Programs:

Global Sound bath promotes self-care, relief from stress and anxiety, alleviates pain, reduces emotional stressors and helps balance the nervous system. Instruments include Gongs, 99% quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, tuning forks, Indian shruti boxes, harmonium, rattles, and didgeridoo.  Deep, resonant tones from Himalayan and crystal singing bowls and gongs carry the listeners into a journey that enables an Alpha or Theta brain state.  This is the state where spiritual connection and a sense of unity can be felt and where we experience vivid imagery in meditation, creative visualization, inspiration, and insight. Just listening and allowing the sounds to flow over, within, and around you greatly enables this process of clearing and calming the mind.   Participants will be whisked away on zero gravity chairs experiencing a healing journey that will improve focus and decrease stress and anxiety. Stress and anxiety are major cofactors in every disease and condition, making soundbaths the perfect tool for deadlines, holidays, staff development, midterm and finals week, and all other times in a stressful year.

Benefits of Soundbath Meditation

Conducive to healing and transformation

Induces a state of meditation by calming the mind

Reduces the internal dialogue

Creates a state of relaxation and release of tension

Stimulates the circulatory system

Strengthens the immune system

Rebalances the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies

Helps clear energetic and emotional blockages

Regenerates the parasympathetic nervous system

Bio:

Global Sound Bath Self-Care Facilitators:

Katie Down is a composer, performer, sound artist and music psychotherapist. She has a private therapy and sound healing practice based in New York where she provides sound healing services, mindfulness based psychotherapies and somatic therapies for trauma. Katie provides sound bath meditations throughout the city with therapeutic musical drone instruments including Himalayan and quartz crystal bowls, gongs, voice and the Monolina – a drone stringed instrument based on the divine monochord. She facilitates group meditations with sound throughout the city and internationally and has created workshops for young people in improvisation and song writing for self-expression in post conflict areas of the Balkans, South Africa and most recently Ecuador. Katie also works as a composerand sound designer for theatre, film, and dance and her sound scores have been heard at The Public Theatre in NY,  Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, City Theatre of Pittsburgh, The Duke on 42nd in NY, and many others. Katie was awarded the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for best sound and nominated for a Drama Desk Award for outstanding sound design in 2013. Her commitment to mindfulness as a way into self-actualization and  therapeutic rehabilitation continues to inform her artistic inquiries and endeavors. She facilitates sound walks for deep listening through all the senses and continues to search for new ways of listening that informs her artistic and healing work.

Michael Jay has studied sacred geometry with Lester Loving for many years alongside his multifaceted studies in the healing arts. He studied Shiatsu at the Ohashiatsu institute in NYC, tuning forks in the Acutonics and Biosonics systems, raw and living foods with Ann Wigmore and Dr. Gabriel Cousens, and the ’new’ field of Epigenetics with Dr. Bruce Lipton. He practices EFT ,which combines modern psychology and acupuncture (without needles), and Reiki (universal life force energy) in private practice and in every sound meditation he is a part of. For the last three years he has worked with Gongmaster Don Conreaux in his NY workshops and is also currently assistingAlexandre Tannous in the Open Center Sound and Music institute. He is the founder of SVAHA which is a collective tribe of Musicians, Artists and Healers dedicated to awakening, activating and bringing forth the vibration of Love and Balance upon this planet, within and for All Beings, through ancient and ever-evolving technologies of Sound, Light, Color, Crystal, Intention, Breath, Sacred Geometry, and Seasonal and Planetary Cycles.