sound healing

Last week we went to a concert in honor of the Peace Festival happening in Ottawa. Held at St. Paul's University, it featured Ottawa artist Jeremy Sills to start off. I had heard lots about him from friends of mine in the yoga / Kirtan circles in the city, and I had always wanted to experience his music.

(photo above, via Flickr)

It was a wonderful, enlightening experience.

(photo above, via Flickr)

Here's what he says on his website (he says it far better than I ever could):

"Jeremy has developed a mystical healing voice and sonic awareness that inspires a remembrance of  the deep and silent space within each of us.  As spontaneous co-creations, his crystal bowl concerts weave a deep tapestry of high vibration frequency, in which profound awareness, transformation and healing may occur.  A trained multi-instrumentalist, Jeremy’s cast  includes crystal singing bowls, tibetan metal bowls, eclectic vocals, overtoning, gongs, drums, flutes, guitars & piano."

He invited the audience to breathe deeply and exit the breath on a note and mouth sound to help us relax - the same sound we often make at the end of the day, that "ahhh". It was enriching inside, and softening.  His voice was amazing, especially in terms of its clarity and depth of sound.

You can here an excerpt of his work here.

I sang in a choir for many years, and had a meticulously trained voice for many of those, and spent decades playing the piano and clarinet. So I'd say that I'm musically inclined. But sound healing - this is an entirely new and different way of thinking about sound, and silence, and connections.

What a new & very interesting world this is!