Portraits for a Cause
Oracle Option 3:
Standing with the
Tek-RMD from
Matia Robotics
Your support and contributions will enable me to meet my goals and improve my physical conditions. Your generous donation will fund my mission to attain the Tek RMD and at last be able to stand again.
I wish to thank you so much for taking a moment to read this. You are incredible.
I will do my best to make it short and to the point with the intention to share with you the medical equipment I am raising money for and why I am ecstatic about gifting you something special in return for your generosity.
5 years ago I had just received stem cell treatment towards the improvement of a neuromuscular condition I experience.
Prior to that point I was still walking with some degree of regularity.
It was the last time I could stand.
You may have heard of Muscular Dystrophy. Well there are heaps of different kinds now and since the age of five I have lived with one called CMT, which is an acronym for "Charcot Marie Tooth," which sounds like a flavor of ice cream. It is the surnames of the three doctors who first described CMT in the late 1800...Frenchmen Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie; and Howard Henry Tooth from the UK.
Those fellas did great work but they're dead and gone now and that doesn't help me one bit. However their legacy lives on through the CMTA with promises of cures and treatments that I am far too late for.
I digress... So these days, if I'm not horizontal laying down, you can typically find me creating art or music or floating in a swimming pool or attempting to do yoga.
However, I've been doing butt loads of sitting, which hasn't been good for my over all health. I've even heard someone say that sitting is the new smoking, which isn't new at all. We've been sitting for thousands of years. Since the dawn of Mankind... since we figured out how to bend our knees.
Onwards... Within the span of about three years I've experienced a rapid loss of the use of my legs for standing and walking, some bladder issues have come down the pipe and I've passed a kidney stone or two, not fun. My arms are working extra now that I'm using my wheelchair full time.
But you know what?... The truth is, I knew it was coming. The diagnosis I received at age five predicted I wouldn't be able to walk one day and I took my entire adult life practicing and preparing for the moment. Pain and discomfort were preceded by an increasing frequency of spontaneous gravity checks to the floor, endearingly named "Muscular Disastrophies."
I just didn't know how soon it would affect me.
So today, I've transcended the need for legs. Someone asked me "So why don't you just amputate them and go robot cyborg like so many people are doing these days?" I said "That was a cool idea but I actually still loved having my own legs."
So I sat down and took a year to do some research. What was out there that could help me get up off my ass and assist me with standing again?
Everyone's talking about how important standing is these days:
You've heard right?
-Bone Density Maintenance.
-Your bones stay strong through constant weight bearing activity like standing.
-Improving Muscle
-Strength and Posture.
-Better Bladder and Bowel Function.
-Heart & Lung Health.
-Being able to reach cookies in the upper cupboard.
But while many articles focus on people who can easily get up from their office desk or couch, those who are severely limited in their mobility due to a disorder, disease or injury could also be helped greatly by standing for an hour or two as part of their daily therapy.
For these individuals, assistive standers, standing frames and standing wheelchairs are available to provide the health benefits of standing to both child and adults.
After researching what seemed like hundreds of different models and many out of my budget, I started to become a little discouraged and thought perhaps this was a fate I had to accept.
But I wasn't going to take it sitting down. It was then I discovered some amazing equipment that has been developed to help people with spinal cord injuries stand and maybe one day walk again
Introducing, The Tek RMD from Matia Robotics.
This is the equipment I have decided makes the most sense for me. The Tek Robotic Mobilization Device is not a wheelchair alternative, but a brand new mobility platform that completely reimagines the way individuals with paraplegia and other walking disabilities are able to move in the world.
The ability to independently and safely sit, stand, and navigate environments that were once in-accessible are now possible.
Learn more about this product at:
www.matiarobotics.com
Which leads me to my next exciting point I can't wait to tell you about that is the fuel behind this fundraiser... I call it..."1000 Soul Portraits"
Shifting gears. So I have many interests and passions. Some of which include creating music and digital art. Or more specifically portraits. I love to support others by creating custom, beautiful, vibrant, sometimes psychedelic images from any picture or headshot that you wish to have transformed.
Today, I have creatively enhanced just over 350 images and am well on my way towards a rather lofty goal of 1000 Portraits. It is a personal goal I am determined to reach.
