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Wednesday June 20th Through Saturday 23rd, 2012. 

 

SOUND HEALING RETREAT IMMERSION

SUMMER SOLSTICE 2012

SACRED SOUND, SACRED TEACHINGS

AT MENLA MOUNTAIN RETREAT, PHOENICIA NY

 

    Program Information:   

Join internationally acclaimed teacher and leaders in the field of Sacred Sound: John Beaulieu, Zacciah Blackburn, Mitch Nur, Philippe Garnier, with guests Lisa Rafel, Grandmother Barbara Threecrow and other guests for a unique immersive learning experience.

 

For Teachers and Holistic Practitioners: 

Learn the fundamental and practical use of Sound Healing to benefit your clients and your community. Explore your connection to the universal energy source through the use of tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, voice, and drums.  

 

This powerful and memorable journey into Sound will enable you to immediately add Sound Healing to your practice or to deepen your current work. 

 

For Seekers of Healing and Connection:

This four-day immersion in sacred frequency and resonance will empower you to make Sound Healing your way of life. Learn techniques that you can use every day to shift your perspective and your way of being. 

  

 

On June 20th-24th, four of America’s foremost experts in the art and science of sound healing will come together to lead a Sound Healing Retreat Intensive. This four-day immersion program is ideal for experienced sound healing professionals as well as holistic practitioners who wish to incorporate sound healing into their work. The course will be of specific interest to naturopathic and osteopathic doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other professionals in the field of complementary and alternative medicine.  The program will include instruction on how to structure and conduct a Sound Healing Session with a client, and how to recalibrate and realign energy centers of the body through the use of sound.Those who seek personal transformation through the miracle of sound will also find this to be an incredibly empowering and enriching experience.

The internationally renowned faculty includes Dr. John Beaulieu, Dr. Zacciah Blackburn, Mitch Nur, Ph.D. and Philippe Garnier.  This intensive retreat experience also features special presentation by Lisa Rafel, Grandmother Barbara Threecrow, and other guest to be annonced.  The 2012 Sound Healing Retreat Intensive will be held at Menla House Retreat Center, located in Phoenicia, NY, 20 minutes from Woodstock.

A certificate of completion, signed by all retreat faculty members, will be awarded to participants who complete this training in sound healing.  

“Sound Healing improves and transforms a range of physical and emotional states. It is especially effective for those with chronic illness, allergies, and compulsive behavioral patterns, or who are recovering from trauma and grief,” says sound healer, teacher, and retreat organizer Philippe Garnier. Sound healing has been clinically shown to support people suffering from stress related disorders and chronic pain, as well as patients undergoing cancer treatments.

Under the guidance of these remarkable scholars, doctors, healers, and sound practitioners, students will explore the healing potential of tuning forks, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, indigenous horns, voice, drums, and other percussion instruments.  Participants will learn the therapeutic application of these tools to create sacred space, shift and expand consciousness, address a range of physical conditions, restore balance, and promote positive change at the cellular level.

“Facilitated by the sacred sound of instruments like crystal singing bowls and tuning forks, we can reach deep into the subconscious and gain access to the universal energy field, finding clarity of mind, as well as physical and emotional healing,” says Garnier.

Some highlights of the retreat include the following presentations on the theory, art, and science of sound healing. Dr. John Beaulieu, Ph.D. will teach a two-part class on how to use BioSonic Fibonacci tuning forks to induce altered states of consciousness in order to empower creative visions and work with dependencies and addictions. 

Zacciah Blackburn, Ph.D., will share with us his immense understanding of how one can enter into Living Relations with the elements of Earth and Sky and channel Mother Earth's natural Life Force for the healing of All.   Mitch Nur, Ph.D., the world's foremost authority on Himalayan Singing Bowls, will offer academic Master Classes with these amazing instruments of transformation, which are amongst the most sought out programs available today. 

Event organizer Philippe Pascal Garnier will discuss the role of resonance, Sacred Geometry, herbal frequencies and the practical application of Sound Healing to ease and heal the "bodymind." Philippe will also demonstrate how to work with the crystal bowls and stimulate the activation of our crystalline core consciousness. 

Also invited are several outstanding guest teachers who will share their expertise in sound healing.

“Participants will experience profound personal transformation as a result of being surrounded with these healing frequencies so completely for these four unparalleled days,” says Garnier. “To have the opportunity to study with these teachers in this intensive retreat on the sacred and already energetically charged land of Menla will be a unique experience that will stay with them forever. Everyone will leave the retreat with a precious and practical skill set that they can immediately use both to enhance their own individual growth and benefit their clients.”

