Two Events with Chloe Goodchild
ONE VOICE - A UNIVERSE SINGING INSIDE YOU ~ SINGING FIELD WITH CHLOE GOODCHILD & NICHOLAS TWILLEY - BIRMINGHAM, UK
DATE: MONDAY 12 MARCH, 2012 TIMES: 7.15-9.00PM VENUE: BIRMINGHAM BUDDHIST CENTRE, 11 PARK ROAD, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM B13 8AB
Information: Within the sound of our One Voice are the keys to innumerable worlds. Chloe Goodchild invites you into a participative field of deep presence, sound and song, inspired by a life-times love affair with the contemplative, devotional and ecstatic voice.
Chloe will share her own compositions, improvisations and much-loved sacred chants inspired by the ecstatic love poetry of Rumi, Kabir, and Tagore.
Cost: £12 Early Bird Front Row Seat Ticket / £9 Early Bird Standard Ticket / £7 Early Bird Concs
Ticket Booking: Tree of Life OR www.thenakedvoice.com
A SANCTUARY OF SOUND: THE NAKED VOICE SPRING EQUINOX 2012 RETREAT - WALES, UK DATE: SUNDAY 18 - FRIDAY 23 MARCH, 2012
Chloe Goodchild, Masashi Minagawa, Nicholas Twilley
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Weaving Songs in Scotland
Hello wonderful family! I just wanted to share some sounds that have been weaving with the family up in Scotland, deep heart and clear prayers to the spirit of the Water, hope you will enjoy it!
http://soundcloud.com/anthar-kharana/anthar-kharana-soundweavers
many blessings!
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Chakras
There seems to be a great deal of confusion about chakras. Some people say there are seven, some say twelve while some say that chakras are no longer relevant. My belief from working with chakras for over twenty years is that they are representative of levels of consciousness which we move through in our lives. The consciousness of humanity is gradually expanding to become more aware of the needs of others and the planet as a whole. For more information please see my book Reclaiming Your Sacred Spirit - http://www.simonheather.co.uk/pages/books.php
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An Invitation to Join Us
We have created a new Group called Yoga on Sound Forum. Yoga and Sound are closely related so we at Sound Forum are inviting Yoga Teachers and Practitioners who use sound in their work to join us as contributors to this very important section on soundwork. You can find the new group here - http://www.soundtravels.co.uk/g-Yoga,_Meditation__Sound-26.aspx or you can visit the Community section and choose it from the groups. If you are interested in getting more involved then please do get in touch with us at http://www.soundtravels.co.uk/ContactUs.aspx. This section is set up so that if you have an event, written article or want to submit a post so long as you have selected the category Yoga as part of the submission process it will appear here in Yoga on Sound Forum.
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Sounds from the Ear
On the 21st of February, Ill be reintroducing the foundation behind the Davis Addendum to the Tomatis Effect that not only does the voice produce what the ear hears but also that the ear emits the same stressed frequencies as the voice and when the correcting frequency is resubmitted to the ear, the voice regains coherence and the brain supports the body better, to the Making Sense of Sounds conference in Plymouth, England. My theory is that the spontaneous otoacoustic emissions from the ear provide information about what the body wants to self-heal. I also will be presenting this in my upcoming book, The Cycle of Sound: A Missing Energetic Link. I post for discussion and ask if others know of other researchers interested in the same topic? The possibility of sharing and growing this concept is exciting for me.
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Fabien Maman's Colour and Classical Tuning Fork Training in the Uk in March
Sound is the virational healing of the new generation. Colour takes the healing effects of all Sound, higher into the Subtle fields and it fixes the effects of Sound, via Tuning forks, in the body too. If you would like to add the transformational theraputic effects of Colour to your healing practice why dont you join us for a 3 day training programme here in the Uk. 16-18th March 2012. It would be wonderful to meet more of the Sound Community of the Uk! We also have an advanced Tuning fork Course 19th-21st March for all people with Tuning fork experience or acupuncture training. Please see the events page for more info or contact Carrie, our Uk Tama Do Coordinator and Senior Practioner, who can answer all your questions. carrie@carrie-mitchell.co.uk or tel 07814036314
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Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras
In the autumn of 2012 Destiny Books, a division of Inner Traditions International will be publishing my new book Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonats and seed Syllables for spiritual Transformation. The original title proposed was The Sacred Alphabet.The following is what will appear in the publishers catalogue:
A practical guide to vocally resonating your energetic and psychological centers to balance the emotions, purify the soul and dissipate negative states.
