Tag: Earth

Dean Evenson & Phil Heaven Discuss Inspiration Behind New Album EARTH WITHIN

Join Dean Evenson in this heartfelt conversation with Phil Heaven, his longtime friend, collaborator, and co-producer as they reminisce on their creative journey together and their new release Earth Within. The underlying story and choice of instruments aligned to bring this album to life in a unique way. Phil and Dean have made many award-winning albums together and this new LP introduces Douglas Johnson who brings his unique stylings on double bass to their viola and flute. “The idea of bringing the Earth Within ourselves through these low frequencies seemed like a great idea for an album project” says Phil Heaven. “Douglas’ double bass instrument brings the grounding earthy feeling along with the viola, bringing deep resonant tones. You feel the low frequencies in all your body.”Dean Evenson explains why the concept and natural sounds are so important on this album. “We need to honor the earth and understand it as a living being. And when we do that, it opens the whole world through a way of thinking that supports the earth and brings about the harmony as the instruments do on this album, playing the different aspects of life and nature.”

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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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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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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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Yungchen Lhamo interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing an interview with Yungchen Lhamo from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 4: Prayer Medicine & Tibetan Mantra.

Yungchen Lhamo was born in Chinese-occupied Tibet where her grandmother taught her the traditional devotional singing. In 1989, she escaped from Tibet by walking over the Himalayan Mountains to India. When she met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, he recognized her musical ability and encouraged her to share the richness of Tibetan culture through her voice. She has performed worldwide in support of Tibetan causes. Her music has been released through Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records and also included in soundtracks for numerous movies about Tibet.

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UN Earth Summits In Our Hands Rio De Janeiro part 1

In this podcast you will hear part of the soundtrack from our video called 2 U.N. Earth Summits: 1972 & 1992.  This section is In Our Hands, Beyond the Earth Summit from the second United Nations Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. In our documentary we focused on indigenous people, women and youth. Here you will hear from luminaries including Bianca Jagger, Lummi tribal member Jewell James, then Senator Al Gore, Edward James Olmos, Seneca Chief Oren Lyons, Dr. Helen Caldecott, and Wangari Maathai to name a few. What they say is more relevant today than ever.

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United Nations First Earth Summit 1972 Part 2

In this podcast you will be hearing part of the soundtrack from our video called 2 UN Earth Summits: 1972 & 1992. This section is from the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden in ’72. Voices include Indira Gandhi, Maurice Strong, Thich Nhat Hanh, Arthur Godfrey, Native Americans, environmentalists, and healers.

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United Nations First Earth Summit 1972 Part 1

In this podcast you will be hearing part of the soundtrack from our video called 2 UN Earth Summits: 1972 & 1992.  This section is from the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden in ’72. It was there that Dean and Dudley were first exposed to Native American wisdom about Mother Earth. It was a very powerful time as we were just waking up as a society to understanding how our human activities were negatively affecting the planet.

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