 

 

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TEACHINGS OVERVIEW:

Workshops with John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D.

SOUND HEALING W/TUNING FORKS / The Art of Sonic Vision Questing with the Fibonacci Sequences 

Dr. Beaulieu will teach a two-part class on how to use BioSonic Fibonacci tuning forks to induce altered states of consciousness in order to empower creative visions and work with dependencies and addictions. A new understanding of the relationship between vision, trauma, dependency, and addiction will be introduced. Once understood,  Fibonacci tuning forks can be used as a sound healing instrument to set in motion a healing response. Special attention will be given on the first day to sound and stress science, states of euphoria, and PTSD, as well as the techniques of using the Fibonacci tuning forks. On the second day, Dr. Beaulieu will conduct a clinic focused on how to use sound and altered states of consciousness to empower the healing response in dependencies and addictions in order to deepen our clinical knowledge through experience. 

 

Students will learn: 

1. The mythology and neurobiology of ascension states of consciousness. 

2. The art of creating personal sonic vision quests to increase creativity. 

3. A new understanding of addiction and dependent behaviors.

4. The technique of using Fibonacci tuning forks. 

5. How to create sound healing sessions with Fibonacci tuning forks.

 

John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., is one of the foremost philosophers and major innovators in the area of sound healing therapies.   A world-renowned speaker, composer, pianist, and naturopathic doctor, Dr. Beaulieu has pioneered a technique called BioSonic Repatterning™, a natural method of healing and consciousness development using tuning forks and other sound modalities based on the sonic ratios inherent in nature.

As the founder of BioSonic Enterprises, he has developed and distributed over 50 different sound healing-related products including tuning forks, instructional videos, audio programs, CDs and books. Dr. Beaulieu is the groundbreaking author of Music and Sound in the Healing Arts and the composer/producer of Calendula: A Suite for Pythagorean Tuning Forks, a CD designed to physically align your body and create a deep relaxed state of awareness.

 

Workshops with Zacciah Blackburn

SACRED SOUND, SACRED EARTH 

Zacciah brings his immense understanding and proficiency to us, in how to enter Living Relations with the elements of Earth and Sky.  All indigenous peoples recognize and interact with the Living Energies of the Cosmos, from the Talking Stones, to the Living Waters, Trees, Ancestral Spirits, the Sun and Moon, Star Beings, and many others.  Zacciah will teach us traditional and non-traditional techniques of gaining direct access to, and communion with, the Living Energies of the place.  Sound is a key component of his work, as well as an understanding of the vibrational aspect of all living things.

 

In this rich environment of ancient sculpted Earth, there are profound energies to work with.  The Menla Mountain Retreat is nestled in an ancient meteoric impact crater, with very awake Earth energies available to us.  The 'cocoon' created in this Living Sanctuary was quite vivid, and deeply experienced by most attendees last year.  

 

Zacciah will teach how sound can be used to align with, and transport us into other dimensional awareness, coupled with techniques of indigenous wisdom, to touch the Earth and its Living Wisdom.  

 

We will end with a:

SACRED EARTH HEALING CEREMONY with the Grandfather Drums**, to bring our heart into communion with the Heart of the Earth, and sing our prayers of healing, transformation, and Creative Manifestation, into being.

See Zacciah's full 5 day course on "Sacred Sounds, Sacred Earth" here, July 18-22, 2012

 

Zacciah Blackburn is trained in classical healing, shamanic traditions and sacred sound culture. He is practicing at The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies. Zacciah has studied with a variety of master teachers of various spiritual lineages, including elders of North, South, and Central American traditions, incorporating these teachings into his work over a three decade period. Zacciah is Director of Education for the New England Sound Healing Research Institute. He is also cofounder of the World Sound Healing Organization, and the All One Now network of organizations furthering world peace, healing, and transformation of human consciousness through simple ceremony and Elders wisdom. www.thecenteroflight.net

 

Workshops with Mitch Nur, Ph.D.

HARMONIC THERAPY DEMONSTRATION SYLLABUS

Harmonic Therapy is a non invasive based treatment, employing the over and undertones of sound through the use of indigenous instruments. Played live, they allow the listener an enhanced firsthand experience employing acousmatic, semiotic, and traditional as well as indigenous sound therapy to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social conditions. An effective entry point to the parasympathetic nervous system and can address issues that are both psychological and physical. Benefits include: Stress Reduction, Deeper Relaxation, Improves Memory, Offers the Opportunity to Develop a Deeper Understanding of Oneself.  The use of Harmonics has been recorded in the Tang Annals of China and in the Vedic cultures. Studied and employed therapeutically by the ancient Greeks and Sumerians. Utilized in ceremony and ritual by indigenous traditions worldwide. Applied in shamanic practices. This program demonstration will be presented by Mitch Nur, Ph.D., Founder of the Harmonic Therapy Association, Director of the 9ways Academia, and one of the world's leading experts on indigenous sound tools. Mitch will show and illustrate a typical session in this 2 hour presentation.

