The Glacier's Song

Welcome back to The Glacier's Song podcast! In this episode, I dive into the importance of connecting to glaciers as our ancestors and as our elders which are -in their own geological scale of time- exhaling their last breath. I delve into why is important to be present with them in this moment, to listen, and to hold their hand.

This conversation has been part of the Ancestral Arts Festival, directed and curated by Antje Howard. Find more interviews here: ancestral-arts.com

This episode includes a 10min guided practice: a Listening Ritual where you can connect with your own presence, listen to the sounds of Glaciers, and Explore Your Voice in dialogue with the soundscape.

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This is a 7 minute podcast episode inviting you to time-travel to the year 2125 to imagine yourself as an ancestor. This is an invitation to imagine yourself being remembered by your descendants in 100 years time for choosing to be part of a group of ancestors that decided to be a bridge between humans, glaciers and time.

A Glaciers Letter to the Future Humanity is being created, and you can receive it and safeguarded through becoming 1 of the 28 Glacier Drops.

Be 1 of the 28 through the following link and receive the transformational power of glaciers to be passed on to the future. For the times when the glaciers will be gone and when we will be gone, let's make their voices remain.

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In this episode I have an inspiring, deep and lively chat with climate anthropologist Cymene Howe.

Through our various endeavours with and around Ok glacier, we dive into practises of being a good ancestor, and about the sharpness of the eye of the outsider.

At the door of Easter, we enquire about death and salvation for humans and glaciers, and on the grounds of hydrofeminism we cherish the newly formed lake in which the remains of Ok (Egg) are becoming a womb for new forms of life.

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Link to Not Ok movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvYLQc-Ldw&t=952s

In celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers Néfur offers a Global Sound Meditation with the sounds of glaciers she recorded in Iceland for people from all over the world to listen to glaciers' direct voices.

In this episode, Marcela Fernández, Cymene Howe and Néfur introduce you to some of the endangered or already disappeared glaciers of the world, and Néfur takes you on a listening journey to open your heart to receive the voices of glaciers in combination with her voice.

For a powerful experience, during the sound meditation part of this episode we recommend you close your eyes and use headphones.

The Glaciers we introduced and invited into the meditation are:

Anderson Glacier (United States)

Pico Humbolt (Venezuela)

Monte Perdido & Aneto (Spain)

Hofsjökull (Iceland)

Santa Isabel (Colombia)

You can find all of their stories in the Global Glacier Casualty List https://glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu

Episode hosted by Néfur in collaboration with activist and NGO founder Marcela Fernández from Cumbres Blancas Colombia and climate anthropologist Cymene Howe from Rice University and Global Glacier Casualty List.

In recent years, singer, composer & sound-artist Néfur has recorded the sounds of Icelandic glaciers, has sung with them and listened with them, while also creating original compositions, performances, workshops and meditative sound journeys uniting her voice to the ones of glaciers.

A reflection on a missing key in the climate conversation.Join us on the Global Glacier Sound Meditation on the 22nd of March in celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers.Info & Free registration at: https://mailchi.mp/fdadbc61a3a8/glaciersoundsMy recorded music made with the sounds of Icelandic Glaciers, The Egg and The Human, part of my upcoming album The Water, The Lover:nefur.bandcamp.comTrailer of my Live Performative Concert The Water, The Lover:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUi-heLSVpIFind me on Instagram @nefurmusic

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In preparation for the Global Glacier Sound Meditation that I am offering in celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers in collaboration with Cumbres Blancas, I had an inspirational conversation with Marcela Fernández, the founder of this movement that is inspiring people around the world, one country at a time, to join forces to take action for glaciers and their ecosystems from multidisciplinary angles. 

From our conversation sprouts a mutual understanding of glaciers as living beings with capacity to communicate to us, humans.

Glaciers speak to all of us through metaphor - ‘glaciers melting want us to understand that we need to melt frozen emotions’ - and through unconditional love - ‘glaciers are melting so we can wake up’. 

And then I wonder, once more, who is ready to listen? When did we lose the connection with the sacred ice that is the source of water that is vital to life? 

Both Marcela and I know that now is time for action, time to build connections and make kin with glaciers.

We are one of the last generations that has the opportunity to rebuild the bridge to the heart of glaciers. 

It is time for legacy, time to get to know the glaciers, honour them for what they are and create something together with them that passes on their memory to the future generations.

As a starting point, we ask you: Do you know if your country has glaciers? 

