We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Saskia Staeuble a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Saskia thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.
I survived a stroke at the age of 29, leaving me with left-sided paralysis. I was conscious and clear-headed, but I couldn’t move or speak. I ordered my arm to move, but it wouldn’t. I was scared, but most of all I was angry with myself. I immediately realized: “I never pursued my dream of singing!” And: “What if I can never sing again?” I felt like I had completely lost myself in my life. Although my life was “perfect”—I was engaged to a nice man, had a big apartment on the outskirts of the city of Lucerne in Switzerland, my boss even offered me to take over part of the practice where I had worked as a nutrition and motivation coach. But wait, yes, there is this BIG DREAM inside me that I have had since I was a child: to sing and touch the hearts of people all over the world. When I was lying in that hospital bed and the nurse came to wipe my saliva because I had absolutely no control over my face, she looked at me with concern and compassion and asked me: “What is wrong with you, Miss Staeuble” (my last name).
I started crying because I was such an idiot! I hadn’t taken the risk of following my passion because my mother had forbidden me from singing and had turned down this amazing contract that a music manager had given me when I was 17 so that my girl group “Cat Eyes” could go on tour. Since I was still a minor, I couldn’t legally sign it. I was in the middle of my cooking apprenticeship and my mother called a meeting between the chef and me. At this meeting I had to promise that I would stop singing.
Of course, I was afraid of their authority and signed the agreement to officially stop singing. It took 12 years, violent and heartbreaking relationships, pointless holidays, wild parties and experiences, and a life-threatening, paralyzing stroke before I realized: I had forgotten to sing!
As I was lying in that hospital bed, a voice suddenly spoke to me: “Why don’t you sing?” Full of tears, I answered: “Because I don’t have a band.” The voice asked again: “Why don’t you sing?” I thought of another excuse: “Because my parents don’t support it.” The voice kept asking: “Why don’t you sing?” “Because I can’t read music.” “Why don’t you sing?” “Because I don’t have any relationships in the music industry.” It went on like this for I don’t know how long. I had so many excuses. When I couldn’t think of any other excuse, I gave up. Then the voice said: “You have the voice.”
I started crying again. It was true. Even as a girl, I had a strong operatic voice. I grew up singing all the songs from the Walt Disney films and the famous musicals. My mother forbade me to sing at home, so I went with our dog into the endless fields of the 800-person village on the countryside where I grew up and just sang. Out in nature, I was free and the world was my stage.
For me, it was always “the world.” At school, nobody wanted to stand next to me when we had to sing in a group because I sang too loudly. I couldn’t help it. When I sang, I was always connected to something bigger.
As I lay in that hospital bed, running out of excuses, I remembered that feeling. At that moment, I cried tears of joy. And I promised myself that when I could sing again, I would follow my path of music, my healing journey to share my voice with the world. At that moment, I felt a tingling in my left hand. Within three days my whole body recovered and I left the hospital completely healed.
It was a miracle. The doctors couldn’t believe it and showed me that a part of my brain the size of a penny was dead. He gave me a bunch of pills and explained to me that I had to be very careful because once a stroke happened, it could happen again and again.
The promise I made gave me the strength to give all the pills back to the doctor and say: “I will not take any medication, but I will continue my musical journey and become a singer.” He was even more worried, as was my fiancée who was sitting next to me. I took the risk of leaving the doctor’s office and started my life as a singer. From that moment on, I dedicated my entire life to my healing process. I broke off my engagement, reduced all my belongings to one suitcase, left my apartment and quit my job.
Since then, I felt the strong support of the universe on my journey and never had another incident. I traveled the world with my music, initiated music projects in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and India, celebrated successes, faced challenges, made new friends, but most importantly: I never gave up believing in myself.
Today I am in Los Angeles and channel Soul Songs in the healing frequency of 432 Hertz as a singing psychic medium together with psychic pianist Michael Angeles as “Dust of Soul”. I am very proud of myself for taking the risk and listening to myself.
I want to encourage people to listen sooner, before something like this happens. We are all so much stronger than we think. We are stronger than the risks we have to take, the fears and challenges we have to face. If I could change my life 180 degrees from the kitchen to being a singing psychic medium in Los Angeles, anyone can make a shift. Your dream is always worth taking the risk!
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
My wake-up call to pursue music full-time was the stroke I survived at the age of 29. I have always loved singing. I did not go to music school, nor did I grow up in a family of musicians, so I was my only anchor all the time. I had my strong voice since I was a child. However, I was not brave enough to put all my time and energy into singing until one of my frequent migraine attacks triggered a stroke that left me paralyzed on my left side. At that moment, I realized that my excuses were meaningless because I wasn’t trying. The fear of not being good enough had kept me from trying. The stroke finally made me realize that my singing is bigger than my fear. I gave in and embraced my faith. After the three-day healing process from my stroke, I began my soul journey with courage and confidence. I felt more drawn to singing than ever. I started with a pretty decent business plan that could only take me so far. However, I had no idea how to get to where I thought I belonged. Over time, I realized that I don’t need to plan my life, I can start living it. Since then, everything has been falling into place. And the challenges that kept cropping up drove my development forward. When I look back on my 12-year career, I see my growth. And it makes me proud. Still, I feel strongly that I’ve only just started.
