The Sound of Healing

'Reclaim' by Malka Russell

• Jason Amoroso • Season 1 • Episode 10

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We share Reclaim with Malka Russell and trace the song’s roots from a sparse room in Colombia to an anthem for power, body love and voice. We explore sovereignty, sexuality, heartbreak and how sound becomes a space for healing rather than a cure.

• origin of Reclaim as a declaration recorded in Colombia
• a decade in the Middle East shaping voice and independence
• viral rise of Queendom and its ripple through healing circles
• stories from listeners on leaving abuse and loving their bodies
• sovereignty as alignment of womb, heart and spirit
• refusing spiritual bypass and finding God inside pain
• sexuality as life force beyond shame and dogma
• redefining healing as loving all parts back to wholeness
• performing in sacred and secular spaces with sibling duo
• breathwork as a container for release, care and presence
• upcoming music, travel to Bali and community offerings

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome back to the Sound of Healing. I'm so excited to have the one and only Malica Russell on today. Malka, thank you so much for making the time to be with us.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm really happy to be here.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's it's as the Sound of Healing is, we highlight artists and their songs that we've been playing in our Revelation Breathwork classes online or in person that people that just people love that I believe bring healing and that can change the world if everybody listened to. And your music is no exception. So really excited to have you on. We've been playing your music uh in our classes for for years. And so to be here with you, to get to connect with you, and then to do an event with you and the other women that are a part of it is uh just super cool and sacred and fun and exciting. So uh yeah, let's let's dive in.

SPEAKER_01:

Totally, let's do it.

SPEAKER_02:

So I'm gonna share a little bit about you with people that may not know about you uh or may not your background. So here we go. Malka Russell is a sound artist who synthesizes vibrational frequency and soulful sound, drawing listeners back to the truth of their heart. Her sound journeys are immersive listening experiences, where she uses her natural voice as a channel and healing vibrations from various instruments to bath to bathing listeners in the magic and power of sound. Malka has performed at Yale Divinity School, the World Psychedelic Conference, the World Sound Healing Forum, and transformational festivals and retreats across Hawaii, Columbia, and the U.S., sharing her voice and medicine in both sacred and contemporary spaces. All right, so what we love to do here is we're gonna listen today. The focus song for this podcast is your amazing song, Reclaim. So we're gonna listen to it together, get into the vibe, and then we'll dive into learning more about it and you. How's that sound?

SPEAKER_01:

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm gonna reclaim my power. I'm taking back all of me. I'm gonna love myself, beauty my energy. I'm reclaiming all my life. I'm gonna forget all the time. I put my clay on the clay on it, right there. I put my name on it, right there, right there. I put my clay on the clay on it, right there. I put my name on it, right there, right there.

SPEAKER_02:

That's so good, so good, so soulful, so real. Uh, thank you for bringing that into the world.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah, that that's kind of like a choranthem of my life. Also.

SPEAKER_02:

Tell us like where where were you in your life when you when the song came through when you wrote this song?

SPEAKER_01:

