Tag: Music

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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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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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.

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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.

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Remo Belli interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

In this series you will hear interviews from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This podcast is from Session 3: Rhythms for Health featuring our conversation with Remo Belli, founder of the world famous Remo Drums. Remo Belli was a pioneering visionary and icon of world percussion. In 1957 he invented the first successful synthetic drumhead which forever changed the sound of music. For over 60 years Remo has been committed to providing drummers with quality products and programs while also striving to expand the acceptance of drumming as an integral component of personal wellbeing. Through his ongoing efforts, professional drummers, enthusiasts, children, elders, and people with emotional and physical challenges have been exposed to the joy of drumming.

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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.

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Jonathan Ellerby interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

Rev. Dr. Jonathan Ellerby is a best-selling author and Executive Director at the Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality in Denver.  He earned his Ph.D. in comparative religion and has traveled the world researching, exploring, and experiencing spiritual practices in diverse settings with people of all faiths. Through his work, Jonathan has helped people of all backgrounds bring real change by making timeless spiritual tools and philosophies simple to understand and apply. He leads workshops, retreats, guided travel journeys, conducts trainings and does speaking engagements.

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