a Super Bloom iS a naTuRal EvenT Where FLoral aBUndaNcE cASCaDeS InTo LIfE

A super bloom is a rare and magnificent botanical treat that only happens when a “unicorn combination of weather” occurs. It is also an expression of the shift that happens in the inner landscape, when a person embarks on their soul’s mission — spiritual transformation. The handpan stewards many on this journey, to super bloom beyond perceived limitations.

The literal bloom is a natural event that only happens when the timing is just right — water flowing in early winter months, mixed with optimal spring growth, wind, and soil matrix conditions that give way to an otherwise dormant floral abundance that is unleashed the following spring.

The first time I experienced the spectacle of a super bloom, was in 2016, in the ancestral home of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, a place familiarized as Death Valley. As I cycle through life, I have come to realize that I super bloom every time I heal a part of myself, a part that has otherwise been “miss allocated” and wants to come home. More importantly, that I am not alone in this journey.

The 2016 Super Bloom brought me to a place where the Mojave and the Great Basin Deserts meet, AND is the place where I discovered the handpan, my curiosity to explore music returned, the Gathering’s name originated, and the location of where the inaugural 2020 Women’s Handpan Gathering was set to take place. Needless to say, the conditions were not quite right, and we, too, were paused until they were.

- Sarah Paz Hyde, Super Bloom Life Founder -