Past Presenters at the Sound Healing ConferencesThe full bio links provide more information about the speakers and a description of the presentations that were given
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Presenters at the 2007 Conference |
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Jonathan Goldman, MA full bio Jonathan Goldman, author, Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics, Shifting Frequencies and The Lost Chord, musician, composer, Dolphin Dreams, Sacred Gateways, Trance Tara, Medicine Buddha, Chakra Chants, Ultimate Om and Holy Harmony, director, Sound Healers Association Pre-Conference All-day Workshop: Frequencies of Healing Keynote: Creating Harmony in the Field of Sound Workshop: The Basic Priciples of Sound Healing
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 Andi Goldman |
Andi Goldman, MA, LPC full bio Andi Goldman licensed psychotherapist specializing in sound therapy, Codirector, Sound Healers Association. |
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 Layne Redmond |
Layne Redmond full bio Layne Redmond, founder, Layne Redmond and the Mob of Angels, author, When the Drummers Were Women, percussionist of the year, Drum! Magazine, recording artist, Being in Rhythm: The Roots of Awakening, videographer, Rhythmic Wisdom, Trance Union and many others. Pre-Conference All-day Workshop: The Rhythmic Path of Self-Transformation: Introduction to the Healing Power of the Frame Drum. Keynote: The Healing Power of The First Sound - Rhythm and Trance |
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| Joshua Leeds full bio Joshua Leeds, author, The Power of Sound and Sonic Alchemy, music producer, Essential Sound Series, The Listening Program, The Sound Health Series, and Sound Body/Sound Mind, Instructor, California Institute of Psychoacoustics. Post-Conference All-day Workshop: Workshop: Soundwork Essentials: Understanding Resonance, Entrainment and Pattern Identification |
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 Silvia Nakkach |
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT full bio Silvia Nakkach, composer, psychologist, recording artist, Amazonia Insight opera, Ah, The Healing Voice and others, coauthor, Music and the Human Process, Music in Human Adaptation, The Transpersonal Consciousness and Music Therapy at the End of Life, voice culturist, studied raga singing and classical Indian music with Ali Akbar Khan, director, School of the Voice. Post-Conference All-day Workshop: Keynote: Rapture, Transcendence and Transformation Through Melody and Chant Workshop: The Yoga of Voice: Ancient and Contemporary Sacred Sound Practices. |
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 David Darling |
David Darling full bio
David Darling is a Grammy-nominated composer and cellist and cofounder/artistic director of Music For People. Post-Conference All-Day Workshop: Music for Everyone |
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| Don Campbell full bio Don Campbell, composer, author, The Mozart Effect, Introduction to the Musical Brain, The Mozart Effect for Children, and many others. Keynote: Music, Spirit and Soul
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 Arthur Harvey |
Arthur Harvey full bio
Arthur Harvey, MM, DMA, has been a member of ACDA, ALCM, HMEA, MENC and the International Society for Music in Medicine. |
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| Masaru Emoto full bio Masaru Emoto, Doctor of Alternative Medicine, author, The Message From Water, and The Shape of Love, world's foremost researcher of effects of intention, emotions, music, thoughts, source, pollution, etc. on water crystals. |
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Steven Halpern full bio Steven Halpern, PhD Music Psychology, composer, recording artist, author, Sound Health, Sound Matters and Sound, Stress and Inner Peace. Special Evening Event: A Healing Concert for Body, Mind and Spirit Workshop: Tuning into Your Muse: Learning to Play in the Zone |
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Onye Onyemaechi full bio Special Evening Event: The Village Rhythm Experience Workshop: The Healing Rhythm: From Self-Discovery to Wellness |
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| Freddy Silva full bio Freddy Silva, world's foremost expert on crop circles, author, Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles, director, Stairways to Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space documentary. Special Evening Event: Sacred Sites and The Healing Properties of Resonance: The Subtle Energy ‘Technology’ Behind Ancient Temples and Other Repositories of Subtle Energy |
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Greg Tamblyn full bio Greg Tamblyn, musician, songwriter, recording artist, Shootout at the I’m OK, You’re OK Corral and others. Special Evening Concert: Laughter and Music: The Sound of Healing |
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 Jeffery Thompson |
