Dearest Friends:
Among the many amazing metaphysical phenomenon I have experienced during the past month, I was able to enjoy the unicursal, single Eulerian path labyrinth at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado during Jonathan Goldman’s 9 day Sound Healing Intensive. The first time I entered the labyrinth last week,
I lost track of direction and of the outside world. Immediately, a strong wind arose that stirred the leaves of the trees around me with the sound of rain sticks, and Spirit spoke to me of the many things I knew but had forgotten. I continued to step slowly through the labyrinth, bare feet pressing on rough grass, until I paused at the center, facing the direction of West, which among other things, honors the Bear—the same Bear spirit that I came to know recently in the Catskill mountains. A golden spiral then appeared in front of me and around me, and like a cork screw, the spiral penetrated the soil, reaching downward until it touched and connected me with the heart of Mother Earth. I then realized, with greater awareness, the significance of my spiral and heart logo that I told my daughter to design many years ago----the significance of that journey to the heart, which connects us in love. We have been blessed with so many powerful tools to assist us in this journey, and sacred sound is one of them, because it can activate and accelerate our vibrational ascension.
I have known and worked with many sound healers over the years, and it has surprised me that they are not teaching. I honestly believe it is because the body of knowledge of sound and sound healing is overwhelming and yes, even intimidating. I remember when I was asked to teach the HIV/AIDS course for the College of Nursing at UNLV, and the tremendous pressure I was under to quickly develop an expertise in a field that was changing as fast as the HIV virus itself. But, “diving in” and developing curriculum was what I was trained to do, and I became accustomed to such arduous assignments. On the contrary, I have spent the last seven years integrating sound healing into my work but have shared little of that knowledge with my students in Reiki classes and individual sessions. I have emphasized that sound healing, like Reiki, is being integrated into mainstream medicine. We have Mitchell Gaynor, MD, Director of Oncology at the Strand-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center, to partially thank for this awakening in our society of the oldest healing modality known to mankind.
The Universe has never called me to do anything at a time that I would consider “opportune.” When Reiki found me, I was immersed in an 80 hour a week job, and did not have one minute for a new endeavor; however, I was enrolled in a Reiki class the next week and have been committed to healing ever since. A few of you who have come to me for individual Reiki sessions lately have noticed that I have been accessing other healing tools in addition to Reiki and broadening my use of sound; however, because I have been a member of Jonathan’s Sound Healer’s Association for the past five years, I decided three years ago that I would participate in Jonathan’s intensive training and become "official” before I would formally teach Sound Healing. I finally stopped procrastinating. Not only was my time with Jonathan beyond my expectations, I also studied with other brilliant sound healers, individually and in group, including Laraaji, Lama Tashi who was nominated for a Grammy Award for his CD Tibetan Master Chants, and Kimba Arem, whom you may recognize because of her recent sound healing work with Dr. Andrew Weil. Therefore, after years in the making, my Sound Healing courses are now developed and scheduled in Salt Lake City with San Diego scheduling to soon follow.
I. Sound Healing Class Content and Schedule
A. Sound Healing I and II will be held on a Saturday and Sunday,
Sept. 28 and 29 (NOON-10pm). Sound Healing I will consist of:
Principles of Sound Healing
Psycho Acoustics & Sonic Entrainment
Shamael-Angel of Sound Initiation
The Healing Power of Sound
Intentionality and Silence
Breath and Sound
Vowels as Mantras
Toning
Toning the Chakras
Name as mantra
Mantra and Sound
Sawawati-Godddess of Music and Healing
B. Sounding Healing II will include:
Introduction to Harmonics
Tuning Forks
Tibetan Singing Bowls, Tingshas, and Bells
Sound and Crystals
Crystal & Alchemy Bowls
Vocal Harmonics
Overtoning for Healing
Mantras: Tools for Healing
C. Sounding Healing III on Saturday, Dec. 1 (NOON-10pm) will consist of:
Sacred Ceremony
Tantra of Sound
The Divine Name
The Way of the Shaman
Tools for Sound: Drums, Rattles & Didjeridu
Sacred Drum Healing Ceremony (as taught to me by Brooke Medicine Eagle in the Catskill Mountains at the Society for Shamanic Practitioners Conference)
Note: The reason why the break between Sound healing II and III is that I am spending a day with Layne Redmond, author of When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, in November, and I want to acknowledge her in my Sound Healing III class along with MANY other profound and revered healers, sound healers, and Shamans who have touched my life in ways too numerous to express at this time; i.e. being in ceremony with Bhola Nath Banstola, a 27th generation Shaman from Nepal, was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Bonnie Horrigan had told me “He’s the real deal”, and he is. (Thank you, Bonnie, for getting me to the Society’s annual conference this year.) These healers have inspired me, challenged me and left me in boundless gratitude. I learned via experience that traditions are often passed on via encoded sound, and if we tap into those frequencies at a subconscious level, they teach us.
Sound Healing I, II and III contains more information than you can possibly imagine, and I believe that a week could be spent on every class. If I offer Sound Healing IV, it will probably be a day of silence in retreat with sound. We actually did this at the intensive for 12 hours, and I’m still not quite back on the planet. Also, until I am convinced otherwise, I will continue to cap my classes; thus, my sounding healing classes will be capped at 10 students so please register early. Registration forms are on my website under Classes, Sound Healing I, Sound Healing II and Sound Healing III.
II. My individual healing sessions have evolved into not utilizing one single modality; rather, they arise from intention and intuition, and I offer frequencies that I feel will be of benefit to the uniqueness of the client, whether they be essential oils (yes, I have about 200 different bottles on hand), sacred sound or channeling Reiki or Karuna Reiki®. I have many new tools, sound instruments, lessons and uplifting stories to share with you during classes and at healing circles. The final highlight at the healing sounds intensive was our graduation, and farewell when Jonathan taught us a song that we sang individually to every person in the group, “Listen, listen, listen to the song of my heart…I’ll never forget you...I’ll never forsake you….” We were in tears.
We are all unique, vibratory beings, and the more we understand and utilize vibration as a healing tool, the better we can bring love and harmony to all sentient beings, to Mother Earth, and to the ALL of the Universe where we are ONE. When the task seems overwhelming, I am always reminded of the Essene Gospel of Peace: “And one day the eyes of your spirit shall open, and you shall know all things.”
Love and Light,
Carol
Copyright @ by Carol A. Wilson 2007
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