It's so funny because that was actually one of the songs that I wrote in like the most like broken down apartment in a small fishing village in Colombia called Taganga. Um, it was at a point in my life where I had was leaving the Middle East after being there for a decade. And I had hit rock bottom in a lot of different ways there. And I knew that I had to leave. I wasn't sure how or where or what, but I just knew that I had to leave. And I got the invite at the time from my brother to come to Colombia to do some sound healing there at a retreat. And so I came, I packed up my stuff, my music equipment, and like a couple bathing suits, and I left. And while I was there in Colombia, I set up my recording gear and I recorded this song. And so it was at a point in my life where it was it was in a really transition, a huge transition, a huge um, you know, it in being thrust into the unknown. Um and yeah, I remember literally the desk that I was sitting at as I was recording this, like in the I remember exactly what the room looked like. Um yeah. And that's where I was at when I wrote this one.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow. And can we back up a little bit? Like tell me more about tell us more about the your uh living in the Middle East for 10 years, is that where you were raised? Like how what was that life like? Were you an artist there? And then you know, I want to hear more about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So my journey there, I left America when I was 17. Um I left, I was doing some social service, like volunteering there. Um, and I ended up just staying and going. I started nursing school there. I was so young at the time, so I do feel like I grew up there in a way. Um where's then I started nursing in like it was in Israel.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Tel A near Tel Aviv. Um so I was there for yeah, literally like from 17 to like 27. So I started nursing school there, started like my adult life there. Um stopped nursing school, started music school, stopped music school, and then really started pursuing my my soul's path um in healing arts, um, which I got into sound healing. Um and sort of that was like the fusion of nursing school and music school coming together. Um, shortly after I started producing my own music. Um, and that's sort of when everything kind of just started blossoming. Um, and that was like the last like two years of me being there. And um, I shortly after, once I started blossoming, I like left. I left. Um and my experiences there were really unique, really challenging. Um, you know, it they were really formative, like they were really formative years in my life. I think because I was on my own, I went, I moved there by myself. Because I was on my own, I really developed like strong independence, really my adventurous spirit and my like open heart were just like kind of like always at the forefront, like the driving forces of my life. Um, just from being an immigrant in a country, you know, that you gotta learn the language and the the whole navigating life. Um but yeah, coming back to America after that was was really amazing because a lot of growth and expansion happened for me and my music. Um, this is where really I started taking off with my ceremonial concerts, um, you know, just producing more, releasing more music. Um, and it was interesting too because literally months after I left, I had uh Queendom go viral. And that was like, I remember, I remember waking up one morning on my Instagram and I just saw like hundreds of new followers, and I was like, oh my god. And then there's like like so many people like listening to that song, and over the course of like the next like six months, um that song kind of swam into a lot of different healing circles, and especially you know, women's groups around the world. Um, and since then, you know, my music just has kind of just continued with a ripple effect.

SPEAKER_02:

So which came first, Queendom or Reclaim?

SPEAKER_01:

Queendom came first. Reclaim I released uh after the yeah, I released Queen. I think I released Reclaim like a year after. Yeah, I think a year after.

SPEAKER_02:

And so you shared that you recorded Reclaim in Columbia, but like when did you write it? When did you write the lyrics? Like, was there what was going on in your world that it was like, oh, I gotta express this?

SPEAKER_01:

Um to be I think I wrote it in Columbia too. Um I was really just at a I was at a point where I wasn't sure what the next steps of my life were gonna be, and I was coming into my music stronger than ever. Um and I think it was also a culmination of a lot of experiences I had had um growing up, feeling powerless and feeling, you know, unable to express the depth of my heart, never knowing what it was I felt or how to express it. Being in Colombia really was a very empowering experience for me. And so I reclaim was sort of like a culmination of that. Um and it's interesting because I find that with a lot of the songs that I write, it's not necessarily always what's like it's inspired by what's going on in my life at the time that inspires me to write it. But then the song continues to meet me at different junctures in my life, and the meaning continues to spiral up. And that's been amazing. Like it's met this song has met me at different points of you know, breakups, at, you know, just different points of like experiences with my own, just my own body. Um, and hearing the way that it's met other people also um like continues to inspire me. So yeah, it like continues to the meaning of the song continues to evolve with time also.

SPEAKER_02:

That's how you know it's universal. It's like the message is divinely delivered, you received it, you know, create brought it out, expressed it, and then because it's that as a timeless wisdom, it it k it like you I love that spirals up so it it hits different parts in different stages of life and has like that universal message. So you shared a little bit, you kind of referenced as a great lead-in. What are some of the reactions and responses and things that people have shared you around this song?

SPEAKER_01:

It's been really, really touching. Some of the comments that I read, I it brings like tears to my eyes. I've read some comments like I was able to leave abusive relationships, you know, and this song has like been my anthem just in the in the aftermath of me being able to leave. I've heard like women struggling with just loving their bodies, either just you know, in their young years or postpartum or um, you know, and that being also an an anthem that meets them, you know, in that. Um and I think I do, I think it's something that all humans deal with this, you know, element of of self-love, but especially especially with women, you know, the whole the whole beauty, f really seeing our own beauty is like it's the revolution that's happening now, but it's it's it's like now more than ever, you know, women. I would say it's like the the crux of of so much of women's suffering, and it's gonna be the the the start of so much of the liberation of women is simply when we can acknowledge and truly acknowledge our own beauty. And the beauty that comes from the divine, like a creation that like comes through me, you know, not based on anything, anything else. So yeah, yeah. The reactions have been really touching.

