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Shambhala Healing Sound Retreat, Colorado
HEALING SOUND RETREAT at
SHAMBHALA MOUNTAIN CENTER, COLORADO
with Christine Stevens and Silvia Nakkach
WHEN: August 29–September 1, 2014
FEES: $255 + 3 nights
Join two internationally renowned teachers in a powerful and illuminating exploration of cross-cultural rhythms and the inspired voice. This highly experiential program introduces you to the most ancient and transformative vehicles to support healing and release joy: Voice & Rhythm. Through guided sound-centered contemplative practices of drumming and chanting, you’ll gather an original repertoire of medicine melodies to use personally and in shamanic, psychotherapy, and wellness sessions.
We will explore the use of music as a gateway for therapeutic processes and community peacemaking. You’ll experience the emotional magic that comes from singing the icaros of the Peruvian Amazon, and indigenous traditions from India, Tibet, Africa, and the Americas, including cross-cultural modalities of rhythm and chanting to evolve your spiritual practice.
No prior musical experience necessary!
Being alive, you have a voice and a heartbeat. Drums provided.
Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, MA, is the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles and author of the Sounds True books Music Medicine and the Healing Drum Kit. She has appeared on PBS, NBC, and led the first drum circle training in a war-zone in northern Iraq.
Visit: Christine Stevens www.ubdrumcircles.com
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, a pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness, is an award-winning composer, voice-culturist, and a former psychologist. She is on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies and founder of the Vox Mundi School of the Voice. A long-time student of the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, she has released 10 CD-albums and authored Free Your Voice.
Registration takes place from 2:00–5:00 p.m. on your program start date. All participants and volunteer staff must check in at our Guest Registration house. Please arrive before 5:00 p.m. to check in and settle into your accommodations. Your program begins with dinner, followed by an orientation. The Guest Registration house closes at 5:30 p.m. after which no one is available to provide information or orient you to your accommodations. All programs usually end at 12:30 p.m. on the program’s departure date, followed by lunch. Further specifics regarding your program’s schedule will be available upon arrival. If applicable, you will receive an email from the program coordinator in the week prior to your program with any additional information you may need.
