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Nominated by #Grammy Winners themselves…Private #Voice lessons in Eastern #Idaho!  #Recording Studio, #Talent Agency, #Vocal Instruction, NSAI #Songwriter, #Management Teams…all in one place!

Savage Music Studios has been around since 1991 in Eastern Idaho…our students have worked in the New York Metropolitan Opera, Recording studios in LA, New York and Nashville and have toured all over the world in their designated fields.  We are now taking students in the Fall of 2010.  This is a 16 week course for beginning, advanced and professional students.  For more information email:  Voice@savagemusicstudios.com

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I was asked to do a #music tour in #Europe two years ago, was just asked again…what do you think?  My old music is…http://blip.fm/SweetLady but I just wrote some new stuff with a new writing partner that a lot of people like, and I’ve re-arranged my old stuff too!  David Archeletta’s former producer and arranger is an old freind, maybe I should have him relook at my stuff too.

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#Grammy Nominated #Vocal Instructor now taking #students in #Eastern Idaho…private voice lessons once per week for a 16 week course.  Basic voice, Stage work, recording techniques and legal all covered…

Here is our lesson schedule for the 16 week course…

Sign up now for April Classes…Gearing up for the Eastern Idaho State Fair!

Schedule for Voice

First Year Students:

Orientation and Exercise CD
Breathing
1st Register
2nd Register
3rd Register
Tongue Position
Whistling
Patter
Performance
Set’s
Recording-1st Song
Recording-2nd Song
Recording-3rd Song
Recording-4th Song
Recording-5th Song

Website-Talent Page

Returning Students:

Review of Basics
Website Recordings:  Set Songs
Photo’s and Bio…Ali and Kira Epperson
Review of performance Techniques…Show of one, table of one
Entertainment Techniques:  The business of Managing…You.
Copyright And Publishing:  Airtime is Care time.
Webbing:  On Line, On Time
Contracts:  Legal Music
Recording-1st Song
Recording-2nd Song
Recording-3rd Song
Recording-4th Song
Recording-5th Song

Website-Talent Page

All students will be reviewed by Nashville Marketing and Branding Company
with Grammy ties of their own.

All lessons are 20.00 per 30 minutes and on scheduled times only.

If you want to book your private voice lesson slot, you can call us at
208.390.2934 and leave a message or email us at:  Instructor@savagemusicstudios.com.

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I have been asked a couple of times over the course of the summer about Samoa, not by outsiders, but by Mainland Samoans, about our ancient culture, our traditions, our religion, our healing methods, our songs, our legends, our dances, our fighting methods, the way we built our houses, our boats, how we navigated, how we taught our young, how we cooked, how we fished, how we hunted, basically, how we lived.
Now, I was raised here in the US by my grandparents a goodly portion of my life. My grandparents lived like Samoans, but had the modern methods of living. It didn’t change the way my grandparents spoke, it didn’t change the way my grandparents were, and I guess I picked it up.
So now I have children, and they search for their own identity.  They are Samoan.
I wasn’t harsh with them, the way they are over in Samoa today! that had to be taught to the Samoan Culture by the Dutch. We never struck our children before the “whites” came, and our children were obedient. Our children stayed close to the mother! always around her, on her lap, by her side. She sang to them, she taught them, she passed on the geneology, she napped with them, she ate with them, she worked with them until they were old enough to be considered an adult.
The families were very close, so close that the they are considered “tribes”.
I think that because this was lost when the Samoans migrated to the US and other european areas, so many are starting to search for who they are, where they came from and why they feel the way they do.
For those of you who are Samoan, but not raised “Samoan”. My brother’s and Sisters, you are not lost, you are only on your journey back to your home!
I will begin to put a website together for those of us who need to remind our DNA where we call home.
I will call this website:  Samoa.SouthPacHealth.com
This website will not only have my Samoan based business information, but I will also put in a page on “Samoa Lost” where you will find legends of the ancient samoans, recipes for authentic Samoan food, links to polynesian boating sites to teach how to build your own boats, song clips, write-ups about our ancient religion of “Mana”, Articles on Rapa Nui, the place where Samoans came from and our ancient culture from Peru, all the stuff Samoans ask about and a blog that has how to integrate our Samoan or Polynesian heritage with modern culture. I will have articles written by Chiefs on Samoa and the political process and all those things that make you tick.
Give me some time to put this all together and send me an email if you want to know when it’s up and going! .homeblend@gmail.com, and I’ll send you an update, or if you want to contribute to this project!
Thanks for letting me rant!
d

