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Explorations
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Explorations
in Sound Healing
Explorations in Sound Healing is a six week course focusing on many different aspects of sound healing with local sound healing professionals. The program is intended for anyone looking to get a better understanding of Sound Healing through discussion and experiential exercises. There will be many diverse approaches to the this energetic healing modality including toning, the musical aspects of sound healing, combining sound with reiki, The Listening Program based on the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis, and the use of Peruvian Earthenware Listening vessels.
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East West Books
East West Bookshop
6500 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
Tel: 206-523-3726
$10 per class
Thursday March 6th-INCORPORATING SOUND INTO A HEALING PRACTICE
A
brief overview of some ways sound is being used to amplify physical, energetic,
emotional and/or spiritual healing in a variety of settings such as medicine,
massage, acupuncture, psychotherapy. Guidelines will be offered to help
evaluate tools and resources to anyone interested increasing their conscious
use of sound in a professional or personal healing practice.
Marline
Lesh has always been drawn to sound and has nurtured herself with music.
Music, speech, language, hearing and the physics of sound (psychoacoustics)
have been part of her formal and informal studies over the years. She
earned a bachelor's degree in Speech, worked as an audiologist's assistant,
taught deaf children. She sang in choirs and performed both solo and in
a variety of musical ensembles. In 1992, Marline's interest turned fully
toward sound. Since then she has been coaching voice, leading sound gatherings
and workshops, and studying, writing and speaking about sound. Marline
has studied with many sound teachers, including pioneers like Kay Gardner,
Jonathon Goldman, David Hykes, and Tom Kenyon. A major figure in the establishment
and growth of Sound Healers of Washington (SHOW), Marline initiated the
SHOW newsletter and webpage. Since the year 2000 Marline has become a
licensed massage therapist and a certified Acutonics teacher.
Thursday
March 13-The Whistling Vessels
Peruvian Whistling Vessels, a group of ancient earthenware vessels have been found to be "psycho-acoustical" instruments which induce an altered state of consciousness. These seemingly simple devices are highly sophisticated tools that have been used for at least 2,500 years in several Andean cultures from Ecuador to southern Peru. The sounds of the seven whistles played together by participants create what often described as a centering of consciousness or Zen-like state of clarity" for everyone in the room. As they are blown, some interesting overtones are produced. The higher notes interact to produce a deep, low frequency sounds that cannot be tape-recorded but are heard only in the inner ear of the participants ... a low, fluttering hum.
Paul
Robear's 27-year personal journey into spiritwork includes meditation,
yoga, breathwork, cross-cultural religious studies and ceremony which
has lead him to work with the Whistling Vessels. Paul, with wife, Laura
Lee, will share a set of these unique devices for direct experience by
participants as well as the story and science behind them.
Thursday March 20th-Weaving the Sacred Union of Sound Healing and Subtle Energy
A discussion and exploration of the healing potential of rhythmic and drone sounds in conjunction with the hands-on-healing method of Reiki.
Ripples
of sound waves envelop your body, the vibrations gently relaxing your
being as you drift inward towards your center. By combining a mix of toning
voices, drums and rattles participants will become propelled into their
own altered states and receive insights and experiences of their higher
selves.
This is a truly unique way to participate in and experience a healing
sound bath.
Eileen
Wurst, M.A. is a bodywork counselor and Reiki master in private practice
at the Seattle Holistic Center. This workshop is based on "Reiki
Sound Jams" she has been facilitating for several years. They are
transformational healing events held monthly, in which students apply
sound from instruments such as drums, bowls, tuning forks as well as their
own voices while applying the hands-on-healing method of Reiki to other
participants.
Thursday
March 27th-Harmonic Awareness: Sound Healing from a Musicians Perspective
This evening will focus on the musical aspects of sound healing. Using the harmonic series (the physical basis of all music) and a monochord , a single string instrument, we will examine the harmonic series. The discussion will lead into the musical aspects of harmonic chant and how musical scales and systems are based (and not based, as in Western Music) on the harmonic series. The differences between Western and Eastern music will also be also discussed in regards to the construction of musical scales and temperament systems.
Chris
Morda is a local blues musician and instructor. He has studied the guitar
for twenty years and also received a bachelor's degree in Ethnomusicology
from the University of Washington. Chris also has studied AND practiced
reiki in a non professional setting for nine years and has been studying
Sound Healing and Harmonic Chant for the last few years.
Thursday
April 3-THE LISTENING PROGRAM
This Class is cancelled!
The Listening Program is a home-based sound stimulation auditory training
method comprised of eight specifically designed compact discs, a guidebook
and listening journal. Ginny will explain how The LISTENING PROGRAM is
based on the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis, how that information is developed
in these Training CDs, how to use The LISTENING PROGRAM, and some testimonials
of the results of using The LISTENING PROGRAM.
Ginny Helfrich, MRE, NCACI, CCDCi, has been an Addictions and Family Counselor
in the Seattle area since 1993. She has been using guided imagery with
music, humming, toning, cross-cultural chakra chanting, and I Ching drumming
to complement her clinical work. Some results of her work have been sited
in THE MOZART EFFECT by Don Campbell, Avon Books, and the HEALING SOUNDS
OF MUSIC by Janice Arenofsky, American Media Mini Mags, Inc. Ginny has
trained and worked as a mentor of the Institute of Music, Health and Education,
1990-1997, studied with Pat Moffit Cook of The Open Ear Center, and trained
with the Mid-Atlantic Institute of Guided Imagery with Music.
Thursday
March 13th-VOICE ENERGY
A tool for self healing and connection with joy. Let your voice become a powerful tool for releasing stress, balancing your energy, heal your body and create magic moments with others!
In this class you will learn:
How your voice awakens your body-energy, allowing you to relax deeply into the sound.
How long vowel tones can expand your breathing and make you feel safe and confident when singing.
How gentle movement rooted in the Feldenkrais method can free your body from old habits of tension.
How
to experience ease in your full vocal instrument, the body, and feel rejuvenated,
centered and deeply empowered.
(No vocal experience necessary)
Danick
Isabelle Jawer, an energy consultant and a lifelong musician, brings together
gentle techniques to help free the voice and fully connect with our natural
ability to heal and balance ourselves with sound. An experienced voice
teacher for 18 years, Danick has a degree in Music from the Conservatoire
of Music of Chalon, France. Her passion for voice expression led her to
study traditional techniques like classical and jazz singing. In the last
10 years, her focus has been to develop Voice Energy, a group practice
based on vowel singing, Toning, the Feldenkrais approach and Energy Clearing.
She is a co-director and editor for S.H.O.W., the Sound Healers of Washington,
founded in 1991 to promote the use of sound as therapy and for well being.
She teaches Voice Energy, Toning classes, private voice coaching and Feng
Shui workshops at the Mastery Health and Learning Center in Redmond.
