I'm so grateful for the personal growth and the inner insight from your offerings I've learnt so much — about rhythm, singing and about myself. You create a loving, safe space whilst still challenging us to reach our potential, so that everyone could continue to grow... I'd also like to thank you for the special support you gave me in overcoming my insecurity. I've stepped out of my comfort zone very often... I've really learnt that it's not about the performance, and yet something great can still come of it - of me (and I don't need to be a performer or musician for that)...

I came to Daisy carrying a belief that I wasn't good enough — that my voice needed to sound a certain way to be acceptable. I'd censor myself in groups and alter how I spoke depending on who was around. I didn't come to harmonium believing there was a fix. I came to it depressed, following an inkling that "the opposite of depression is expression." Two years on, I'm leading my own kirtans. I've discovered a space within myself I didn't know existed — and I care far more about what I want to express than about how it's received.

Hearing my own voice so present and being heard by everyone made me incredibly vulnerable. At this moment an old memory came up. Ten years ago a teacher said to me, 'You're growling' After that, I was put in the second row. I realized how deep this sentence was still in me. But with Daisy's loving companionship I was able to show myself step by step. With excitement, trembling lips and all that goes with it. And yesterday, at the graduation kirtan, I could suddenly enjoy. I was no longer dealing with just my fear, I was dealing with what really matters. Because Kirtan is not a performance for me. It's not about singing perfectly. It's all about creating a space together — full of love, connection and devotion... I am grateful for this experience. She has grown my confidence in my own voice and in myself."

I wasn't prepared for how vulnerable I'd feel in that first session. Something in me — a performative mask I'd been gripping for a very long time — started to crack. A sound came from a place I didn't know existed. I wanted to control it. I couldn't. It was terrifying, and it was the most freeing thing I'd ever felt. The morning of the graduation kirtan, my voice was tired and I was tightening with nerves. I asked Daisy what to do. She said: "Let the universe flow through me — then I'll sing from a completely different place." That one sentence undid something. The mask doesn't crack by trying harder. It cracks by letting go. When it was my turn to lead, the microphone got knocked, I laughed — and something loosened. I stopped trying to control my voice and let the sound move through me. When we sang a canon together, I felt this immense power flow out of me, and another flow back as the room sang the melody in return. The whole room felt like one moving wave, vibrating in the same rhythm. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced. Thank you, thank you, thank you.