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In the still of creation, there is a transfer of energy, of light, that can cause such excitement, such anticipation in matter that it envelopes the very essence of genesis, of life.
This exotic and powerful dance has been known and watched over by the Polynesian people since before they were “Polynesian” people. Polynesians have been explorers, astronomers, oceanographers, botanists, Physicians, Spiritualists and Healers from the beginning of time learning, teaching and applying their craft in the name of Mana, a word from our ancestry of Rapa Nu’i meaning, “unnatural power”.
To us, it means the power of life and creation, not only for humans, but for all matter that adheres to the same laws of space and time in which we live.
In our legends, we tell of the world being born from the sea of darkness, a substance you can swim through, float through and live in, a substance, not an emptiness, a substance.
In the Polynesian legends, all spaces and time are filled without void, and all spaces and time progress to the energy or power that is willing to sacrifice its own power, only to be filled with more power from the next space or time. A community of unity and order where energy and time is self-perpetuating and infinite.
From the beginning, our ancient people sought to be one with all things, the world, the air, the sun, the planets and space in order to harness the power of the universe and comprehend all things, to have Mana, to be Mana, to control Mana.
Mana, the ancient religion of an ancient people that taught us reason, that taught us the basics of life, that taught us to speak, to sing, to wail and to fight.
With Mana we understand that all things are energy, some things will give energy, some will take energy. We know that every inch of our being, every inch outside our body, every inch between the earth and the sun and beyond, is filled with matter, with energy, with instinctive intelligence.
As the ancients stood before the sun, and felt the warmth of it’s energy, and saw life gravitate towards it’s brightness, they stood in awe of its power, until they discovered that at night, the sun no longer had dominion over the planet, and man sought out “fire”. When he discovered that he himself could create light and heat from another source that was attainable, he began to search and wonder about the true source of “light”, of energy and power.
The ancient ones saw that their hands could harness the power from their surroundings and they themselves could create. They began to understand that they themselves were the seeds of Mana. They began to understand that to have Mana, to be Mana, to control Mana, they would have to understand themselves.
There began to be a concentration on the human body and mind, the perfection of cellular function in order to gain control over the energy and power that surrounded us. The High Priest of Mana, the Ancient Fo’fos and the ruling families were all well versed in the education of Mana and sought to further their knowledge of this power and it’s control. The High Priest searched out the ultimate source of power for their understanding, the Ancient Fo’fo’s sought out the power of the body and the earth to heal, and the ruling family who administrated over a civilization manipulated the power of Mana in order to save themselves and their people with a government. If Mana was sought after as a weapon against others, the power was not sustainable, because the human body absorbed the energy to feed it’s own darkness, it’s own anger and it’s own destruction. If Mana was used to heal or to learn or to teach, then the power was greater and reflective off from the person who was administering the ancient art and augmented itself in the surrounding areas and people. In other words, if Mana was being used as a positive energy, then the power would be like an avalanche, picking up speed and power on it’s way to it’s destination energizing each cell of matter as it cascaded along. If Mana was being used as a negative force, then the power would be absorbing, like a large rock that sits in the sun taking the energy to make heat and only influencing a small area surrounding the rock. The energy never completely goes away, but lays passively until acted upon again.
We began to learn that not only existing could influence Mana, but the intent of our words, our voices and our will could influence Mana as well.
Those of the Nurturing Class of Mana were powerful, insightful, and mystic,
learning to cascade energy and pooling it from place to place in order to correct abnormalities that sometime occur. The Infant Class of Mana were content to allow the power to ebb and flow through them in order to sustain life and daily breath, to achieve order in the true sense of obedience.
In the order of Mana, obedience was the true trigger for power and understanding. To understand the laws of energy and power and then to abide by them. To learn to walk with balance so that you do not stumble and fall. To become passive was to accept Mana and all its advantages, to become aggressive was to accept the responsibility of creating energy and displacing energy.
Within the hierarchal structure of Mana, there is the omnipotence of power dwelling within galaxy, upon galaxy, weaving within and without white holes and black holes, in between red dwarfs and new suns, asteroids and comets, moons and planets which deliver a balance of passive and aggressive power or energy.
The ancient Polynesians have learned that all this power can be harnessed in the tone or in the silence of a single sound emanating from the human body. A single vibratory cell calling out for the rest of time and space that it belongs to to join it and take what it has to offer. A seed to perpetuate light, energy and power that goes beyond human comprehension. This is the Art of Mana.