I work as a singing psychic medium to tailor music to people’s needs because “your Soul has a Song.” As a psychic medium, I sing what comes across in lyrics and vocals. The lyrics contain psychic messages that I deliver in detail in a reading after the performance. I work with psychic pianist Michael Angeles, who channels your soul into melodies and harmonies through his piano. Michael and I perform everything we have channeled into a Soul Song together in an on-site vocal and piano performance.
Soul Songs are a tool that helps people align with their soul’s purpose, their natural soul frequency. We channel the Soul Song at the frequency of the soul and put it into a song through vocals, lyrics and piano. These messages are profound and support people’s overall health—mentally, emotionally and physically—as the sound travels quickly and unfiltered, supporting your current vibration to align with it. The more you listen to your Soul Song, the more your cells begin to remember the vibration of your Soul Song. This process is especially effective because we tune our piano to the healing frequency of 432 Hertz, a harmonic of the earth’s natural vibration known as the “Schumann Resonance”. Your Soul Song helps you relax, which is a beneficial, healthy state in which we find our power, connection and clarity.
I am proud to have found a way to help people with music in a very personalized way. A channeled Soul Song is for everyone, regardless of language, nationality, religion and culture. I have gained this experience by traveling to ten countries on four continents, including Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India and the USA. I am proud to have built many bridges and friendships with music projects involving children, teenagers, artists, actors, professionals from different industries and families. At Dust of Soul we bring a high vibration to our experiences and sessions, always with the aim of using music as a tool for positivity and individual support.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
A year after my stroke in June 2012, I channeled my first song on a park bench in Central Park in New York City while backpacking. I had been writing stories and poems all my life, but I had never been able to put my own words together with melodies. I had only ever sung cover songs. I was so proud when I realized I had created my own song. I was euphoric and showed it to as many musicians as possible to find someone who could play it on an instrument. I was very surprised when everyone rejected me, saying, “What is this?” “It’s not even a song!” “What music school did you go to?” “What genre is this?” They advised me to sing jazz or musical. But I was obsessed with what I had channeled. I could hear that it sounded different, but it gave me an uplifting and powerful feeling. After weeks of searching and rejection by many pianists and guitarists, I became impatient. Nobody seemed to understand my music. Then one day, when I was working my second job in the cloakroom of a music club, I met a drummer who told me about a pianist who also in loved New York. He said that if I wanted this pianist’s number, I could let him know when he picked up his jacket. At midnight, when everyone was having a good time at the party and I was alone with 200 jackets, I heard a voice say, “So, you don’t want to meet this pianist?” I replied that I was tired of searching and didn’t feel like being turned down again. The voice didn’t stop, “So, you found your musician?” After a while, I thought it couldn’t hurt to meet this guy. When the drummer picked up his jacket later that night, I arranged to meet his friend. When I met Michael a few days later, I saw something in his eyes that I had never seen before: willpower. That convinced me to tell him my story and show him my song. He listened to the entire recording. When he took off his headphones, he said he knew the song and always played it when he was a kid. I thought he was flirting. Two days later, we met in his rehearsal room. When he played, I heard my song on the piano for the first time. IIt was exactly what I had heard. I cried for twenty minutes straight.
From that moment on, we shared the same vision and went on our journey together as “Dust of Soul”. Our music just came to us, often live on stage, and our audience often cried and reacted emotionally. However, we didn’t fit anywhere in the music industry. So we created our own shows, initiated our own projects around the world and always stayed true to our music, despite all the advice to switch to cover music in order to quickly gain popularity. We just knew that our music was calling and guiding us.
Today, 12 years later, it is proving that we were always right with our calling: the future of music is healing music, frequency medicine, music to support mental health. I have always trusted my inner guidance and remain resilient.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I studied French cuisine and culinary arts. I was 15 when I started my practical training. In the kitchen, it was just me and another girl. Men showed no respect for women and were difficult to deal with. I learned that I had to be tough if I wanted to survive in the kitchen and in life, otherwise no one would respect me anymore. I fought fire with fire and defended myself. After my apprenticeship, I had many jobs in hotels and restaurants and eventually became a chef.
When I started my music career, I had to unlearn my lesson that I only fit into the system with masculine qualities. I started working with my intuition, with my voice, with my feminine side. I started connecting more with people and became aware of my psychic abilities and how I could use them with my music to help and support people.
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