Explores the intimate connections between specific sounds and syllables, the 7 chakras and their corresponding psychological traits.
Provides toning exercises using these seed sounds to re-tune and purify the chakras, leading to spiritual transformation and wholeness as energetic blockages and negative states are dissipated.
Includes a 65 minute CD to guide you through the each exercise and the tonig of the each chakras sound.
Using the Sacred Alphabet - the universal sound
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A Free Intro Lesson on Modes and Improvisation on-line
I invite everyone to view a free lesson that can be applied to piano, harp or other instrument. We use the quality of the modes in our music selections when playing for people in health care facilities. http://emeraldharp.com/Specials.html
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Helen Chadwick to come to Hawkwood College
Hawkwood College has invited Helen Chadwick to run a workshop and perform in February 2012. She is offering a songwriting course Friday 17-Sunday 19 February 2012, which includes an evening concert “Sung Stories” on Saturday 18th February. During the weekend, participants will work on their own, in pairs and small groups to build up melodic phrases and words, bringing in harmonies to create new, original songs. Their creative efforts will be supported by a friendly, welcoming atmosphere, beautiful surroundings and lots of delicious food. Helen has been dubbed “wickedly inventive” in her composing and performing. Based in London but widely travelled, she is a performance creator, singer and composer whose work has been commissioned by the Royal Opera House, London. She has written over 250 songs and has recorded 10 albums, the latest of which is Strange Land with the Helen Chadwick Group. She has also composed for
English Touring Opera, the BBC, Tete a Tete Opera Company, Salisbu
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Dissonance to Heal Deep Pathlogy is different to the hearing dissonance
If we talk about dissonance in Sound Healing, the whole question is to know if we are talking about our musical comfort in listening to the music, or if we are talking about the use of acoustic sound for real healing purpose.
It is clear that when I shave in the morning I will not listen to dissonant music such as Shoenberg, Xenakis or Stockhausen, as I will risk cutting my moustache in a rough way. I prefer Antonio Carlos Jobim or Debussy !
But when it comes to healing a deep pathology, its another question, and so another approach is required.
In my sound/cellular experiment conducted in 1981, which documented the impacts of acoustic sound on human cells, (http://tama-do.com/roothtmls/cell-research.html) I found that by using a series of dissonant notes (the chromatic scale), cancer cells (in vitro) exploded.
In my conclusion, (spelled out with color photos in my new book, The Tao of Sound) I noted that dissonant acoustic sound progressively d
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Sound Healing CD
I have recently produced a CD that balances the twelve acupuncture meridians using twelve low frequency sounds. More details can be found on my web site - http://www.simonheather.co.uk/pages/cds.php
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The Rub
Dissonance results from friction and in turn creates friction. Without friction there is no life and life is movement. The easier we can allow ourselves to move freely with friction, the easier we can move with life.
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Some thoughts on dissonance.
In my earlier years as a musician I found that I had a preference for harmony and sweet chords, despite the attempts of my fantastically avante garde composer piano teacher to educate my ear to strange and wonderful chords and structures. I remember learning a very wierd and wonderful dissonant chordal arrangement on piano for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. However, once his influence left my sphere, I turned habitually back to the sounds and pieces I liked, and the compositions I wrote were mostly harmonious in chord structure and melody.
Now, since training as a sound therapist and facilitating Colours We Sing workshops, I have come to value very much the dissonance and the stronger waves of vibration caused by dissonance. The question came to me this morning how can we learn to appreciate harmony if we first have not embraced our dissonance?. Eating cake all day can make you feel a bit sick. Dissonance can be likened to the way we feel when we meet someone that rubs us up t
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Dissonant Discussion
Tama Do Academy uses Dissonance as one of our key techniques. When the body has manifested crystallizations that become lumps, bumps, rigidity or tumors etc then dissonant sound (two Tuning Forks of consecutive notes, with 1/2 a tone interval eg C# & D) will help to break these down when placed on the body.