I love to help and support my earth family by offering special, one of a kind enhanced self images, reflecting the power, humanity and divinity we each hold within us.
One of my favourite things to do is surprising unsuspecting people on their birthdays or special occasions. This has been a practice of selfless love that has helped me to grow my portfolio.
I wish to custom create a new look, that is a fresh new, magically-soulful, original and organic, powerfully vibrant, soul activating "forever gift just for you or a loved one.
These are beautiful and thoughtful, unique and meaningful, fast and easy gifts that help us diffuse from the limited perception of ourselves to see the magical and multidimensional aspects of our being.
From your favorite headshot, selfie or full length; couples, pets, babies or relatives, still with us or not, I create "Hidden World Soul Portraits" as a tribute and celebration of the multi-faceted love and conscious light we are.
I want you to take your profile pic, your new CD art, book cover, wall poster, or perhaps your personal journey of healing and involution to the next level.
With every donation of $200 or more, I would be thrilled and honoured to create a custom soul portrait for you. I also channel oracle forecasts, phrases or include a word with your image that comes to me in the creation process, like a meditation that is a message for your soul on this stage of its journey.
So, if I have inspired you to read this far and are interested in a new, far-out looking image of yourself with lot's of colour and radiance, flair and allure, movement, sacred symbols, geometry, spirit guides or animals; mystical, somewhat psychedelic; bursting with light and dripping in otherworldly colours and textures; then I humbly invite you to please make a pledge to me in order to attain this piece of equipment I very much need.
Some very good friends of mine have learned about my campaign and have affably contributed wonderful gifts (Live talks, courses, recordings and PDF's) to include as an extra thank you.
This and more are my gifts to you for your generosity.
Doing so, you join me in my quest to create 1000 Soul Portraits.
You are providing me the support to support others; to do and create the things I love and to design a life of meaning and purpose
May you experience a beauty in this lifetime,
Sonny ~*
Oracle Option 3:
Standing with the
Tek-RMD from
Matia Robotics
Your support and contributions will enable me to meet my goals and improve my physical conditions. Your generous donation will fund my mission to attain the Tek RMD and at last be able to stand again.
I wish to thank you so much for taking a moment to read this. You are incredible.
I will do my best to make it short and to the point with the intention to share with you the medical equipment I am raising money for and why I am ecstatic about gifting you something special in return for your generosity.
5 years ago I had just received stem cell treatment towards the improvement of a neuromuscular condition I experience.
Prior to that point I was still walking with some degree of regularity.
It was the last time I could stand.
You may have heard of Muscular Dystrophy. Well there are heaps of different kinds now and since the age of five I have lived with one called CMT, which is an acronym for "Charcot Marie Tooth," which sounds like a flavor of ice cream. It is the surnames of the three doctors who first described CMT in the late 1800...Frenchmen Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie; and Howard Henry Tooth from the UK.
Those fellas did great work but they're dead and gone now and that doesn't help me one bit. However their legacy lives on through the CMTA with promises of cures and treatments that I am far too late for.
I digress... So these days, if I'm not horizontal laying down, you can typically find me creating art or music or floating in a swimming pool or attempting to do yoga.
However, I've been doing butt loads of sitting, which hasn't been good for my over all health. I've even heard someone say that sitting is the new smoking, which isn't new at all. We've been sitting for thousands of years. Since the dawn of Mankind... since we figured out how to bend our knees.
Onwards... Within the span of about three years I've experienced a rapid loss of the use of my legs for standing and walking, some bladder issues have come down the pipe and I've passed a kidney stone or two, not fun. My arms are working extra now that I'm using my wheelchair full time.
But you know what?... The truth is, I knew it was coming. The diagnosis I received at age five predicted I wouldn't be able to walk one day and I took my entire adult life practicing and preparing for the moment. Pain and discomfort were preceded by an increasing frequency of spontaneous gravity checks to the floor, endearingly named "Muscular Disastrophies."
I just didn't know how soon it would affect me.
So today, I've transcended the need for legs. Someone asked me "So why don't you just amputate them and go robot cyborg like so many people are doing these days?" I said "That was a cool idea but I actually still loved having my own legs."
