Sounds Heal Podcast: Sound Healing & Wellness

Frank DiCristina is a certified Himalayan singing bowl master/teacher, gong master, Natural Crystal Way practitioner, Reiki / healing touch practitioner, dowser, as well as a certified building biologist / electromagnetic radiation specialist. Frank has been studying sound since the early 70s. He began working with singing bowls in 2002 and gongs in 2007. He has traveled to Nepal to study traditio...

Michele Averard, author of “Free your Voice, Heal your Life -13 Steps to Free your Healing Voice,” is a founding member and co-director of both the Spanish and International Associations of Sound Therapy. She is also an internationally recognized singer-songwriter. Since 1994 she has conducted courses, workshops and conferences on the healing power of sound and particularly the voice. She is co-ow...

Since 1995, Nestor Kornblum has explored and practiced the ancient art of overtone singing, or vocal harmonics, as a healing modality. He is one of a handful of Westerners to master overtone chanting employed by Tibetan monks and Tuvan (Mongolian) singers, which enables him to sing up to four simultaneous notes, with a range of five octaves. In addition, he plays didgeridoo, monochord, tampura, je...

German-born Hildegard Westerkamp studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiberg before emigrating to Canada in her early twenties. After completing her music studies at the University of British Columbia, she joined the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University under the direction of R. Murray Schafer. Her involvement with this project not only prompted deep concerns ab...

Recorded on Zoom, watch video on YouTube for best quality: https://youtu.be/vRqD5exqGGg Simone Vitale is a sound therapy teacher and practitioner and a visionary musician. Since 2002, he's been deepening his understanding of the effects and healing potential of sound and music. He is now dedicating his work to promoting an ecology of sound in which kindness and mindfulness are the keys to a deeper...

Two Year Anniversary of Sounds Heal Podcast! Thank you all so much for your support of the podcast. TWO episodes this month for the second anniversary of the podcast, the second this month is with Rudi Bach. Rudi Bach performs and teaches sound meditation using a large collection of antique Himalayan Bowls. Working both privately and publicly, he plays for large groups and individuals, in numerous...

Two Year Anniversary of Sounds Heal Podcast! * this episode was recorded on Zoom and the video can be viewed on youtube.com/soundshealstudio * Thomas was the first guest on this podcast series and we get an update on Thomas’ explorations, discoveries, motivations and upcoming projects. Thomas Orr Anderson is a musician, physicist, author, teacher and sound researcher. https://thomasorranderson.com...

Guy Yair Beider is a sound meditation facilitator and sound wellness arts educator. He is passionate about providing the audience with healthy sonic nourishment and diversity of scenarios for mindful and safe sonic journeys. Guy has engaged in extended research in psychology, musicology, and psychoacoustics. He has been particularly inspired by the practices of healers from the Amazon. Since 2011...

Kelvin Young is a Community Health Worker at InterCommunity HealthCare in Hartford, CT and certified Sound Healer. He is also a person in sustained recovery, which means he hasn't used alcohol or other drugs to cope with his mental and emotional distress since March 6, 2009. The first time he was exposed to sound healing, Kelvin discovered the sounds of the crystal and Tibetan singing bowls and go...

Elian Zach received her formal training in sound therapy at The New York Open Center under the guidance of world-renowned sound researcher, practitioner and ethnomusicologist, Alexandre Tannous. An advanced, E-RYT yoga teacher, she completed her trainings and continuing education in New York with a variety of master teachers from different yogic disciplines, including Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yog...

Sheila Whittaker is a sound healer and teacher with a background in classical music. She studied violin at the Royal College of Music and has had a career playing and teaching in the mainstream classical music world for many years. To use her musical abilities in a more focused, holistic way, she became a sound healer more than 20 years ago. During the last 15 years, she has specialized in using l...

Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, media designer, and design educator. He maintains a practice centered around a process of play, experimentation, and research through making. His work explores methods for transforming the relationship between people and the sounds in their environment. Alex has been an artist in residence in an Australian National Park, on an Iowa farm, at a mid-western biologica...