SPEAKER_02:

Can we dive into some of the lyrics? This song is like a declaration, right? I'm gonna reclaim my power, reclaim, I'm taking back all of me. And this might seem like an obvious question, but we want to hear from you. What were you taking your power back from? Or who, or you know?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Um, so it's really interesting because yeah, specifically with this song, I don't it was I there was no specific person that I was writing it about. So I think a a huge lesson that of my soul in this life has been feeling and stepping into my strength and my voice. Um I think the majority of my life that I can remember, um I was always a really deeply sensitive, empathic girl. And growing into a woman, I I found myself in a lot of situations where you know, because I was so sensitive and never learned tools, you know, to learn how that was a superpower. It was always my demise. So it it it got me into a lot of situations that I was completely neglecting my heart because that was how I learned to be. And so taking back all of me is you know uh a declaration to all previous versions of me that I am now stepping into a a version that is empowered to speak and to love from a place of strength and not from a place of repression and shame, which were huge, huge themes in my upbringing. Yeah. Um I don't know, I can go off also like here, like I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, go off from your chair as much as you'd love to.

SPEAKER_01:

I grew up extremely religious. I grew up in an extremely religious upbringing, and so that was um repression wasn't just something like from you know being an extremely sensitive girl. It was literally uh like a lot of dogma that I grew up with being told how to dress, what I could do, um, how where I could sing, you know. I wasn't allowed to sing in in you know, in front of men, I wasn't allowed to dress in a way that made me feel how I wanted to feel. Um, so I learned from a very young age that repression kept me safe. So being seen speaking up, these were all things that I really never had practice doing. Yeah. So I sang, and that was like the only thing that really allowed me to feel present and in my authentic expression. Yeah, this song was just, you know, it's like I got this one life, and I want to live it in a way that's that's that's present and here and speaking from my heart. That's like what this song is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So how did you break away from the confines or the dogma of the of the religion that you were raised in? And uh you said repression in a way was safety. So maybe was the opposite of was it like, oh, expression's a little unsafe, it's a little risky. Like how what was that process of like kind of breaking away from what you were raised in to be live more authentically for your expression?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So I think moving out was at a very young age was a big part of like breaking out of my religious upbringing. Um, and I have I have no um animosity really toward it. I actually see the way that it conditioned me to be a very um, it can it's conditioned my awareness to be really sensitive to like spirit and things of uh and being really intentional with my energy. And I do, I I accredit a lot of that to my religious upbringing, but um really breaking away happened when I left and I was living on my own. Um and I mean out of religion, plant medicines were a big part of my journey out of religion and into the realm of um spirit and God and nature. Um and I think my journey in into sound healing and using my voice as an expression of spirit moving through me, um, and singing from a different place than my more contemporary music was also another vehicle into my spiritual path and continues to be, continues to be every day. Um but yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And was the plant medicine journey, was that was all and the sound healing, was that all when you were in Israel as you were like on your own and exploring life?

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, that all happened there, yeah. When I left, when I left, I I was already involved in the sound healing. And so um, I was a little bit more like clear with my direction, but um yeah, it all happened, it all happened when I was abroad.

SPEAKER_02:

And have you returned home since not just like visited, but like what was the return home like after being gone for over a decade? And what was that like?

SPEAKER_01:

It was honestly a culture shock, like being here. Um I it was it was difficult. I I felt very clear that this is where I had to be to expand my career and to like step into the next chapter, but I definitely felt like I mean it's socially very different in America, especially like East Coast, like you know, like tri-state area. Like it's just like such a different vibe. Like, you know, like even like the nightlife, the bar scenes, like it's all so, so different. Um, I feel like sometimes even like going out dancing in clubs is like just like everyone here is still pretty stiff. Um, and like it just was not like that. Um, but but yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And were your parents or you know, was it was it were you welcomed back and accepted like, oh, you're different now than kind of when you left in this environment.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, totally. I'm really close with my brother, so I came back and I actually moved in with two of my brothers. Um, you know, my family's sort of eclectic and interesting. So at during what my time abroad, my parents had divorced and my dad had remarried, and my mom actually was living in Columbia at the time. Um so I kind of came back, and it wasn't like I was coming back to like like a family unit. I was kind of coming back, and everyone was totally on their own journeys and paths. And um my mom always, I think my mom always raised me with, I I give so much credit to her. She raised me with the uh sort of paradigm of parenting that was roots and wings. So, you know, she always was an advocate for me pursuing my heart, my heart's desires. Um and like she was never a no to anything, which like looking back, I was like, yo, I could have done some crazy shit, but I didn't. I actually was like extremely like, what does my soul wanna do? And like, you know, but um I think that's actually because she gave me so like because she was so entrusting like with me. I I always I always wanted to I was I always look for for you know really where really I I always look for a uh just the the deepest voice in my heart, where is that directing me to whenever I'm making a big move? So yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Beautiful. Moving moving back into the lyrics to talk about using my voice and my sovereignty. What for you is like what does sovereignty mean for you? Because that can be like a buzzword in like spiritual circles, like, oh, I'm sovereign, sovereignty, and it's like you hear it a lot, but like what is it, what does it mean for you? How does it show up in your life? What's the opposite of it when you're maybe not in sovereignty?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So sovereignty to me means as a woman being connected with my womb, my heart, both in connection to spirit and and higher God, a higher power, like whatever you want to call it. So when I am aware of and in connection with that, um, I'm sovereign, meaning I I'm like acknowledging my my human my humanity alongside being like endowed with the gift of life from my creator.