So I sat down and took a year to do some research. What was out there that could help me get up off my ass and assist me with standing again?
Everyone's talking about how important standing is these days:
You've heard right?
-Bone Density Maintenance.
-Your bones stay strong through constant weight bearing activity like standing.
-Improving Muscle
-Strength and Posture.
-Better Bladder and Bowel Function.
-Heart & Lung Health.
-Being able to reach cookies in the upper cupboard.
But while many articles focus on people who can easily get up from their office desk or couch, those who are severely limited in their mobility due to a disorder, disease or injury could also be helped greatly by standing for an hour or two as part of their daily therapy.
For these individuals, assistive standers, standing frames and standing wheelchairs are available to provide the health benefits of standing to both child and adults.
After researching what seemed like hundreds of different models and many out of my budget, I started to become a little discouraged and thought perhaps this was a fate I had to accept.
But I wasn't going to take it sitting down. It was then I discovered some amazing equipment that has been developed to help people with spinal cord injuries stand and maybe one day walk again
Introducing, The Tek RMD from Matia Robotics.
This is the equipment I have decided makes the most sense for me. The Tek Robotic Mobilization Device is not a wheelchair alternative, but a brand new mobility platform that completely reimagines the way individuals with paraplegia and other walking disabilities are able to move in the world.
The ability to independently and safely sit, stand, and navigate environments that were once in-accessible are now possible.
Learn more about this product at:
www.matiarobotics.com
Which leads me to my next exciting point I can't wait to tell you about that is the fuel behind this fundraiser... I call it..."1000 Soul Portraits"
Shifting gears. So I have many interests and passions. Some of which include creating music and digital art. Or more specifically portraits. I love to support others by creating custom, beautiful, vibrant, sometimes psychedelic images from any picture or headshot that you wish to have transformed.
Today, I have creatively enhanced just over 350 images and am well on my way towards a rather lofty goal of 1000 Portraits. It is a personal goal I am determined to reach.
I love to help and support my earth family by offering special, one of a kind enhanced self images, reflecting the power, humanity and divinity we each hold within us.
One of my favourite things to do is surprising unsuspecting people on their birthdays or special occasions. This has been a practice of selfless love that has helped me to grow my portfolio.
I wish to custom create a new look, that is a fresh new, magically-soulful, original and organic, powerfully vibrant, soul activating "forever gift just for you or a loved one.
These are beautiful and thoughtful, unique and meaningful, fast and easy gifts that help us diffuse from the limited perception of ourselves to see the magical and multidimensional aspects of our being.
From your favorite headshot, selfie or full length; couples, pets, babies or relatives, still with us or not, I create "Hidden World Soul Portraits" as a tribute and celebration of the multi-faceted love and conscious light we are.
I want you to take your profile pic, your new CD art, book cover, wall poster, or perhaps your personal journey of healing and involution to the next level.
With every donation of $200 or more, I would be thrilled and honoured to create a custom soul portrait for you. I also channel oracle forecasts, phrases or include a word with your image that comes to me in the creation process, like a meditation that is a message for your soul on this stage of its journey.
So, if I have inspired you to read this far and are interested in a new, far-out looking image of yourself with lot's of colour and radiance, flair and allure, movement, sacred symbols, geometry, spirit guides or animals; mystical, somewhat psychedelic; bursting with light and dripping in otherworldly colours and textures; then I humbly invite you to please make a pledge to me in order to attain this piece of equipment I very much need.
Some very good friends of mine have learned about my campaign and have affably contributed wonderful gifts (Live talks, courses, recordings and PDF's) to include as an extra thank you.
This and more are my gifts to you for your generosity.
Doing so, you join me in my quest to create 1000 Soul Portraits.
You are providing me the support to support others; to do and create the things I love and to design a life of meaning and purpose
May you experience a beauty in this lifetime,
Sonny ~*
A lover of music and a student of rhythm since birth, Sonny's rhythmic and harmonic explorations have stretched over many styles and genres over his 34 year career primarily performing as tapper, slapper, banger and player of all things drum-able in his youth, including such surfaces as table tops, pots, pans, garbage cans, back of the car head rest and heads of siblings.
