13/10/2026
There are medicine songs that are difficult to explain, yet deeply felt. Some belong to ceremonies and sacred spaces, while others can be shared more openly.
This is the first time I’m truly recording singing this version of the water song.
Nibi Wabo is a traditional Indigenous water blessing song, in Ojibwe language , primarily sung by women, known as Keepers of the Water. It is sung to honor water, express gratitude, and pray for its healing.
And I pray that these songs may be sung by as many women as possible in these times on Earth.
Water is life. 💧
I’ve felt deeply connected to water for as long as I can remember — to my inner waters and the waters of the Earth. 😌
After singing this song for about eight years, I can say that it has become medicine for me.
In the last years, I’ve been feeling more connected to my body and learning to recognize what needs my attention.
Sometimes, the medicine is to sit with the pain.
Profound medicine can come not from always fixing, but from allowing.
Sometimes the pain is collective and difficult to hold. Sometimes I need something that helps it soften, allowing what needs to be washed away to move through me.
And sometimes, the answer is much simpler: a good rest, a vitamin, some nourishing food, dance or something else my body needs.
Even after experiencing it many times, I’m still in awe of how beautifully a medicine song can work when it is exactly the medicine I need.
I felt called to sing for the dry Earth, the dusty forests longing for rain, the rivers whose water levels are falling, and the dry places within me and within humanity.
These songs aren’t about performance or having a beautiful voice. They’re about singing the prayer.
Our bodies and the body of the Earth are deeply connected, perhaps more deeply than we can imagine. The more I listen to my own body, the more deeply I feel this connection.
May we remember the waters. May we honor what sustains us.
And may we keep singing the songs , dance the dances, speak out loud the words, the prayers that bring us back to ourselves, to one another, and to the living Earth. 💙🌍