School of Sound and Healing 2024/2025 - Starts Fri 10/11

OUR SCHOOL OF SOUND AND HEALING IS NOW FULL FOR THE 2024/25 YEAR. 

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING OUR 2025/26 PROGRAM, PLEASE CALL ANGEL LIGHT AT 262-787-3001 TO BE ADDED TO OUR INTEREST LIST FOR NEXT YEAR. 

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WEEKEND 1:  OCTOBER 11-13, 2024
Fundamentals Weekend: Mandatory for all Students
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FRIDAY EVENING WEEKEND #1

Student Orientation
There will be an orientation for students covering the curriculum, discussion of course requirements, required student projects, recommended reading, general expectations, as well as introductions to the faculty and fellow students.

The Sound Healing Practices of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
Guest Presenter:  Jeoffrey Hutcherson
This class highlights the Didgeridoo, its healing properties and practices.   The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal with sound. Their ‘yidaki' (modern name, didgeridoo) has been used as a healing tool for at least 40,000 years. The Aborigines healed broken bones, muscle tears, and illnesses of every kind using this enigmatic musical instrument.  Included in this segment will be a brief history of the Aboriginal Culture and uses of Sound, and a demonstration and experience using the Didgeridoo.

SATURDAY MORNING WEEKEND #1

Sound Fundamentals
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This course focuses on the structure, physics, and elements of sound and music.  Course covers: the transportation of sound waves through the human body, the five levels of vibration, frequencies, hertz/pitch, pure frequencies, tones/timbres, musical Intervals, cords, fundamental tones, overtones, binaural beats, dissonance, resonance, entrainment, harmony, rhythm, and noise.

Anatomy of the Subtle Body
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This course focuses on providing students information about the different fields of Energy that makes up the Subtle Body including the Chakras, Meridians, and the Auric Field.

Basic Breath Work Practices
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Breath is the most basic, yet profound tool we have to facilitate health for our body, mind, and spirit. Breathing is one of the most natural acts that we do. In fact, we breathe approximately 20,000 times each day. How we breathe can affect our health, the healing process of our body, and our attitude. During this class, students will learn about three basic breath work patterns that can be used to relax their bodies, assist in moving them to a deeper state of consciousness, and prepare them for connecting with the sound instruments that they will learn to play and the sound therapy that they will facilitate for themselves and others. 

The Power of Intention
Guest Instructors:  Michael Krajovic and Lucy Lucia
Those who are familiar with different forms of energy healing can probably agree on the importance of intention.  Intention is the first and the most basic rule of using sound in healing work.  The three equations essential for personal healing as taught by Jonathan Goldman, a very well-known contemporary sound healer, will be discussed and practiced during this workshop. There is no limit to the possibilities of healing when intention is combined with sound or with any other form of energy healing activation tool.  Being positive and in the right state of mind when working to manifest your intent is extremely important.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND # 1

Creating Sacred Space
Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay
During this class, students will explore the importance of creating sacred space within and outside of themselves. The importance of grounding and centering and intention and prayer work will be introduced, and exercises practiced setting the tone for using the medicines of Mother Earth including sage, sweet grass, frankincense oil, cedar, Palo Santo, and Florida Water. Students will learn how to smudge their healing spaces as well as themselves and their participating clients.

Manifesting with Intention
Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay
Intention can be defined as “the projection of awareness, with purpose and efficacy, toward some object or outcome.” This class will teach students how to measure the strength of the human energy field. Students will discover how they can influence physical matter via positive versus negative thought, intentions, affirmations, and sound. They will discover how they can influence physical matter via highly motivated and targeted thought projection. This class involves active participation and will provide students with the basic components for creating their own intention statements that have a healing focus for self- and/or other’s healing. 

Manifesting with Sound
Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay
This experiential class will include scientific evidence of brain wave states with focus on the Theta Brain Wave which is considered a shamanic state of consciousness or luminous awareness. Students will explore why the Theta Brain Wave state is the frequency that people are striving to achieve through mediation, yoga, and other types of energy work. Students will also explore rhythmic drumming as a tool to relax and release any heaviness causing energetic blockages.

Drum Wash
Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay
Students will participate in a Drum Wash to clear chakras and energy fields.