On the 22nd of March, you will be able to connect with a glacier through listening to glaciers' vibration and sound. We are looking forward to welcome you to the Global Glacier Sound Meditation on the 22nd of March, in celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers.

Register for free to join the

Global Glacier Sound Meditation here:

https://mailchi.mp/fdadbc61a3a8/glaciersounds

Other relevant links:

https://www.cumbresblancas.co

un-glaciers.org

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We are in the age of magic -says writer Andri Magnason-, we are doing rain dances in the hope that our words and our music will spread around the planet and influence our behaviour, our laws, our creativity, our consumption… in a way that we will harm the glaciers less or even save them.

Writer Andri Snaer Magnason has the power to stir your imagination to infinite corners of thought and thread them together in a train of clear, intelligible ideas. 

Composer and singer Néfur has the power to give voice to glaciers, singing the memories of water through her music and providing a deep, embodied, transcendent experience to her audiences. 

How old would you be if you were to measure your age in relation to the receding of glaciers?

Could a Japanese butoh dancer move at the speed glaciers are melting today?

What does the union and rebalance of feminine and masculine have to do with healing the Earth?

In what ways have Andri and Néfur experienced Ok, the first Icelandic lost glacier?

In this inspiring chat, Andri and Néfur hope that their rain dances will contribute to a better collective care of glaciers and the bodies of water of this planet. 

Andri Magnason book On Time and Water: https://andrimagnason.com/books/on-time-and-water/

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Welcome to the first collaborative podcast episode of The Glacier's Song :)

Here you've got an unmissable inspiring chat with my friend and collaborator Yin Cheng-Kokott, explorer of the body, erotic power and ancestry from many angles.

Don't miss on the living archive of our laughter when Yin and I first connected in Berlin. It will be contagious, and it may be what we need right now.

According to Píndola Estés, "laughter is a hidden side of women's sexuality, it is physical, elemental, passionate, vitalising, and therefore arousing. It is a sexuality that does not have a goal, as does genital arousal. It is a sexuality of joy, just for the moment, a true sensual love that flies free and lives and dies and live again on its own energy. It is sacred because it is so healing. It is sensual for it awakens the body and the emotions It is sexual because it is exciting and causes waves of pleasure. It is a woman's wildest sexuality.

Books we mention:

"Woman who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Píndola Estés (essay)

"The uses of the erotic" by Audre Lorde (essay)

"Parable of the sower" by Octavia Butler (novel)

"The festival of Serpents" by Sarojini Naidu (poem)

The Egg, my first single made in collaboration with Icelandic glaciers will be released the 15th November.

Pre-save it now on Spotify here to help The Egg to reach a wider audience. thank you!!!

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In the context of the current tragedy of floods in Spain, I decided to make available for everyone this sound journey, with the intention to be useful for anyone who might need a moment of serenity, inner peace, grief, prayer, processing and transmuting the feelings of collective rage and sadness.

Originally, this sound journey was recorded as part of the Mermaid Sound Session for the New Moon in Scorpio for the members of my Leap of Fire - Activate your creative power program, on the 1st of November 2024.

In Mermaid Sound Sessions, I create an intuitive, improvisation-based sound journey combining my voice with the sounds of nature I recorded around the world.

Mermaid Sound Sessions combine sound journeys with New Moon manifestation practice through journaling prompts and astrological insights. The sound journey has the purpose of helping you feel the emotions in the body and enter the frequency field of co-creation for your life and art.

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In this second part of 'How does a glacier sound like?' I invite you to travel with me to Falljökull, Jökulsárlon and Diamond Beach, Seljalandfoss waterfall and Ok, the lost glacier. Jump on to this audio journey into Iceland water bodies based on glaciers and discover their fascinating sounds, which I used to produce my upcoming album The Water, The Lover :)

Related recommended episodes:

9. How does a glacier sound like? (Part I)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zUl9eGr2GlQciNp8rzyu4?si=18b874a363a34244

10. Walking meditation with Ok, the lost glacier

https://open.spotify.com/episode/37zcSeEBq31jygrNccEnXC?si=1541d022741644da

4. Love overflow. Surrender, love is a waterfall

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1p8QG7jd5p7BWVMxdicDe0?si=a130c974ec204c6b

8. Nine minutes of intuitive singing with Langjökull Glacier

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0e6uQ21YE4ACA7oAlfUTcF?si=cd95752f8ecf44fa

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