Tag: Healing with music

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Barbara Dossey interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this podcast, we’ll be hearing interviews from the sound healing pioneers who are featured on our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 4: Prayer Medicine & Tibetan Mantra, featuring Barbara Dossey.

Barbara Dossey is a pioneer in the holistic nursing field and author of many award-winning books. As an educator, consultant, researcher, author and lecturer, she works to advance the practice of holistic nursing by integrating nontraditional viewpoints with a high degree of scientific awareness. In addition to her numerous books, manuals and handbooks on holistic nursing, critical care nursing and nurse healers, she has also written extensively about Florence Nightingale’s life and work.  We hope you enjoy it.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

UN Earth Summits In Our Hands Rio De Janeiro part 4

In this podcast you will hear the final part 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. It’s part 4 in our podcast series.  In our video documentary we focused on indigenous people, women and youth. Here you will hear from luminaries including then Senator Al Gore, Helen Caldecott, and the Dalai Lama to name a few. What they say is more relevant today than ever.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Larry Dossey interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

In this series, we’ll be hearing interviews from the sound healing pioneers who are featured on our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 4: Prayer Medicine & Tibetan Mantra.

This session gains the perspective of medical professionals as we meet with husband and wife team Dr. Larry Dossey and Barbara Dossey. They shed light on prayer, spiritual healing and the roll music plays from the standpoint of a medical physician and a holistic nurse. Dr. Larry Dossey has probably done more than anyone in the medical field to bring awareness of the power of prayer and its effect on the healing process. He has written many books and articles and his research has been extensive in compiling data about the phenomenon of unexplained ‘miracle cures’ and remissions linked with prayer and non-local mind.

Dr. Dossey served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, hospital chief of staff, Executive Editor of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and lectured at major medical schools and hospitals worldwide.  Enjoy.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Arthur Hull interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

In this series, we’ll be hearing interviews from the sound healing pioneers who are featured on our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This is from Session 3: Rhythms for Health. Arthur Hull has a mission to make the joy and impact of rhythm accessible to everyone and sees drumming as a means to improve human interaction. As a rhythm ambassador, Arthur brings his inspirational musical experiences to a wide range of groups from corporate executives to kids at risk. His pioneering rhythm facilitation work has encouraged the new and growing field of ‘drum circle facilitating’, bringing Village Music Circles to communities and organizations worldwide.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Melinda Witter interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

In this series we will be hearing interviews with the sound healing pioneers who are featured on our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This one is from Session 3, Rhythms of Health.

Melinda Witter is a professional trainer and practitioner of conflict mitigation, community and human development. Her specialty focuses on conflict analysis and peace building initiatives, community development, training and education. She is deeply familiar with the dynamics of the Middle East region, with 12 years of ethnic and religious conflict resolution, tribal mediation, civil society, conflict analysis, and cross-cultural communications including use of music and cultural art exchange in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is a certified spiritual mentor, teacher of mediation, and she is working on her PhD with the focus of Spirituality in Peacebuilding. Melinda tells her courageous story of using percussion workshops in Iraq to bring opposing groups together.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Rickie Byars Beckwith Interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

In this series we will be hearing interviews with the sound healing pioneers who are featured on our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE.

This podcast is from Session 2: Song of the Soul, Message of Spirit featuring Rev. Doctor Michael Bernard Beckwith and his wife Rickie Byars Beckwith.  This episode features our conversation with Rickie Byars Beckwith who is the Music and Arts Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. There she directs the 200-member Agape International Choir. The Beckwith’s powerful partnership has resulted in dynamic work enabling transformational healing through the power of music.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS