Category: Podcast

Jill Purce interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we hear the interview with Jill Purce from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 9, of the Ten Part Series on Meditation, Music and Healing.

First, a little background on Jill Purce.  Jill pioneered the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, the power of group chant, and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation. She has taught overtone chanting and healing voice workshops for thirty years. Through her workshops and seminars, she presents diverse forms of sacred chant, especially Mongolian overtone chanting. She has researched the magical properties of the voice studying with Gyuto monks, American Indians and shamans from different traditions as well as performing with innovative German composer Karlhaus Stockhausen and teaching with her husband, biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

In this interview, she discusses her pioneering discoveries in sound healing using ancient vocal techniques and group chanting and calls attention to the spiritual potential of the voice for healing and meditation.  Enjoy.

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Peter Ali Interview on Soundings Mindful Media Podcast

We hope you enjoy this interview with Peter Ali who has released an album with Dean Evenson called Prayers on the Wind: Native American & Silver Flutes.

Peter Ali is a Native American Flutist who resides in the Pacific Northwest.  He has inspired and comforted many through his music since first hearing the call of a Native American style flute at a low point in his own life. He then found his way towards healing through teaching himself to play the flute. Peter comes from a unique blending of cultures. His mother is from Sonora Mexico and is of Mayan, Pima Indian, and southern European descent. His father is of Berber descent from Morocco, North Africa.

After many years of flute playing, Peter discovered that his paternal grandfather had also played the traditional Ney flute for ceremonies and gatherings. Peter has gathered a wonderful collection of wooden flutes, each with a unique voice that he directs and brings to life. He performs and teaches flute playing and flute making through various Native American tribal programs, schools, public libraries, and other venues. He was a featured performer for the Dalai Lama during the Seeds of Compassion Seattle event. Peter’s latest musical offering is a collaboration with Dean Evenson called Prayers On The Wind.

You can check out Peter Ali’s website here

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Jeffrey Thompson interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we hear the interview with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 8 of the Ten Part Series on Meditation, Music and Healing.

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has done scientific research with sound since 1980. In his experiments, he discovered exact sound frequencies to make chiropractic spinal and cranial adjustments to stimulate and normalize organ function and balance acupuncture meridians. In addition to his chiropractic expertise, Dr. Thompson is recognized as a worldwide expert in the field of acoustic pacing frequencies incorporated into musical sound tracks. A consummate musician and composer, he has established a method for using modulated soundpulses for changing states of consciousness for optimal healing. His Center for Neuroacoustic Research explores the matrix and boundaries of the physical, mental and spiritual bodies.

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Wilbert Alix interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we hear the interview with Wilbert Alex from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 8 of the Ten Part Series on Meditation, Music and Healing.

Wilbert Alix shares his background of growing up in the rich ethnic culture of New Orleans to arrive at contemporary shamanic techniques using trance dance and body-centered psychology. He has earned international recognition as a contemporary healer and teacher of progressive psychology and neo-shamanism with a focus on trance dance. A prominent figure in the emerging science of body-centered psychology, his presentations offer unique insights into the relationships between traditional shamanic healing, progressive psychology and modern science. Throughout his career of over four-decades, he has created numerous social, medical, mental health and alternative therapy approaches to cultivating physical and emotional well-being. He continues to explore the professional application of Trance Dance and other contemporary shamanic techniques as legitimate healing and therapeutic tools.

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Dr. Gary Schwartz interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing an interview with Dr. Gary Schwartz from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 7 of the Ten Part Series on Meditation, Music and Healing.

Dr. Gary Schwartz is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He teaches health psychology and mind-body-spirit medicine and is the director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. He taught psychology at Harvard and Yale universities and has published 450 scientific papers and co-edited and written more than a dozen books. He has received numerous awards for his work involving research in health psychology, energy healing and spirituality. He is Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.  In this interview, he discusses research on the effects of music on plant germination as his university experiments have indicated direct correlations.  Enjoy.

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Scott Huckabay interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, you’ll be hearing an interview with musician Scott Huckabay, from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 7 on Meditation, Music and Healing. Scott Huckabay is a left-handed, soul inspired trance guitarist and performance artist and close collaborator with Dean Evenson.

In this interview, he shares his own healing stories involving new musical forms with a focus on harmonics.. His healing story is powerful and fascinating. After a near fatal motorcycle accident, doctors told him that he might lose all feeling in his right hand and left leg and he would not walk or play the guitar again. Fortunately, he had the will to prove them wrong and began playing acoustic guitar while he was recuperating. An exquisite new music surged and flowed

from him. He attributes the music and a year spent swimming with wild dolphins and whales for his incredible healing.

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Dean & Dudley Evenson interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, you’ll be hearing an interview with us, Dean and Dudley Evenson from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 7 on Meditation, Music and Healing. 

Here is some background on us. My husband, Dean Evenson is an award-winning sound healing pioneer, composer and co-founder of Soundings of the Planet in 1979. He was one of the first to blend his peaceful, relaxation music with nature sounds. With a Masters in Molecular Biology and a half-century of flute playing, Dean has combined his scientific and artistic backgrounds to create music that has been profoundly healing. 

And I, Dudley Evenson am an award-winning musician, multi-media producer, writer, photographer and co-founder of Soundings of the Planet. Together, we have collaborated for over four decades producing videos, healing music and teaching classes and online courses on sound healing and how to use music and sound tools to enhance the meditation process. We have also taught combat veterans dealing with PTSD and wounds of war at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. We have now written our first book Quieting the Monkey Mind: How to Meditate with Music. This interview happened prior to the book publication. We hope you enjoy this interview.

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Steven Halpern interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing an interview with Steven Halpern from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 6: Sacred Chant & Relaxation.

Steven Halpern is an award-winning composer and keyboard artist whose healing music has helped millions worldwide to experience the benefits of deep relaxation and inner peace.  Steven combines ancient sound healing traditions with quantum biology and energy medicine to produce recordings that support meditation, stress management and the healing arts. He has also released a series of subliminal recordings and has written several books on the field of sound healing. His landmark research explored the connections between sound, consciousness and healing using new technologies of brainwave biofeedback and Kirlian (aura) photography.

In this interview, we’ll learn about Steven’s discoveries of how music can help us achieve the ‘Relaxation Response.’  Enjoy

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Deva Premal & Miten interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing an interview with Deva Premal and her partner Miten from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 6: Sacred Chant & Relaxation.

Deva Premal was born in Germany and grew up in an atmosphere of mantra and spiritual discipline. By the time she was five years old she was already chanting the Gayatri Mantra daily. At an early age, she was on a spiritual quest and became a disciple of the Indian mystic Osho. She went to live in his ashram and began her studies of the healing arts. There she met Miten who was one of Osho’s musicians. Eventually they joined forces and recorded her sacred chants. They have traveled the world, sharing their sacred music and meditative mantras.

In this interview, they share the depth of spirituality that can come from mantra and chant. Deva points out that the power of the chanting is in its ability to access a meditative place of inner silence.

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Silvia Nakkach interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing an interview with Silvia Nakkach from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 5: Sound Healing Clinicians.

Silvia Nakkach is a pioneer in the field of sound, transformation, and musical shamanism. She is a Grammy-nominated musician, composer, author and presenter and has released numerous CD-albums. She is the founding director of The Vox Mundi School, devoted to teaching and preserving indigenous musical traditions. She has contributed an extensive body of therapeutic vocal techniques that have become landmarks in the fields of sound healing and cross-cultural music therapy training. UTNE Magazine selected her as one of top 40 artists who will shake the art world.  Enjoy.

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