David Hykes
An award-winning composer, singer, recording artist, and founder of the global sacred music, Harmonic Chant, which he has developed and shared around the world in concerts, retreats, seminars and master classes. He is the author of Pilgrim Movements, Harmonic Chant Global Sacred Music, A Search for Awakened Listening, All Along the Wavefront and A Life or Two in the Harmonic Chant. Hykes has released more than 10 CDs including Hearing Solar Winds. His musical influences and inspirations include teachings and sacred chant traditions from Tibet and Tuva. He was among the first western pioneers of throat singing, visiting Mongolia and also collaborating with the Gyuto and Gyume monks. Hykes was born in Taos, New Mexico where his Taos pueblo grandmother said, “we gave you the privilege to sing”.
Pre-Conference All-Day Retreat: The Harmonic Presence Work and Harmonic Chant: Visions,
Resonances, Perspectives and Possibilities
Friday, November 14
- 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
In this exhilarating program, you learn key principles and practices of the Harmonic Presence work, for inner pursuits, healing and the search for well-being.
Goal: To understand the holistic, transdisciplinary nature of the Harmonic Presence work and Harmonic Chant in relation to music, spirituality, cognitive studies and therapeutic counseling and healing.
Learning Objectives:
- To develop an understanding of the harmonic nature of sound, listening and sensory awareness and their roles in enhancing communication and connection with self, spirit and society,
- To develop a clearer idea of how working with sacred sound and chant can transform listening, awareness of silence and the sense of being in harmony, and
- To increase appreciation of Harmonic Chant as a deep language of non-verbal communication and a vehicle for integration and therapeutic healing.
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Keynote:Harmonic Presence: Music of the Spheres: The Subtle Heart of Listening
Saturday, November 15 - 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
In this program, we link the ongoing songline of the Harmonic Presence, a source tradition of contemporary spiritual sound teachings, with essential aspects of spirituality, cosmology, mind essence and the healing arts.
Goal: To understand how the Harmonic Presence work and Harmonic Chant help the search for lasting attunement to the Real and the relationship of that attunement to the cultivation of specific harmonics of consciousness.
Learning Objectives:
- To develop an understanding of Harmonic Chant as it applies to the music of consciousness and its harmonization in the mind, heart and body,
- To develop an understanding of the role of the harmonics of listening, attention and attunement as key to restoring and enhancing harmony within oneself and in working with others, and
- To increase appreciation of harmonic knowledge in relationship to the use of sound and listening skills in the therapeutic/counseling context.
Evening Event: Harmonic Chant: Music from the Heart of the Cosmos
Saturday, November 15 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm
You venture into a new dimension in music, ‘the music of the spheres.’ These wondrous sounds retain an extraordinary mystery, for they do not belong to man. Musical DNA, as David describes it, provides an unusual ‘Genesis Chapter’ for musical education at all levels. We share an evening of music, teachings, stories and practices. The evening ends with a guided sound meditation, the Harmonic Meeting. You are transported somewhere completely otherworldly.