SPEAKER_02:

So I would love to hear you say more about what you just said, which was I'm in touch, like I'm allowing myself my humanity and being human. What's your experience of like seeing, or maybe yourself at certain times, of spiritual bypass?

SPEAKER_01:

Hmm, I love that. Um, well I think yeah, spiritual bypass is yeah, also another great buzzword that that um you know I think it comes down to really simply like being human is really fucking messy. Like it's messy and there is no is like no one escapes the mess because our souls wouldn't have come our souls wouldn't have chosen to come down here if we knew we were gonna escape the mess. Like everybody goes through the mess, and you know, it's not glorifying the pain or the suffering, but there is this element of like okay, you know, there is a certain level of grit and depth that happens when we go through uh suffering and challenging experiences, and none of that should be bypassed. Like, I was actually in a beautiful ceremony once, and this this came really strong to me. Um, where I heard this message of can you find God in the pain too? It's not pretending the pain isn't there, you know? And I do believe that love is the highest frequency, but that doesn't mean that it should negate all the other like experiences going on right now. I'm going through like the worst heartbreak of my life right now, and like surrendering to it is like the only thing that we can do. Like in times of suffering, it's not about spiritual, it's not about using any sort of fancy language to bypass the experience. It's surrendering to the experience and still being brave enough to seek God in it. Like, period.

SPEAKER_02:

Amen. That's what I gotta share this with you. I've shared this with some of our other guests only because it's come up. So I am a student of the Way of Mastery, which is a cousin companion book to A Course in Miracles, if you're familiar with The Course in Miracles. So The Way of Mastery is also a channel text of the teachings of Yeshua, and there's 35 lessons. And lesson 26 has this really beautiful passage that I'm going to read to you because it is exactly what you're talking about. I keep it by my desk, and it's totally reframed the way that I experience the crucifixion. So, where um a lot of places you see Jesus like on the cross, and it's like, oh, it's a sign of suffering, or it's a sign of like, oh, he died for our sins and I'm a sinner, and that's a that's a different, I think, um, that's a different experience of the crucifixion than what I have. And a big part of that is based on this sharing, and it speaks to what you're saying. So I'm just I might edit this out. I might keep it in, but I want to share it with you. So he says, When I decided to allow the crucifixion, I jumped. Can I find my father even more deeply here? For me, it was the culmination of a life in which I developed trust that my father would always catch me, and that journey has never ended. And it speaks to exactly what you're saying. Can I find love even more deeply in this situation, in the heartbreak, in the crucifixion, in the bankruptcy, in the cancer, in the whatever? It's like, can I find it even more deeply here? Instead of like, what's the tool or the mindset or the spiritual practice to get me out of it? It's like, whoa, that's a that's a different level. That's like no hiding. I'm going in. And I think for the people that are willing to go in, one, it's wildly can be can be wildly uncomfortable, painful, scary, and it's also where unconditional love resides. It's like it's there, it's right there. So I just want to share that because it's a it speaks to what you share.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, I I love that so much. I think another another thing, like it it reminds me of also, it's like um another thing that I can look at out into the world and see um an example of the the resilience that you're describing is literally Mother Nature. Like the biggest neutralizer, the the the the this incredible earth. Is literally able to has for years literally taken everything, everything that we've we've put on her, and she continues to give us life. And when I look at that, it is so soothing to my soul because it's like, okay, like resilience. She is resilient and giving endlessly.