Katie Down, (LCAT, MT-BC, MMT, MM) is a licensed creative arts therapist, music psychotherapist, Reiki practitioner, deep listening practitioner, educator, performer and composer. She has been teaching and facilitating sound meditations and deep listening workshops for over 10 years and offers classes and training programs in music therapy and sound healing as well as providing clinical supervisio...

Frank Perry is an astrologer, artist, healer, and musician based in the town of Ringwood in southwest Hampshire in England. He has been a part of the soundscape/healing music scene since the 1960s and has dedicated his life to his music and spiritual journey. A leading expert in Himalayan singing bowls, he has published two books on the subject, Himalayan Sound Revelations (2014) and The Language...

Kimberly Schipke has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in biomedical engineering. A health crisis inspired her to study groundbreaking new treatments, as well as integrative and ancient therapies. She studied under nuclear and astrophysicist, Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher and Dr. Valerie Hunt, author of "Infinite Mind." Kimberly became a certified clinical thermographer and used infrared cameras to stud...

Digging Deeper with Mitch Nur, Mike Tamburo and Thomas Orr Anderson! From live Zoom call on May 1, 2020. Video available: http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Mitch Nur: archaeomusicologist, sacred sound researcher, practitioner and teacher. Mike Tamburo: multi-instrumentalist, music educator, sound and video artist, sound therapist and meditation teacher. Thomas Orr Anderson: musician, physici...

Rich Goodhart is not only an internationally recognized world music composer and recording artist working with nontraditional forms but also a shamanic sound healing practitioner, poet, writer, instrument builder and Qigong/Tai Chi instructor. Originally a keyboardist, he plays multiple instruments and has studied with master musicians of Africa, India, America and Indonesia. He has published two...

Kenny Kolter has facilitated more than 2,600 sound therapy workshops throughout the country over the last 12 years, incorporating gongs, drums, rattles, Tibetan bowls, chimes, and various other instruments. His work is focused on providing participants with a chance to escape the daily grind, meditate/pray, simply rest, or go within. He is one of only a handful of sound therapists worldwide to pla...

Jack Kassewitz is president of Global Heart, Inc., a nonprofit organization that he cofounded in 2001 with his wife, Donna. He currently focuses primarily on Speak Dolphin: Dolphin Communication Research (http://speakdolphin.com/), a project devoted to significantly expanding communication between humans and dolphins. Jack’s passion for this research has propelled him to seek cutting-edge technolo...

Steven Halpern is a Grammy Award nominated, multiplatinum-selling recording artist, composer, producer, researcher, author and pioneering sound healer. In 1975 he released Spectrum Suite (now known as Chakra Suite), his first album of music specifically designed for relaxation and healing. Forty-five years later, Steven’s music continues to be used by yoga practitioners, spiritual teachers, medita...

David Perez-Martinez, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist/psychotherapist/life coach and sound therapist in private practice in New York City since 1995. He is a life-long musician as well as an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist. He shares his experience with the integration of sound, breath work, mindfulness and other therapeutic tools in his mental health practice. https://www.facebook.com/dav...

Arthur Hull is an internationally renowned percussionist. He travels the world inspiring community-building through drums. His pioneering Rhythm Facilitation work has touched the lives of thousands of people worldwide and has inspired the growing profession of community drum-circle facilitator. In 1980 Arthur Hull founded Village Music Circles; instructing more than 7,000 students at the Universit...

Eileen Day McKusick is a pioneering researcher, inventor, author and founder of Biofield Tuning. Having spent more than 20 years researching the electromagnetic field that surrounds the human body (the "biofield"), she has mapped the biofield, revealing the influence of magnetic fields on our physical, mental and emotional well-being. McKusick is the author of the best-selling Nautilus Award-winni...

John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph. D. is the founder of BioSonic Enterprises, Ltd., a company dedicated to tuning the world. He is board certified naturopathic physician and clinical psychologist specializing in the healing effects of sound and music. After receiving advanced degrees from Indiana and Purdue Universities in psychology and music, he went on to study and integrate eastern and Western natural h...

Alexandre Tannous is as a musician, composer, ethnomusicologist, sound therapist and sound researcher. He has been investigating the therapeutic and esoteric properties of sound from three different perspectives – Western scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs – to gain a deeper understanding of how, and to what extent, sound has been used to affect human consciousness. A...