Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 22

WELLNESS

HEALED BY THE GREAT BLUE WHALE

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n the fall of 2010, I travelled to the North Pole and gave the northernmost musical performance, to help raise awareness of the melting polar ice. I was guided to go by an important shamanic dream: I lay motionless on the frozen polar ocean, beneath which a great
blue whale was waiting for me.
When I arrived in Canada’s most northern village, two Inuit elders greeted me, saying they
had known I was coming – the whale had told them. I understood then that I was part of
something much greater than me. The elders recounted the Inuit story of the sea goddess
Sedna whose home is on the ocean floor and whose body became the whales, seals and
walruses.
At the top of the world, I sang my songs, and facilitated shamanic healing work for the
planet, while Sanskrit names of the Goddess were chanted. I quietly prayed, “Mother, I
know you are suffering. If I can help alleviate your burden in some way, let me know.”
Six months later, on March 11, 2011, before I learned that a tsunami had devastated Japan, I woke up in my Toronto home paralyzed from the waist d