Healing Song and Chant
Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay
Our mind, body, and soul are interconnected and what occurs at one level affects the others. Students will explore accessing deep energetic levels of healing through self-generated sound. Vocables, including mantras, songs and chants, or even using a language that is unfamiliar to you, are all ways to bypass the logical, linear mind and enter a state of consciousness conducive to greater healing.

SUNDAY MORNING WEEKEND #1

Energy Diagnosis 101
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Students will learn the basics of body scanning using the sensing mechanisms of their hands. They will learn how to “tune in” to the energy of the different chakras and participate in an exercise that will lift stagnant energies from the physical body. Students will also be instructed in how to use tuning forks and tingshas to scan a physical body and its corresponding energy field. They will participate in a scanning exercise with a partner followed by a discussion of their experience. The session will end with a demonstration of how to clear an energy field using crystals and sound.

How to Use a Tuning Fork in Healing
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This class is an introduction to the use of tuning forks and will include the history of tuning forks as used in instrument tuning and complementary healing practices, the science behind the use of tuning forks, and the modern uses of tuning forks in sound healing. Students will be involved in a visual introduction to four Otto (weighted) tuning forks that can be used in a healing practice and learn about their practical applications. Students will be guided through the process of how to hold, activate, clear, and care for a tuning fork. Students will listen to the sound frequencies of the four Otto Tuning forks. They will also participate in a discussion of the precautions and contraindications when using tuning forks.

How to Play a Tibetan Singing Bowl
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Students will learn the history and uses of the Tibetan Singing Bowls and will begin to learn the basics of playing a singing bowl. They will learn techniques of properly positioning a bowl using their hands and fingers, how to awaken a Tibetan bowl, how to activate it, and how to tune-in to the energy of the bowl.  Why “tuning-in” is important to the sound the bowl creates will be an experiential part of this class.  Students may bring a bowl if they have one or use a bowl from the Sound School’s inventory.  They will have an opportunity to actually play the bowl and will be guided by the instructor to facilitate a successful outcome for their first bowl experience.  Students will activate their singing bowls by using the Power of Intention.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #1

Healing Sound and the Chakras
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Students will explore the Hindu Chakra system in depth and its relationship to the vital energy of the human body.  They will learn about each of the seven basic chakras including the traits of each chakra, their ruling organs and glands, age of development, related senses, and the chakra colors. Students will explore the basic human emotions as they relate to each of the chakras and the subtle energy field. This class will lay the foundation for using Singing Bowls and the Solar Harmonic tuning forks which have a direct relationship to the frequency progression of the basic 7-fold chakra system.

Solar Harmonic Level I – Basic Tuning Fork Techniques Experiential
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This course is an experiential clinic and designed to teach students to effectively use three different protocols (horizontal, vertical & spiral) to clear and balance each chakra in the 7-fold chakra system using the Solar Harmonic tuning forks.

Solar Harmonic Level II - Double Tuning Fork Techniques Instructional
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This experiential course will assist students to a deeper understanding of the use of the Solar Harmonic Tuning forks and begin their work of using two tuning forks simultaneously in a sound healing session. They will learn the importance of working in intervals (sequences) of fifths when using tuning forks to clear and balance the chakra system.

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WEEKEND 2: November 8-10, 2024
Requirements: Completion of Sound Healing Level I Foundations Weekend
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FRIDAY EVENING:  WEEKEND #2

How to Conduct a Sound Session from Beginning to End using one or more Sound Tools
An Evening with Adagio Sound Healing
Students will be guided through an entire sound session.  An introduction to all the sound tools that might be used in a sound session/sound bath and why each sound tool is chosen based on it individual sound frequency, and/or ability to work in harmony with the other sound instruments being used will be introduced. Enhancing a sound session using stringed instruments will be discussed and demonstrated. Students will learn the importance of choosing the sound tools that will work together in harmony/sacred fifths throughout the sound session and how choosing the right tools and the right progressions leads a participant/client into a deep state of relaxation and jump starts their healing process. Students will be introduced to the Monochord and how it affects the physical and emotional bodies during a sound session/bath. Discussion on why using enhancements at the beginning or end of a sound session such as guided meditation, chanting, or vocals will lead a client into a deep state of relaxation at the beginning of a session and into an awakened and fully conscious state at the end of a session will be discussed. The evening will conclude with a Sound Bath by Adagio Sound Healing.

