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About Jane ~

Jane Valencia nourishes the imaginative soul of community and the mythic sense of oneself with harp music, folklore, song, poetry, story, natural mystery, and celebration. She has musically adventured with the harp since 1987, performing and recording with the Pacific Coast duo Spookytree, and, as a Reiki Master-Teacher & Sound Healer, offering energy healing, song medicine, healing story, nature connection in her private practice and in performance as well. Whether in concert, with community, or one-on-one Jane's improvisational style is light-hearted and responsive, voicing the magical inner nature that is threaded into each one of us.

Musical Background

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.

Bardic Harp

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. (Into The Spirit House is one such journey-tale). Please contact Jane at for more details.

Harp Teacher

A teacher of Celtic harp for nearly 20 years, Jane specializes in helping the student unearth his or her inner music while also tending to the techniques, skills, and artistry of becoming a harper. She teaches both nylon-strung and wire-strung harp techniques. Lessons include improvisation and arranging with opportunities to focus on therapeutic harping skills, bardic harp, the harp as soulwork, composition, Celtic musical styles (Scottish, Irish, and Welsh), and Latin American harping styles and techniques, according to the student's interests.

Jane also offers workshops in bardic harp, musical medicine weaving, the village harper, modal theory, wire-strung harp techniques, improvising on the harp, and quick-to-learn tunes for playing, singing, and accompaniment for the seasons (Autumn/Harvest, Winter/Christmas, May Day songs, and more). Jane teaches harp to all ages.

Community Singing & Musical Directorship

In 2006 Jane's projects included founding and directing Vashon Island's Forest Halls Folk Choir, leading weekly Community Singing at the Vashon Farmers' Market and biweekly Singing Circles in forest and field. Look for similar offerings wherever she makes her home.

Jane has also offered Musical Direction and music arranging for community ensembles of all ability levels for over 15 years.

"Jane Valencia's artistry was essential to manifesting my vision for BLOOD. As Musical Director, she "mapped" and scored the 90-minute dance/movement work, creating a rich textural musical landscape that explored themes as diverse as vitality, grief, longing, birth/ rebirth, and the continuum of connection/disconnection in human relationship. Her musical insight and technical skill helped make manifest a sound-score that evoked different emotional and physiological tones, sometimes enhancing and sometimes contrasting the choreographic imagery and physicality. Jane masterfully translated our working sessions into clear musical instructions for the 9-member ensemble of instrumentalists and vocalists. The entire score for BLOOD was a weaving of Jane's original compositions, with original scoring of musical selections by Peter Gabriel, and original works by Jessika Kenny."

Magical Nature

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. A lover of the plant realm, Jane completed an ethnobotany apprenticeship with ethnobotanist and herbalist Erin Kenny and continues to deepen her herbal studies with herbalist Angie Goodloe, the Medicine Woman Tradition with herbalist Kiva Rose Hardin, and with HerbMentor.com.

Jane delights in discovering who we are when we in the heart of our nature: a space of joyfulness and story-making that we as human beings enter into easily when we feel at home in the natural world.

Nature Healing Artistry

Jane offers soul-counsel and an exquisite experience of harmony, rebalancing, free-flowing energy to remove blockages, and reconnecting with who we truly are--in ourselves, our community, with the natural world, and with Spirit.

Jane's healing 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 sound healing, natural mystery, or healing story as the moments and the client's needs suggest and inspire. Sessions are 1 1/2 hours long and include Reiki treatment, live healing music with harp and song, connecting with nature as our nature, and "storytending", in which Jane and the client explores an aspect of the client's story within the lenses of metaphor, myth, and the natural world.

Whether a client comes for relaxation or nurturing, relief from a specific physical or emotional crisis, or for honoring and recognizing a threshold or transition time in your life, Jane's intention is that the session may serve as a "blessing from the village" -- an opportunity to invite, illuminate, and witness his or her unique story and to encourage and offer guidance to living one's fully-woven nature and true path in this world.

Jane also offers training in Reiki-Seichim Levels 1 and 2, Master Level, and Master-Teacher level. For more information please contact Jane.

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