just instantly being released. You know, for me that was so powerful because it's not like it's yeah, it's first of all, it's not for the faint of heart Like it wasn't easy.

Speaker 2:

It wasn't an easy process because you have to like push through some resistances to the work, you know of doing it, but for me I felt I felt like I cleared years of stuck stuff in just a short period of time. And and the fact that you know it was connected to the, to music, it brought like this super powerful element of not just doing the work internally, but like the music itself was signaling healing. I don't know. It was signaling things that my body was carrying that that it needed to release. So, through the lyrics, like one line, and I would hear it and as I was breathing, it was like hitting that chord for me of what needed to be like kind of untangled and released and um, so it's like and and all yeah. So I feel like any conscious music that you're going to breathe to, especially my music, will like truly unlock some powerful stuck emotions, which just clears space, obviously, for new beautiful blessings and things to come in.

Speaker 1:

And we have a theme. Do you want to share more about the theme?

Speaker 2:

Yes, so this theme for our live Sister Stone Breathwork experience is trust and wholeness. And we have a theme, Do you know?

Speaker 1:

and just trusting the cycles of life that we go through and so for you, being somebody who hadn't done a lot of breath, work, and maybe some of your audience, fans, community hasn't done any or a lot. What would you share with them?

Speaker 2:

I would say it's like one of the most accessible things, healing modalities, because, because all you need to do is breathe and that's something that we all do and it's like you don't have to try. I mean, you just have to breathe. It's not easy to breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe for 30 minutes straight, but we can all do it, and there's no. You know what I mean? There's no, and so for me, it feels like it's one of the most accessible modalities to be able to like fully like break through, transform, release, heal and open up so much space inside. And so I feel like for my community and my audience and fans to be able to do that with my music is something that, an experience that I couldn't even be able to like comprehend. I can't even comprehend how powerful that's going to be for everyone, so I'm just so excited.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I can't wait to. And so that's Saturday, july 12th, 3 to 430 pm Eastern. You can get the information in the description or the link of wherever you're listening or watching this. If it's on Instagram, you can comment, sister Stone, and we'll email it or we'll DM it to you. And so I have one more question for you. I got two questions for you. Let's do the fun one first. What is something magical, surprising that has happened to you recently?

Speaker 2:

Well, let's see, every day is magical. I mean, the main thing that comes to mind is, uh, the blessing of finishing my, my vision quest in the north and all of the magic and during that was completely profound to have this deeply intimate connection, relation with creator, with nature. So many visions that came through from that. So beautiful.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for sharing. Where can people find you and what are you up to now?

Speaker 2:

creation-wise, and we're just a beautiful, loving, supportive community of mission-oriented music artists and I'm supporting everybody, mentoring them with accountability and music career strategy, growth, branding, marketing, et cetera. And then we have amazing music industry guest teachers every month. So that's my beautiful project and, yeah, I love it, love it and are you making more music?

Speaker 2:

Oh, of course I'm always making music. Oh, yeah, I'm like just released a new song Fridays, just released a new song and then called Guided, and then, yeah, I'm going to release another new song this month and have a load more of music to release throughout the next. Yes, always.

Speaker 1:

Well, thank you so much. It's been such a joy and an honor to be here with you, to learn more about you, to dive into Only Way Out, and really excited to be co-facilitating this event with you in a little bit here.

Speaker 2:

I'm so, so excited and I'm so grateful and it's been such a pleasure meeting you and having to go learn, yeah, to be in this experience and learn about breathwork and experience it, and I can't wait to share it with the community. So thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

All right, thanks everyone.

Speaker 2:

Thank you.