SPEAKER_02:

Love it. Yes. All right. One more on the the one part of the lyrics and reclaim is about reclaiming your sexuality. And I think it's important. You kind of touched on this, but I think it's important for people and and women to hear this part of the song and what it means, meant to you, and what other people have shared. Like, can you share more about this reclaiming of your sexuality that you reference in the song?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. My relationship with my sexuality was very formed and conditioned by my upbringing. So because I was in a really repressed upbringing, um, my sexuality was non-existent. I growing into myself in the present day, I I can feel the nature because I was so like because I was such an empathic girl, part of my nature is literally feeling the sensual movement of life always. And my whole world of sexuality was so shut down that like it felt like this like huge part of me that was I was just always really ashamed around. Um and that also led me into experiences of deeper shame with deeper of led me into sexual experiences where it only reaffirmed that shame that I hadn't looked at yet. Coming into my body, coming into my heart, and the spirit that is inside of me, like sexual power is literally my life force, and it is something that it's like my my privilege in this life to harness and walk with and sing with and love with. And so um, yeah, it's it's oh my gosh, it's I I feel like it's actually one of my soul's biggest lessons in this life because um I can only s imagine myself in like 20 years from now where I'm gonna be with this, you know, with this theme. And yeah, it feels like like I could see her and it's just talk about upward spirals, like yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yeah, it's so important. Thank you for sharing that. It's so much so much, you know, like I think in any kind of growth, healing, work, most of the people in these kinds of communities are women. So I think it's really important for them to hear you share that. Um how do you define healing?

SPEAKER_01:

I saw how yeah, I love this question. Healing is when one is given the space either through self or another, to love all the parts of themselves that are still waiting and asking to be loved. And in that loving of all parts, there is a return to wholeness, peace, and innocence. And that's like that's the that's the healing that happens. Um yeah, so healing is never a ritual, healing is never a thing, uh way. It's like healing is yeah, it's the it's the return to loving all the parts that are within us.

SPEAKER_02:

That was it right there, just to be able to share that with people. I think it's really important for them to heal hear that because it's a different way of thinking about healing than most of us are taught.

SPEAKER_01:

I was I was gonna say, like, I think for a while I even resisted the title of sound healer, and I resonate more with the sound artist because like the the whole all the um connotations that come with healing is to say that, right? There's something that is wrong with you. And it's never that there's something wrong, it's that there's something that is rejected and misplaced and in need of love.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, there's something we teach in our facilitator trainings, is like the idea that typically generally people hear the word healer and it's like, oh, they're gonna heal me. I'm going to them so they can help, you know, they can heal me. And it's like, that's not really what a healer does. So I've also struggled with that title. And the and the way that we teach it is healing is remembering and loving all parts of ourselves, and only love heals. So totally.

SPEAKER_01:

That's also the like one of the it's been my Instagram bio for a while, but it's like music to bring you home, you know? And that's really, you know, that's that's why I think people listen to music, period. It's because they're reaching for a feeling that they need help with getting there. That's why we watch movies, that's why we listen to art. It's like the the the pull like to something bigger and to something more true that we as limited humans forget so easily. And that's the whole trip. Like, you know, forgetting, remembering, forgetting, remembering.

SPEAKER_02:

And it gets us out of, like you said, it's the feeling, it's the energy, it gets us out of our head and our intellect and our overthinking to really listen and hear a song at the heart level, at the soul level. It's a different level of communication with oneself, with life.

SPEAKER_01:

Totally, totally. Yeah. You know, it's funny also. Sometimes people are like, oh my god, we love your music. Like that, and you know, we love you, we love your music. And it's like, sometimes it's like it's it's you. Like, it's you. This music has met you. And like all of those feelings with exist within you. And it's like, I know the artists that have changed me, like, oh my god, they brought me to that place in my soul where I can now have greater access to the love, the divine, the forgiveness, whatever it is, you know.

SPEAKER_02:

You've performed at some really cool places. It was neat to see that. From the Yale Divinity School to psychedelic conferences, festivals in Hawaii and Columbia, as you mentioned. What has that been like to perform in those different, those pretty different kinds of environments? Um, share more uh about that with us.