Dr. Jeffery Thompson full bio
Dr. Jeffery Thompson, DC, physician, scientist, musician, composer, founder,Center for Neuroacoustic Research. Keynote: Sound Healing for the 21st Century |
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 Cynthia Snodgrass |
Cynthia Snodgrass full bio
Cynthia Snodgrass, musicologist, practitioner of sacred sound and Sanskrit, founder, Sacred Sound Institute, author, The Sonic Thread: Sound as a Pathway to Spirituality. Workshop: Applying the Healing Sounds of Sanskrit
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 Barbara Crowe |
Barbara Crowe, MMT, MT-BC full bio
Barbara Crowe is a full professor of music and Director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University. |
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 Mirabai |
Mirabai, full bio
Mirabai is a singer, storyteller, composer, recording artist, performer of ecstatic music and poetry. Morning Event: Songs of the Heart: Chanting and Improvisation with Greg Gutin |
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 Eliana Gilad |
Eliana Gilad, full bio
Eliana Gilad Workshop: Quiet in the Eye of the Storm: Ancient Healing and Transformational Music for Inner Calm |
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 Gregory Gutin |
Gregory Gutin, full bio
Gregory Gutin Morning Event: Songs of the Heart: Chanting and Improvisation |
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 Hasu Patel |
Hasu Patel, full bio Hasu Patel, a disciple of sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib, is a world-class female classical musician performing on sitar, the most popular string instrument of India.Workshop: Mystical Power of Vedic Music of India: The Body and Mind Healer Morning Sound Healing Session: The Cosmic Sound of Sitar: Naad Yoga: The Healer |
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 Randy Masters |
Randy Masters, full bio
Randy Masters, has an extensive background in the nature of Sound, Geometrical foundations of our universe and ancient/esoteric studies. He teaches workshops about the resonant unified field and the universal language of numbers. Workshop: A Universe That Sings: The Universal Song Workshop |
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 Wayne Perry |
Wayne Perry, full bio
Wayne Perry is an Internationally recognized leading authority on sound therapy, Wayne Perry is the author of OVERTONING: The Complete Guide to Healing with the Human Voice. Workshop: OVERTONING: A Formula for Healing with Sound and the Human Voice |
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 Katyayani Poole |
Katyayani Poole, full bio
Katyayani Poole, Workshop: Intonation, Invocation, and Initiation with Vedic Sanskrit Chanting |
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 Richard Rudis |
Richard Rudis, full bio
Richard Rudishas been studying Eastern philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism, in the Himalayas and the USA, for over 25 years. Workshop: Sacred Sound/Vibrational Healing Gong Bath: A Sojourn into Vibrational Sound Healing |
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 Pierre Sollier |
Pierre Sollier, full bio
Pierre Sollier, is the author of Listening for Wellness: An Introduction to the Tomatis Method, which received an Independent Publishers Award for best book in psychology. Workshop: The Tomatis Method and its Impact on Personality Development |
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 Grandmaster Song Park |
Grandmaster Song Park, full bio Grandmaster Song Park is a healer, martial arts Grand Master, writer, inventor and teacher. He is widely known through his worldwide seminars, books, articles and appearances on radio and television. www.kiaijitsu.com Workshop: Kiai Jitsu Alphabet Healing: Vowels and Consanants as a Healing Medium |
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 Christina Tourin |
Christina Tourin, full bio
Christina Tourin, is the author of Harp Therapy - A Cradle of Sound and others. Workshop: MUSIC/SOUND/HARP: The Five Elements of Selecting and Individualizing Music for a Person. |
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 Mary Elizabeth Wakefield |
Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, full bio
Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, L.Ac, MS, MM is an internationally recognized author, teacher, acupucturiist, Oriental medical practitioner and musician. www.chiakra.com Workshop: Facial Soundscapes: Harmonic Renewal: A Tuning Fork Facial. |
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 MichelAngelo |
MichelAngelo, full bio
MichelAngelo, MFA, CTM, is an opera singer, classical composer, pianist, astrologer and writer, MichelAngelo has served as co-developer/instructor of advanced Acutonics curriculum with its creator, Donna Carey. Co-author, Acutonics From Galaxies to Cells: Planetary Science, Harmony and Medicine (2008) Director of Astrological Medicine & Musical Studies for the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, LLC. http://www.chiakra.com/michelangelo/ Workshop: Facial Soundscapes: Harmonic Renewal: A Tuning Fork Facial. |
