About IVY RAY
Extensive musical history available upon request.
Ivy Ray is a Single Mother. A Singer. A Creative. A formerly Signed Recording Artist and Global Performer. A Business Woman, An Entrepreneur. A published Song and largely non-fiction Writer. A 26 Year Interdisciplinary Educator of Multidisciplinary Means and a Senior Teacher of Nevine Michaan’s Lineage of Katonah Yoga©. Ivy is A Native New Yorker. A Communicator. A Collaborator. A Session Singer, A Voice Over Artist and a Speaker. Her forte for decades as a teacher has primarily been private instruction, One on One, intimate systematic groups and partnerships. Her work has spanned from educators, therapists, elites in business, sports, literature, music, film and the arts, top women’s organizations, mothers, parents, partners, to teaching and mentoring young adults, new Katonah Yoga teachers, movers and shakers, leaders and lots of regular ole human beings, in everything from Constructing Wholeness, the path of fierce grace and living life as yourself, to the quest for overall well having been at the hands of Trauma and all the wild and lovely in between. Ivy has been a unique and potent voice in Katonah Yoga Teacher Trainings Regionally and Globally.
Some Influences: in no specific order: Music, Nature, All Relationship, Natural and Neuro Sciences, Nevine Michaan, Ken Wilbur, Course In Miracles, Gurdjieff, Alan Watts, Hermes, Nisargadatta and Music’s makers. Ivy is a forever student/Grateful Participant/Collaborator of LIFE. LIVING, Loving, Humanity. Of Being A Woman, OF BEING A MOTHER, of being one’s self, and is continually living through the pattern/waves of Geometry, Music, Measure, Movement, Cadence, Art, Comedy, Design, Film, all within the Intelligence, Power, Medicine and Cyclic Patterning of Great Nature herself, The Seasons, as her Primary Living Breathing Blueprint.
She could fill a page, a book, with how living her life within and as music saved her life and Enabled her to Become, including the stories and tributes to the composers, singers, musicians, lyricists, and songwriters, producers, engineers and audiences that dwell forever in her world, her marrow, her heart.
Ivy has been a lifelong multidisciplinary mover, athlete, and dancer. When little, she realized that when she moved, everything was different, and if she kept moving she would be OK. Her finest, most formal powerful Education IS + ALWAYS HAS BEEN in the Experience of Life Itself. From a very young age, Ivy found school to be unsafe, disturbing and an awful waste of time. Ivy began singing, writing and meditating when she was very small. She had keen musicality, super sense-ability and a tremendous almost unbearable capacity for Feeling. She was aware of the Innate Creative Nature Underneath, throughout, at the edges of Life and in herself and music had a Strong Vivid imagination, which held the comforting knowing of being someplace other than where she was as soon as was Reasonably Possible.
At the age of 15, Ivy left it all far behind. She went On the road/onstage/and eventually into the recording studio, in the Continuing Education, of the World of Music. Her Seamless Fit, her HOME, which saved her life, gave her the freedom to be and develop who she was and Provided the Profound on-the-job training of Being in Continual Musical, Creative, Intimate, Performance, Professional and Business Relationships, the paramount human lessons of communing, collaborating, communicating, co creating, articulating, mediating conflict and so much more in others’ bands, into her own and eventually toured globally, wrote and recorded with some of the Eclectic Musical Giants, from Roy Ayres to Buster Poindexter to Kool and the Gang, Roland Vasquez, Herbie Mann and more. Ivy is a formerly signed recording artist herself, a published song, still and ghost writer, voice-over talent, studio singer, performer, life/business consultant and speaker.
Ivy is a natural Communicator. She has a Unique Singular Voice and Approach to Life, Living, Loving and Educating. She possesses an Innate and well-developed ability to transform Complexity into Simplicity without missing a beat. It’s One of the Keys to her Own Over All Well-Being, Sanity and Joy, so she knows it by heart. This enables her to reach/teach/be, get on, with just about Everybody. Ivy also Reveals/Reminds of the interconnectedness of things, building a bridge of skillful means by which to pragmatically, creatively, even improvisationally implement all of what one is learning, being, in loss, in gain, in mind, in body, in spirit in experience into one’s Life Living, eventually perhaps seamless as One Taste.
Ivy, her life and work is continually informed and morphed by the Emergent Wisdom of what has been, the Privilege and Great Joy of her Son and Mothering, the Natural World, Music, Humanity, Movement, Neuroscience, Comedy, ALL Relationship, Her Family and Dear Peeps, Pups, All of those she’s Blessed to Work with Especially in the Private Lab :) everyone who makes Art In Response to Being Human, The Awesome/The Awful and the Daily Grace, Grit and Beauty of All Things Life.
ABOUT KATONAH YOGA
The techniques underpinning the Katonah practices come from classical Hatha yoga, Taoist yoga and the panpyschic vision belonging to western esoteric philosophy.
The language of Katonah is metaphor and analogy; identifying the body as the abode, exploring the body as one’s instrument, the mind as the musician and the breath as the melody. The power of analogy allows the individual to use life experiences to define the personal and understand the collective.
The Katonah practices use the keys of breathwork to enter into states of meditation. Breathwork is incredibly accessible, practical, magical and transformative.
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