This week’s podcast is 20:24
This week’s guest: Fabeku Fatunmise, sound healer
Website: Sankofa Song
Blog: Sankofa Song Blog
Twitter: @fabeku
From Fabeku…
Hey, I’m Fabeku. (Hi. Hello. Fabulous to meet you.)
I love drums, chocolate and ninjas. Though not necessarily in that order. And when I was nine, I was convinced I was going to marry Cyndi Lauper when I grew up.
I’ve been hanging around art stuff and sound stuff pretty much my whole life. I’ve painted since I was a pollywog, and music has always been a big part of my world.
I’m still crazy about moving paint around a canvas, and my love of music has turned into working with sound as something that supports healing, balance, creativity and peace, while just generally making life way more gorgeous and way more awesome.
That means that I get to meet a bunch of amazing people, and see a bunch of amazing things happen – wounds healed, obstacles vanish, happiness multiplied, lives changed. All thanks to the uber cool power of sound.
I also record CDs, do concerts, teach workshops and do individual sessions, both in person and at a distance. And I feel crazy lucky that I’ve been able to translate almost twenty years of study into what, for me, is seriously the best job ever.
You can find out more about what I do by checking out my site – Sankofa Song.
Stop by. Check out the blog. Help yourself to some chocolate. Say hey. I’d love to hear from you.
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Show Notes
- I mentioned Full Moon Dreamboards.
- You can hear how to pronounce Fabeku’s name here (It’s near the bottom of the page)
- Fabeku talks about Cymatics and the work of Hans Jenny.
- Fabeku mentions singing bowls.
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Jamie,
What a beautiful site you have. I clicked on the link @fabeku had tweeted and before I could look for the interview, I was just filled with peace seeing your beautiful page. It’s truly nurturing. Then I moved on looking at what you shared about the interview. Your wonderful links, the beautiful pictures. The presentation is super inviting. Thank you.
Ah, then the interview. My grade school memories of anything that people consider creative are not pleasant. I don’t know the reason for that. I know I hated art and felt I didn’t have any talent or desire for it. I feel incredibly non-musical and once when I was invited (who knows why) to sing in a church choir, I turned down the request – figured they couldn’t possibly have heard me sing!
I did do a little needle work in my 20s and actually enjoyed it. I found a few of the projects I completed when I cleaned my Mom’s house out after her death. I found a few in boxes around my house recently. I guess I gave up the little creative part of me that might have been opening when I began raising a family. Looking back that is sort of sad.
This past year or so I am beginning to nurture that hidden part of me again. So hearing Fabeku share that “Creativity is for you.” Just struck me. It doesn’t have to be shared with anyone. There is no competition. It’s for nurturing my soul. That feels so good.
Thanks to you and Fabeku for reminding me of this.
Katie
This was a really fun and informative podcast. Lots of food for thoughts. I especially enjoyed the last part of the interview when you asked about what small steps we can take into the realm of working with music if we’re new to the idea and practice.
Thanks for doing and sharing this. It totally rocked.
I love Fabeku’s writing style— peppered with fun words ( “pollywog”), nostalgic whimsy (” married to Cyndi Lauper”)—— also it’s abundanance (”wounds healed, obstacles vanish, happiness multiplied, lives changed.)
Thanks Jaimie for introducing me to the creativity of Fabeku.
My fav part of the interview was taking time to get re-centered through creativity —– forget busy-ness
I LOVE this interview!!!! Such absolute great nuggets of wisdom!
It’s absolutely timely for me, because just today, as I was teaching my 8th grade art class a boy took the two cups on the table that we use for sharpening pencils, turned them over and started drumming. At first it annoyed me a tad, because—well, they’re middle schoolers and any slight distraction can cause armageddon arise in the classroom–but there was something about it–and I then started adding a beat by tapping the table, then another kid joined in, and so on—-till a whole jam session broke out. It lasted maybe five minutes…but, it was really powerful. I think all of us felt it.
Listening to this great interview has got me really thinking more about sound…and thinking it’s definitely time I purchase those guitar strings and pull out my old guitar.
Thanks for sharing.
Peace & Love.
Hey Jamie- just a note to say it is so exciting to see everything that you’ve been up to lately! I remember when you started on this journey a while back, and love to see how much you’ve grown and your work is beginning to spread to people who need it most!
In bloggy support and admiration,
krista
Hi Jamie,
This isn’t so much about this interview (which was lovely, as usual)–but about a subject I’m always interested in about other creative folks: money and making a living. Creative folks need to follow our bliss–but if our bliss is something that doesn’t yet earn money, then we don’t only follow our bliss, but find ways to negotiate earning a living too, in ways that may have a lot to do with our creative loves, or may have very little or nothing to do with them. There are so many ways creative people approach earning a living. Some work at jobs they don’t especially enjoy, some find work related to their bliss, some use skills they get a sense of satisfaction out of using–doing what they like for money, so that they can do what they love outside of paid work–and many of us try to create “portfolio careers”, parallel careers, or other creative combinations of what we love, what we like well enough, and what we wouldn’t do if we didn’t have to.
This kind of negotiation between creativity and money is common to so many of us–yet when artists are given the microphone or the pen, they tend to talk only about their art and not about the rest of their lives, including their financial lives and how they’ve negotiated this complex issue. I would love to hear other artists/creative people talk about how they’ve navigated the tricky relationship between creative and financial needs–and how they manage what often amounts to two careers (one paid, one unpaid) without sacrificing other important life priorities–including rest and down time.
So, this is a comment for you to make of what you will–it it seems appropriate to you, you might ask about these kinds of issues during some of your interviews.
Meanwhile, thank you so much for these and for all that you do!
Oh, this interview was fantastic! Thanks Jamie and Fabeku for sharing your fabulous wisdom!
Well, I finally had a quiet moment to listen to this interview. The piece that I loved the most was Fabeku’s wonderful sense of humor. I can just see his eyes twinkling through his voice. His web page is enlightening (and twinkling) too!
Thank you, Jamie for bringing Fabeku to us.