Fabien Mamans cell research showed that within a laboratory, abnormal cells (he used cancer cells) could not withstand dissonant sound and would explode, yet healthy cells were flexible enough to allow dissonant sound to pass through them and leave them unchanged. When the healthy cells recognized their Fundamental note (each person has one) they expanded into a beautiful Mandala containing complementary colours.
So while dissonant sound maybe difficult to listen to, it helps to diminish the adherence when used directly on the body, as we do when we use Tuning Forks placed on precise acupuncture points.
On the other hand, the aura always positively responds to sub
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THE DISSONANCE OF FUNCTIONAL HARMONY
The gong produces dissonance and consonance together and it is called functional harmony or holistic resonance. The result of bathing in this oceanic tone alchemy is the sensing of a dynamic peace. This electrified state is called Gong Nidra. The brain is both awake in its awareness of its awareness and simultaneously it is asleep suspended in its dream body. The theory of dissonant harmony was expressed by Dane Rudhyar in the beginning of the 20th Century, and was an outgrowth of Alexander Scriabin’s Mysterium Tremendum Concept of Initiatory music. All the previous articles submitted to the forum have been spot on, and this is just an addendum. As a final thought in this short response, I will say that the entire universe owes its existence to the Holistic Resonance of the OM vibration throughout the micro/macro continuum. The substance of the gong field is of an Akashic nature and is a direct product of the PHI phenomena that sub-structures the Cosmos. The universal proliferation of
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On Dissonance
Dissonance is such an important part of our work at BAST. If you were to liken consonance to the wonderful sweeping effleurage movements that a massage therapist makes then dissonance is the chopping motion they use to help break down the knots. Ones relationship with dissonance is the most important thing. When working with clients or in a group setting I am fascinated by the response that some people have to dissonance. For example - several people are in a group and on the receiving end of a beat frequency created by two crystal bowls a semi-tone apart. One says they love the sound and it was like a spaceship, another says it reminded them of a helicopter flight they took over the barrier reef on holiday (which was a wonderful experience for them) the third said that it made them feel sick and fearful. So the experience of the third person is the one to focus on. Why? because at the point of resistance the greatest transformations are possible. Fear or any other emotion or b
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Facebook update
Hi Everyone We updated and changed our facebook... so now all my posts, course information, CD launches, etc will be on our Chris James – Sounds Wonderful facebook page. If you could please go to this link and register on the
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-James-Sounds-Wonderful/342700005265
page that would be great.
Thanks With Love Chris
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"Lifemusic - Connecting People to Time" Reviewed by Andrew Hodges
Rod Paton, one of the worlds foremost authorities on improvisation, has provided us, in his latest book LifeMusic, with a significant addition to the research. LifeMusic is a fresh look at improvisation and our involvement with it whether we are musicians or not. Many classically trained musicians will feel challenged by the book but if the reader is open to the exploration of new musical territory they may find huge reward in its pages.
LifeMusic, in essence, is a book about our relationship to the creativity offered by our ability to make sound together. It addresses the impact of the recent development of cultural imbalances which have created, in our time, a sense, for many, of musical impotence. Consumer-oriented imperatives have led to a disconnect of musical experience. Rod describes how most musical experience is now often once-removed from our ability to enjoy the direct expression of soul. Rods LifeMusic project, a series of teachings and experiential w
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Album Launch - Moments - An opportunity to Feel, Pause, and Reflect
Hi Everyone
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new album “Moments” an Instrumental Album. Three instrumental tracks combining beautiful, graceful instruments and vocals for easy listening in any environment at home or work.
Moments - Are an opportunity to feel, to pause and reflect, to observe and bring yourself back to you. Every time we reflect in this way, we connect to the love we truly are and choose to be with this life, not separate from it.
Inspired as always by the work of Serge Benhayon Universal Medicine.
The MP3 Downloads can be delivered now , along with beautiful art work cover pdf’s. If you are ordering a hard copy CD, we will send them as soon as they arrive from the CD manufacturers. The arrival date is the last week in November.
We are also taking wholesale orders now.
Please go to our home page http://www.chrisjames.net/ , reload or refresh the page ( command R for Macs ) and click on the album cover, or go straight to http://
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Fish and Sound
If you have a frozen pond this winter dont smash the ice as the sound vibrations can kill your fish! Place a pan of boiling water on the ice and that will create a hole in the ice. Be nice to your fish!
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