Soul to Soul by DnA

10 years of Noble Inc. 10 years of marriage

Podcast 23 The Love It List! As promised! In today's Soul to Soul podcast with DNA, Denise and Ali look at what they love and share some things that make them super happy!We know it's been a tough year and often the focus is on what's wrong in the world! Well today we have the antidote of telling each other and you what we like about life! See the world through their DNA and join us as we move Soul to Soul.And of course do share your own love it list! We would love to hear from you!

This episode focuses on the ongoing battle with the energy companies update on the other 2 videos on this topic! As Angus council back us with a Unanimous NO to SSEN. We ponder on the united cross party politics front as we now head towards a public enquiry. With a huge thank you to all who objected and supported us! As this is happening on our home patch and we have been active in protecting our personal home, that of our Sanctuary nature, animals and clientele. We have as always plenty to say in the matter on this ‘colossal act of vandalism’  as one councillor put it. Join Denise and Ali as they continue through the Pylons portal! And speak Soul to Soul with this wee update and finally a break through! 

It’s a time of big happenings, big energy, big shifts in society and its systems and structures.Join Ali and Denise as they ‘empty their psychological haversacks’ and of those others have told them of! As we express ourselves at this time of injustice, inoperable systems, inconceivable hardships and community shifts. We wrote a list of ‘over its’.There is power in language and we hope others will appreciate our words across the boards. Some won’t make sense or be relevant for you, however we hope there will be validation and ‘it’s not just me then’ moments for people as we list and grapple with what historically will be views as a major shift in society and how things be in 2025!Do join us as we march Soul to Soul through our Over Its list!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 20Choirs, harmonies and group singing for wellness Hello from our Sanctuary in Scotland.Today we talk about choirs, voice use and singing in groups can how we can benefit from the community singing experience psychologically and our well being increased.Outlining some of the group experiences we have had and created along side the research Ali was a part of with an intergenerational choir and singing with dementia. We chat together about our shared passion for the group experience and the beautiful creative harmonious benefits of all things group singing! Join us! Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers.Speaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launched in Jan. ‘25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 19 Home - title track of ‘Home’ album. Split into 3 eps. EP 1 is already with you on your streaming choices and hard copy from their website.Home is the 2nd track and in today’s broadcast they delve deep into the making of, the stories of and what came to pass because of Home. Home is set as an immersive track welcoming you into the world of DNA. With the inclusion of audio from old reel to reel tracks Denise had digitalised of her ancestors. In particular in this track, Agnes Noble Wight, Leith, Edinburgh (who Noble House was named after) and Bessie Fairley, Granton, Edinburgh. These recording were recorded by Denise’s Dad, Bill Borland. In their family home in Fairmilehead, Edinburgh. Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery practitioners and bodyworkers.Speaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out, connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performance and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub, which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launched in Jan. ‘25!

Following the launch of Home part 1, we introduced the first song - "Gathering the Threads".

Responding to the panorama show this week.“Rewiring Britain - The Race to Go Green” We delve into our own experience of being directly affected by Scott Monument sized pylons less than a km away and our journey from devastation and terror to choosing to speak up for ourselves and our communities and back all those shown in the programme with our support.The struggle is real, the communities, food chain and nature are under direct threat, like us.Fiercely progressive and not climate change deniers, we believe this is not the answer! We need better options - we are all paying for it in our bills! Respect our sovereignty and our common sense and come up with better options beyond the cheapest, most devastating options.Join us in our podcast “Soul to Soul” where we respond to what is going on for us on a very personal level.  This affects every single one of us, save our planet and show these private companies putting cost over the best options that we matter and we will be heard!

DnA discuss the processes leading up to the launch of Home part 1.

