Tag: Sound Healing

How to Use Toning & Breath for Meditation

We hope you enjoy this new Soundings Mindful Media Podcast where Dudley Evenson discusses how to best use toning and breath for meditation. Toning as a modern healing technique has only come into public awareness in the past few decades although as an ancient rite, it appeared in many cultures and eras.

With recent interest in sound healing, vocal toning naturally emerged as a useful tool. It is especially beneficial because it involves no musical instruments or high tech equipment, just the human voice. And it takes very little time. You could tone for 10 seconds or a couple minutes and feel a benefit although the longer you are able to tone at a time, the greater the benefit will be in terms of relaxation of the whole body system and quieting of the mind. Dudley Evenson teaching toning, meditation and other sound healing modalities. She and her husband Dean Evenson are sound healing pioneers and have been studying the healing effects of sound and music for over three decades.

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Interview with guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan

A few years ago, we met guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan at a Music Therapy Conference. We were intrigued that an avant-garde jazz guitarist was featured at a sound healing event, but once we heard him play, we understood why he was included in the program. Later, we arranged to interview Jordan after his gig at Jazz Alley in Seattle. We were fascinated to learn more about his interesting journey from being a successful jazz artist to his work in the sound healing field. You can also watch the video of the interview on our Soundings Mindful Media YouTube channel. Enjoy.

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Liz Sterling interviews Dean & Dudley Evenson

Our new podcast features an interview with our very own Dean & Dudley Evenson by Liz Sterling.  We hope you enjoy it.

Dean Evenson is one of the true visionaries of the Ambient/New Age musical genre.  He is a prolific musician and composer, an entrepreneur, media pioneer and the co-founder of Billboard-charting independent music label, Soundings of the Planet. At every turn, Evenson’s life has taken bold steps in new and exciting directions. The success and pioneering nature of his creative work attest to a dynamic personality and a life-long commitment to the positive evolution of life on this planet in relationship with the natural and spiritual world. Evenson’s story is that of an artist, technological innovator, broad-minded thinker–a modern-day Renaissance man.

Dudley Evenson co-founded Soundings of the Planet in 1979 with her husband Dean Evenson. Together, they have produced over 80 albums and videos. She has been the Executive Producer, art director and copy writer for all of the Soundings releases in addition to performing her harp and doing guided meditations on many albums. Dudley is a certified professional life coach and has trained with Impact Coaching Academy. She is  an AARP Life Reimagined Guide and leads Life Reimagined Checkups.

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Joshua Leeds interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

This podcast features an interview with Joshua Leeds from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE.

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, author, music producer and educator. He is one of few published authorities in the field of psychoacoustics – the study of the effects of music and sound on the human nervous system. Collaborating with leaders in health, neurodevelopment, veterinary neurology and animal behavior, Joshua’s application-specific soundtracks are used in homes, clinics and classrooms around the world. His bioacoustically designed soundtracks are also heard in canine environments. He has published numerous books and articles focusing on the therapeutic applications of music and sound. He conducts seminars for music, healthcare and education professionals.  We hope you enjoy this interview. Please subscribe and rate. Thank you!

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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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Jonathan and Andi Goldman interview from Sonic Healing, Meet the Masters Video Course

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

Jonathan Goldman is an internationally renowned teacher, writer and award-winning Grammy nominated musician. He’s an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. He founded the Sound Healers Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to education and awareness of sound and music for healing. He has studied with masters of sound from both scientific and spiritual traditions and has been empowered to teach Tibetan overtone chanting. He is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music and Medicine and facilitates Healing Sounds Seminars worldwide.

Andi Goldman, Jonathan’s wife and partner, is a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in holistic counseling and sound therapy. She is the Director of Healing Sounds Seminars and Executive Director of the Sound Healers Association. She is a musician, teacher, author and sound healer. Together, Andi and Jonathan have dedicated their lives to a path of service, helping awaken and empower others with the ability of sound to heal and transform.

In this session, Jonathan Goldman talks about harmonics and healing and shares how sound can assist many aspects of our lives. He demonstrates overtone chanting and the chakra toning system he developed. Andi Goldman, expresses the effects of sound and intention from the perspective of a psychotherapist and holistic counselor

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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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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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