“What touches people is what comes from people’s real creative expressions.” Abby Poem
E155 – Abby Poem on Off-Grid Living, Creativity and Songwriting Melodies Of Transformation
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How can we follow our creative dreams and build sustainable livelihoods?
“What touches people is what comes from people’s real creative expressions.” Abby Poem
In this episode Amisha speaks with Abby Poem, a yogi, musician and energy healer living off-grid in the Ibiza mountains. Abby’s music is inspired by the colours and spirit of India and its culture of prayer. Her music carries the essence of deep transformation and brings forward a sense of hope. She has recently released her debut album ‘Change Will Come’. Abby is the co-founder of ‘Perception’, a creative yoga hub in Ibiza embracing research at the cross section of spirituality and neuroscience.
Abby shares her personal journey of finding her creative voice and following her dreams of living off-grid and becoming a songwriter guided by singing circles and kitans. Inspired by permaculture living, she now lives by herself in a solar powered and rainwater sustained off-grid house. This way of life has attuned her to nature’s seasons.
In summer she lives a social life and during winter she hibernates in solitude. It has empowered her to unfold her full creative expression as a songwriter creating a first crowdfunded album. Together they speak about ‘Perception’, the yoga hub bringing together spiritual practices and neuroscience in research on how spiritual modalities can transform our behaviour patterns. It will provide data for people on the impacts of their spiritual practices on their neurological pathways. The findings will establish scientific evidence and trust that the practices we are growing are having the impact and establish the state of balance we are hoping for. We learn that what touches people is real creative expressions. In order to find our true creative expression and authentic voice we have to find the courage for our hearts to be seen and heard in all their rawness. We have to tune into the melodies of change that are constant new beginnings offering us to shape new norms.
“Everybody’s story is so beautiful, and so worth to be told. I want to hear more and more people’s stories and to witness more and more people having the courage to share their heart and their soul.” Abby Poem
Born and raised on the Isle of Man, a beautiful, blustery Island in the middle of the Irish Sea, Abby Poem was blessed by a childhood filled with old folk-lore, myths and fairy-tales. She developed a love early on, for all things mystical, wild and untamed. Eight years ago she left London, leaving behind a career in Human Rights, to explore the world, study yoga and write poetry. Little did she know at the time, that Yoga and Music would completely transform her life. Abby’s music is inspired by the colours and spirit of India, its culture of prayer and connection to source. Together with this, the intangible and inexplicable power of native sacred ceremonies, pathed a way for her to find her voice. Her music carries the essence of deep transformation, and brings forward a sense of hope, when one transcends fear of change. Abby lives in the hills of northern Ibiza, off-grid, fuelled by the sun, the rain and the stars. She has recently released her debut album, Change Will Come, a collection of songs which tell stories of her inspiration and personal realisations, since deciding to follow her heart and wildest dreams. She is also the co-founder and lead yoga teacher of ‘Perception’, a creative yoga hub in the village of San Juan, Ibiza. Her days are spent teaching a lot of yoga, facilitating kirtans and singing circles, writing a book called ‘conversations with heart,’ and spending a lot of time doing DIY and working in her garden. She is an ashtanga yoga practitioner and not a day goes by that she does not pick up her guitar.
To connect or work with Abby, abbypoem.com
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artwork: Amalia Pereira
Resources and links from this episode:
- Abby Poem Spotify
- Abby Poem iTunes
- Abby Poem Instagram
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- 108 London
- Beau Lotto
- Ashley Radford
- Ganesh
- Rebecca Dennis
- Sexual Chakras
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