SPEAKER_01:

Soul music. Soul music to me is is music from the soul. And so to me, that what that looks like is my sound healing music, my contemporary stuff, um, and being able to sort of weave different musical experiences for different places that I'm in. You know, the psychedelic conferences were cool because we would um, you know, start with a lot more like soundscape ambient healing. Um, and the music that I play with my brother as well, we've played in a lot of also like um, you know, ceremonies at different retreats around the world, which has been so amazing. Um, and that music is also different, you know.

SPEAKER_02:

Um that's that's you know totally acoustic, just you know, live instruments and and our voices and you know, um when you say ceremony, just to be just to be clear, is that like always a plant medicine journey, or is that any intentional experience that people are creating?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so ceremonies, it could be like cacao ceremonies, different plant medicine ceremonies, um, intentional spaces that you know our people gather for for any sort of wellness or healing.

SPEAKER_02:

What did you play? What did you perform? What did you do at the Yale Divinity School?

SPEAKER_01:

There was this really cool event for um, it was like different, it was different um types of spiritual music. Um, and we brought in uh like a, you know, my brother and I brought in our ceremonial music.

SPEAKER_02:

So what is it like creating and performing and being with your brother in this way, Lion Child?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, he's so dope. He's um also plays wild sex, keys, um, he's just a wild character, and we're really like best friends. We have just a really amazing duo. We have to always let people know like we are siblings, like when we're on stage together. We are siblings, and that always gives a really cool vibe because I think you know, when you watch like two people, like lovers playing together, it's like a whole different vibe. Like they have really great chemistry, but chemistry with between siblings is this really like pure time, like like effortless sort of flow that him and I have. Yeah, you know, we work really well too together, my brother. So whenever we're playing at like festivals or different like music events, like he'll he's like the sun, I'm the moon. So like afterward, he'll be out there schmoozing with the people, like doing all the like networky stuff, and like I'll be like super introverted and like need to like go back to my room. Yeah, it's it's always it's always really, really fun and special with him.

SPEAKER_02:

Who is your dream artist to perform or collaborate with?

SPEAKER_01:

Ooh. Alicia Keys. All right. Alicia Keys is I love Alicia Keys. Um, someone who's been on my manifestation is Trevor Hall. I think I'm gonna Yeah Yeah, so yeah, Trevor Hall is um he was one of the first artists that um I discovered him actually when I was 18, when I just moved abroad, and um it was the first time I was ever like my soul was like transformed from his music, and so he always has a place in my heart that's like you know, really, really deep. And so yeah, I hope to, you know, play with him one day.

SPEAKER_02:

All right. If anyone's listening, let's make it happen.

SPEAKER_01:

And I love also East Forest, like I love that also more like also ceremonial, like um his music has been a big inspiration for my ceremonial stuff too.

SPEAKER_02:

As part of this experience that we're co-creating together, which we'll talk about in a minute, um, I was had the privilege of facilitating a Revelation Breathwork private group for you and the other women. Uh, what was your experience like doing Revelation Breath Work?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, because I literally spent the whole session crying. Um, I spent the whole session crying, and I'd done breath work before, and it was like I've done breath work before and I've done the thing. Um specifically at this point in my life. I'm in a very moving through this heartbreak is very deep for me. And so the breath work really just gave me the space for my heart to just feel what it was feeling and hold myself in it.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And contributing songs, you know, the the what we're doing together is bringing Revelation breath work to your communities with your songs, breathing to your collective songs, your songs, and the songs of the other women. And so you chose songs in the session that we did together. What was it like breathing to the music that you chose?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, it was cool. It was cool. It's like, you know, exercising to your favorite playlist. You know, you know exactly when the next beat is gonna come. And so like the the breath was like it made it easier.

SPEAKER_02:

And what was it like, if anything, being online, breathing with these other women that you're close with?

SPEAKER_01:

It was really beautiful. It was really beautiful. The space we connected, the space we connected in, you know, even though it's online, it was still everyone's presence was still really felt. Um it's also really cool, you know, you can be in the comfort of your bed and then sit up when the session is over and connect with, you know, everyone who's in the comfort of their bed, you know, together. So virtually is is it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's gonna be amazing. What are you hoping that people experience or get from being in this in this shared event that we're offering?

