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Anatomy of a Sound Healing
description & video based on Ave Maria
Dear
Friends, Ave,
Maria Improvisation
on a medieval chant by St. Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179) Jan
26-28 Richmond
VA
Sound
Shamanism Workshop (sound, energy and healing) and
Private Sessions (Myra,
local contact) Feb
23-25 Tampa
FL
Sound
Shamanism Workshop (sound, energy and healing) and
Private Sessions March
27 9pm
EST Free
Phone Meditation
(local
numbers for many countries) April
28 at
4pm Portland,
OR Candlelight
Meditation Concert
(Tibetan
Bowls, Medieval healing chants and more at The Old
Church, downtown
I want to share a complete sound healing from a recent
Meditation Concert. Below are links to the video and a
written commentary on how the various sections of music
interacts with those listening to create healing
opportunities. The healing lasted for 12 minutes, and
provides an indepth example of creating the potential for
healing through sound. Read more below...
Sung by Norma Gentile with Atmaram Chaitanya
playing tambura
HD
video
/ phone
or tablet
video
Audio
mp3
only
UPCOMING
EVENTS - Please pass the
word!
Healing
with sound is perhaps the most intricate of the Healing
Arts. It necessitates both the ability to move into the most
quiet and gentle spaces of the heart, and then into the
expansion of Spirit that moves through a concert hall and
bathes all those in attendance.
Here is a journey through the very process itself of healing
with sound. In this particular sound healing, we begin with
the simple four strings of the tambura, a traditional
instrument of India, tuned in intervals of octaves and a
fifth. These notes represent the fundamental (audible note)
and the first overtones or harmonics of that note. Our ears
perceive additional overtones as we hear these notes sounded
together over and over again. These overtones, which are
created upon the tympanic membrane of the ear, resonate
deeply within each of us. These overtones move through the
physicality of our ears and stimulate our brain wave
patterns. You may notice that while listening to this song
it is hard to think a complete sentence. But you may also
feel emotions welling up, both comfortable and
uncomfortable. This is by design!
The opening solo tambura pattern of notes gives way to my
voice improvising on a simple phrase. This phrase I repeat
three times. In a live concert, which is where this healing
was recorded, I am asking, internally, a different question
of the energies in the room with the repetition of each
phrase. In the moment that I finish singing the phrase, I
sense the energy in the room shift, responding to the
question that I had in my mind as I sang the phrase. Most
often I am asking 'What is next?' or 'Is the energy that I
am sensing ready to evolve?'
The guides and angels relating to those people listening as
well as the energetic presences of Nature (such as Nature
Spirits) recognize when a human is asking them, rather then
telling them, how to proceed. I find that holding questions
rather than statements in my mind as I sing or speak invites
the consciousness of many other Beings to more fully
participate in any healing process.
Healing itself is an act of tension and release. Tension
occurs as that which we are ready to release is revealed to
us. Release follows as we come into the realization that we
no longer need it. Music serves to reveal to us those
emotions and behavioral patterns that are not conducive to
the expression of ease, grace and beauty in our life.
Sometimes that means feeling emotions or sensations that are
not easy to feel while listening to music.
You may experience just such a sense of uneasiness while
listening to the middle section of this sound healing. This
is the section that reveals those energetic patterns which
your soul and body are ready to release. This means that it
is only your personality that is (stubbornly perhaps?)
holding onto the patterns. Sometimes it feels like the space
around your body is being massaged or even scrubbed clean.
Sensations of uneasiness are often caused by our own
personalities gripping onto beliefs, habits or energy
patterns that our body and soul have decided already to
release. I find that breathing consciously into my lower
body brings me more in touch with the discomfort I am
experiencing. Once I notice if it is a body sensation, an
emotion or a fearful thought, I ask the thought, emotion or
body sensation if it is really mine. Is it really mine right
now? Most often by asking questions I also give the pattern
permission to depart.
And now begins the replenishment of the body. After the
release of any pattern there is a need to replace the old
energies with fresh new ones. Just as our body is designed
to be fed nutritionally every day, so too our body has the
resources to nourish and replenish itself from the
vibrations around it. Within the context of music, we are
able to resonate with newly revealed vibrations that now
serve us in our soul's journey. These vibrations, which may
reflect qualities such as love, compassion or patience,
courage or contemplative focus, are and have always been
within us. The concluding segment of the sound healing is
merely a time of remembrance, allowing these qualities
within your Being to be magnified.
In the moment of silence following the sound healing your
body chooses to embrace the healing itself. It is in this
moment of time, following the cessation of the audible
sound, that the healing offered through the song is received
into the cells of your physical body. Your experience of
this healing moment is often experienced as a deep
sigh.
"Healing
is an art not of incessant insistent infliction of
change, but rather the artful availability of
Grace, Patience and Compassion from within the
Healer's Heart."