Later, he went on to refine his approach as percussionist and drummer for a variety of rock, soul, blues, jazz, folk, funk and freestyle; world-beat fusion, rhumba flamenco, african roots, dance, trance; orchestral and marching band ensembles. Studying piano and percussion with a variety of teachers and masters for over 15 years. whilst performing, competing and facilitating in numerous festivals and world championships. Not to mention his love for vocal percussion (Beatboxing) which he loves to teach and performs wherever he goes. Today, Sonny enjoys drumming, travelling, writing, speaking publicly, all things consciousness, inner and outer space and singing with his guitar offering a beautifully enchanted blend of spirit and soul, performing in both English and Spanish as well as chanting in the ancient Sanskrit language from India.
Sonny shares the songs life has passed down through him in a healing heart-centered experience of psychic/mystic folk and musical prayer.
Sonny Davis was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada to parents of Irish and German decent. At age five, shortly before his parents separated, he was diagnosed with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy known as CMT or Charcot Marie Tooth disease. Aside from experiencing this degenerative nerve and muscle disorder; greatly effecting his arms and legs; with the help of certain aids such as braces, canes walkers and wheelchairs, Sonny’s youth was chalked full of belief bending and mind altering events that would contradict the opinions of his family, doctors and peers, including himself and his mother, who was determined to get him involved in as many activities as possible growing up, such as sea scouts, marching band, athletics and wheelchair racing.
Sonny claims doctors told him at an early age that the type of MD he had was life threatening, and that he wouldn’t live to see age 30. This would later be proven wrong. Yet his condition would remain degenerative in nature, which in disabled athletics, time and again fell into an ambiguously gray area when it came to classifying him as an athlete in wheelchair racing.
In a heroic effort to overcome the fears that accompanied this finite belief; leading up to his 30th birthday and shortly after having been revoked of the athlete card he needed to race for team Canada in the 2008 Beijing Paralymics; Sonny began to consider his life and what he felt was his deepest purpose for living. Drawing from such a deep well of inspiration over a 30 year period, Sonny wanted to give back in a way he thought would inspire and honour not only his body but his family, friends and his childhood heroes.
And just in case his doctors were right, he decided he needed to go on a long trip.
He swiftly organized a small humble pit crew and began rolling wheels off Canada’s west coast across the country in a support campaign to raise money, awareness and above all - inspiration for Muscular Dystrophy. After a demanding start from Mile zero in Victoria BC, and many a stop to continue his fund raising efforts, as well as the sudden passing of his father along route, Sonny and chair called journeys end half way in Thunder Bay Ontario after three months and nine days of pushing his hand cycle wheelchair on the shoulder of Canada’s #1 highway. His dream was to go coast to coast, but with the few set backs experienced he was forced to recalibrate the end location and arrival time.
Soon after, Sonny was asked to join the Man in Motion - Rick Hansen on his 25th Anniversary relay celebrating 25 years of spinal cord injury research and the original Man in Motion odyssey. On this 25th Anniversary, it was 7000 difference makers from across Canada participating in a coast to coast relay AND Rick needed athletes. Endurance athletes to be exact.
What that meant was Sonny had been given another chance to fulfill his trans-Canada dream, only this time he would be travelling in the opposite direction from the east coast, west towards Thunder Bay. Sonny shares his tale with an inspiring talk about overcoming fears and how he came to develop his own personal power and “whatever it takes attitude” in the midst of any so called limitation.
Sonny, right from his early years, has always been a source of inspiration. By sharing his story imbued with courage, hope and bravery, Sonny trusts others will be inspired and motivated to do whatever it takes to realize their full potential of self love and mastery. To Sonny, this is involution.
For overcoming adversity, at the age of 13, he received one of the highest awards in Canada that a scout can receive presented to him by the Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn. He was the Alberta Junior Champion for 800m, 400m and 200m in wheelchair racing. He joined and competed and travelled all over North America for 7 years with a Marching Brass Ensemble playing percussion instruments in their pit section.
"I don't know why I have this disease but I know I can do more with it than without it."
Sonny has definitely lived up to that remark.
