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How to Facilitate a Sound Meditation

New York Open Center

Sound Meditation is an integrated practice that combines a shamanic ceremonial setting with an emphasis on breathing and visualization, using musical instruments to catalyze deep transcendental states. Participants experience an inner stillness and peace beyond the interference of the mind. The goal is to disengage from undesirable habitual patterns and empower positive cognitive change.  The workshop includes: A direct experience of Sound...

Sound Theory for Sound Therapy

New York Open Center

In this weekend course, you will learn about basic theory of Western music for non-musicians, sound theory, the importance of the harmonic overtone series along with many harmonic spectrum analyses, microtonality, the concept of ethos (the describing character or personality in sound and music), cymatics (the visible manifestation of sound), overtone singing, the principles and philosophy of working with sound, the theory of playing and its technique,...

Basic Psychology During Sound Therapy

New York Open Center

Shamanism as a Sound Tool

New York Open Center

Shamanic societies use sound as a tool to achieve non-ordinary states of consciousness. We will explore their techniques through discussion of: The use of sound with different sacraments (often psychedelic plants). The rhetoric and narrative about the experience and its value in various shamanic models. The danger of taking these methods out of context. The importance of establishing the shamanic mindset and setting. Media examples will be played,...