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LEARNING BLOCKS     Sound and Vibration  l  Voice  l   Chakras  l  Energy  l  Singing   l  Sound Healing Tools  l  Color   l  Senses     
Music Therapy  l  Resources l  Sound Healing Sessions  l  Applications


Stephen Halpern is one of the first to explore music as a tool to effect mood and energy. His sparse reflective keyboard creations launched a whole new genre of music, New Age. Based on his own spiritual and health-related experiences, Steven discovered secrets of combining ancient sound healing traditions with quantum biology and energy medicine to produce recordings that support relaxation, stress management, yoga, meditation, massage, sleep, accelerated learning and pure listening pleasure. Visit his website. Listen to some of his creations:


John Beaulieu is one of the foremost philosophers and major innovators in the area of sound healing therapies. A world-renowned speaker, composer, pianist, and naturopathic doctor, Dr. Beaulieu has pioneered a technique called BioSonic Repatterning™, a natural method of healing and consciousness development using tuning forks and other sound modalities based on the sonic ratios inherent in nature. Visit his website. Listen to samples of his creations


Wayne Perry  is Founder and director of the Sound Therapy Center of Los Angeles, Mr. Perry has been in private practice as a sound therapist and vibrational healer since 1992. One of the first Westerners to master overtone chanting, he teaches workshops worldwide. In 1993 he published the Correlative Healing Chart for Sound Therapy, which is popularly used by healers and sound practitioners worldwide. Visit his website. Listen to samples of his creations



Jill Purce 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. An author, musician and extensive lecturer she is one of the first women to practice overtone chanting. In the last few years she has been invited to work with nuns and monks in a number of enclosed Christian Monastic Communities who sing Gregorian Chant, to teach overtone chanting and other methods to help them find ways to re-invigorate and rediscover the meditative power of chant. Visit her website. Listen to samples of her creations





Layne Redmond has followed an extremely unusual path specializing in the small hand-held frame drum played primarily by women in the ancient Mediterranean world. From 1981 through 1990 she performed and recorded the first contemporary frame drum compositions with percussionist. During this period she intensively researched the playing styles and history of the frame drum in religious and cultural rituals culminating in her book, When The Drummers Were Women. This book details a lost history of a time when women were the primary percussionists in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Greece and Rome and also explains why they are not today. Visit her website. Listen to samples of her creations




Dr Alfred Tomatis formulated the theory that many vocal problems were really hearing problems. His theory that "the voice does not produce what the ear does not hear," is the hallmark of his research and his method. He discovered that the voices of opera singers had damaged their own muscles of the middle ears. With damaged hearing, they were forcing their voices to produce sounds in registers they could no longer hear.In his attempt to retrain his patients, he developed the Electronic Ear, a device which utilizes electronic gating, bone conduction transducers and sound filters to enhance the uppermost missing frequencies. The goal is to tonify the muscles of the middle ear in order to sensitize the listener to the missing frequencies. Visit the website.


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