Nourish & Nurture Your Beautiful Self With Healing Food, Sacred Music & Ayurveda.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Jo Kelly’s dream was to be a famous jazz singer, but instead, she became a stripper, owning her own burlesque club in Sydney, Australia. In Dreams Drowned in Wine, she reveals her transformation from troubled business woman and party girl to spiritual seeker, on a quest for sobriety and healing.
After a failed gig with famous jazz trumpeter James Morrison, Kelly built a million-dollar cabaret business with her trusty friend, alcohol, by her side. She had it all and partied hard, riding the wave of success and excess. But it couldn’t last. She crashed and burned into rehab on her fortieth birthday with singed sequins, broken stilettos, and drowned dreams.
Sobriety was a rude awakening as she crawled from the ashes in search of sanity and freedom from addiction. She struggled through AA, meditated in India, and drank Ayahuasca medicine in the Amazon jungle. Did she find what she was looking for? In this memoir, Kelly shares her true story and her new and different life beyond booze.
AUTHOR BIO
Jo Kelly is an award-winning singer-songwriter, teacher and Ayurvedic Practitioner. Her music career spans forty years, singing with jazz great James Morrison, touring the club circuits in Australia and Southeast Asia, and operating her own cabaret club in Sydney. After suffering a breakdown from addiction, Kelly transformed her life through music, yoga and Ayurveda. She Indian classical mantra and released eleven albums under her brand Cafe Mantra Music. She lives on the mid north coast NSW.Everything I create honours the ancient Indian tradition of mantra, yoga and Ayurveda. As a qualified Ayurvedic Practitioner, yogi and sacred music artist, I am deeply inspired by this path because it has healed me of chronic fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety and depression. My devotion brings a richness and spiritual energy to my music, teaching, cooking and Ayurvedic therapies to help you nurture your divine beautiful self.
As food nourishes your body, sacred sound feeds your soul. For thousands of years the sages of ancient India have known of the spiritual science of sound, mantra, yoga and Ayurveda for healing the mind and body and have passed on this wisdom to us in an unbroken lineage of the Vedic tradition.
The repetition of Sanskrit mantras and simple, yet inspired melodies invoke powerful healing vibrations that restore peace, harmony and vitality to our inner being and outer worlds, awakening us to the great spirit of love that is our true nature.
Enjoy my offerings with blessings and love x Jo
Love It! Beautiful, spiritual and tranquil music to practice yoga to or just chill out.
I feel like my entire being received the most phenomenal tune up. It was a full body experience to meditate, listen and chant with Jo.
I love the way Jo explains of the science and health benefits behind Ayurvedic nutrition. And her recipes are delicious!
Jo Kelly
Award Winning Singer Songwriter, Professional Musician, Teacher, Ayurvedic Practitioner.
I'm an award winning songwriter, professional musician, teacher and Ayurvedic Practitioner.
I've been singing all my life, but my true musical heart was untouched until I went to India. I fell in love with the healing sounds, exotic instruments and classical ragas that touched my heart and inspired me to record a range of albums for yoga and meditation.
While in India, I also discovered the healing science of Ayurveda and later studied with Dr. S. Ajit, AIAS. This set me on the path to healing myself of chronic fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety and depression.
I've recorded ten albums under my brand Cafe Mantra, authored my first Ayurvedic cookbook and teach harmonium, chanting and Indian classical singing.
I travel Australia and abroad to yoga festivals, yoga retreats and conscious music events to share the sound of spirit and the sacred science of mantra and Ayurveda. When I'm not travelling, I teach and consult at my home in West Haven, Mid North Coast NSW.