Tag: Sound Healing

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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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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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.

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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.

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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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Michael Beckwith & Rickie Byars Beckwith Interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

In this series you will hear interviews with the sound healing pioneers who are featured our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. This podcast is from Session 2: Song of the Soul, Message of Spirit with Rev. Doctor Michael Bernard Beckwith and Rickie Byars Beckwith. We had a wonderful conversation with the Beckwiths, husband and wife leaders of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. In a relaxed setting, Michael and Rickie speak candidly about their vision of the power of music, especially music that is of a spiritual nature. Their understanding of music, meditation and consciousness inspires their collaborative creative expressions. They both share real life experiences of healing involving music and meaningful words of wisdom. \

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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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Gordon Dveirin interview from Sonic Healing Video Course

Here is an interview featuring Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. along with his wife, Dr. Joan Borysenko from our SONIC HEALING MEET THE MASTERS VIDEO COURSE. Gordon is the president of Dveirin & Associates, a consulting firm in organization and human development. His public and private sector clients have ranged from the Smithsonian Institution to the Women’s Vision Foundation, for which he’s currently developing a program on “Fully Human Leadership.” He is co-founder with Joan Borysenko of the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and its Interspiritual Mentoring Program, based on a lifelong interest in mindful inquiry and approaches to Presence. He is coauthor (with Joan Borysenko) of Saying Yes to Change and Your Soul’s Compass. www.claritasinstitute.com

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