I began composing music at fourteen whilst feeding the chickens at Aunty Honour`s in the morning as my daily chore. Composing ditties became an obsession. Feeding the chickens their morning mash and collecting the warm eggs opened up my voice and spirit to the possibilities of the creation of peace and joy with sound; I felt good being alone. And the sound made me feel good, after a singing session where the words and the music flew together like a bird meeting the wind for the first time there was a feeling of exhilaration. I had been so used to always being just one in the crowd of eight children; now that I had been shifted away from home I began finding myself really enjoying my own company. Song after song flew through, poetry and music blending together like hands in gloves and mostly they were about how much I enjoyed the natural life.

Periodically I met up with my brothers, sisters and parents when I hitched home at the school holidays; David and Simon had seen Andre Segovia in concert and were now learning the classical guitar. Quickly I too had to learn, soon Peter and Richard were learning; all of us were singing, composing, harmonising. It became creatively competitive to see who could come up with the most beautiful piece of music. When we met up it was always guitars out and voices singing, there was no time for TV, any way the valley was too deep to receive a signal. So we walked down Lovers Lane through the Crackington Valley surfed in the Atlantic rollers at Crackington Haven, walked home to spend the evenings singing and playing music.

Summer, autumn, winter and spring the seasons of creativity and freedom, song upon song built into a huge and tight family repertoire. I started a folk club in South Cornwall and then ITV made a documentary called `Summer of the Ash Family`? which went out to all English speaking countries, winning an award at a documentary festival in New Zealand.

As full time students we went into graduate education, I became a Junior Art specialist and then a secondary science teacher and went onto establish the College of Alternative Medicine and Science (CAMS) with my father Dr Michael Ash and David Ash my brother, here sacred music began to flourish, with healing, natural medicine, acupuncture, metaphysics and meditation.

I was invited to America to teach for CAMS and spent two years touring the lecture circuit, singing and teaching in all the major cities. Here music and medicine began to merge. I heard the phrase “Pythagoras wrote a piece of music for each of his patients� this catapulted me into co-creating songs with patients, my expertise as an acupuncturist, healer and musician developed into understanding sound as a harmonising force that dissolves sickness and disease.

Meditation, poetry, Sacred Drumming, Rainbow Essences, healing work on the land, books, tapes and CDs began pouring through as powerful expressions and tools towards making a complete and beautiful whole. Seminars and workshops on the healing voice through Rainbow Medicine Circle, ``The Emperor`s Birthday Party``? and Rainbow Essences are being now held in Austria, Germany, Spain, Japan and Switzerland. Three books a song book and seven CDs have been published.

Always the sound comes from within and it is aimed at unlocking that which is locked up inside.

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