Ayahuasca Song 1: “Soplando” meaning “blowing”. 12 Traditional ayahuasca icaros from Peru for ayahuasca ceremony.
When we do this Blowing with Soplando we just make a little fist, and then we blow, very light. It sounds almost like making an ‘s’ sound at the same time. Then you would release your hand. That energy center that we have in the hand, we are sending that energy to that direction, and then we go to the next direction. You say that little prayer and you are introducing yourself.
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Ayahuasca Song "Soplando" meaning "blowing" Traditional ayahuasca icaro from Peru for ayahuasca ceremony (12 Ayahuasca Chants & E-Book)
“Soplando”, the ayahuasca song on track 1, it means blowing, and it comes from the verb “soplar”, which means “to blow”. What I have learned in the Ayahuasca way is that Soplando is similar to other North American Native ways of sending your energy and your prayers, invoking or invocation to the directions.
A Prayer with Soplando...
When we do this with Soplando we just make a little fist, and then we blow, very light. It sounds almost like making an 's' sound at the same time.
When we do this with Soplando we just make a little fist, and then we blow, very light. It sounds almost like making an ‘s’ sound at the same time. Then you would release your hand. That energy center that we have in the hand, we are sending that energy to that direction, and then we go to the next direction. You say that little prayer and you are introducing yourself. Even though they know who you are in that realm, still you want to be respectful in that way, and also to honour that direction and what it has.
We start in Ayahuasca ceremonies with blowing, with the song Soplando. Even when you just say that little prayer in that way, and send it out, it is like an invocation to the directions. You are making yourself present to the directions. That is what Soplando is, it is just that connection of energy with blowing, and with the directions.
The Soplando is a vocable song. The sound of the song is “Da de de de da de de da de”. Those sounds are like fillers. Like we sing in the Lakota way, when we don’t have specific words, “way heya heya”. Down in the Caribbean we sing, “lilo lilo lilo lay”. The vocable sound is similar in these songs as well.
Each culture, you could say, has their own specific way of singing, but there are also some similarities like this as well. I heard a story from the Tsimshian people up in Gold River where I was asked to sing at a memorial. These Tsimshian people came and did a little presentation in honour of someone who had gone, crossed over, they went with a group of Christian First Nations people. They went together to the Screaming Wall in Jerusalem. While they were there they started singing, “waya waya”, and when they were done, when they turned around and they saw all of these Orthodox Jews surrounding them. Right out of the center out came this little man, he was the Head Rabbi. He asked them, he said, “do you know what you are singing? Do you know what you are saying?” . He said, “well, that sound that you are singing, you are invoking and inviting the God of Abraham to come here.” That is a pretty powerful statement.
When we go to different places even with just with sounds we have got to be really careful what we are doing. The understanding of what we are doing and saying is very important and may not always be the same to different peoples. If you can’t explain what you are doing in another cultural way, then don’t do it. That is a lesson for Non-Native people who are trying to learn these Native ways, if that is what their interest is. When I shared this story at a Sundance, a Lakota man he said, “I have never heard that, but that is a powerful story, it makes sense”. He understood because of the similarities within his own cultural ways. Using sounds to speak to God, the Creator, that is part of the Lakota cultural tradition as well.
With this song we are praying to the directions and also praying to the Creator, or whatever name, of course many cultures have different names for God. When we go to Indigenous ceremonies who do we want to be there? Creator. Creator made this earth. We humans are the ones with our egos and arrogance and our “free will” are the ones who really bring up that conversation or just that argument of what to call God, or whom to pray to, or people may just not believe at all in a way of prayer. This is how I was raised since I was a child. The belief in prayer, Soplando is a way to send your prayers and that belief in that prayer. That is exactly the same with the Orthodox Jews, with what they were saying with that sound, “heya heya way hay”. To them, Ya way is the name of God, and that is their prayer.
Your Breath Calling Out... Soplando
With the Soplando it is your breath calling out and making and saying your prayer, when your hand goes out … All of a sudden, you are blowing it into your hand and your palm goes out to that direction. You are making your introduction, to say, "This is who I am".
With the Soplando it is your breath calling out and making and saying your prayer, when your hand goes out … All of a sudden, you are blowing it into your hand and your palm goes out to that direction. You are making your introduction, to say, “This is who I am”. You can say in your prayers, and ask Creator to watch over you. We are vulnerable, yet at the same time we have that faith that we are protected. The song Soplando can help with this, that is how I have learned it.
As well, there are some things we have to learn on our own. I remember talking to this medicine man, I remember talking to him a lot, and he would share things that I did not share with the others because that was my question, the information was for me. That is what this song is, it is an invocation and it is also personalized for you. If you listen to that carefully then you see, then you feel it. Each person is going to be different, have a different question, and a different answer that is for them to understand.
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Tracks
1. Soplando (Blowing)
2. Antikuina (Song of Wisdom)
3. Takiskaku (Song for Healing)
4. La Canción del Shaman (Song of the Shaman)
5. Hongos (Mushrooms)
6. Chaychispischay (For the Sun)
7. Uniting of Hearts
8. Inti (Song for the Sun)
9. Condumbe
10. Amor
11. Pacha Mama (Mother Earth)
12. Soplando Straight
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While I was there in Peru these medicine songs were personally gifted to me by a medicine man from the Loretto region. I hope that by sharing these songs that they may reach out to you, to show and help give an understanding of what is involved when working with “La Ayahuasca”. I sing these songs to you with great respect, and from my heart, so that they may heal and reveal to you the medicine that they carry within. These songs tell a story within themselves…Listen and Download all Ayahuasca Icaros on the Songs of the Night Album – Shamanic Music
Tracks
1. Soplando (Blowing)
2. Antikuina (Song of Wisdom)
3. Takiskaku (Song for Healing)
4. La Canción del Shaman (Song of the Shaman)
5. Hongos (Mushrooms)
6. Chaychispischay (For the Sun)
7. Uniting of Hearts
8. Inti (Song for the Sun)
9. Condumbe
10. Amor
11. Pacha Mama (Mother Earth)
12. Soplando Straight
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