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A video for the Connection Mix from the album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection — a 28-minute instrumental journey through all eleven stages, paired with each stage’s conceptual art and an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, made for meditation, yoga, Reiki, and deep work.
The Meditation Mix from Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection — a 28-minute instrumental with vocals removed, designed to accompany meditation, yoga, Reiki, and deep work while pairing with the stages-of-connection book.
An overview of Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection, describing its Meditation Mix, a Connection Mix journeying through eleven stages, individual stage tracks, an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, and where the record was written and recorded.
A reflection on the spontaneous creation of the song “Oh I,” written and recorded in one uninhibited session as the artist sang out a low mood, presented with its chords, drum pattern and full lyrics.
A sensual song written for lovemaking, described by the artist as loopable ‘baby-making music’ about desire rekindling in the afterglow, presented with its chords, technique notes and full lyrics.
A gospel-blues original song, with full chords and lyrics, about the certain feeling that wonderful things are coming — written the morning of the author’s 2016 birthday — and about openly welcoming that unknown good as a return to one’s true self.
An upbeat original song, with chords and lyrics, about resilience through hardship — the idea that being rooted in the truth of your soul makes you unshakable, so you can defiantly weather any storm that life brings.
An original love song, with chords and lyrics, exploring the idea that home is a person rather than a place — the deep emotional need to return, morning and night, to the one whose gaze makes you feel at home.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, about longing for a simpler, freer life — the feeling on vacation, camping or in an RV of wanting to stay in a life without chasing money or things, where you can simply be yourself.
A deeply personal original song, with chords and lyrics, written in grief after the death of the author’s mentor and father-figure — about how those who guided us in life seem to remain with us, still guiding, after they are gone.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, using the metaphor of a river to explore living with the flow of life — weaving in yoga imagery of flow, pose and breath — and letting go of struggle to be carried where you need to be.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, reflecting on the beauty of youthful naivety — how the unscarred innocence of the young, though clueless, is a pure state that the older and more scarred can come to envy rather than mock.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, exploring the metaphor that falling in love is a kind of death — the shedding of an old self as new love awakens forgotten parts of us and feels like crossing from darkness into light.
An autobiographical song about finding the courage to leave a harmful situation and later helping others escape too, presented with chords and full lyrics as encouragement for anyone who needs to leave.
An autobiographical song for mothers about the habit of self-sacrifice for family approval, and the realization that loved ones are happiest when one is fulfilled, presented with chords and full lyrics.
An original song, presented with chords and lyrics, about the guilty delight of watching karma catch up with someone who wronged you — a playful, tongue-in-cheek anthem of schadenfreude written in a fit of laughter.
An emotionally charged original song, with chords and lyrics, about parents deliberately loosening the fences so a child will push toward independence — capturing the grief and love of sending grown children off into the world.
An original percussive blues song, with lyrics and playing technique, about how we seek validation from others but can ultimately only give it to ourselves — and how youthful uncertainty opens the door to manipulation and oppression.
A goofy, lighthearted original love song, with chords and lyrics, celebrating a deep simpatico connection between friends who are also lovers and soul mates — playful, affectionate, and full of inside-joke affection.
A love song, with chords and lyrics, about the frustration of finding words adequate to express a connection too big to communicate — reaching for ‘better words’ to convey the depth of feeling for one’s one true love.
A love song built one word at a time, with chords and lyrics, capturing new love and attachment, the pain of a partner being taken away, and the excitement of their return.
A song, with chords and lyrics, telling the true story of how the artist met her love — a serendipitous chain of a canceled early flight, a lost wallet, a rooftop party, a bus, and a nerdy opening line.
A song, with chords and lyrics, about living amid accelerating change — the fear of losing the illusion of choice, and the discovery of space on the page and peace in the change as it burns on.
A song, with chords and lyrics, studying the anticipation of the date destined to end in romance — the nervousness, the mutual knowing, and the butterflies of an inevitable attraction.
A love song, with chords and lyrics, about the quiet moments of waking beside a partner — not wanting to part as morning light pours in, feeling safe, unchained and free in their presence.