Early Summer, Summer Solstice - Seasons of the Soul CD

Relaxing Harp Music by Cymber Lily Quinn

The Motivation: End my Migraines!

The idea for CD Seasons of the Soul came from my own healing experience. I had struggled for years with all sorts of mysterious illnesses. None of my symptoms added up to a specific diagnosis, and so none of the treatments I tried worked completely.

When the mystery illness evolved into a migraine that wouldn't stop, I became a gentle warrior for my own health. I worked with a talented acupuncturist on Hawai'i Island, and when I became too sensitive for needles, she taught me how to adjust my energy, and reduce the headaches, by what foods I ate.

Connecting Food to Seasons

I ate what she recommended, and then gradually wanted to know why she was recommending these foods to me. She pointed me to a wonderful book called, Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford. It is a tome and dominates the cookbook shelf in the kitchen.

As I began eating in order to stop the headaches, I began to notice that the foods that my acupuncturist was suggesting were following the seasons. My body actually wanted to eat what was in season. Eating foods that were out of season or shipped from somewhere else were contributing to my headaches.
I continued to eat, following my body and following the seasons. I began to notice other patterns that followed the seasons, too. Different emotions or parts of myself seemed to step forward at certain times of year, and they seemed to be in a regular cycle.

I began to regain my health when I allowed my body to follow the seasons.

Enter the Harp

When I got to the point where I was trying Reiki to treat the migraines, my Reiki master suggested that I connect with something in my childhood that was happy. I remembered a dream of playing the harp and gave it a try. I loved it.

And when I discovered that it was possible to connect certain keys and styles of harp playing with various emotions, this was about the same time I was making the connection between the seasons, food, and my emotional and physical health.

Research and Experimentation

I started improvising around the idea of creating musical seasons according to ancient traditional Chinese thinking. This idea excited me tremendously. And isn't this what composers are doing anyway? Translating their vision of the emotional and energetic world into sound and music? I felt right at home.

As I learned the harp, I began studies with the International Harp Therapy Program in San Diego. It was through this program that I learned how to play the modes and how I learned to improvise on the harp. I am thankful to Susan Zevenbergen, my first teacher, and to Christina Tourin, who is the founder and director of IHTP.

I worked with the modes while I was reading about Healing with Whole Foods. I discovered that I had a different musical landscape than what I found while researching Paul Pitchford.
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Early Summer

June 21-Aug. 1

Fire

Heart

Expansion, growth, lightness and outward activity. Luxurious growth. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and gro

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