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 11 Hello from our Sanctuary in Scotland.Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers.Speaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 10 talking with Mo Ford, Psyche (soul) practitioner - Live and Breathe Coaching.Hello from our Sanctuary in Scotland.Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers.DnA speak with fellow psyche (Soul) practitioner, Mo Ford. Who trained with us and graduated in 2020.Now based in London, they speak of commonalities and different uses of our work. And how they came to 15 years of joint experiences.Key moments through the eras of joint development. Mo is coming to run her retreat with us at the Sanctuary in April and you can join us and book at liveandbreathe.infoSpeaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

Today we dive into Looping. A song from becoming from Mrs Bell. EP 1- Denise Bell available on iTunes!Trilogies Managing change, finding yourself back in a loop.From conception 2011 to now, as we gather our music threads.How do we get out of this cycle! Building awareness! Outing the processes in songwriting as the personal process linked to the song and music of different eras.Sharing both processes of the people behind the music and a bit about how they came to have 5 eps to bring out next year!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 8Poems, lyrics and storiesHello from our Sanctuary in Scotland.Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers.Join them as they delve into the art of words! Poems, lyrics, song writing, singing and story telling.They discuss their writing processes and how they express themselves through different formats of word artistry.Denise introduces her collaborative experience with the newly released ‘Soulful Poems’ including her poem ‘Deep Within’.They talk about how they express their creativity and how having words heard and received by others can ‘tickle’ them. Leaving a legacy of stories and sharing snapshots of time and gathering the threads of their love of language.Speaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 7Unique selling points - USPsHello from our Sanctuary in Scotland.Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers and newly tagged as the ‘voice detectives’!Join them as they delve into their work and USPs.As they out the perceived difficulty of letting people know what they do within the complexity of their work and holistic approach.Their specialisms, strengths and expertise points.And how their specialisms, strengths and expertise came from hard won lessons and years of research, on themselves and with others.In this episode it turns into a bit of an evaluation and ‘report card’ with the intension of letting people know, singing, vocal rehab, wellness as trauma recovery somatic soul system they have developed has entry points in many areas. Relational, developmental, performance, creative artist trauma recovery, bodywork in all ways of working, often in more than one holistic part of the whole system at a time.Looking at how working together is both useful to the clients and enjoyable for them both. And how as creative vocal artists creating their own music brought the PhD more ‘off the page’ and gave them many solutions to find along the way. Speaking Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of, in Angus Scotland.In the 7th episode in their Person behind the performance Podcast series ‘Soul to Soul’.Covering topics that touch them and move them.Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 6Breathwork Hello from our Sanctuary Scotland!Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery bodyworkers and holistic singing coaches. Join them as they delve into their original question about Breathwork through their holistic psychology lens and deep dive into their 14 years of breathwork and how it came to be part of our Psyche (soul) approach.In this episode they discuss Conscious Breathwork as a bodywork. How it is useful as a tool to rest and reset, in trauma recovery and as a Neurosystem calmer and enlivener. Super potent for singers and creatives within their Psyche (Soul) approach and useful as a tool for deepening understanding - focussing on breath issues, healing relationally as well as overall wellbeing.  Breathe easy, live easy people!Here they chat about how they integrated it into their Psyche (soul) approach and Somatic Psyche model of trauma recovery, wellness and importantly their singing coaching framework post PhD research. Taking them on international adventures and to their Sanctuary in Angus, Scotland.As they Speak Soul to Soul from the woods that they are guardian of in Angus Scotland In the 6th episode in their Person behind the performance Podcast series Soul to Soul.Covering topics that touch them move them Believing it is time to speak up, speak out connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performers and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble House - a Vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25.