Presenters from Earlier Sound Healing Conferences |
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| Jill Purcefull bio Jill Purce, pioneered the sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, introduced Mongolian overtone chanting to the West, author, The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul Keynote: The Healing Voice: Resonance and Liberation Through Sound Workshop: The Healing Voice: Ritual, Resonance and Re-enchantment Post Conference Workshop: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 16 - 19 The Healing Voice Intensive and Ritual and Resonance: The Healing Voice |
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| Fabien Mamanfull bio Fabien Maman, acupuncturist, (created system using tuning forks instead of needles on acupuncture points), conducted revolutionary biology showing the impacts of acoustic sound on human cells (found that acoustic sounds could explode cancer cells as well as energize and empower healthy ones), founder, Academy of Sound, Color and Movement, discovered musical scales that correspond with seasons, elements, meridians, chakras and subtle bodies, created Tama-Do Sound instruments to "shatter" negative patterns and bring harmony to the energy field, author, The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century. Raising Human Frequencies, The Body as a Harp: Sound and Acupuncture, and Healing with Sound, Color and Movement composer, musician, Resonance of Ancestral Memories and A Winter Soulstice Harmonizing Concert. Keynote: From Star to Cell: A Sound Structure for the Twenty-First Century Workshop: Healing the Aura with Musical Instruments Around the Body Evening Event: Autumn Seasonal Harmonizing Concert with Fabien Maman and friends |
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| James D'Angelo MMus, PhD full bio James D'Angelo, MMus, PhD Music composition, author, The Healing Power of the Human Voice, composer, pianist, Portraits of Krishna. Workshop: The Healing Power of the Human Voice |
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John Reid full bio John Reid, acoustics engineer from England, inventor of the CymaScope, a 21st century electro-acoustics device, researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space, author, Egyptian Sonics. Workshop: The True Nature of Sound |
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| Susan Hale full bio Susan Hale, music therapist, author, Song and Silence: Voicing the Soul and Sacred Space - Sacred Sound Workshop: Exploring Sacred Space and Sound |
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| Dorrine Davis, MA, CC-A, FAAA full bio Dorrine Davis, MA, CC-A, FAAA, Educational and Rehabilitative Audiologist, founder, The Davis Center for Hearing, Speech and Learning, associate, BioAcoustics Research, certified practitioner in Berard Auditory Integration Training, Tomatis, Fast ForWord Language, The Listening Program, Read-Spell-Comprehend, Samonas, Interactive Metronome, Earobics, Lipreading, Aural Rehabilitation and other sound-based therapies, author, Sound Bodies through Sound Therapy and Every Day a Miracle: Success Stories with Sound Therapy. Workshop: Exploring Sound-based Therapies for Learning, Development and Wellness |
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Master Charles Cannon full bio Master Charles Cannon, originator, Synchronicity Experience, applies state of the art vibrational entrainment technology and brain research to the science of meditation and holistic lifestyle, author, The Bliss of Freedom. Workshop: Modern Spirituality and the Technologies of Now |
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Wilbert Alix full bio Wilbert Alix, TranceDance and Soul Hunting, contemporary application of ancient healing rituals Evening Event: TranceDance Ritual — Entering Our Body-Mind Consciousness Workshop: Sound Healing and the TranceDance Ritual |
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| Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD full bio Pat Moffitt Cook is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center. She is a pioneer in the use of cross-cultural sound and music. Her doctoral work in music paralleled extensive practical training and certification in Auditory Stimulation and Sensory Integration (Tomatis Method, LiFT) and in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Author, Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures: Shaman, Jhankri and Nele, Open Ear Journal, Brainwaves Symphony. Keynote: The Power of "Belief" in Crosscultural Sound Healing Methods Workshop: Applications of Crosscultural Healing Sounds and Music in Western Health Care |
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| Ellen Franklin, PhD full bio Ellen Franklin, PhD, co-founder, International Institute of Harmonic Living, Senior Faculty, author, Acutonics Healing System.
