"Teach Me to Breathe is about an awakening" says singer-songwriter Rob Hill. "It's about learning to be alive."

Hill teamed up with singer Derek Harris to form this Olympia, Washington based duo in 2003, and Harris & Hill released the Teach Me to Breathe CD in April of 2004. For both it has been a reconnection with music and spirit.

Though the spiritual aspects of the music are pretty subtle, the spiritual motivation behind the making
of the album is not.

"I got to a point in my life where I was re-examining and I realized that it's all about making the most of your time and your gifts," says Hill of his self-proclaimed mid-life crisis. "And I was convinced that God would have been kind of ticked off at me for not making the most of the gifts I've been given."

And the reason he was wasting his talents, he admits, was fear.

"I think fear is at the core of a lot of unhappiness," he says. "And I'm just now learning to trust my dreams and to believe that everything will