SATURDAY MORNING WEEKEND #2

Vocal Healing:  Humming for Healing
Instructors:  Sheri Bauer and Suni Moon
Humming is among the simplest, yet most profound sounds that we can create.  It has amazing beneficial abilities that affect us on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.  Students will explore the many aspects of how and why humming works and they will learn about and experience several exercises that demonstrate the power of their own “hum” and how they can effectively use their “hum” to create balance and harmony within body, mind, and spirit. They will learn why humming can become a practice to enhance health and wellness for everyone.

Your healing voice - vocal toning in self-care and working with others.
Guest Instructor:  Suni Moon
Your voice is a powerful tool in sound healing. Your vocal cords are perfectly tuned to soothe and offer healing to you or to your clients. Whether you think you have a “good” voice or not, you have the ability to create healing vibrations with your voice.  In this class we will explore breathing to support your voice, audible sighing and humming, warm-ups and chanting/affirmation practices. We will experience as a group: playing with our vocal ranges, feeling tones in our bodies, and projection of sound. We will practice using words to support ourselves and our clients. We’ll learn healing sounds and syllables and make up some of our own. We’ll use vocal toning combined with drums, crystal singing bowls and other instruments.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #2

Introduction to Gongs
Guest Instructor:  Michael Bettine
Students will learn about how Gongs can be used in Sound Therapy to achieve deep relaxation, peace, and a meditative state that can connect to sound frequencies that reduce anxiety, stress, and provide an avenue for healing. Students will be introduced to the gongs, including the history of gongs, the many different types of gongs available, and the various ways to play the gong. They will also watch a demonstration on how to create different sounds and sound effects using the gongs with a variety of different mallets and sound tools.

Gong Bath
Guest Instructor:  Michael Bettine
The Gong Meditation is so much more than just gongs. It is gongs, singing bowls, bells, and other percussion instruments, combined into a pulsating soundscape that is designed to help slow down and invite stillness within. There’s no hurry, no destination — only the breath and being in the moment.  Michael has a way of playing that delves into the soul of his instruments, allowing them to help transform stress, fatigue, and the challenges of everyday life into a journey of deep relaxation and peace.

SUNDAY MORNING WEEKEND #2

Using Tuning Forks and Essential Oils to Balance the Chakras
Guest Instructor:  Monica Latus
Students will learn how Essential Oils can be used in a Sound Healing Session to assist clients to a deeply relaxed state of consciousness. Opening and closing procedures will be demonstrated for a Sound Healing session using tuning forks and aromatherapy.  Students will be instructed in techniques to balance and harmonize the auric field and chakra energy centers using essential oils, colors, crystals, and sound. Students will create their own essential oil Aura spray.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #2

Road Trip to SYINTHESIS® Sound: Special Sound Demonstration and Instruction using Lydian tubular chimes
Lee Ann Dzelzkalns
Students will take a short road trip to Syinthesis® Sound to learn about the Lydian Tubular Chimes (chakra chimes); the D Overtone Series and the Solfeggio Chimes (all made in Germany by Wolfgang Deinert) and how to use them to create a rich sound healing session which fosters internal adjustments, awakens insights, and elicits psycho-spiritual integration.  

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WEEKEND #3:  December 6-8, 2024
Requirements:  Completion of Sound Healing Foundations Level II Weekends.
Recommended:  One Singing Bowl for Experiential Use and (1) C & G Tuning Fork Set (1) Ohm Tuner with Crystal Head

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FRIDAY EVENING WEEKEND #3

Dissonance and Resonance – Deep Listening Skills for Effective Energy Assessments
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
In order to use tuning forks, Tibetan singing bowls, drums, or other sound and healing instruments, students must be able to listen deeply to the subtle tones and harmonics that sound instruments can make. Learning the skill of deep listening begins with understanding the difference between” hearing” others or “listening” to others.  Students will learn the importance of this difference through an interactive learning experience.  They will also learn how to recognize the unique sound of instruments and how those sounds alter when played with and without intention. Students will also learn how to listen to the pitches, harmonics, or overtones of the instruments and how these change once the instrument is placed in a client’s energy field.