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| Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas full bio Debbie and Carlos created the Nia Technique, a barefoot, energetic, dynamic healing movement technique, which blends three forms of dance arts, three forms of martial arts, and three forms of somatic therapeutic arts. They are authors and movement teachers and reside in Portland, Oregon, where they teach daily Nia classes. They lecture, write on health, fitness and wellness topics and create body/mind products. Debbie and Carlos travel internationally to conduct Nia student/teacher trainings and workshops. To date over 3000 people have trained in the Nia Technique, 1000 of whom have become licensed teachers. Morning Classes: Nia Technique Workshop: Vocal Sounding, Emotions and Free Dancing |
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John Beaulieu ND, PhD full bio John Beaulieu, ND, PhD, composer, pianist, is the founder of BioSonic Repatterning and the author of Music and Sound in the Healing Arts and numerous research articles on Sound Healing. He is a recognized pioneer in the field of Sound Healing and teaches throughout the world. Dr. Beaulieu currently oversees molecular research on sound and the healing effects of tuning forks. Dr. Beaulieu brings real clinical experience to his sessions. He served as the supervisor of Music Therapy at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, as Associate Professor at City University of New York, and has practiced sound healing, counseling and natural medicine for over thirty five years. Workshop: Sound Healing with Tuning Forks |
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Jacotte Chollet full bio Jacotte Chollet, producer, 50 documentary films presenting ancient civilizations and leading edge researchers, founder, Institute for Development and Expansion of Consciousness, sound energy explorer, developer of Multidimensional Music, creator, vibrational music inducing quantum journeys in altered states of consciousness, multidimensional self-healing, DNA activation, cellular communication, bio energetic field restructuration, hemispheric synchronization. Workshop: A Scientific Survey of the Consciousness Expanding and Healing Effect of Multidimensional Music Workshop: Experiential Journey into the Quantum Self: What is Our Real Identity? |
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John Diamond, MD, DPM full bio John Diamond, MD, DPM, pioneer in alternative and holistic medicine, Fellow, Royal Australian College of Psychiatry, Fellow, International Academy of Preventive Medicine, author, MD, Your Body Doesn't Lie, Life Energy in Music, Wellspring of Music, The Heart of Music, Life Enhancement Through Music, and 12 other books. Workshop: The Role the Unconscious Plays in the Healing Power of Music |
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Kurt Leland full bio Kurt Leland, composer, clarinetist, author, Music and the Soul: A Listener's Guide to Achieving Transcendent Musical Experiences. Workshop: Transcendent Musical Experiences: The Yoga of Listening |
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Jeff Strong full bio Jeff Strong, founder, REI Institute, creator Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention for people with neurological disorders, author, AD/HD for Dummies and 7 other books. Workshop: The Art and Science of Healing with Rhythm |
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Trillium Marimba Ensemble full bio Special Evening Event: Concert and Dance: Music of Zimbabwe with Peter & Mikaela Swing. Special Evening Event: Concert and Dance: Music of Zimbabwe |
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Sita Jamieson full bio Sita Jamieson, musician, singer, recording artist, Presence: Chants of Sacred Power, has performed with Krishna Das, Ram Das, and Baghavan Das Morning Classes: Sound Healing and Chanting |
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