Notes on Shapeshifting

By: Gabi Abrão

Narrated by: Gabi Abrão

Gabi Abrāo’s Notes on Shapeshifting is an ode to existing in physical form, fully aware of the changing energy that flows through every aspect of it.

As Abrāo writes, “tapping into the ether body to take a break from the demands of the earth body, / making peace with ephemerality, / lightness, / shapeshifting”.

Throughout this collection, you are invited to travel through various states; pure infatuation to heartbreak, confidence to defeat, from a skepticism for living to a full-on trust in it. And Notes on Shapeshifting yearns to soothe and arouse along the way.

©2022 Gabi Abrão (P)2025 Gabi Abrão

Virtual listening party for one

In celebration of Gabis audiobook release I found myself never fully reading NOS (cover to cover) even though I’ve had a hard cover copy since 2022. Nothing could better fit the reading than sitting at my favorite coffee shop just feet from Venice beach as I sipped on a custom made mocha from my crush. The setting was set and nothing felt more aligned than the turning of pages in the physicality of her book while listening to her voice read to me.
It’s the mundane of a Thursday morning that filled me with the essence of magic that can be created at any moment. Cheers to this beautiful soul the reading of this book years later was worth the wait to be read to by no other than Gabi herself.

Relaxing & contemplative

I came here from the author’s Spotify because listening to her always puts me in a good mood & gives me more perspective. I don’t even know how to really explain it, but I feel so @ ease & just open to the limitless possibilities of life. I’m so happy I found her Instagram too. Will probably subscribe to the patreon @ some point because she’s really a gem & I feel so blessed. Thank you!

Amazing

Always admired Gabi’s work & overall vibe. So awesome hearing her book come to life in a different format! Congrats Gabi!!

Transcendence

i started this about three months ago with the anticipation of an eager need for change in my life. I rediscovered this book today, unconsciously clicking on it instead of my comfort memoir “just kids.” Notes of shape shifting is a portal itself, “grand in itself, wise in itself.” To think about the boulder I pushed up the hill and the people that have hopped on and trailed off… makes me confident in my own sense of stability amongst the chaos. truth often exists in the absence of fact and i’m grateful for past present and future observations of love. freedom. eternal dreams. I’m sitting by a body of water, listening to the ducks quack in remembrance and guidance.