-Mary
(through Norma) You
can hear Norma sing the original
medieval healing chant
composed
by Hildegard of Bingen on Norma's
album
Unfurling Love's
Creation
(it's song #4) Atmaram
Chaitanya was initiated in brahmacharya and
became a certified meditation instructor in the
shaktipat tradition of Bhagavan Nityananda of
Ganeshpuri by Swami Muktananda in 1978. Later he
was given the title Chaitanya by Mahamandaleswar
Swami Shankarananda of the same linage. Singing and
accompanying bhakti kirtan for the past 40
years, he has helped facilitate kirtans at ashrams,
temples, yoga studios, retreats, festivals, and
homes around the U.S. and India. Atmaram sings and
plays tambura and dotar with the Indian music group
Sumkali as well as Ann Arbor Kirtan, has a BBA
degree in Internet Marketing, and is the Webmaster
for the Center for Wireless Integrated Microsensors
and Systems at the University of Michigan. RICHMOND
VA Intro
to Sound Shamanism Workshop Norma
Gentile, sound shaman, incorporates both sound and
energy healing into her private sessions, workshops
and concerts. Holding a masters in Voice
Performance and years of study with esoteric
teachers, Norma is a natural intuitive and channel
who receives information from Spirit both in
written words and through music. She has recorded
four albums of healing
music,
writes for Sedona Journal, and provides monthly
sound healings for Drunvalo Melchizedek's online
ezine www.spiritofmaat.com. LOCATION: A
recording is made of the session. When you listen
to the recording your guides and the healing angels
will return to continue to help your personal inner
understanding and release continue. Sessions are
$185 and last about an hour. Please be in touch
with me to secure an appointment time.
norma@healingchants.com or 734-330-3997. Attending
the workshop helps to loosen up the energies from
your aura before the session, so please plan to
attend if you can prior to your individual healing
time. Read
more about private healing sessions here before
booking your appt SARASOTA,
FL (near TAMPA) Please
do share this with others whom you think might be
interested. Norma
Gentile, sound shaman, incorporates both sound and
energy healing into her private sessions, workshops
and concerts. Holding a masters in Voice
Performance and years of study with esoteric
teachers, Norma is a natural intuitive and channel
who receives information from Spirit both in
written words and through music. She has recorded
four albums of healing
music,
writes for Sedona Journal, and provides monthly
sound healings for Drunvalo Melchizedek's online
ezine www.spiritofmaat.com. To
Register: CLICK
HERE for
Paypal LOCATION: A
recording is made of the session. When you listen
to the recording your guides and the healing angels
will return to continue to help your personal inner
understanding and release continue. Sessions are
$185 and last about an hour. Please be in touch
with me to secure an appointment time.
norma@healingchants.com or 734-330-3997. Attending
the workshop helps to loosen up the energies from
your aura before the session, so please plan to
attend if you can prior to your individual healing
time. Read
more about private healing sessions here before
booking your appt Held
on the Full Moon near the Spring
Equinox. International
Numbers on Calendar
Page PORTLAND, OR
- - - -
-- APRIL
28 - - -
- Norma
Gentile Sunday,
APRIL 28 at 4pm Candlelight
Meditation Concert
For
me music is a form of prayer,
drawing from within us the peace
that already exists. We can allow
peace to be present on Earth,
because it is already present
within each of us. Within our
hearts, our souls and our beings,
we carry our unique connection to
Spirit. As we feel it each day in
ourselves, we will see it more in
others. O
orzchis Ecclesia Norma's
Meditation CDs and healing music CDs will
be available for purchase after the
concert
Ave,
Maria
(original Latin text by Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179,
translated into English by Norma Gentile)
Behold, Mary,
you who increase life,
who rebuilds the path,
You who confused death
and wore down the serpent,
To you Eve raised herself up,
her neck rigid with inflated arrogance.
You strode upon this arrogance
while bearing God's Son of Heaven
through whom the spirit of God breathes.
O gentle and loving Mother,
I behold you.
For Heaven released into the world
that which you brought forth.
This one,
through whom the spirit of God breathes.
Glory to the Begetter of All, the Children of All and the
Holy Spirit.
And to this one,
through whom the spirit of God breathes.
Norma's formal training in music (BM, MM,
University of Michigan, Voice Performance) combined
with her studies in esoteric healing have helped
Norma understand how sound affects our ability to
heal, and influenced her exploration of chant as a
modality of healing. Her concert performances and
recordings are unique experiences of this
integration of sacred sound and sacred healing.
Norma's website offers sound clips, podcasts,
articles, and a monthly e-newsletter. Her latest
recording, Songs of Spirit, is now available at
iTunes, Amazon.com and her website:
www.HealingChants.com
Saturday, January 26 from10am -
6pm
------------------------------------
Sound,
Energy and Healing
This is a one-day workshop for Practitioners,
Performers, and Advanced Students. If you
honor that the power to heal is within each of us,
you are the type of person who will benefit from
the weekend.