Breakout Groups for the Development of Group Presentations:  Session I
Instructors will explain the Group Presentation requirement. Students will then meet in groups to design their Sound Healing Group presentation that will be delivered on Sunday. Group presentations will incorporate the following learned elements:  Intention, Breath Work, Creating Sacred Space, Opening and Closing a Sound Healing Session, Tibetan Bowls, Tuning Forks, Drums and other desired instruments. Students are encouraged to the include knowledge gained through their individual life experiences.

SATURDAY MORNING WEEKEND #3

Singing Bowls on the Body with Protocols
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This class will begin to advance the student’s knowledge about singing bowl applications. Students will be instructed in the placement and playing of singing bowls directly on the body, above the body, and below the body during a treatment session. Students will also learn to incorporate techniques to clear the energy field of the physical body using singing bowls prior to the start of a sound therapy session. Students will learn additional singing bowl protocols to facilitate balance in the physical body and the auric field.  The protocols are designed to enhance meditation, deepen relaxation, reduce insomnia, relieve headache, lower blood pressure, and relax the internal organs.

Singing Bowl Protocols Experiential
Beyond the instruction, there will be a hands-on practice working with the bowls.  Students will break up into small groups to apply and experience the techniques they learned in the Singing Bowl Protocols demonstration class. 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #3

Using Tuning Forks and Tibetan Bowls to Open the Heart Center
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
This class overviews the physical heart center and its functions, including the heart, lungs, and thymus gland. Students will be presented with materials that describe the potential emotions that can be held in the Heart Center. They will also examine the thoracic vertebrae behind the heart and learn how physical and emotional toxins can be released through a technique called the “Spinal Flush”. Students will also be presented with a Heart Healing protocol using an Otto tuner with a clear quartz weighted end, Tibetan singing bowls, and meditative suggestions to help release and heal the emotions of the Heart Center.

Breakout Groups for the Development of Group Presentations
Session II Group discussion and Closing Meditation

SUNDAY MORNING WEEKEND #3

Group Presentations using Tuning Forks, Tingshas, and Tibetan Singing Bowls and other creative ideas.
Presentations should include creating sacred space, clearing space techniques, the setting of Intention, opening a sound session, conducting a complete sound healing session protocol, and closing a sound healing session.

Crystal Bowl Healing Instructional
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Students will be instructed in using the sound healing potential of the Chakra Tuned Crystal Bowls. They will be presented with the history and uses of the crystal bowl, its modern-day production techniques, and examples of how quartz crystal bowls can be used in sound healing. Students will learn how quartz crystal acts as an oscillator, magnifier, and transmitter of pure tone and why it is used in all of our most advanced communication systems, medical equipment, computer systems, and digital devices.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #3

Crystal Bowl Experiential
Students will learn how to use crystal bowls to open the different gateways of consciousness, how to release “stuck” energy, and how to re-balance the physical and subtle bodies using crystal bowls. They will learn how to synchronize their energies to that of the bowl they are working with, along with the protocols for creating harmonious sound. This class will incorporate the use of Guided Meditation along with the frequencies of the Chakra Singing Bowls Students will learn how to play the crystal bowls in “Sacred Fifths”.

Closing and Guided Meditation                                                          

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WEEKEND 4: January 10-12, 2025
Requirements: Completion of Sound Healing Foundations, Level II, and Level III Weekends.
Attendance and the completions of course requirements are mandatory for students seeking a full Certificate in Sound Healing.
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FRIDAY EVENING WEEKEND #4

BECOMING A THERAPEUTIC PRACTITIONER
In this talk we’ll explore what it means to be a therapeutic practitioner. When we’re becoming healing arts practitioners of any genre’, we rightfully find ourselves focused on the method of healing. However, it’s so important to remember that the person administering the healing is as essential to the process as the remedy itself. In this discussion, the guest speaker will share an overall philosophy & mentality of approaching pain alleviation & healing and will discuss how to establish a therapeutic environment safe enough for emotional release while relating these principles to your sound healing work.

SATURDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON WEEKEND #4

MEDITATION TO SET THE INTENTION FOR THE DAY

FINAL PRESENTATIONS:  ½ HOUR PER STUDENT WILL BE ALLOTTED FOR EACH PRESENTATION WITH A 15 MINUTE SETUP TIME BETWEEN PRESENTATIONS.