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In over 200 years of assimilationist practices imposed upon the indigenous cultures of Polynesia, much of the religion of Mana and it’s art of healing has been lost.
During the period of time that Polynesia was being conquered in the name of the Christian God, the High Priests of Mana were chased out of their homeland because they were seen as evil and un-godly. Because prosecution was seen as the new lifestyle of the Priests, new recruits were not forthcoming, and Mana was then passed from the Priests to their children until today, only a handful of practitioners remain, and they are not willing to expose their cultural art to anyone but blood.

Polynesians have long proclaimed that “mana” holds the very essence or design for every cell in the body and mind. That long before our time began, all space and time was held in a single seed. The seed was hot, hotter then the sun itself. The seed shook and vibrated with all the power and energy that it held within. Finally, the seed matured enough that it burst forth with the web of life and began to expand holding within every space the pattern that would become mankind. Within every piece of matter that came from the seed, was the pattern of Man, and the ancients saw that it was Man that caused the universe to expand and grow, it was man for which the universe was created, and it was man that bound the past, present and future.
The pattern of man could control the very order of the universe, the order of matter itself. The ancients understood that everything they would touch, a piece of them would remain and bind them to it, so that men could claim it as their own. The ancients would know, that we are all connected through the pattern of mankind. The ancients ones called it a “pattern”, now we call it DNA.
Gregg Braden writes in his book The Divine Matrix,
“! In one experiment to test the behavior of DNA on light particles, the authors of the experiment, Poponin and Gariaev removed all the air from a specially designed tube. Using engineered equipment, the scientist measured the location of the only things that would remain in the tube, photons.
the scientists wanted to see if the particles of light were scattered about, or on the sides of the tube, or in a cluster at the bottom of the container. What they found was that the photons were distributed completely unordered, everywhere inside the container.
In the next part of the experiment, samples of human DNA were placed inside the closed tube with the photons. In the presence of DNA, the particles of light arranged themselves differently instead of in the scattered pattern they were in before. The DNA clearly had an affect on the photons as if shaping them into a pattern through an invisible force.
Then the DNA was removed from the container and the scientist believed that the particles would return to the original scattered pattern, but instead, the photons remained ordered, as if the
DNA’s influence was still in the tube.  Poponin described the light as behaving “surprisingly and counter-intuitively”
In his summary of the experiment, Poponin wrote that he and the researches were “forced to accept the working hypothesis that some new field structure is being excited”
This experiment is important because it clearly shows a direct relationship between DNA and the energy that the world is made of.
Here, there is proof that there is evidence that there is a powerful relationship that ancient traditions have held sacred for centuries.
The DNA or “Pattern of Mankind” changed the behavior of the light particles !“ the essence of our world!