The workshop is an interactive experiential
training, limited to a dozen participants, with
plenty of time for personal focus and questions. I
want you to learn how to use and integrate what I
am sharing into your own life, meditation, and
practice. Please do share this with others whom you
think might be interested.
The day ncludes
- Applying sound to Energy Healing
- Singing, chanting and toning using breath
power
- Creating sacred grids for easy clearing
- Using Archangel Michael, Mary, and others in
personal healing
- New Nature energy provides physical
regeneration
- Grounding using Nature & Earth Energies for
support
For those of you who want to know more about
Norma's own experiences with this technique, which
uses sound to magnify other healing modalities,
please read
here
(Honoring Spirit in the Healing Process)
COST:
$99 before Jan 10, $115 after
Limited to 14 participants
Private Home in Richmond
This
workshop is suitable for practitioners and advanced
students.
The workshop is limited in size, so there is plenty
of time for individual questions and inquiry.
Sunday -
Monday Jan 27-28 in Richmond VA
Private
Healing
Sessions
I
am very good at helping to lift off heavy energies
and get chronic issues to begin to move. Any energy
released goes home, to follow its own growth and
evolution. This means that what is released does
not return. And it means that those energies with
awareness know that I mean to help them. In this
way your agreement to "keep them safe" is brought
to completion, because they are released with honor
and respect onto their next step. This is true of
all energies, big or small, that your soul and body
are ready to release.
Remember that any energy in your body or aura that
is not in time or in tune with you will cause a
slow, steady draining of your vitality. This leads
to larger issues arising in the physical body,
emotional overwhelm, and psychic cloudiness. A
complete "deep cleaning" regularly can help you
find, address, and release what is no longer yours
to carry. This frees you up to engage fully with
your own life's issues. (and yes, we can address
life issues as well in the session).
Saturday, Febuary 23 from 10am - 4pm
Revealing
Your Power to Heal:
A
Sound Shamanism Workshop led by Norma Gentile
-
Sound - Energy - Healing -
This is a one-day workshop for Practitioners,
Performers, and Advanced Students. If you
honor that the power to heal is within each of us,
you are the type of person who will benefit from
the weekend.
The workshop is an interactive experiential
training, limited to a dozen participants, with
plenty of time for personal focus and questions. I
want you to learn how to use and integrate what I
am sharing into your own life, meditation, and
practice.
I want to connect with people who feel drawn to
explore the deeper aspects of healing, including
self-care for the healer. In my experience, this
means recognizing and clearing other people's
energies and emotions from our body, aura and
lifestyle choices so that each of us can address
our own issues. When we can do this for
ourselves we become more effective healers, and are
able to share this same process with
others.
Did you know that there are guides and angels that
have helped us create relationships with our
friends and family? They have been with us
throughout our lifetime. By updating them to
who you are now, your soul's expression now, and to
the shifts the world has made all around you now,
you give them permission to 'upgrade' the version
of themselves that connect with you. Perhaps
this used to happen automatically, or maybe we just
didn't change enough during a single lifetime for
it to matter. But I am finding that it is now
our responsibility to let our guides, including
relationship guides, healing angels, even
Archangels know that we are ready to connect with
them in new ways.
After going through this meditative process most
people find numerous energetic cords dissolve and
new cords connecting them to those they love and
cherish appear. This includes guides, angels, pets
and people, both living and in spirit. The
relationships change accordingly. Especially
in challenging relationships, consciously updating
the guides that are supporting you in that
relationship will change your experience of the
very core of the relationship. Many times it
becomes clear that the relationship does not serve
your soul's journey. And the relationship naturally
fades from your life.
We will use sound, chant and toning in meditative
healings, as well as spoken information. My guides,
typically Archangel Michael, Mary and the Hathors,
will explore with the group how they each might
continue to use the concepts within their own
practice. In the moment someone commits to
the workshop (or to a private healing session) both
my guides and their guides will begin to work
together, so you may notice changes ahead of the
actual workshop day.