END OF DAY WILL INCLUDE COURSE EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM, FINAL EXAMS, AND A CLOSING MEDITATION

SUNDAY MORNING WEEKEND #4

Permissions for a Healing Session
Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Students will be provided with sample intake and disclaimers forms and learn about the importance of having insurance when opening a sound therapy practice. Information for contacting the websites of reputable and affordable insurance companies and obtaining a minister’s license will be included in this class.

CLASS ELECTED STUDENT SPEAKER: GRADUATION PRESENTATION

SUNDAY AFTERNOON WEEKEND #4

Kirtan Celebration
Russell Strelnick/Swami Prem Aamod
Kirtan is the ancient tradition of chanting mantra in the rhythms of call and response waves of prayer to the God/Goddess of transformation, love, joy, bliss, creation, peace, sustenance, transcendence, and to the remover of all obstacles. This Kirtan will be a student celebration of completion and graduation. Teachers and students and facilitators will open their hearts through these drum driven sacred, timeless prayers to receive healing energy directly from spirit. Tears, laughter, release, dance, singing, celebration, and meditation are entered freely to co-create collectively this blessing ceremony.

Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremony

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MEET YOUR SOUND SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS
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Instructor:  Sheri Bauer
Sound Fundamentals, Anatomy of the Subtle Body, Basic Breathwork Practices, How to Play a Tibetan Singing Bowl, How to use a Tuning Fork in Healing and How to Play Crystal Bowls                                                                                   

Sheri Bauer is a teacher of Sound and Healing, a Reiki practitioner and a Reiki Master Teacher.  She has attended hundreds of workshops and conferences relating to complementary healing over the past 25 years and, as a teacher of Reiki, has attuned over 1000 students as Reiki practitioners. She is also a certified Crystal Reiki Teacher and Practitioner and holds certificates of training in Ama Deus Healing, Hawaiian Huna Healing, and has completed 240 hours of training in Holistic Healing with Aromatherapy Levels I and II, Sheri is one of the first tuning fork teachers in the state of Wisconsin and incorporates the use of Tuning Forks and Tibetan and Crystal Bowls into her holistic practice. She is the owner of Angel Light Center for the Healing Arts and the Director of the Art of Healing School of Energy Medicine where she has been teaching Healing with Sound for the past thirteen years.

Instructor:  Michael Bettine
Internationally respected Teacher and Master of Gongs and other Sound Instruments; Introduction to Gongs and Gong Bath

Michael has a way of playing that delves into the soul of his instruments, allowing them to help transform stress, fatigue, and the challenges of everyday life into a journey of deep relaxation and peace. Michael Bettine is a respected and well-known Master percussionist, improviser, and composer who presents concerts under the name GONGTOPIA. He has released over 40 albums of solo percussion music and various duo/trio performances. He has authored many articles for magazines and books.  He is the author of three percussion instructional books.

Guest Instructor: Jeoffrey R. Hutcherson
The Sound Healing Practices of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia – A Didgeridoo Experience.

Jeoffrey is a massage therapist, sound healer, life coach, former international online radio talk show host, inspirational humorist and a force of nature.  He has authored two books, Transformative New Thoughts: Discover T.N.T. for a Delightful Joy-filled Reality and Hot Chocolate Happiness.  He has studied with many different experts in their field, from African and Burmese martial arts masters to Native American and Asian Shamans. These master's have given Jeoffrey unusual techniques and tools, both ancient and modern, allowing the harmony of all to ease the body, mind, and spirit.

Jeoffrey will officially open the School of Sound and Healing on Friday evening, October 11, 2024.  He will use the sound frequencies of the Didgeridoo to lead students into new depths of consciousness, and awakening as they begin their sound healing journey. He weaves his wit and humor into his evening’s presentation and provides an experience that cannot easily be forgotten. 

Guest Instructor:  Monica Latus
Using Tuning Forks and Essential Oils to Balance the Chakras

Monica Latus will explain how Essential Oils can be used in a Sound Healing Session to assist clients to a deeply relaxed state of consciousness.  She will instruct students in techniques to balance and harmonize the auric field and chakra energy centers using essential oils, tuning forks, colors, crystals, and sound.  Monica has over 10 years of Reiki and holistic energy healing experience and is certified in Japanese Reiki and Crystal Reiki.  She is a Certified Aromatherapist with over 200 hours of education, a graduate of the School of Sound and Healing, has served as a Reiki Master Teacher at the Art of Healing School of Energy Medicine.  She has also completed her studies in herbal medicine, crystal healing, crystal reflexology, chakra healing, mind/body medicine, acupressure and Sound healing. 