 

Workshops with Mitch Nur, Ph.D.

APPLICATIONS AND USES OF THE HIMALAYAN SINGING BOWLS 

Mitch Nur, Ph.D. is regarded as the foremost authority in the world on Himalayan Singing Bowls, also called Tibetan Singing Bowls. His field studies in the early 1970's in Nepal were amongst the first examinations of the culture by a westerner and lead him to be regarded as an "insider" by Nepalese and Tibetan academics. His personal collection of genuine antique bowls, Tibetan bells and shang is one of the largest in the Western world. The bowls are legendary in the Himalayas, and westerners' fascination with them have made them some of the preeminent sound tools for therapy and healing. The academic Master Classes with Himalayan Singing Bowls that he teaches are some of the most sought-after programs currently available today. Mitch will guide us on an adventure that will penetrate not only the myths of the bowls, but also their practical uses.

 

Mitch Nur, Ph.D. has been involved with the Eastern cultures for nearly 40 years in the specific areas of spiritual discipline, sacred sound practices and healing techniques. He currently lectures and teaches various types of workshops throughout the USA on the many diverse world traditions involving sacred sound instruments; including the human voice and nearly 100 indigenous sound tools. Lama Khemsar Rinpoche is his Bön root teacher and he has studied with the 33rd Menri Trizin, Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche , the 7th Kundrol Namkha, Geshe Tenzin Dargye, and HH the 14th Dalai Lama; he is a student of the eastern Tibetan Nyingma Master and Abbot of Osel Samten Ling monastery in Kham, Adzom Rinpoche. Mitch is the Spiritual Director of Studio 116, Senior Teacher of the 9ways Academia, and Founding Director of the Harmonic Therapy Association. He also assists visiting Lamas when they present teachings in the US.

 

Workshops with Philippe Pascal Garnier

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF SOUND ENERGY & CRYSTAL SOUND HEALING 

Philippe will teach about one the most important principle of sound healing: Resonance, a word with several implications. We'll discuss Sound consciousness and how sound, prayers, and intention create extraordinary changes in body and consciousness...

 

PRACTICAL TEACHING OF THE CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS

Philippe will be demonstrating the many ways to work and play the crystal bowls. We will go through a range of "sound landscapes" to bring the client to a state of mind-heart and learn how to bring forth his/hers crystalline core essence. 

 

Philippe Pascal Garnier is an accomplished sound practitioner who recalibrates and realigns the energy centers of the body through the use of sound allowing the Prana (life force) to flow properly.  In this way, he assists in the release of unwanted blocks and helps restore the individual to an ideal state of balance in body, mind and spirit.  Originally from Paris, Philippe Pascal Garnier has been initiated into sacred ceremony and practice in a variety of ancients and sacred traditions, he has worked extensively with the Amazonian curanderos, training in techniques that facilitate healing of the soul and body.  He shares this expertise with the public through the organization he co-founded and directs:  Sage Center For The Healing Arts in Woodstock, NY.

Philippe has been offering group sound healing sessions in numerous yoga studios in Manhattan and around the North East, in ashrams and sacred sites. He was honored to be part of the original soundtrack of Deepak Chopra Leela's interactive relaxation and meditation game. Philippe is also the organizer of an Annual Sound Healing Symposium taking place upstate New York.  He has written and has been interviewed in various publications about sacred sound and appeared on numerous radio programs.

 

Special Guest Teachers:

LISA RAFEL ~ SACRED LANGUAGE OF VOWELS

Lisa Rafel will present and teach her own Vocal Sound Healing technique. This process, which uses intuition, trust, vocal techniques, alignment and boundary exercises, creates opportunities for opening to grace and healing. The evening includes a demonstration on 2 - 3 participants. Each attendee will learn skills that they can use and share with others. 

 

PRAMOD SAPKOTA ~ CEREMONY~ THE CALLING OF THE SPIRITS 

Pramod Sapkota, a fourteenth-generation Brahman Nepali Shaman, will lead a traditional ceremony calling in the spirits, using sound frequencies of Mantras and Nepali Bells. ThHe will bring blessings to all who participate and maintain relationship with nature spirits and personal deities. 