SPEAKER_01:

I hope that people who join can experience the the release, the care, and the presence for their bodies and their hearts and their minds. You know, uh, you know, it's so important to give all of those to ourselves.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and it's gonna be a space for people to come as they are, with we're all moving through something. Like you said, healing. The first thing you say is like healing is a space. And I believe that's our intention for myself, to you, to the other women, is to offer that space to people because everyone's going through something. Um and it feels like a lot of somethings uh over the last many years. We're all if you're drawn to either of us or any, you know, just any kind of awakening, growth, expansion in the trenches, shadow, whatever it is, we're all moving through something pretty intense at times and uh expansive at others.

SPEAKER_01:

So totally.

SPEAKER_02:

What are you up to now? Where can people find you?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, now I am uh people can find me on all the digital platforms, all music streaming platforms. Um, I got a lot of music in the works. I'm actually working on a really dope remix of Queendom right now. That is super, super cool. Um, so yeah, you can, you know, stay stay updated on all the music that I'm gonna be releasing these next few months. Um and I'm actually heading to Bali next week. I'm heading to Bali next week. Um, so I'll be there for a month or so.

SPEAKER_02:

And um say more personal, professional, a little bit of both?

SPEAKER_01:

Both, both, both. It was um it was a call, I feel like intuitively. I was actually thinking of moving down to Austin. Um, I just performed there and I I've been looking to move from the city I'm currently in. So I got really good feel from Austin. I was like, hmm, I could see this. And then I was like, before I make a move in America, I I've been feeling this tickle to Bali like for a couple months now. I don't know, what better time than like now to do it as when I'm in this, you know, transition. So I'm heading there. I know there's a big community of musicians and artists and you know, healers there, and I'm looking forward to connecting with whoever's out there and offering, you know, my music there too. So I'm gonna be in Ubood for a little while. And then I'll probably be back in America, you know, performing. We got keep keep updated on all the events and stuff on my Instagram.

SPEAKER_02:

So I'm throwing uh Asheville into the ring. If you haven't been, it's like a smaller Austin. Uh everyone we moved from LA, everyone moved to Austin, and we just kept going a little bit further east to Asheville.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. Okay, yeah. My brother and I actually did a ceremonial concert in Asheville two years ago um for like a tech company.

SPEAKER_02:

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01:

Like a retreat.

SPEAKER_02:

How'd they just like heard about you guys and were like, hey, we want you to come and perform?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. They were like, we're having a we're having a company retreat. The leader of the company was a really he's like a really cool guy. And so um he wanted to like sort of bring this to his company. So they they got this, it was on this really beautiful. I mean, it was beautiful. It was my first time in North Carolina, and like it was just like a the hills there were gorgeous, and um, yeah, it was like a bunch of tech tech guys, you know, at this beautiful retreat center that it was the first time any of them had ever like experienced, you know, like sound healing or ceremonial concert. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

That's so cool. Uh, do you do do you do online sessions? Do you do one-on-one sessions like sound healing or just groups? Like shit. Can you share a little bit more about that?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so I do mostly in person, mostly in-person sessions. So we, you know, I do them with and without my brother, um, at all different kinds of spaces, in all different kinds of spaces. Um I've done them virtually as well, you know, if that's something that someone's interested in. I do offer that. Um yeah, the majority, like we I'll do like also like, you know, I've done like bridal showers and baby showers and weddings, actually. That was special. I've done really beautiful sound healings for weddings as like they're walking down the aisle to like really like crystal bowls and singing. It's like been really beautiful.

SPEAKER_02:

That's awesome. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, thank you so much for making the time to be with us, sharing your heart, your wisdom, your love, your music. And just want to invite anyone, if you want to experience Malka in this way. We are collaborating with Sister Stone, Sierra Marin, Sophia Rain to offer this Medicine Women of the Soul Revelation Breath Work Journey Sunday, November 2nd, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern. We will do Revelation Breath Work. All of the Women of Soul will be there live, breathing with you. We will play their music. And if you would like, at the end, there's gonna be an opportunity for a QA to connect and ask questions and be in the space. So just want to invite everybody in.

SPEAKER_01:

Awesome. I'm really, I'm really excited for it. I think it's gonna be beautiful.

SPEAKER_02:

It's gonna be cool. Well, thank you. And uh yeah, this was great. Really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yo, Jason, thank you so much. This is really beautiful.