The Glacier's Song

Néfur

The Glacier’s Song is a multi-layered journey inspired by the experience of listening and singing with Icelandic glaciers. I aim to inspire you to connect with nature, with your creative force and with your sensual power in embodied ways. This podcast includes meditations with the sounds of glaciers, invitations to use your singing voice, invitations to connect with your sensual energy through sounds of water and poetry, reflections on experiences of love and self-love, interviews, storytelling and insights into the creative journey of my album, live concert and artbook The Water, The Lover.

  1. 03/23/2025

    17. Global Glacier Sound Meditation: Celebrating the First World Day of Glaciers

    In celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers Néfur offers a Global Sound Meditation with the sounds of glaciers she recorded in Iceland for people from all over the world to listen to glaciers' direct voices. In this episode, Marcela Fernández, Cymene Howe and Néfur introduce you to some of the endangered or already disappeared glaciers of the world, and Néfur takes you on a listening journey to open your heart to receive the voices of glaciers in combination with her voice. For a powerful experience, during the sound meditation part of this episode we recommend you close your eyes and use headphones. The Glaciers we introduced and invited into the meditation are: Anderson Glacier (United States) Pico Humbolt (Venezuela) Monte Perdido & Aneto (Spain) Hofsjökull (Iceland) Santa Isabel (Colombia) You can find all of their stories in the Global Glacier Casualty List https://glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu Episode hosted by Néfur in collaboration with activist and NGO founder Marcela Fernández from Cumbres Blancas Colombia and climate anthropologist Cymene Howe from Rice University and Global Glacier Casualty List. In recent years, singer, composer & sound-artist Néfur has recorded the sounds of Icelandic glaciers, has sung with them and listened with them, while also creating original compositions, performances, workshops and meditative sound journeys uniting her voice to the ones of glaciers.

    54 min
  2. 02/28/2025

    15. Do you know if your country has glaciers? In conversation with Marcela from Cumbres Blancas Colombia

    In preparation for the Global Glacier Sound Meditation that I am offering in celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers in collaboration with Cumbres Blancas, I had an inspirational conversation with Marcela Fernández, the founder of this movement that is inspiring people around the world, one country at a time, to join forces to take action for glaciers and their ecosystems from multidisciplinary angles.  From our conversation sprouts a mutual understanding of glaciers as living beings with capacity to communicate to us, humans. Glaciers speak to all of us through metaphor - ‘glaciers melting want us to understand that we need to melt frozen emotions’ - and through unconditional love - ‘glaciers are melting so we can wake up’.  And then I wonder, once more, who is ready to listen? When did we lose the connection with the sacred ice that is the source of water that is vital to life?  Both Marcela and I know that now is time for action, time to build connections and make kin with glaciers. We are one of the last generations that has the opportunity to rebuild the bridge to the heart of glaciers.  It is time for legacy, time to get to know the glaciers, honour them for what they are and create something together with them that passes on their memory to the future generations. As a starting point, we ask you: Do you know if your country has glaciers?  On the 22nd of March, you will be able to connect with a glacier through listening to glaciers' vibration and sound. We are looking forward to welcome you to the Global Glacier Sound Meditation on the 22nd of March, in celebration of the 1st World Day of Glaciers. Register for free to join the Global Glacier Sound Meditation here: https://mailchi.mp/fdadbc61a3a8/glaciersounds Other relevant links: https://www.cumbresblancas.co un-glaciers.org  nefurmusic.com Instagram: @nefurmusic  @cumbresblancascolombia

    25 min
  3. 11/06/2024

    13. In conversation with Yin Cheng-Kokott about sexuality, erotic power, embodiment, water, laughter and more

    Welcome to the first collaborative podcast episode of The Glacier's Song :) Here you've got an unmissable inspiring chat with my friend and collaborator Yin Cheng-Kokott, explorer of the body, erotic power and ancestry from many angles. Don't miss on the living archive of our laughter when Yin and I first connected in Berlin. It will be contagious, and it may be what we need right now. According to Píndola Estés, "laughter is a hidden side of women's sexuality, it is physical, elemental, passionate, vitalising, and therefore arousing. It is a sexuality that does not have a goal, as does genital arousal. It is a sexuality of joy, just for the moment, a true sensual love that flies free and lives and dies and live again on its own energy. It is sacred because it is so healing. It is sensual for it awakens the body and the emotions It is sexual because it is exciting and causes waves of pleasure. It is a woman's wildest sexuality. Books we mention: "Woman who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Píndola Estés (essay) "The uses of the erotic" by Audre Lorde (essay) "Parable of the sower" by Octavia Butler (novel) "The festival of Serpents" by Sarojini Naidu (poem) The Egg, my first single made in collaboration with Icelandic glaciers will be released the 15th November. Pre-save it now on Spotify here to help The Egg to reach a wider audience. thank you!!! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nfur/the-egg

    59 min

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The Glacier’s Song is a multi-layered journey inspired by the experience of listening and singing with Icelandic glaciers. I aim to inspire you to connect with nature, with your creative force and with your sensual power in embodied ways. This podcast includes meditations with the sounds of glaciers, invitations to use your singing voice, invitations to connect with your sensual energy through sounds of water and poetry, reflections on experiences of love and self-love, interviews, storytelling and insights into the creative journey of my album, live concert and artbook The Water, The Lover.