Alan Watts: Get out of the mind once a day

(Simply Art- Inspire) Go out of the mind once a day: Alan Watts on Buddhist meditation

• Alan Watts every week on Buddhist Radio Los Angeles (Something's Happening honoring Roy of Hollywood Tuckman), Sundays at 8:00 am (PT) and Thursdays at midnight with Speech Impediment Buzz and Nurse Diane. FREE worldwide live online (kpfk.org) and in the archives for the following 90 days
• AlanWatts.org via Simply Art- Inspire (YouTube); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LA Fire FREE healing session (2/8)

WHAT HAPPENED?

As above, so below. There are two stories to The Awareness Center, a Kundalini Yoga studio in Pasadena. Entering the room, participants spread out on borrowed yoga mats on the hardwood floor, most of the group was already on stage, waiting for Seven to make an entrance.

The large shamanic drum began to drone, the bowls came alive with their unique vibrations attuned to each of the chakras, and the rainstick began to pour.

Event details

The natural elements are for us, even fire.

Spend an hour with Dr. Ling O'Connor and healers gathering for a sound bath, deep relaxation, reiki massage, and meditation. 

We're offering a FREE sound bath and emotional healing to support Los Angeles residents affected by the recent fires.

• Cause of Eaton Fire? Edison tower sparks

Join Dr. Ling O'Connor, Meditation Guide Seven, musician nurse Devorah Anderson, the Zildjian Mistress Linda Lau Cole, Azalea, Frank, and our very own Urban Shaman Seven for deep relaxation and recentering at The Awareness Center yoga studio in Pasadena.

Experience Tibetan singing bowls, harmonium, shamanic drum, rainstick, temple muyu, gong, and more.

Sound has no power to vibrate or cleanse

Shamans connect us to unseen energies.

This healing session promotes deep relaxation with breath work, emotional release, healing touch, reiki, and physical/spiritual renewal. 

Soothing vibrations restore balance, ease stress and strain, and bring back peace of mind. It's time for the recovery to start by resetting our own nervous systems. First, attend to the body, the mind will follow, and wholeness is in sight.

WHO IS IT FOR? Those most impacted whether emotionally, psychologically, or physically by the Eaton Fire/Los Angeles Fire. (Yeah, this means you). RSVP FREE:

• Disclosure Project: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• PasaDharma: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• Nature Center: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• Email: dancinglunarin@gmail.com

Science: Sound can raise our vibration (video)

Joanna McEwen (TEDxU.ofBrighton); Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What if ancient Buddhists knew the importance of sound and built vibrating singing bowls?

Why raising our vibration increases serendipity

TEDx Talks

Joanna McEwen speaks about coherence through sound therapy and its importance in our lives.

• [The most important possibility of this technology is the possibility of bringing the mind to coherence (absorption, samadhi) through the use of binaural beats such as the Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync.]
• [In mysticism and metaphysics, coherence can be defined as the presence of peace, grace, ease, and also acceptance, appreciation, allowing (versus resistance) or, to employ a concept found in Buddhism, "pure pervasive kindness toward everything" or "friendliness toward everyone," which engenders harmony and synchrony.]

McEwen is a qualified and experienced sound therapist who holds a Master's degree in applied anthropology emphasizing youth and community. She has supported children, youth, and families for over 15 years within mainstream special needs schools as well as youth and community groups.

She creates and delivers well-being [serendipity (fortunate happenstance or pleasant surprise)] workshops through the use of sound healing, music, drama, mindfulness, and breath and body awareness. She works with adults and children of all ages and abilities, including those with Asperger's Syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders, and profound and multiple learning disabilities.

McEwen is a trained Empowered Learning Practitioner able to work with children with special learning needs.

Monthly Sound Meditations with McEwen

Can vibrations induce meditative states of serenity (samatha) and coherence (samadhi)?

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Joanna McEwen trained with The College of Sound Healing, British Academy of Sound Therapy, and Don "The Gong" Conreaux. Her journey with sound began as a teenager when she would soothe her teenage angst with the baroque rhythms of Pachabel’s Cannon. While DJ-ing in her 20s she saw the power of music to move and shift people’s emotions and energies, and it was at this time she first came across the research of Fabian Maman on the ability of sound frequencies to explode cancer cells [similar to the banned-for-working Royal Rife (rife.org) and Hulda Regehr Clark cures].  This led her to explore sound therapy with James D’Angelo...First Sunday of the month (Dec. 3, 2017), 7:30-8:30 pm at Unity Studios, 130a Lewes Rd, Brighton, BN2 3LG. More

• [Practiced weekly in Los Angeles, CA, 7:00-8:30 pm, FREE, Thursday nights at PasaDharma's Mass Meditation Initiative]

Himalayan singing bowls vibrate with different resonant healing tones (mysoreyoga.in)

• This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
• Study: Sense of coherence contributes to mental and physical health

Meditate to Tibetan singing bowls (audio)

Brian William Green (video); Amber Dorrian, Wisdom Quarterly 

   

Breathe in, breathe out to the sound of the sea.

Sit down, lay back, listen, and relax. Tibetan singing bowls transport us to the brink of serenity meditation, which means letting go and following the gong. It may lead to sleep (seeyouinsleep.com), a sign of needing more rest, or to rarefied fields of perception. Hold attention in one place, and watch the strengthened mind widen the field of consciousness relying on nothing more than its own natural capacity. It's easy. But it cannot be made to happen. Watch and marvel when it happens on its own. All we can do is prepare the ideal conditions for it. Five such conditions are the Factors of Absorption (jhan'anga). Happiness is just such a factor. And so we at Wisdom Quarterly frequently say:
  

"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way!"

Tibetan Bowl Therapy

British TV show Espresso (circa 1998): Sound healer and musician Frank Perry demonstrates this form of therapy and talks about his sound healing practice using ancient Tibetan singing bowls. That same year in Dorset, there was a live concert on Tibetan singing bowls and gongs at Gaunts House, Wimbourne, recorded by Oliver Nares.