In 1993, the US Army reported in the journal Advances results from experiments by Dr. Cleve Backster, who designed the experiment, to determine precisely whether the emotion/DNA; connection continues following a separation, and if so, at what distances?
The Army started by collecting a swab of tissue and DNA from the inside of a subjects mouth. This sample was isolated and taken to another room i the same building, where they began to investigate a phenomenon that modern science says shouldn’t exist. In a specially designed chamber, the DNA was measured electrically to see if it responded to the emotions of the person it came from, the donor who was in another room several hundred feet away.
In his room, the subject was shown a series of video images. Designed to create genuine states of emotion inside of this body, this material ranged from graphic wartime footage to erotic images to comedy. The idea was for the donor to experience a spectrum of real emotions within a brief period of time. While he was doing so, in another room his DNA was measured for it’s response.
When the donor experienced emotional “peaks” and “dips”, his cells and DNA showed a powerful electrical response at the same instant in time. Although distance measured in hundreds of feet separated the donor and the samples, the DNA acted as if it was still physically connected to his body.
The Army had stopped their experiments with the donor and his DNA when they were still in the same building, separated by distances of only hundreds of feet, however, Dr. Backster and his team had continued the investigations at even greater distances. At one point, a span of 350 miles separated the donor and his cells. The time between the donor’s experience and the cell’s response was gaged by an atomic clock located in Colorado. In each experiment, the interval measured between the emotion and the cell’s response was zero-the effect was simultaneous! .There is a quantum field that links all matter, so all things must be and remain connected! .” 1.
The Priests of Mana understood that reality is a vibrational web or network that holds the secrets of life, consciousness and wisdom. Inside the vibrational web, each Pule’(master) or Fofo(healer) would find that there are many levels that Mana operate from. Although primal Mana teaches that there are 12 levels of reality, awareness and experience, here we will only talk about the 3 major levels.

In the first level, the ancients would assess the “physical” level, where all life has a beginning and an ending, where time is linear, that is, it progresses from the past, through the present, and into the future. If an ailment was to be addressed at the first level, the FoFo’s would prescribe a certain diet and offer fofo(massage) or lomi(kneading).

The second level of reality is manifested in energy and emotions. “Malosi Manoa” is what holds everything together, a web that is defined by “dark strings” which is the foundation on which man’s physical reality is built upon and is in the modern world referred to as “baryons”. The Ancients have long known that when touched, there is an invisible bond that is created between one persons energy and another’s energy or place! it is through this touch which creates a “dark string” that allows you to know when the phone will ring and who is calling. It is here that the ancients found that energy can neither be created or destroyed, only shifting to a different state, there is no death here and life remains stable for a long period of time, only being influenced by the ebb and flow of energy. Time is synchronous and is interconnected through Malosi Manoa. The past, the present and the future manifests itself at once for review of the Pule’ in order to administer authority or healing.

The third level is a plane of realization or spiritual consciousness! where perception, knowledge and action occurs all at once. This is where men dream, where we receive protection and support for our spirit and all things within the universe have a relationship with each other. It is here that the Pule’ defines power and how it is administered, it is here that the Pule’ is taught by his/her ancesters, it is here that death and life mingle together in harmony for all things, in all levels.

1.  The Divine Matrix! Gregg Braden, Hay House, Inc. pg. 43-48.
2.  Spirit Medicine! Wesselman and Kuykendall, hay House, Inc.

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Warren Barigian asked me to write a 6 - 7 page introduction on my version of VBM (Vocal Bio-Matrix).
I don’t know much about VBM, so I told him that I would write a 6 to 7 page paper on Mana, the ancient religion of my people.
My grandmother taught me much about this ancient way of healing, the herbs, the foods, the attitude, the chants and then Fo’fo’s.
I saw a guy once, while he was fishing, fall at least 30 feet down on to a pile of rocks and water from a bridge.
We all thought he was dead.  The village people picked up his body, and we carried him to a “Fo’fo’s” house.
We called to the old man for him to come out of his house. He was old and slow, but he came out to see the mans body. He had broken bones, had to have had a concusion or worse, lots of blood and no breathing.
The fo’fo had us carry the man down to the ocean where we took him into the water. The old man came into the water, chanting and slaping the water, he started to massage the mans head, neck, chest, arms, hands, trunk, legs, feet and toes, for an hour, chanting, slapping, punching, rubbing, breathing over him. He had us roll him over in the water and then hold the mans nose out of the water, and he continued the same treatment for another hour. I stood on the shore, and kept thinking, there is no way this guy is alive! No way.
After two hours of treatment, which is no easy feat for the Fo’fo either, the old man had us float the man up to the beach. We got him close to the beach and laid his body down. The old man slapped the man on the head and told him to get up. The man opened his eyes and started to breath. The old man said he was tired, and told the man, “go home!”.
The broken man stood up, and walked home from the beach.
Everyone was afraid of the fo’fo, but when they are dying, that is the first place they go for help or to save their lives. The power of Mana is mystic and secretive. Usually, only one holder of Mana is alive in a generation.
When I am done with my narative, I will share it with you!
Thanks
d

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