It was on the first night of the Jewish New Year 5785 that my maternal Ashkenazi Jewish tribe reached out to me
It was also the week of the 20th year of my mother's passing. The ancestors were particulary loud and I couldn't help but find myself following some unspoken direction.
I had been praying hard for a break in the hardship following a bad car crash. I was having a difficult time living in my own body and managing my mind. At times I felt that I lost touch with my brain. I found myself living in fear. I was afraid to drive, afraid to go outside my home, afraid to sleep, afraid of being.
Something had to change and something had to happen soon. In the twilight I followed the directions given to me without questioning, I found myself hearing a voice from the past. It spoke loud and clear in my innermost thoughts...
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About Giorgi Baino
Giorgi Baino holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a C.A.G.S. degree in Expressive Therapy from Lesley University. Her graduate studies include Gabriel Roth 5 Rhythm Dance, Music therapy, Play Therapy, Trauma Informed Care, Drama and Art Therapy. Giorgi has also trained in a variety of Mind Body and Energy Healing modalities including Craiosacral Therapy, Bioenergetics, Reiki, EFT, TFT and Biofield Therapies.
Giorgi Baino is a multi-instrumentalist, Vibrational Sound Intuitive, Educator, Consultant, Performing Artist and Mentor for over 30 years playing piano, guitar, voice, and ancient indigenous instruments. Under the guidance of her Paternal Italian Grandmother and Hopi Indian neighbor (Mrs. Foster R.N.) five year old Giorgi began her Folk Healing and Shamanic studies.
Giorgi Baino creates multimedia, socially engaged expressive artworks. Her works can be seen as self-portraits which demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits. Giorgi is an international award winning recording engineer/artist. She has previously recorded for RCA and Atlantic Records.
Giorgi Baino grew up in Somerville, MA where she was known for being a well rounded female athlete, scholar, and youth tennis coach. Somerville is also where Giorgi shyly explored her musical talents.
It is her love for music that brought her into many venues from Womyn Music Festivals to World Wide fund raising . Giorgi is an artist who has the passion and ease to sing a protest song or rock out on a Joplin tune. Giorgi Baino can be currently found restoring her music from 2” tapes. She is also recording a new composition slated for Dolby Atmos release in 2025.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/giorgib to enjoy Giorgi’s music video channel!
I am honored to be a desendant of many different ethnicities, most recently a second generation Italian. However, DNA reveals my Maternal connection to the haplogroup M1b2. "Haplogroup M is a subcluster of haplogroup U." A little this and a little that...It's all about migration.