Sourced from the book Inch by Inch Growing in Life
Later, he went on to refine his approach as percussionist and drummer for a variety of rock, soul, blues, jazz, folk, funk and freestyle; world-beat fusion, rhumba flamenco, african roots, dance, trance; orchestral and marching band ensembles. Studying piano and percussion with a variety of teachers and masters for over 15 years. whilst performing, competing and facilitating in numerous festivals and world championships. Not to mention his love for vocal percussion (Beatboxing) which he loves to teach and performs wherever he goes. Today, Sonny enjoys drumming, travelling, writing, speaking publicly, all things consciousness, inner and outer space and singing with his guitar offering a beautifully enchanted blend of spirit and soul, performing in both English and Spanish as well as chanting in the ancient Sanskrit language from India.
Sonny shares the songs life has passed down through him in a healing heart-centered experience of psychic/mystic folk and musical prayer.
Sonny Davis was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada to parents of Irish and German decent. At age five, shortly before his parents separated, he was diagnosed with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy known as CMT or Charcot Marie Tooth disease. Aside from experiencing this degenerative nerve and muscle disorder; greatly effecting his arms and legs; with the help of certain aids such as braces, canes walkers and wheelchairs, Sonny’s youth was chalked full of belief bending and mind altering events that would contradict the opinions of his family, doctors and peers, including himself and his mother, who was determined to get him involved in as many activities as possible growing up, such as sea scouts, marching band, athletics and wheelchair racing.
Sonny claims doctors told him at an early age that the type of MD he had was life threatening, and that he wouldn’t live to see age 30. This would later be proven wrong. Yet his condition would remain degenerative in nature, which in disabled athletics, time and again fell into an ambiguously gray area when it came to classifying him as an athlete in wheelchair racing.
In a heroic effort to overcome the fears that accompanied this finite belief; leading up to his 30th birthday and shortly after having been revoked of the athlete card he needed to race for team Canada in the 2008 Beijing Paralymics; Sonny began to consider his life and what he felt was his deepest purpose for living. Drawing from such a deep well of inspiration over a 30 year period, Sonny wanted to give back in a way he thought would inspire and honour not only his body but his family, friends and his childhood heroes.
And just in case his doctors were right, he decided he needed to go on a long trip.
He swiftly organized a small humble pit crew and began rolling wheels off Canada’s west coast across the country in a support campaign to raise money, awareness and above all - inspiration for Muscular Dystrophy. After a demanding start from Mile zero in Victoria BC, and many a stop to continue his fund raising efforts, as well as the sudden passing of his father along route, Sonny and chair called journeys end half way in Thunder Bay Ontario after three months and nine days of pushing his hand cycle wheelchair on the shoulder of Canada’s #1 highway. His dream was to go coast to coast, but with the few set backs experienced he was forced to recalibrate the end location and arrival time.
Soon after, Sonny was asked to join the Man in Motion - Rick Hansen on his 25th Anniversary relay celebrating 25 years of spinal cord injury research and the original Man in Motion odyssey. On this 25th Anniversary, it was 7000 difference makers from across Canada participating in a coast to coast relay AND Rick needed athletes. Endurance athletes to be exact.
What that meant was Sonny had been given another chance to fulfill his trans-Canada dream, only this time he would be travelling in the opposite direction from the east coast, west towards Thunder Bay. Sonny shares his tale with an inspiring talk about overcoming fears and how he came to develop his own personal power and “whatever it takes attitude” in the midst of any so called limitation.
Sonny, right from his early years, has always been a source of inspiration. By sharing his story imbued with courage, hope and bravery, Sonny trusts others will be inspired and motivated to do whatever it takes to realize their full potential of self love and mastery. To Sonny, this is involution.
For overcoming adversity, at the age of 13, he received one of the highest awards in Canada that a scout can receive presented to him by the Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn. He was the Alberta Junior Champion for 800m, 400m and 200m in wheelchair racing. He joined and competed and travelled all over North America for 7 years with a Marching Brass Ensemble playing percussion instruments in their pit section.
"I don't know why I have this disease but I know I can do more with it than without it."
Sonny has definitely lived up to that remark.
Sourced from the book Inch by Inch Growing in Life
SONNY DA
2022
2022
