Clair doesn't push the current, she dives in and flows with it. The warmth and serenity in her music is irresistable. Get a pair of headphones and give yourself a long deserved healing in the lap of the Divine Mother.
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WHO IS CLAIR OAKS?
She grew up in a home where music was listened to and/or performed almost every day. From an early age, she learned to play piano and later guitar. As a teenager, Clair discovered yoga and meditation which helped to reveal her passion for experiencing what yoga calls the Self – the true, divine, essential nature of all things manifest. Since that time, her impulse to help others experience this "authentic" Self has catalized her life's work.
Clair has been blessed with many opportunities to inspire this awakening for others through her work as a yoga instructor/therapist, meditation teacher and through her music.. She's a musician, advanced yoga instructor, founder of Soul Source Yoga, co-founder of SOUL SOURCE Center for Conscious Living, in Media Pennsylvania, mother of two amazing musicians, (Elijah Tucker, Caleb Oaks), and wife of her beloved husband Rob!
Clair has had a passion for playing music and singing, since she was a child. Only in the last 10 years, however, has she enjoyed the exquisite experience of performing her own music with her own band.
Since 2000, Clair has performed with a wonderful group of musicians, creating musical meditation experiences for audiences in venues up and down the east coast. Clair traveled for 2 years with Wah! as a back up singer along with her son who was Wah's percussionist during that time.
In August 2009, after a series of synchronistic events, Clair was cast as the chant band leader in a scene with actress Julia Roberts, in the upcoming movie adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's acclaimed book EAT PRAY LOVE. The movie is due out in August of 2010!
Clair has 3 music CD's and a instructional yogic breathing/relaxation cd. Her latest CD Kirtan Equation is a celebration of some of Clair's best loved chants - it was released in October and is enjoying rave reviews! Purchase CDs
Clair on her work:
" I believe our work is about bringing people to a state of joy - to an awareness of their own inherent joy - to a place of recognizing the Oneness of Consciousness through music's sacred sound and musical vibration. THAT "magical" experience, that quiets the incessant roar of the mind and allows one to experience the vast and peacefully powerful, silence of the Self. This experience is very healing and restorative, and can be described as joyful tranquility.
This has been true since we started as a group on this journey. But as we evolve as individual conscious beings, and as a group of musicians working together, I think our particular "flavor" has evolved as well. Our "note" is clearer and deeper as this evolution occurs.
I resonate with the non-dual view that we are all made of Consciousness itself - that we are THAT and therefore THAT is us. Each of us is complete and whole in our beings and we are meant to shine our light in this world. This is a subtle point, but one that I'd like to be clear on because the words/lyrics of the chants we do, could be mis-interpreted to mean that we are sending our musical prayers to something outside ourselves, something associated with a religion or belief system.... In fact, my intention is to help people experience that IT is all within each of us already, and that we are here to tap into that awareness, and to live from that awareness and therefore take responsibility to SHINE - to each do our part to raise the vibration of the planet - and to do so with loving recognition that when we, for instance, create peace throught chanting, we do just that.
At the end of a night of chanting - we have cultivated a palpable quality of peace within ourselves that can be purposefully and literally sent out as a vibration to uplift. Those souls you come in contact with after this practice, are likely to be touched by your palpable peaceful being-ness and in that way, we change the world".