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Katherine Conrad
Music was abundantly showered into my genes from both sides of my family. I remember my Mom and aunt playing piano and singing, and my Dad's parents playing flute and piano! Dad brought home a violin made in Owatonna, Minnesota in 5th grade. I'm so grateful!
I now live my passion in the arena of both music and the healing arts. Having not determined my place by graduation from college, I followed the inner stirrings of my musical talent which led to singing and songwriting, all the while studying spirituality, psychology, human potential, and how to be an oval peg in a mostly rectangular world.
Beginning with a strong interest in musical comedy and jazz standards, my music eventually turned toward expressing the discoveries and insights of my personal journey through songwriting. Throughout the years after completing a B.A. in French and Music, I pursued continuing education at a variety of schools: Center for Higher Consciousness (Mpls, MN), Avalon Institute (Boulder, CO), Regis University (Denver, CO), Brooks Divinity School (Denver), and the Body-Wisdom Institute (Des Moines, IA). Another profound influence was the Unity movement. I began sharing music which expressed the struggles and joys of my own personal transformation before Unity audiences and have continued for 24 years. Marrying my best friend and advocate, Unity minister Ed Conrad, was an invitation to a life of change, commitment, risk, and the transforming power of love!
Meeting Marie Garry in 1981 was truly by divine appointment! Not only did I find in Marie a voice that so blended with mine and a musicality that equaled my own, but our experience growing up in famillies of 4 daughters brought us closer to a passion we would one day discover: studying, living, knowing, teaching about God as Mother. Our choice of musical material reflecting our shared values, and our similar songwriting styles have woven us together in a partnership with sacred purpose. The incredible friendship I have with Marie has been a crucible of Divine Mother Love and a blessed container of the mystery of my growth and transformation.
The discovery of Goddess Spirituality in the late 80's was for me an intensely life-changing yet wondrously grounding new beginning. Learning to honor as equally sacred to mind and spirit, the body, the emotions, sexuality and intuition was an exciting discovery! After much deep descent work into stubborn lingering demons of low self-worth, a non-trusting of Life, and reactivity to any and all authority figures, my music and healing work reflects a profound sense of "been there, done that," and a wisdom grounded in my feminine soul, tempered through the fire of experience.
Another life-changing moment came in January, 2000, when I broke my back -- the same month I began the study of high-quality essential oils. A rapturous return to my dusty left-brain cells awakened a passion for learning the order, intelligence, and healing wisdom contained in nature's healing oils. A rapid recovery of my back injury combined with a sense of emotional pattern change enhanced by the DNA-altering oils transformed me into believer, student, and now teacher. The knowledge that is a never-ending source of joy, the wisdom that accrues over time, the heart that opens in compassion, find their way into my songs, my teaching, and for passing what I hope to be truly helpful.