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul podcast episode 5The Quest to Our SanctuaryHello from our Sanctuary in Scotland!We are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers. Join us as we look at the process of change through the lens of our house move. Never give up on your dreams!Today wee delve into the story of our Quest we set ourselves to find our Sanctuary - to deepen our lives and the work we can offer.Now in Angus, we talk of the decisions we made and what we learnt about grit, flexibility, tenacity, creativity and embracing grief, letting go and building anew! Making our Soundtrack ‘Home’ on the move and how teaching transformation informed and came to give us a very real embodied experience of change at this time of universal change in the world.Embracing our homeland Scotland and all it has to offer!Join us-  download our podcast and join us on our tv youtube channel. Thank you.Covering topics that touch them and move them. Believing it is time to speak up, speak out, connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble house - a vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland. They also offer retreats from their Angus Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul podcast episode 4Eras, education and quests, and how they got from being singers and voice teachers to running Noble House - a holistic training hub in Angus with a joint business for nearly a decade. Hello from our Sanctuary Scotland!Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery, vocal communication and body workers. They speak about their vocal quests that brought them to be running voice, performance and wellbeing retreats as they ‘Speak Soul to Soul’ from the woods they are guardian of in Angus, Scotland. In the forth episode of their ‘Person behind the the Performance’ Podcast series, Soul to Soul.This episode delves into what they learnt in multiple education settings and how that was integrated into their vocal practices and voices.Reminiscing over training, teaching, questing together as they moved through the different eras including psychotherapy, trauma recovery, using their own health and healing challenges to inform and forever question why. Their love of learning and gathering the threads that brought them to be running a fully holistic hub and Sanctuary for those who love singing for wellbeing and professionals in psychological and professional performance settings. That is the new era of Noble HouseCovering topics that touch them and move them. Believing it is time to speak up, speak out, connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performances and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble house - a vocal performance training hub which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland. They also offer retreats from their Angus Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul podcast episode 3Our Music  We are vocal artists, trauma recovery and bodyworkers. Join us as we delve into a behind the scenes, ‘Person behind the performance’ look through our lens, of the album trilogy in 3 parts ‘Becoming Mrs Bell’. Released in part, back in 2019, (the first EP) under the name Denise Bell - available on all usual outlets - before the pandemic stopped us in our tracks.We discuss the process of making music, what it means for us, how it came to be and the video for the first song. ‘Why Blame Others?’We also look at how we formed the songs and video and the process of making this album. The predecessor to the new album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25 it under their new name DnA! From Bell and Bell records. From 2008 we have collectively been in an ever changing build up to where we are now. These songs span the beginning of these changes. By 2015 it was possible for us to marry and by 2019 we were ready to mark the songs written through that time and embark on our professional artist Sound journey. Come with us on that journey as we move ever swiftly to aquarius.Raw, and exquisitely personal and yet marking the collective experience for many this album marks the impact of the changes so many of us were going  through. Becoming Mrs Bell maps the personal journey and the musical development that evolves into DNA in ‘25. As teachers of voice and performance already with long time in experience as pro singers. Their research background in the Psyche of vocal artists. This transition was also a bit of a research project and they learnt a lot on the job in many facets. their music also reveals in depth the transition to vocal artists, songwriters and music recorders and producers. 

DNA (Denise and Ali) in their Soul to Soul broadcast episode 2 Activism.Hello from our Sanctuary ScotlandDenise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and body workers.Join them as they delve into activism through their lens of LGBTQI, Yes Indi Scotland campaign and the power struggle with power/electricity companies and corporations that are threatening our landscapes, nature and security. They talk about the human impact they are experiencing under the guise of ‘green’ and net zero.They describe how they stay active as they Speak Soul to Soul from the woods they are guardians of in Angus, Scotland .In the second episode in their Person behind the performance Podcast series Soul to Soul.Covering topics that touch them and move them Believing it is time to speak up, speak out, connect, model and practice what they preach as vocal performance and wellbeing coaches. They run Noble house, a Vocal performance training hub, which integrates all their research and includes the Performance Institute of Scotland also offering retreats from their Angus, Sanctuary in Scotland. With new music album ‘Home’ launching in Jan 25!

Denise and Ali are vocal artists, trauma recovery and body workers.In this episode they introduce themselves, delve into being married to each other, being Scottish, what makes them happy, sad, angry, their favourite artists and stars and all things 2024.