Great questions. So much to say. I could write a small book.
I think I will start with one or two questions. What inspires me are the many layers of being. I am inspired by the earth and the environment, by spirit, by relationships, dreams, the community, and connecting through cycles of rhythm and chaos. My practice is intuitive. I usually recieve a song or movement, and I try to follow it as it moves through me. I notice what qualities or states are present, what patterns and emphasize those and play with them. It is really that process of noticing, tracking, and somtimes framing or setting the sound and movement. The experience of connecting with source and being gifted with song and dance, and moving and sounding with the environment, sometimes with a group- that inspires me to co-create ritual, healing, and prayer.
I work wherever i am called to work- my ritual space, the woods, the street, a theater, someones backyard, a warehouse event. I especially like being where i can touch the earth and see the sky, but the cement works too.
I like working alone, and with others. Some of the work is for personal healing, and some of it to share and create with a group.
I want to hear what others have to say.

wonderfull questions, Marcus.
I am inspired by a deep longing to be with spirit. to feel connected to the earth. to experience a knowing that spirit is with me all ways, that i am awakenning more and more to coming home to my soul, and that i am home, here and now.
I find inspiration in the deep sorrow of longing. I find it in the joy of being free in this world.
I've always worked intuitively since before i can remember. I've worked in dark smoky chambers and under the full moon with the earth and moss between my toes. connection to source happens where it may. chanting and singing in the deepths of a concrete parking garage can be as spiritually intoxicating as in the hollow redwood, though i'll opt for the trees anyday. sponteniety is a halmark of the playfull spirit. and spirit is at home in all things.
---Doshi

Sometimes your life goes crazy, and you're lower back is all fucked up, and all you can perform is a vague semblance of movement to a song by Faun Fables where Dawn and Nils start screaming their heads off at each other.... and it all seems okay.... you're boyfriend has just gone nuts, you decide that it's necessary for you to buy a 40 of Corona and and bean burrito from El Pollo Loco, go home, get dizzy and beany, and forget that your lower back is hurting and that you're boyfriend is crazy to listen to two musicians/lovers screaming their heads off at each other just so you could have this moment.

Every once in awhile, you'll run into someone who you feel was placed in your path for a reason...you've just gone to your therapist and realize you need to work on your boundaries and finally get to the root of your "daddy issues", and then you toodle on down to Venice beach to give the ocean your leftover emotional shit. You run into an old friend, you see a thousand-petaled lotus in the sky- and are reminded that you're healing angel is here and that today must be a good day.

You then sidle on over to the boardwalk and are hit on by every other man you see. You begin to get annoyed at this and wonder why this is happening? And then... a man starts walking next to you as you are returning to your car, and he tells you that your kidneys and digestive system are having problems. You assume he's clairvoyant; he also adds that he's a psychic and a healer, and you test this out. Goddamn, he couldn't have known that much about you. He says your energy is moving around in such a way that he could help you- and fast. You're a good person after all. You follow this man home, testing him the whole way there, deciding he's the real thing. You get to his home. He has a harmonium. You play with it for awhile, chant some, and then take off all your clothes so this man can dig into your muscles...and feel your sex chakra. Things are going alright, you realize the sex chakra is all a part of the whole. You tell him you've had a systemic yeast infection- he proceeds to touch you where no healer should touch you without asking. It feels good, but then it feels wrong, and then you notice how the sexual heat is making the pain in your shoulders more intense. You consider it a learning experience and then ask him, "Is there really a purpose to all this?" He stops this business and continues to work you over. You go home with mixed feelings about the experience. A few weeks later, you go over to a good friends' house and notice that he has a harmonium also. What's more, he's selling it for cheap. You remember the harmonium fondly from your experience with the strange healer from the boardwalk. Krishna Das has one too! You tell your friend you'll buy it from him. All was not for naught.