Canada, KINMOUNT - Transcendent Sound & Music Retreat, Ann-Marie Boudreau & Steven Gellman, 1267 Galway Road, Kinmount, Ontario, Canada, 24 Apr 2026
Transcendent Sound & Music Retreat - April 2026
Sound has been used as a healing tool throughout all cultures around the globe to bring communities together, to help raise energy and to dive deeply into their inner journey for personal healing. This interactive retreat is an introduction to meditation and the five elements using experiential sound and music to open participants to a deeper understanding of themselves, their connection to nature and appreciation of their own gifts.
Buddhist temples are designed to symbolize the five elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Your facilitators will encourage you to expand your awareness and harmonize your relationship with all of nature, both within yourself and all around us through these elements. It is with this full awareness of both our inner nature and connection to ‘mother’ nature that we can engage and be fully present in the moment and in our lives.
Participants will be introduced to the five elements through a variety of ways; meditative walks in nature, classical music, sound journey experiences, co-creative sound experiences, ceremony, self-directed movement, working with the intuitive voice, Bija seed sounds and resonance. Throughout this retreat participants will be encouraged to explore creative ways of incorporating the five elements into their own personal practice through an exploration of the arts including meditation, drawing, creating personal mandalas, ritual, journaling and self-directed movement. All can be used to deepen one’s meditative practice.
Your guides through this journey are Ann-Marie Boudreau and Steven Gellman:
ANN-MARIE BOUDREAU, ARCT, trained as a classical Concert Pianist and holds an Associateship from the Royal Conservatory of Music with over 40 years of teaching experience. She is a Sound Doula, multi-instrumentalist, improvisational and intuitive vocalist, Reiki Master, composer, recording artist and has performed and presented extensively.
For 10 years Ann-Marie was a faculty member of the Transformational Arts College (2006-2016), teaching their Sound Healing programs and portions of their Spiritual Director program in the areas of Living & Dying Consciously and Ritual. While studying music in India, Ann-Marie also spent time working with the children at the ‘Families for Children’ orphanage in Coimbatore and the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharmshala. Through the years Ann-Marie has performed at countless fundraisers and charitable events giving freely of her time for those in need.
Ann-Marie has inspired and worked with many groups and organizations including York University Music Dept, University of Toronto, Sick Kids Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Toronto General Hospital, Providence Healthcare Hospital, The Dharma Center of Canada, Spiritual Directors International, First Nations Reservation - Bella Bella Island, BC, Toronto Hospice, Casey House (which specializes in HIV/AID palliative care) as well as both the Whole Life Expo and Holistic Health Expo She has also performed for dignitaries such as Stephen Lewis, Marion Woodman, General Romeo Dallaire, Marianne Williamson and Thomas Moore in the ‘Seekers Dialogue’ series.
A Co-Founder and Board of Director of the Music Can Heal Organization, which is dedicated to bringing musicians to the bedside, Ann-Marie continues to bring her compassionate care as a Sound Doula to her bedside work in hospices, hospitals, residences and palliative care facilities in support of individuals facing long-term and terminal illness.
STEVEN GELLMAN is a renowned Canadian Composer, pianist and educator, now retired as Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He has been a practitioner of Dharma and Meditation for 50 years, since first meeting his Root Teacher, Namgyal Rinpoche. He received his Dharma training from Namgyal Rinpoche in courses, meditation retreats and empowerments as well as in travels around the world with him. He and his wife, Cheryl, received teachings, empowerments and the Lama Couple ordination from H.H. the 16th Karmapa, as well as from Namgyal Rinpoche. He has also studied and worked with Tarchin, Chorpel Dolma, Cecily Kwiat and Lama Mark Webber, as well as regularly deepening his practice in solo meditation retreats.
Steven has been teaching meditation in both Theravada and Vajrayana traditions for the last 30 years. In addition to offering guidance in meditation retreats, Steven regularly co-teaches with Ann-Marie Boudreau in retreats on Transcendent Sound, Music and Meditation. He also co-taught courses with Namgyal Rinpoche on the subject: Music and the Transcendental.
Steven’s approach to teaching is as a spiritual friend. His gentle presence and love and knowledge of Dharma help people to better understand and deepen their own practice. For more information on Steven Gellman the composer and to listen to his music please visit his website: stevengellman.com
- Category :
Retreat
- Start Date :
24-04-2026
- End Date :
27-04-2026
- Facilitator :
Ann-Marie Boudreau & Steven Gellman
- Time :
4pm Friday to 1pm Monday
- Address :
1267 Galway Road, Kinmount, Ontario, Canada
- Contact Name :
Ann-Marie Boudreau
- Contact Email :
[email protected]
- Contact Phone :
4166048871
- Pricing Details :
$414.00 CDN
- Website :
www.dharmacentre.org
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