Jan can’t remember NOT creating or longing to move energy and brighten things up with singing, sewing, and art. At age ten, she begged her mother to bring her to the recording studio with her first original song, and she had taught the neighbor girls back-up parts. The fact that her Dad said she “could not sing in tune” didn’t stop her from finding a ride to San Francisco weekly to study with an opera teacher at age 15. Years of singing classically in her self-produced Women’s Concerts series, Musicals, at church and numerous other venues eventually led Jan to Anthroposophical singing in her 30’s, where she learned to suspend the vibration of tone. This led into guiding tone through intention for emotional and physical healing working with Hospice Patients, as well as exploring the Scientific and Spiritual Foundations of Vibration, eventually becoming an instructor at the Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco. Jan meanwhile became a Minister and Priestess of Isis, and started a global Women’s Initiatory Circle for planetary good called S.O.A.R. (Sounding Our Authentic Resonances). She uncovered her ability to use her voice for healing, a latent skill emboldened by lifetimes of mastery. The “visual aspect” of Sound, Light and Color therapy took shape in her work only in her sixties when she purchased brushes and paints seriously and enrolled in the Intentional Creativity Painting program. She felt time stop as she spent hours layering, glazing and refining nuance in her works on canvas. Jan still considers her voice to be her main medium, what was “once a five octave well-oiled mechanism chiseled by years of Anthroposophical study and four years of Therapeutic singing.” Jan owns her ability to heal the body through tone. “After some miracles, I was guided to concentrate on TEACHING others to heal themselves with my 3-step Be the Light method; no sense fixing others because it doesn’t stick!” Jan works with crystal singing bowls, gongs and bells during her workshops, concerts and other events. “The rhapsody of song and tone led me for years, and now the colors and images of paint beckon me,” says the artist, who is currently working in acrylic on canvas guided purely by intuition. “Not coincidentally, my first major piece is about how sound is the true oracle. Luminescent bubbles abound!” says Jan. When we asked Jan what her work is about she answered simply “I listen.” From there, she can use tone to powerfully work on others as a harmonic surgeon. One of the most important modalities she’s used over the years is called “Voice Release,” a 30-minute session of guided toning that erases trauma and restores the resonant clarion bell of truth. Jan works primarily with women awakening their voice of leadership though her organization SOAR, which offers Circles of Vibrant Awakening and Empowerment. After years of working with Divine Feminine Groups and individuals in the Bay Area and Marin County, Jan was drawn to “a little City of Light called Nevada City,” where she became a radio broadcaster and started her own web-based TV show encouraging her listeners to play, pray and listen to her new paradigm uplifting vibrations. Moving forward, she’s relocating to a final divine home on the water in Olympia, Washington, where she will drop deeper into her painting work and do Voice Release, Intentional Creativity Painting and Coaching from her office downtown. Her biggest artist challenge, as a pioneer in her field, is that she always feels “on the edge of making something socially acceptable.” At the same time, she’s happy she wasn’t a “Kelly Clarkson,” musing, “I would have gotten sidetracked in commercialism and missed the journey into Voice Release. I do not want to be a clone or be controlled or owned. My inner voice says: Never shut up a woman’s voice or her self-expression.”
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