About

Adria Wind Horse Estribou

A Little of My Journey

My love for vocal sound started very young—I would make up songs and sing to myself for hours as a child. In school I participated in chorus, chamber singers, and musical theater. Love for singing extended into adulthood with further vocal training and opera.

A period of deep introspection in 2011 led me to feel my life purpose had something to do with my voice and healing, but I didn’t understand at that time what that might mean. I leapt at the opportunity to attend Jonathan Goldman’s Healing Sounds Intensive training in Colorado, and was surprised when shamanic healing sounds started coming through my voice

Since then, memories have surfaced from multiple lifetimes where I played the role of a shaman using vocal sound for healing.

A few years ago, angelic beings began “knocking on the door” of my awareness with messages. I am deeply moved and humbled to be part of the angels’ messages for others. Their perspectives never cease to delight and amaze me.

Why?

Service to the Divine has been my most heartfelt wish since I was young. This led me to spend four months in an ashram in India when I was a teenager, and to live for several years in different ashrams in the U.S. There is nothing that makes my heart sing more than expressing love to the Divine, or being a conduit for Divine love. I marvel at the intimate and personal love the Divine has for each of us.

About Wind Horse

The name Wind Horse stems from my ancestral Basque name Estribou, and has meanings across cultures and nations.

In the shamanistic tradition of East Asia and Central Asia, Wind Horse is an allegory for the human soul. The Choctaw legend of Wind Horse tells of a horse who spent its life helping humans in times of trouble, and ultimately sacrificed itself out of love. In Buddhism, Wind Horse describes an inner well-being and life force. In Tibet, Wind Horse (lungta) is a mythical creature from pre-Buddhist times that combines the speed of the wind and the strength of the horse to carry prayers from earth to the heavens.

To me, Wind Horse captures the essence of riding between worlds to carry messages, energy and healing. Common in all these legends is the heart of love whose nature is to serve others above self. The name also evokes the wind and flute-like shamanic sounds that travel through my voice.

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“In the Shambhala teachings of warriorship, life force is called windhorse (Tibetan: lungta). Lung is ‘wind’ and ta means ‘horse.’ Lungta is the unlimited energy of basic goodness, buddhanature, inherent wakefulness. Basic goodness is something that we already possess. We connect with it through meditation practice.

You see the image of windhorse printed on the prayer flags that flutter in the breeze all over Tibet. It is the ability to bring about long life, good health, success, and happiness. When we have windhorse, we are able to accomplish what we want without many obstacles.

On its back, windhorse carries a wish-fulfilling jewel. This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed. Whatever we want happens without difficulty. Just as if we were to jump on the back of a horse and ride across the open country, there is nothing in our way.”
~ Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche