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The
Sound Healing Network (SHN)
(Formerly the New England Sound
Healing Research
Institute (NESHRI)
Fourth Annual
Conference on Sound
Healing
at
the Rowe Camp & Conference Center, Rowe, MA
Friday
Ocotber 31, Saturday, November 1, & Sunday
November 2, 2008
Join
Sound Healers from across the world, for
a
weekend of Science and Sound Healing.
Share
and learn with a wide variety of noted teachers their personal
innovative Sound Healing techniques; using crystal bowls, gongs, sound
tables
and tuning forks, working with the voice with intention.
Examine
NEW
possibilities of healing within Sacred Sound, using the voice,
instruments,
Sacred Ceremony and tools for enhancing the profound effects on the
body mind
and spirit with Sound Healing.
Enjoy
Friday and Saturday night’s healing concerts, Kirtan.
*Join
the SHN forum and network with your peers.*
For
Registration
Go to rowecenter.org or call the Rowe Camp and Conference Center at
413.339.4954
For
further
information, Contact:
Zacciah
Blackburn, Director of Education at SHN
via:
The Center of Light P.O.
Box 389 Ascutney, VT 05030
Phone:
(802)
674-9585 Fax: (802)
674-9586
e-mail: info@sunreed.com
We
welcome you to attend our Conference, as a member or non-member of
NESHRI
2007
Conference Fees
2008 info up soon!!!
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Full
Conference
(includes all events, Fri, Sat, Sun)
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Cost by sliding scale,
income based
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Register
at Rowecenter.org, or call Rowe at 413.339.4954
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$175.-$275.
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Registration
information here
(will take you to Rowe's site for details on all costs and registration)
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In
addition, fees for meals and rooms: Commuting, Camping, Cabin,
Dorm, or Private Rooms cost:
$65.-250.
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NESHRI Members |
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Receive
a $15. discount at time of registration |
NESHRI
Membership
(We welcome you to join NESHRI and support our work, and
gain our support for your work, via online listings, member discounts,
article/event submissions, etc.)
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$35.,
basic
includes on line directory listing
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$55.,
special
includes directory listing and on line web page
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NESHRI is a non-profit volunteer
organization.
Please forward information about this conference to your friends,
clients, & colleauges interested in sound healing!
Download a full
color flier at: www.thecenteroflight.net/NESHRIFlier.html
and share it with
friends and clients or place in your practice/center.
Full
course descriptions and teacher bios
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Time
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Rug
Room
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Brook
House
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Farm House
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Rec Hall
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Friday, Nov 17
4-7 PM
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Arrival and Registration
Lounge, Coffee & Tea,
throughout event. |
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6 PM
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Hors d'oeurves
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7 PM
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Dinner
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Throughout Weekend:
Networking and Sales
Sales
of CD's, Books, Videos on Sound Healing, Music, and Sound Healing and
Musical Instruments, including drums, crystal and Tibetan Bowls and
bells, flutes, didgeridoos, tuning forks, and much more.
Networking tables open for your
professional information
Some private therapy sessions may be available
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8:15 PM - 10 PM
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Opening
Presentations
Zacciah Blackburn & NESHRI Staff
Chanting
and Songs of the Soul
with Michael O'Leary
Jeff Volk and Erik Larsen, intro to Cymatics
Molly Scott
Saruah Benson
Intro to programs and Songs of the
Heart
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Lunch
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Saturday, Nov 18
8 AM
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Breakfast
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9:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Jeff
Volk,
Erik Larson
Cymatics:
The Shape of
Sounds to Come
with live Cymascope
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12:30 PM Lunch
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Networking
and Sales
continue through day
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NESHRI
musical/sound interlude;
Come and improvise (or simply bathe in the sounds) in group sound
exercises and improvisational music with teachers, sound healers and
musicians, including:
Christopher Carbone, Michael O'Leary, Ben Sheppard, Michelle Herrera
Foster, you, & others of our teaching staff |
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3:15 - 6:15 PM
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Dr. John Beaulieu
Sound Healing with Tuning Forks
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Dr.
Molly
Scott
Creative
Resonance and Deep Story: Sounding a Bridge
Between Main Stream and Esoteric therapeutic practice
Sound as Touch
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6:30
PM
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Dinner |
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8:00 PM
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Evening
Sound Healing Concerts
Kirtan (Ecstatic Chanting)
Christopher
Carbone
John Beaulieu, piano
Guided Music
w/
Benyamin
Sheppard, Michelle Herrera Foster, and friends
Stay after for improvisational Jam
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Sunday, Nov19
8 AM |
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Breakfast
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9:15 AM -
12:15 PM
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Saruah
Benson
Free your voice free your
life - sounding into healing and wholeness
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Zacciah Blackburn
The Three Gunas: The Powers of Creation
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Networking and Sales
continue through day
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12:30 - 2:00 PM
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Lunch |
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NESHRI
Forum
Network
and Interaction with peers, program teachers, and NESHRI Staff &
Board Members in a round forum
Closing Sound Ceremonies
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Full course descriptions and teacher
bios
If you wish to volunteer
or sell your products at the
conference, click here!
Product Sales
A large number of crystal bowls, sound healing books and CD's,
Tibetan bowls, gongs, bells, tingshas, Didgeridoos, tuning forks,
flutes, Native American flutes and drums, and other sound healing tools
and instruments will be on sale for your convenience, with informative
teachers and makers present.
Contact us for registration of your sales.
About NESHRI 
The New
England Sound Healing Research
Institute (NESHRI) is a worldwide
network of sound healers with the goals of sharing experience and
knowledge,
coordinating workshops and educational programs, and conducting
informal and
formal research into the effects of sound and music on healing, and
building
community.
NESHRI
has a growing membership, worldwide, with benefits including
practitioner/directory listings on our web site, web pages (soon
available),
article publications, event listings and publications, event discounts,
and
more. One of NESHRI's primary goals is to further research into
the
nature and effectiveness of sound healing modalities. We
will be
assisting members in creating and participating in research
opportunities. Membership currently costs $35/year, and benefits
include discounts at NESHRI and supporter programs, submission at our
web site of events, news, and articles, and more. Individual web
pages are available for members for an additional $20 fee.
NESHRI is a non-profit volunteer
organization.
Please forward information about this conference to your friends,
clients, & colleauges interested in sound healing!
Download a full color flier at: www.thecenteroflight.net/NESHRIFlier.html
and share it with friends and clients or place in your practice/center.
Please look
here
on this
organization, or ask Zacciah, or
visit http://www.neshri.org
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Registration
Information
Registration of
the 2006 Conference is handled by the Rowe Center. Contact Rowe
to register at Rowecenter.org, or call Rowe at 413.339.4954
Cost by sliding
scale, isincome
based: $175.-$275.
In addition, there
are fees for meals and rooms: Commuting, Camping, Cabin, Dorm, or
Private Rooms cost: Range from $65.-250.
NESHRI members receive a $15. discount at time of registration
Registration
information here
(this will take
you to Rowe's site for details on all costs and registration)
NESHRI Membership information is here.
About the Rowe Camp and Conference Center
Rowe is a treasure of
Conference Centers. Birthed out of love of its founders, it has
become one of the best known retreat centers in the Northeast.
Coming to Rowe is a pilgrimage, traveling a distance from our
accustomed place to enter a sacred space, where we are transformed.
Eventually we return to the turbulent world, as all pilgrims do,
infused with fresh energy, courage, and love.
Nestled in the
beautiful Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts,
Rowe Conference Center offers an exceptional environ to grow, learn,
expand, rejuvenate. Take time to walk in the groves, the adjacent
wildlife preserve, or bake in the sauna.
Rowe Camp began in 1924 as a Unitarian camp for teenagers. In 1973 Rowe
purchased the farmhouse adjacent to the camp
and began weekend retreats and conferences for adults and families.
Programs
are open to everyone. Rowe is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist
Association.
It is about
1500 feet above sea level in the Berkshire Mountains on 40 acres of
land almost surrounded
by a 1400 acre town park and wildlife preserve. The park is held in
trust "forever wild"and includes miles of
trails (which are fine for cross-country skiing), two mountains and a
lake.
See rowecenter.org for additional details.
Directions
Rowe is located in
Northwestern Massachusetts, four miles from the Vermont border. It is
off Route
2, 25 miles west of Greenfield and 25 miles east of Williamstown. We
are within an hour's ride of Bennington,
Brattleboro, Amherst, Northampton, and Pittsfield, two hours from
Fitchburg, Hartford
and Albany, three hours from Boston and New Haven and 4-5 hours from
NYC. You will be sent a map when you register, with special
directions from
New York, Vermont and Connecticut. The Mohawk Trail (Route 2) is
probably the most famous highway in New England and rightfully so.
There are few roads more beautiful. Enjoy the journey as well as the
goal. To
get maps and directions, go to rowecenter.org, or follow this link from
MapQuest, click here
MEALS
The Rowe Conference Center is
well known for its gourmet vegetarian meals, part of the conference
costs. Rowe's chefs
consistently amaze everyone with their delicious culinary
artistry, as well as their willingness to cater to special diets, from
vegan to high protein. Their food — fresh baked breads, homemade
soups,
gourmet entrees, and yummy desserts — is prepared lovingly by our chefs.
Accomodations
Sign
up early for the most choices of where
to stay. The decor is simple and fresh and the atmosphere relaxed.
There are
dorm-style housing in winterized cabins, summer camp cabins, the
Rec Hall and the Farmhouse. The extra heaters in the Farmhouse keep
rooms cozy and warm.
The
winterized cabins are one large room heated by a wood-burning stove.
There are also five unheated summer camp cabins that provide additional
dorm
housing in the early fall and late spring. Although the winterized
cabins and summer camp cabins are not equipped with bathrooms, they are
located near our beautiful all-season bathhouse. Some of our dorm rooms
and cabins are co-ed, so if you prefer a women-only or men-only space,
please let us know when you register. Please bring your own toiletries,
towels and bedding (sleeping bag or sheets and blankets). If you are
staying in an unheated cabin you will need to bring a pillow as well.
With advance notice, we will provide bedding for $5. We have a
number of single and double occupancy private rooms available
in the Farmhouse, Orchard Guest House, Brook House, Rec Hall, and
Fromson House. All have shared bathrooms, and several rooms are
wheelchair accessible. Bedding, including towels, is provided in
private rooms. Seasonal camping is also available in our lovely
orchard or in the pine forest. Bring your own tent.
There are limited
accomodations at the Rowe Center, so we do suggest you sign up
early.
For additional information on
rooms or meals, or you wish private room services away from the
Center, click here:
http://rowecenter.org/BoilerPlate/meals-housing.htm
Or, you can search through the listings in the Franklin County Chamber
of Commerce at: http://www.co.franklin.ma.us/
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Conference
Information * Conference
Fees * Schedule
of Events, Teachers * Product Sales
About
NESHRI * Registration
Information & Form * Accomodations
* Directions
* Meals
Other NESHRI Events:
Check out News/Events
now and periodically for sound healing workshops, ongoing sound
healing circles, and performances. If you are a member, POST YOUR
EVENTS
and articles!!
We shall be informing you of additional Gatherings.
Volunteers Needed
NESHRI is a volunteer organization, and your help is appreciated. We
need
volunteers to assist with boosting our membership, hosting fundraising
events,
writing articles, and finding research grants and research
opportunities, such
as in hospitals or holistic centers. We are working together to raise
awareness
about the power of sound and music in healing and building community.
The
NESHRI family is growing! We will also be looking for a number of
volunteers for our next conferences to assist in planning, admin,
doorkeeping/ticketing, and general overall conference assistance.
Please let Zacciah know if you are interested.
Conference
Information * Conference
Fees * Schedule
of Events, Teachers * Product Sales
About
NESHRI * Registration
Information * Accomodations
* Directions
* Meals
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Zacciah
Blackburn, Director
The
Center of Light in Vermont
P.O. Box 389
Hidden Glen Rd.
Ascutney, VT
05030
USA
Phone
&
Fax:
(802) 674-9585
e-mail: info@sunreed.com
Visit our associated site:
Sunreed World Musical
Instruments
(Bookmark this site to easily return to
us!)
Sound Healing tools: Crystal Bowls, Tibetan Bowls, Tingshas,
Shamanic Drums, African Drums, Flutes, Bamboo flutes, Shakuhachi
Native American Flutes, Didgeridoos, much more
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