ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
*All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda
Before sharing my knowledge and experience, I would like to introduce to you those people, who inspired me to put this class together. Their dedication and humble work in serving humanity with sound revelations have had a tremendous impact on my understandings of sound wellness, work aesthetics, and integrity. With the great honor of writing their names on this page, I also encourage you to find them in the real world and follow their paths.
I want to thank:
My first teacher in healing work with singing bowls Suren Shrestha. Although I chose to explore the world of sound healing with more depth and use no techniques offered by Suren, I am very grateful to cross paths with this kind and loving teacher.
One of the pioneers in the sound wellness field, walking encyclopedia Mitch Nur Ph.D., whose restless enthusiasm in unveiling new facts, sharp mind, and soft heart are contaminating hundreds if not thousands of seekers. Thank you for the honor to be in the circle of your students and followers.
Mitch spent nearly 5 decades as a Sacred Sound Researcher, Archaeomusicologist, Explorer, and Teacher. An authority on Sacred Sound instruments and applications as it pertains to ritual, ceremony, sound therapies, shamanic healing, meditation, and personal transformation.
Danny Becher, whose music and approach to singing bowls touches deeply so many hearts. Thank you for motivating and inspiring me through many years to listen and play.
Frank Perry: Tibetan singing bowl expert, sound-healer, pioneering visionary improvising percussionist, composer, Overtone/Undertone singer, Gong expert, spiritual astrologer, spiritual healer, past-life therapist, philosopher, artist, writer, mystic, metaphysician, workshop leader and lecturer, wood turner & musical instrument inventor & builder. Founder & Director of:- Mountain Bell Music, Spiritual Sound Healing & New Forest Nicholas Roerich Group.
Thank you for sharing your limitless vision of magic. Thank you for continuously expanding the boundaries of sonic possibilities and stretching the perception of the audience through listening to your unique work. Thank you for taking the listeners beyond the sound.
Alexandre Tannous, whose unstoppable willingness to unveil the power of sound became his life passion. Thank you, Alexandre, for your open mind and loving heart. Thank you for the restless work you've been openly sharing with the seekers.
Alexandre Tannous is a musician, educator, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He holds four degrees in music theory, composition, music education and ethnomusicology. He has taught at Columbia University and is a frequent guest-lecturer at universities, institutions, and museums.
Rich Goodhart, a powerful music medicine man. Rich is an internationally recognized and respected world music multi-instrumentalist, composer and recording artist working with world music in non-traditional forms, as well as a Master Shamanic Sound Healing practitioner, poet, writer, instrument builder and Qigong/Tai Chi instructor. He has composed, produced, arranged and engineered eight albums of progressive World Music, and is the author of two books including The Sound Inside The Sound.
Thank you for your kind nature, sharp mind and uncompromising integrity. Thank you for your dedication to the truth! Thank you for inspiring your followers to be humble and modest. Thank you for your restless efforts to inlight the seekers with the facts about the sound and music. Thank you for being an example of honesty.
Thomas Orr Anderson, who is continuously inspiring a huge group of followers to dig deeper into the art and science of sound healing. Thomas puts a tremendous amount of effort and time to educate people on aspects of physics and philosophy of sound wellness and exposes false beliefs in the most polite manner. Thank you Thomas for being a warrior of truth.
Thomas Orr Anderson, M.A. is a Musician, Physicist, Inventor and Sound Therapist engaged in a lifelong exploration of sound, rhythm, movement, science and meditation. Thomas earned his Masters degree in Physics through his studies of Black Holes and Holograms. He has studied intensively in a variety of ancient healing arts including Qi Gong, Reiki and Acupressure. He travels the world studying, teaching, performing and exploring at the magical precipice where Music, Physics and Healing are one.
Thank you, my dear friend Rudi Bach.
Rudra Bach has conducted and taught sound meditations in a wide variety of settings for individuals, couples, and groups. In the past two years he has had approximately 5,000 participants sit in session at Kripalu. (https://www.facebook.com/kripalucenter/videos/880370499107882/). He received his education in Sonic Theology and Sound Therapy at the 9 Ways Academia Institute (Professor Nur), and is a member of the Harmonic Therapy Association. Rudra began teaching in 2001. A background in sound design for theater helps guide his approach in setting up contemplative and therapeutic soundscapes.
Thank you, Rudi, for keeping your heart wide open. Thank you for the love and wisdom you bravely share with the world. Thank you for your deep humble work and the fine art of listening and sounding. Thank you for your friendship and beyond. I am truly honored to be a part of your circle. Thank you for helping me to put this class together.
Thank you, Susanna Raeven
Susanna Raeven is a community herbalist, healing facilitator, educator, founder and owner of Raven Crest Botanicals.
Dear sister, thank you so much for opening my ears and heart to the finest beauty of sound. I understood sound is sacred before I met you but this understanding of mine turned to experience and knowledge when I heard your voice and music. Thank you for your healing work!
Thank you Doctor R. Thank you for teaching me the unteachable. Thank you for your non ordinary vision of connecting between the sound and wholeness. Thank you for continuously giving me the honor and responsibility to take part in guiding your medicine circle.
Thank you my dear medicine circle! Thank you for your music, inspiration, love, and trust in me. You all are my teachers.
Thank you Peter Thurrell, Lee R. Horsman, and Michael Yoshpa for giving your trust in my work, and seeing it valuable enough to exchange your precious time to do the editing.
Website of my dear friend Michael Yoshpa
Thank you my dear friend Amit Kapri for working so hard in order to find the best antique Stradivarius quality singing bowls. Thank you for allowing me to choose the best from the best and to bring your findings to the ear and heart of my audience!
Thank you all my friends for being open to listening patiently to the endless conversations about the subject that I am so passionate about.
Thank you, my dear students, for your trust and teachings. You've been giving me a good reason and motivation to come up with this class.
Thank you, my beloved wife, Aksana Levin!
Thank you for your limitless patience, countless words of support, inspiration, and constructive criticism. Thank you for loving me and my passion. Thank you for cooking and doing the dishes while I was working on the class. Without you, this program would not be possible!
Special gratitude to the Amazonian grandmother plant medicine. You have been showing me the way of love and helping me to carry my light through the obstacles.
Thank you Azyu! You always believed in me and would be proud of me today. I know you hear every sound I unveil.