 

GRANDMOTHER BARBARA THREECROW 

SACRED WHISTLING VESSELS CEREMONY

For thousands of years South American whistling vessels have been used to harmonize and balance the sacred web of all life. As healing tools they induced trance states and aligned an individual's sound frequencies with those of the Earth's life force. They highly sensitize one' perceptions of color, sound and the emotional states of others, further enhancing psychic abilities and communion with the elemental world. Barbara Threecrow, Tunka Hota Wiyan (Gray Stone Woman) is a mother, grandmother, author of Mending the Hoop, Four Sacred Shields Twelve Sacred Paths, an award winning artist, healer and ceremonial leader in the Lakota tradition.

 

STEVEN BACHMANN ~ DIDGERIDOO MEDITATION

Morning Sound Mediation with the Didgeridoo. 

 

"The Sound Healing retreat at Menla was one of the most profound experiences I've had and for that, and for all of you, I am truly grateful.  Philippe and Lea, thank you for creating this amazing event.  

Lifetimes of knowledge were shared over 4 quick days and all of that is going out into the world as quickly as needed.  A convergence definitely occurred that was of great importance.  Each day a little more comes to me and I share it with others. With my deepest gratitude".  

- Melissa Honkamp, Wisconsin

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REGISTRATION/ACCOMMODATIONS/DIRECTIONS:           
Menla House is conveniently located less than 10 miles from Woodstock and is easily accessible to residents of the Hudson Valley and Catksills area.  Phoenecia, NY is two hours north of New York City (three hours by the Adirondack Trailways Busline) and three and a half hours from Boston.  The retreat center is an hour from both the Albany and Steward (Newburgh, NY) airports.  A variety of onsite accommodations are available at an additional cost ranging from camping to private rooms with private baths.   All food is included in the cost of accommodations.  Contact Philippe Garnier (sagecenter@earthlink.net or 845-679-5650) for further info..

TUITION MEALS & LODGING: 

 

*Pay by CHECK by May 1st and save $50!

Check payable to Sage Center,

send to Lea Garnier at PO Box 63, Glenford, New York 12433

 

MENLA MOUNTAIN RETREAT AND CONFERENCE CENTER 

Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center is set on 320 acres in the historic Catskill Mountains of New York State. Surrounded by a national forest preserve, the retreat center offers complete privacy in a tranquil setting. Our modern and comfortable facilities are an ideal setting for retreats, conferences and workshops. This woodland valley is an authorized Audubon Society bird sanctuary.

 

Contribution for retreat includes tuition, three meals per day and lodging when applicable 

One DAY ONLY Commuter (includes one-day tuition and 3 meals): $269 

Daily Commuter fee (includes 4 days' tuition and meals) : $994 

Camping along a beautiful stream (includes camp site built on platforms, tuition and meals for 4 days):  $1042 

Dorm style (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1195 

Private queen/ shared bath for couple (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): 

$1230 per person

Private queen/ private bath for couple (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging):

$1305 per person

Private queen/shared bath (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1405 

Private queen/private bath (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1431 

 

PAYPALL OPTION :

Contribution for retreat includes tuition, three meals per day and lodging when applicable 

Lodging Options

 One DAY ONLY Commuter (includes one-day tuition and 3 meals): $319 

Daily Commuter fee (includes 4 days' tuition and meals) : $1044

Camping (includes a camp site, tuition and meals for 4 days): :  $1092 

Dorm style (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1245 

Private queen/ shared bath for couple (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): 

$1280 per person

Private queen/ private bath for couple (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging):

$1355 per person

Private queen/shared bath (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1455 

Private queen/private bath (includes 4-days' tuition, meals and lodging): $1481

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SCHEDULE 2012:

Wednesday 20th, 2012, Day 1

11:00am - 2:00pm- Arrival

- Light lunch will be served at 1:00pm-2pm

2:30pm- 6:00pm~ Introductory session (presentation) Opening Sacred Space w/Ph. 

-Crystal Bowl Anatomy class followed by Crystalline Core Activation for the group w/Philippe Garnier

6:30pm-7:30pm- Dinner

8:00pm-10:30pm - Evening Session -

Guest Teacher: Lisa Rafel ~vocal sound for healing

Thursday 21st -Day 2

8:00am -Breakfast

9:00am-10:00pm (1 hour program) Morning Meditation -

Calling On The Spirits with Special Guest Nepali Shaman Pramod Sapkota

Creating "trance space" using sound and mantra frequencies to channel Lord Hanuman.

