Natalie Windsor - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Natalie Windsor is a trainee spiritual healer from Stoke-on-Trent. She has trained as a classical soprano and also enjoys singing jazz, pop, musical theatre and rock/indie. She is available for non committal advice on singing and healing, and may be available for vocal or musical lessons at some point soon. Please contact her via myspace or email: [email protected]. Vocal Repertoire/Performances: Natalie has performed masses, oratorios and early operas of Mozart, Purcell, Bach, Handel and Haydn. Particular favourites from among the song repertoire are Debussy, Chausson, Duparc and Schumann. Natalie is soon to perform a song cycle, written for her, by Richard Norris - a Composer-in-Residence with Keele Bach Choir. Other performances include Saturday 13th October: Barbara Walton singers cond. David Burrowes (St Paul's Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Karl Jenkins's Requiem, cond. Peter de Cruz (December 1st, Keele University Chapel), Bach's Mass in B Minor, cond. Matthew Willis (March 8th, Keele University Chapel) and in a selection of opera scenes cond. Simon Watts (March 15th, venue tbc - keele). Christmas concert programmes to be added soon: In Harmony cond. Nigel Hopkins).

My Interests

Healing, Massage, Painting, Classical Singing, Care Work, Writing: Sexual issues, Men's liberation movement, eco Warriorship, loving your way through hatred. Thinking of beginning a Wholefood Vegan Cookbook.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Mozart
Debussy
Chausson
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninov
Schumann
Bach
Vaughan-Williams
Elgar
TippettDivine Comedy (absolutely the most divine voice in pop and rock...)
System of a Down (sheer shivers down my soul)
Muse
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins
Catatonia
Queens of the Stoneage
Garbage
Evanescence
Foo Fighters
My brother (Jonathan Windsor - also on myspace)
Pseudo Japanese
Speakeasy7
LividJazz - vocal
Crooners etc (Bing, Danny Kaye, Sinatra etc)
Gaelic folk - vocal and trad.
Indian vocal and sitar/tabla music
Wacky pre-Medieval stuff! (de Machaut and before, especially the arabian-influenced stuff!)
Anything with drums (my favourite instrument bar the piano)

Movies:

Kill Bill
The Neverending Story
Lord Of The Rings (I did read and prefer the book)
Harry Potter, not the structure or the script but the actors and casting I loved. Introduced me to sides of actors I'd not previously seen. Very well done!!! felt an unnerving connection to harry's situation/the actor daniel in the recent release, as it links quite well with spiritual issues eg old souls, etc.
The Dark Crystal
Kevin Smith creations (for the teenager in me)
Minority Report
Vanilla Sky
The Children of Men (I have a lot of apocalyptic dreams!!)

Orlando (based on the Virginia Woolf)
Elizabeth
Beauty and the Beast - more as a musical than a film
umm there are others, may come back to update

Television:

Inspector Morse
Dalziel and Pascoe
The Detectives

Star Trek DS9, Voyager and Next Gen.
Have I Got News For You (the Angus Deayton days)
Simon Schama's History of British Isles
That new nature thing with exp. cameras... Planet Earth? (Sucker for good visual effects/footage)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Friends
My Family - just for Zoe Wanamaker (nuff said!!) and the brilliant character who plays the eldest son!!! (Hilarious!)
Six Feet Under - absolutely ingenious and original. Fantastic acting from all the cast, particularly Nate's.
Billy Connolly's shows when they're on (great bloke)

Books:

1001 Ways To Save The Planet/Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Healing Foods (bar the pro-dairy element)
Plant Based Nutrition and Health

How To Heal and Be Healed/Auras and Colours
Hands of Light
Sound Medecine - L M Garfield
Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin
The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula le Guin

The Structure of Singing by Richard Miller

Heroes:

My boyfriend, Matthew Ratcliffe (also on myspace - jazz pianist ;-) ) I really need to learn a few things from him! Likewise my friend Phil -both such caring, gentle souls.

My Blog

Self Cleaning Hair and Other Hippie Lifestyle Stories

This year, having fallen pregnant, is the year I finally feel free to do everything Ialways wanted to do. I'm not planning on working for a while (except forvoice teaching, making a career as a ...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Sat, 31 May 2008 01:39:00 PST

Pink & Spiritual Healing; Men & Nurturing; Men as Equal Parents

In spiritual healing (currently training) I use colours, within the context of an aura or as a symbol for a simple diagnostic tool. This shows at a glance the most pressing issue in a perso...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:08:00 PST

Hearing Voices, Seeing small/large things, Smelling/Sensing Things

Does anyone have experiences of the above? If so, please contact me asapand I'll research into internet links, support groups, and write up an articleconcerning my own experiences (myself and fr...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:57:00 PST

The World Of Me

I feel I've progressed emotionally, reading back through my blogs, which is good.I'm not singing anymore, so maybe the blue ray (our communicative ray) hasfound itself a new, purer way of expressing i...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:00 PST

When you partner’s libido differs from your own.

A comment I put on someone's own blog.He'd received an email from someone who got frustrated by his partner's constant demand for sex. He worried she'd leave him for someone else,amongst other m...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST

Men and Sexuality - Empowering Men?

Hi, I found your articles while curious about things concerning my boyfriend.I've had a lot of partners and, as I'm quite a masculine thinking female(I have a high sex drive and I come quickly - basic...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:24:00 PST

Forgiveness and Loving Oneself

"I hate myself" "I hate person (X)" "I hate the world" Tell yourself loving, positive things. You are worth it - you are wonderful and you deserve the most wonderful, amazing things for y...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:43:00 PST

Spiritual Healing Journal/Self-Help

Here I begin a new journal or blog which I'll use to publish my healing notes for each ray of the aura/spectrum, and self help ideas, which will hopefully one day be turned into a book or two. I...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

The Nature of Pain - Massage

Needs much editing, simplifying and reshuffling but one of those days whereideas just flowed, so thought I'd publish in case all went away into the mist... The Nature of Pain Defining Your Boundaries ...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:06:00 PST

The Nature of Pain - Massage

Needs much editing, simplifying and reshuffling but one of those days whereideas just flowed, so thought I'd publish in case all went away into the mist... The Nature of Pain Defining Your Boun...
Posted by Natalie Windsor on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:00 PST