Musically, Jane began in the classical field, exploring oboe for many years and performing orchestrally and with symphonic bands. In college she branched into early music, singing in a collegium musicum and studying music history. Inspired by several children's fantasy books that featured Celtic harps, Jane acted on her fascination with the instrument after spending half a year in Wales studying medieval Welsh bardic poetry. She bought her first harp in 1987 and opened to whole new realm for her of music creation - that of arranging one's own music, composing, and the magic of making and unearthing the music in the moment: improvisation.
She released her first solo album, RoseGarden, in Spring 2000.
As a 21st century bard offering Celtic harp, storytelling, poetry, and song, Jane performs 30 minute, 60 minute, and full-length concert versions of Forest and of her version of the Selkie legend, as well as performances of other stories and music. Please contact Jane at jane-orale at this domain for more details.
As a "magical naturalist" Jane leads nature awareness
adventures for all ages woven with story and song.
Jane has apprenticed with Wilderness Awareness
School in mentoring youth and in nature awareness skills, and
continues study in their Kamana
Naturalist Training program, She also completed an ethnobotany
apprenticeship with ethnobotanist and herbalist Erin Kenny. Jane
delights in discovering who we are when we in the heart of our nature, a
place of joyfulness and story-making that we as human beings enter into
easily when we feel at home in the natural world.
As a bardic healing artist Jane's practice is grounded in the Reiki-Seichim lineage of energy healing. Offering Reiki since 2003, Jane received her Master-Teacher Training in 2006. In her practice she combines energy healing artistry with other modalities, calling upon her study and exploration of sound healing, music for healing, nature awareness and natural mystery, and healing story. Sessions are 1 1/2 hours long and include Reiki treatment, live healing music with harp and song, connecting with nature, and "storytending", in which we explore an aspect of the client's story within the lenses of metaphor, myth, and nature.
Whether a client comes for relaxation or nurturing, a specific physical or emotional ailment or pain, or for honoring and recognizing a threshold or transition time in one's life, it's Jane's wish that the session may serve as a "blessing from the village" -- an opportunity to invite, illuminate, and witness the client's unique story, nature, and path in this world.
To schedule a session or to find out more, please contact:
Updated October 18, 2008