10:00am-12:00pm -(2 hour program) Morning Session -

Mitch Nur: Harmonic Therapy Demonstration Syllabus

12:30pm- 1:30pm - Lunch

2:00pm-6:30pm - (4 1/2 hour program w/break) Afternoon session - 

Zacciah Blackburn: Sacred Sound, Sacred Earth-Sound to align with, and transport us into other dimensional awareness. (w/break)

6:30pm- 7:30pm Dinner

8:00pm-10:30pm - Evening Session  -

Earth Healing ceremony with Zacciah and the Grandfather (pow wow) Drums. 

Friday 22nd - Day 3

8:00am-9:00am - Breakfast

9:00am-12:00pm-(3 hour program) -Morning Session -

Mitch Nur: Applications and Uses of Himalayan Singing Bowls.

12:30pm- 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm-2:30pm-Afternoon Didjeridou Meditation

Didjeridoo Sound Healing with Special Guest Steven Bachmann

2:30pm-5:30pm-(3 hour program) -Afternoon session -

John Beaulieu's Fibonacci tuning forks, sound vision and dependencies Part One.

6:30pm - 7:30pm -Dinner

8:00pm-10:30pm - Evening Session - 

SOUND CEREMONY- TRANSFORMATION WITH SHAMANIC SOUND- 

With Special Guest Grandmother Barbara Threecrow  

The return of the ancient peruvian whistling vessels ~ five hundred years of silence.

Saturday 23rd - Day 4 - 

8:00am-9:00am - Breakfast 

9:00am-10:00am packing

10:00am-12:00am- morning Session -

John Beaulieu's Fibonacci tuning forks, sound vision and dependencies Part Two.

12:30pm-1:30pm - Lunch

2:00pm-5:00pm - Afternoon session  - 

Fundamental Principles of Sound Healing~ With Philippe Garnier

& Closing Sacred Space with Philippe Garnier.

5:00pm- Departure… and beginning

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Mid-Hudson Valley, NY:  On June 20-24, five of America’s foremost experts in the art and science of sound healing will join together to lead a Sound Healing Retreat Intensive. This four-day immersion program is ideal for experienced sound healing professionals, holistic practitioners who wish to introduce sound healing in their practices, and those who seek personal transformation through the miracle of sound.

The internationally renowned faculty includes Dr. John Beaulieu, Dr. Zacciah Blackburn, Mitch Nuir, Lisa Rafel, Philippe Garnier, and others.  This intensive retreat experience also features special performances by gong master Nigol Koulajian and healer Grandmother Barbara Threecrow.  The 2012 Sound Healing Retreat Intensive will be held at Menla House Retreat Center, located in Phonecia, NY, 20 minutes from Woodstock.

Under the guidance of these remarkable scholars, doctors, healers, and musicians, students will explore the healing potential of tuning forks, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, indigenous horns, voice, drums, and other percussion instruments.  Participants will learn the therapeutic application of these tools to create sacred space, shift and expand consciousness, address a range of physical conditions, restore balance, and promote positive change at the cellular level.
“Facilitated by the sacred sound of instruments like crystal singing bowls and tuning forks, we can reach deep into the subconscious and gain access to the universal energy field, finding clarity of mind, as well as physical and emotional healing,” says Garnier.
Some highlights of the retreat include presentations by John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D on the theory, art, and science of sound healing, illuminating the vibrant relationship that exists between modern research, ancient spiritual principles, and energy healing techniques.   Zacciah Blackburn, PhD, will talk about sound as a gateway to consciousness and about the specific nature and usage of therapeutic instruments. Peter Blum will concentrate on rhythm meditations as well as the power of the human voice; he will introduce singers and non-singers alike to “Magical Voice” or overtone singing (the production of two or three notes simultaneously). Event organizer Philippe Garnier will discuss the role of resonance and cymantics and will reveal the physical and spiritual effects of sound.  
“Participants will experience profound personal transformation as a result of being surrounded with these healing frequencies so completely for these four unparalleled days,” says Garnier. “To have the opportunity to study with these teachers in this intensive retreat on the sacred and already energetically charged land of Menla will be unique experience that will stay with them forever. Everyone will leave the retreat with precious and practical skills that they can immediately use both to enhance their own individual growth and benefit their clients.” 
The retreat will open June 20; the weekend concludes Saturday, June 24.  During this immersive experience, days will begin with breakfast at 8:00 am and finish with evening performances that close each day at 11:00 pm.