BIO

Jaiia Earthschild is a Bard:

Who?

A What?

Jaiia?

Well 'Jaiia' means 'daughter of Gaia'...

a name given by a pod of humpback whales one very deep season of vision questing

rough translation: ‘Earthschild’ - also Earth's shield if one is German

she has also been called:

a Sexual MusEcologist

a Visionary Bard,

a madwoman

a Priestess

a genius

a fool

a goddess

a teacher

a shaman

a woman

an angel 

(it's the lyre that fool's 'em)

also: poet, composer, activist, mystic, storyteller, mythmaker,

writer, recording artist, dancer and techno-global citizen.

She has never been called a traditionalist nor conservative

So many things - all true and none of them true... 

"Who am I?

I love the earth

I love the heavens

I love to sit in stillness

I have played music and danced since infancy

I love to play the lyre,  piano or guitar and sing into the wild places of my soul

I have taught since age 17

I love to teach a group how to sound beautifully together

or teach a woman how to honor her sexual nature

or assist a child to access their innate genius

I no longer perceive schools to be an effective learning medium for kids

I have performed on four continents

in halls, living rooms, schools, colleges, TV's, radios, council chambers

in gutters for homeless folk, for princes (in the gutter. for a prince early one new year's morning)

but I have as much relationship with the music industry as  with the military & the world bank

I love to sing the truth in odd places like city council chambers and 

naval hearings on LFA sonar with choirs and drums and didgeridoo

I have spent more seasons of life in nature or in silence

than I have spent in civilization’s time zones

And yet I love New York City and  I love Maui and Byron Bay

And best of all I love places where no human has ever been - not even me

My heart’s devotion is to the Natural world - for Her I sing, speak write and tremble

I work for trees, whales and all kinds of wildlife - even weeds

Yet I heard last 911,  humanity's cry for help. When we are healed the earth will be fine.

My favorite tools are really intelligent computers & fine instruments

and, finest tool of all, the Human Body

I am a student of consciousness 

the way the mind/ body/ soul heals itself

is a metaphor for our innate ability to handle the challenges we have

created in society, the environment and amongst all living creatures.

Qualifications?

Yes, some in the realms of music, therapy, enlightened education and sexual healing

Experience?

You’d probably not believe me if I told you half of it...

but if you read the stories on the site you will get some impressions

I am free

Are you?"

(if you would prefer a more traditional bio click here