I couldn’t tell this story I’ve called life without bringing up the music. The beautiful music that has guided me through synchronicities in the sweetest of ways my whole life. The medicine that has come through those ley lines is such a deep part of my story, I only hope this little glimpse I’m going to share here can give justice to the impact it has had.
If you have been following my blogs or visited my website you may have heard me talk about an energy healing system called Body Talk therapy. However, if aren’t familiar with Body Talk therapy, I highly recommend visiting justhealingwithmeg.com where I have resources and also share how I use it in Soul Journey sessions.
Anyways, back to the music. Around 2015 I learned of a band called Nahko and Medicine for the People ( MFTP), at first I thought they were just “ okay”. I liked a couple songs and few of my close friends wouldn’t shut up about them. Ultimately, they convinced me to go to Pyro Musical Festival where the band would be playing in 2016. I remember being so anxious, but something said to take my teenage daughter and go. Boy am I sure glad that I was starting to realize what following your “gut” truly meant. My life was changed forever at that festival, in the best of ways and the worst of ways. Quickly I became obsessed with their music, and then I started finding other artists/bands that were similar. It was like the music just spoke to me; the lyrics were always so relatable to my life I couldn’t stop listening.
During this time, I was still working as a social worker and freshly divorced, to say I was on a deep journey would be an understatement. From 2016-2018 I became a super fan of what I now know to be “ musical medicine” and had even found a nice online community of “medicine tribe” where I felt like I fit in. I also was getting into Astrology and Human Design, quickly seeing how the music was guiding me to not only explore my soul, but the Universe around me. I was starting to see there was so much more out there, and for some reason, I had to follow what the music was guiding me to do. Time and time again, I showed up, trusting that there was a purpose in what I was doing. With each festival/show, I learned and grew a little more. I learned that there was still betrayal even in a community where it seemed peace and love was the foundation. I also learned that weeding through the lessons, even if that included a crumbling of false illusions around some of the assumptions I made to be true.
Budding Trees was the song that brings me back to the opening of this article and the reason for bringing up Body Talk Therapy. My youngest daughter had also grown obsessed with this song, and after having my first Body Talk therapy session, I realized that the song lyrics described the steps used in the energy healing session! I was mind blown. I mean “ The body talks and meditation helps” is the hook of the song! I honestly struggle with the words to describe that moment it was so powerful as if I had figured out the secret to life. The miracle that I had found in Body Talk therapy, was right there in the song I had been listening to on repeat for years.
As quickly as I thought I had “ won the Universe” though everything turned upside down. Almost as if my life had been “canceled” and everyone in it had a different opinion of me. No longer was I this person who was trusted to give good information. No longer were people coming to me for advice, in fact, it was the very opposite, people were telling me I was the one who needed a therapist. And they were right. I had so much to learn about myself, and why this musical journey was happening for me.
I was so lost, but at least I had the music. Then, in a weird way, it seemed the music even left for a bit. Again, I struggle for words to describe how I felt back then in 2019. I was so sure of what I knew, how the music was guiding me to this purpose of bringing Body Talk Therapy to the world. My plan was solid, I had a whole community of people that were going to be just as excited as I was that one of the best Nahko songs also described a way to ( in my opinion) help heal humanity! Boy, was I wrong again? Then just as quickly as my life seemed to be canceled, so was Nahko’s.
What in the world was happening? I was so lost, yet I knew I just had to keep listening. Trust in the lyrics and the guidance it brought to this spiritual awakening that I was deep in the trenches of.
Which is exactly what I did, and I could write an entire book on that journey. The people, places and things that have happened and continue to happen are proof that listening to my gut, following the music and continuing to show up to help in this collective spiritual awakening is exactly why all this has happened to me, to Nahko and so many others on this planet. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the brighter your light grows as you confront your own shadows, the harder the dark side works to keep you down. But what they forgot was, there are too many of us willing to take the hard journey to liberation. The tougher the lessons, the greater the reward is, both on and individual and collective level.
This past week I got the incredible honor of experiencing a small Nahko and MFTP show in Ithaca, NY. While the band members have changed several times since the beginning there is no doubt they are still bringing musical medicine for the people. Not only did I get to see two live shows, I got to spend beautiful moments with people that have shared in this collective cancel culture and risen from the ashes of the dark night of the soul. Those of us that know what it is like to fight the dark side every day to continue this path for whatever reason. Those of us that know just how special it is to be here now. The amount of love and connection to Spirit, Creator of Mother Earth that was had at the Deep Dive during those two shows, was genuine community love and consciousness. A feeling of being with souls that probably traveled lifetimes together. A feeling I have been longing for since the day I arrived on this planet.
I can’t end this article without sharing how grateful my heart is for everyone that made my trip to see Nahko possible. Especially the gratitude that I have for Nahko, and the rest of the band for showing up after the world tried to shut them down. Those are the brave souls that can carry all of us home.
The Devine Witch
Meg Dixon
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