Speaker & Time

Bio and Contact

Course Description

Christine Stevens

Friday Eve

Christine Stevens is an internationally acclaimed speaker and music therapist.  The founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, she has appeared on NBC, CBS and Living Better TV.  She is the author of The Healing Drum Kit and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles.  She has drummed with many Fortune 500 companies, survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and most recently, led the first ever drum circle training in a war-zone in northern Iraq.                                                   

More information at UpBeat Drum Circles www.ubdrumcircles.com  

The Science and Spirit of Group Drumming  

Now more than ever, people need cost-effective, accessible tools for stress-reduction, wellness, and creative expression.  Author, speaker, and researcher Christine Stevens will show you the ten health benefits of drumming in this interactive experience in science and spirituality.   This session will feature a drum blessing so bring your drums or rattles.  Additional drums and percussion instruments provided by REMO.  No prior musical experience necessary....everyone was born a drummer! 

 “I have personally experienced Christine’s work.  It’s inspirational and healing!.”  Bernie Siegel, author of Love Medicine and Miracles, Prescriptions for Living.

“Christine Stevens ....can introduce you to the magic, fun, and healing power of drumming.  I recommend it.”  Dr. Andrew Weil, MD

Joshua Leeds

Sat AM  9 - 12

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, educator, and music producer. He specializes in the field of psychoacoustics—the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system, and bioacoustics—  how human sound affects other living beings.

He is the author of Through A Dog’s Ear (2008), The Power of Sound (2001), and Sonic Alchemy (1997). His 30+ psychoacoustically designed recordings are used in homes, clinics, classrooms, and animal shelters around the world.

Joshua teaches the therapeutic applications of music and sound

to musicians, healthcare, and education professionals internationally. Recent positions include New York Open Center and California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco).

He resides in Ashland, Oregon. Further info online - JoshuaLeeds.com

Music, Sex & Chocolate: Finding Balance in an Over-Stimulated World

Music and sound are essentials of life - similar to air, water, food, and the process of inter-relating. When living a conscious life, essentials require discernment and awareness of consequence. Music, Sex & Chocolate is an inquiry into the intentional use of

sound.

Humans hear sound from 18 weeks in utero until after the heartbeat stops. Sound, like other essentials, is so ubiquitous that we usually take it for granted. Many of us binge on music - using sound as sonic caffeine, as a habitual companion. However, recent European research confirms that  the constant intake of sound actually contributes to over-stimulation of the nervous system, weakened immune function, and diminished concentration and focus.

In Music, Sex & Chocolate, we explore auditive cognition, the craving of sound for emotional distraction, music hunger as addiction, and the necessity of a cultural paradigm shift in sonic awareness.

The goal of this workshop is to explore the effect of sensory over-stimulation in 21st century America and understand the role of sound and music in finding balance. This will be accomplished through lecture, experiential exercises, discussion, and question and answer.

Don Campbell
Sat afternoon

2:30 - 5 PM

Don Campbell is an expert on the transformational powers of music. A classically trained musician, composer, scholar, and consultant to symphony orchestras, Don is known for his energetic, empowering, and often dazzling  style of music teaching. He's traveled to over 40 countries, founded the Institute for Music, Health, and Education, and wrote the 1997 best-selling The Mozart Effect, translated into 26 languages.  He is presently music director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, a company that provides acoustic design and music for healthcare facilities.  He has been part of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado since 1998.  His newest books, Sound Spirit and Toning with Laurel Keyes expand our knowledge of spirituality, the voice and music.

www.mozarteffect.com

From the Big Bang to Harmonic Healing:  Awakening the Spirit of Sound

Sound has a dynamic impact on the mind, body and spirit.  By understanding the components of sound waves and brainwaves, we can explore the powers of music from extended tones to sophisticated compositions.   Don Campbell will guide us through the newest explorations in research with music and sound therapies in the new HATTS project for sound and science.  He will also update us on the twenty five hospitals that are using his "Harmonic Healthcare" program for patients, staff and visitors in healthcare settings.

Through Don's recent trip to the Antarctic, we will learn about shifts in musical and energetic perception and sensations while at the tip of earth's energetic fields. Exercises from Don's newest book, Sound Spirit, will highlight this keynote.

Goals:  To demonstrate and experience efficient and practical ways to use sound and music to bring harmony and focus to the mind, body and spirit.

Learning Objectives:

• To articulate how music, movement and imagery can be used to balance brainwaves, release stress and open the mind to spiritual awareness.

• To explore the spiritual roles of music through chant, rhythm and deep listening

• To show how multiple levels of listening change mental, physical and emotional experiences.

Layne Redmond

Zacciah Blackburn

Sunday AM  9-12











Bring your drums for consecration, and sharing in this ceremony

Zacciah Blackburn is a gifted intuitive, teacher, and sound healer, trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures.  He teaches internationally, and practices in Vermont, at the Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies, where he shares authentic trainings into the nature of human consciousness, explorations into the Shamanic worlds of Earth Energies & awareness, and offers a 3 year curriculum on the nature of sound as a therapeutic healing modality.  He is Director of Education at the International Sound Healing Network, & co-founder & Director of the World Sound Healing and All One Now Network of organizations working for global peace. See www.thecenteroflight.net for information.  He also offers world musical & sound healing instruments of sacred sound cultures at www.sunreed.com

Walking Between Worlds:  The Shamanic Door
   (2 hrs)
Sound, Healing, and Consciousness
Understanding & experiencing the shamanic pathways

What is the relationship between sound, healing, and frequencies or states of consciousness?  How do we use awareness of sound and consciousness to facilitate healing, and what is their relationship to entering the subtle states of consciousness we refer to as the shamanic realms?  How can sound strengthen awareness and insight gathered in the other worlds, and how can it be utilized to better 'walk between worlds?'  In these times of "meeting ourselves again,' as the Q'ero (Incan) call it, what can we expect to emerge?  What can we expect, collectively, and individually, to be coming to us in these changing and uncertain times? And, how can sound assist us in this transformative shift?

This will be a cognitive and deeply experiential practice, with a sacred sound initiatory process, both entering, and learning to facilitate entry into other states of being.

Closing Ceremonies:

World Sound Healing Meditation
       Zacciah, w/ all presenters, and all gathered,
& The Grandfather / Ceremonial Earth Drums
   (1 hr)
to honor and embrace the Earth and each other, gathering and sending our healing prayers into the Earth, calling upon the blessings of the Ancient Ones, of all cultures.