Guest Instructors:  Lucy Lucia and Michael Krajovic
Sound and the Power of Intention 

Lucy and Michael have made it their life’s work to study and learn from the works and perspectives of nationally and world-renowned spiritual teachers and leaders such as Neale Donald Walsch, Bruce Lipton, Jean Houston, Barbara Eden, Greg Bradden, Dr. David Hawkins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Lynn McTaggart, Echert Tolle, Dr. Edgar Mitchel, Edgar Casey, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ronna Herman, and Esther Hicks/Abraham among others.   

Lucy, who has a degree in Psychology from Loyola University, has been practicing and teaching alternative healing modalities, spirituality, and metaphysics since 1999.  Energetically sensitive since birth and gifted with clairvoyance and the abilities to heal energetically, Lucy has had a lifelong passion to study metaphysics. As an experienced healing practitioner, Lucy has helped clients located across the US, Canada and Europe. Over time, she has developed her own healing modality – Multidimensional Energy Healing (MDEH)- to refine her skill using the energy of love to heal and has been using it to help clients since 2010.

Prior to Michael’s formal move to teaching metaphysics and writing, he earned an engineering degree from Bucknell University, a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master's in Social Artistry from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He has extensive experience working with and within the private, non-profit and public sectors at the local, state and national level, which has provided him with in depth understandings of societal systems and how they interrelate in complex issues. He has written articles about the power of beliefs and their impact on the state of the world.

Guest Instructor:  Suni Moon
The Power of Sound using Vocals - exploring ways to use your voice and your words to heal and empower yourself and others

Suni’s mission is to remember and understand the mystical world- seeking insight into mysteries beyond ordinary human knowledge. She has studied the  sacred writings of many traditional religions, shared in Lakota ceremonies on their reservation, trekked thru the Andes to learn from descendants of the Incas and has trained in many healing modalities- energy healing, sound therapy, massage, qigong and more. She has followed the Yogic path beyond the poses to go deeply into meditation and breathwork. Suni has worked with gurus, shamans and wise men and women all over the world. She has wandered deep into Mother Nature learning to listen to the trees and receive power from the earth below and the sun and moon above. Her goal is always to find common threads, never to replicate what another culture has evolved to serve their people and purposes.

Guest Instructor:  Kristina Nez Begay                                                                     Preparing Sacred Space, Manifesting with Intention, Manifesting with Sound, Drum Wash, Healing Sound and Chant

Kristina has trained extensively with Mavis Patilla, Tia LaVoie of Be Love See Love, Jose Luis Hererra of Andean Research Institute, the Four Winds, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Amy and Dave Wilinski of Golden Light Healing, and Sandra Ingerman and has received teachings from other medicine people throughout the world.  Kristina Nez Begay is a member of the Dine’ (Navajo) Nation.  She has an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts from the Milwaukee Area Technical College, a Bachelor's of Art Degree in American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bernard Runo and David “Mr. K” Kotlewski have been making music together for the past 14 years.  Both are classically trained musicians:  David on viola and violin and Bernard on violin, guitar, and cello. 

Guest Instructor:  Lee Ann Dzelzkalns of Syinthesis Sound Special Sound Demonstration introducing the Lydian Tubular chimes

After completing a B.S.W. and practicing Medical Social Work in Grand Rapids, MI., Lee Ann acquired a master’s in science degree in Exercise Sports Science at the University of Utah, and became active in the fitness industry, as well as a regular contributor at SHAPE Magazine. Moving back to her hometown, she taught mind-body integration at UW-Milwaukee for 23 years, while deepening into her own spiritual life. Following her path of integrating mind-body-spirit, she was ordained with the New Seminary in New York City as an Interfaith Minister. Lee Ann expanded her integrative work to the spiritual body and began study and practice with subtle energy, esoteric healing, and vibration of sound. She studied with the Tama-Do Academy (vibration of sound, color, light and movement) for three years. She refined her study with Dr. James Hopkins of Harmonix Healing in Los Angeles and Wolfgang Deinert, Sound Healer and creator of Sound Healing Symbols (Klangfarben) in Germany. From there, Lee Ann spent years developing her own unique transformational Sound Healing Method, the Syinthesis® Method.