The day ncludes
- Experiencing Nature's Unconditional Love (not our
concept of unconditional love)
- Inviting Nature & Earth Energies for
healing
- Applying sound to Energy Healing
- Singing, chanting and toning using breath
power
For those of you who want to know more about
Norma's own experiences with this technique, which
uses sound to magnify other healing modalities,
please read
Honoring
Spirit in the Healing Process
COST: $59 before Feb 20, $69 after
Limited to 14 participants
or
by mail
Norma Gentile
PO Box 971020
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Private Home and Garden
(wear loose comfy clothes, we will be
outdoors in a garden space as weather
allows)
Potluck Lunch with tastes of Gourmet Live
Food provided
Sunday -
Monday, Feb 24-25 near
Sarasota/Bradenton FL
Private
Healing
Sessions
I
am very good at helping to lift off heavy energies
and get chronic issues to begin to move. Any energy
released goes home, to follow its own growth and
evolution. This means that what is released does
not return. And it means that those energies with
awareness know that I mean to help them. In this
way your agreement to "keep them safe" is brought
to completion, because they are released with honor
and respect onto their next step. This is true of
all energies, big or small, that your soul and body
are ready to release.
Remember that any energy in your body or aura that
is not in time or in tune with you will cause a
slow, steady draining of your vitality. This leads
to larger issues arising in the physical body,
emotional overwhelm, and psychic cloudiness. A
complete "deep cleaning" regularly can help you
find, address, and release what is no longer yours
to carry. This frees you up to engage fully with
your own life's issues. (and yes, we can address
life issues as well in the session).
Wednesday, March 27 at 9pm EST (New York City
time)
This hour includes a series of silent and
spoken meditations, most likely from my
guides Mary and Archangel Michael. Plan on
finding a quiet space where you can lie
down and be deeply at rest and undistrubed
for the duration of the meditation. This
will be recorded and posted as a
free
podcast or at-cost CD.
US Callers: +1 760 569 7100
To Participate all callers must enter
Access Code
299660
COME, CELEBRATE THE NEW CYCLE!
with
-
Tibetan singing bowls
- audience- derived harmonic
tones
- schruti box
Chants
of St. Hildegard of Bingen
and Songs of Spirit
This
is a time of Sacredness,
devoted to deep inner
healing,
nourishment and
transformation.
Norma's
classically trained voice and her
natural ability to intuitively
weave music and spirit together
come alive in the candlelight as
she sings. This afternoon
includes thousand-year-old
healing chants written by
Hildegard of Bingen, (the mystic,
seer, newly proclaimed Saint and
Doctor of the Church) as well as
songs drawn through Norma from
Spirit and her musical
guides.
Come, meditate and let the sound
bath you. You are welcome to
bring meditation pillows.
LOCATION: THE OLD CHURCH downtown
Portland at the corner of SW11th
and Clay St.
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NOW
to Norma's free monthly
Sacred Songs and sound
healings.
O boundless and unending
gathering of Beloveds
encircled by divine arms
and richly adorned in sapphire
iris,
You are the sweet smell,
the spice of the people's sinful
mark
and the chalice of knowledge.
You are also anointed
with the noblest of tones
for you are the sparkle of the
gem.
- St. Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179)
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Santa Cruz 2013
Toronto TBA
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Meditation
#36 from
December 20, 2012 a
meditation for
THE SHIFT OF THE
AGES
The New Age: Welcoming the Sacred
Masculine and Divine Feminine
Podcast
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1
Introduction
2 Invocation of Sacred Space
(Nature and your guide or angel)
3 A Series of Meditations
4 Song from Spirit: Claritas
Inspiravit
(Norma Gentile, voice and Gordon Johnston,
harp)
5 Clear Vision from Your Heart
6 Releasing Sacred Space
This meditation, given on the eve of the
Great Shift of the Ages, is applicable for
the many years to come in which humanity
will be incorporating a new understanding
of sacredness in the polarity of male and
female. At one point you will hear my
vocal quality and vocabulary change a bit
- this is where Thoth, an Ascended Master,
leaned in and shared his insights through
me about our kundalini changing now, and
it's role in transmuting the physical body
into a Pillar of Light.
This recorded version also includes a Song
from Spirit, Claritas Inspiravit (Clarity
Inspires) sung by Norma accompanied by
harpist Gordon Johnston from a live
Meditation Concert. This was improvised in
the moment, and seems to fit perfectly
within the context of this meditation.
After invoking a Sacred Space using
Nature, we invoke your unique aspect of
the Sacred Masculine from your soul's
essence within the Earth. Uniting this
with the already present Divine Feminine,
a meditation then supports you to embody
these within you, and emboldens you to act
upon your soul's journey.
We aren't the only ones changing
consciousness. In fact, of all those
beings of consciousness upon the Earth and
with whom we share our reality, we lag far
behind! Many of us are standing at the
doorway with our arms flung wide, grasping
onto past wounds or beliefs, and we cannot
pass through the narrow door into the new
age with these still by our side. Here is
a chance to feel the depth of who you are
now, and what you truly are here to
do.
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New! - Free Songs, Chants, Sound Healings, Meditations and Videos
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An improvisation on Ave Maria (by St. Hildegard of Bingen) with tambura and voice |
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O
vos flores - You who are Rose
Blossoms
(voice and harp) |
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Renewal
A sound healing with Tibetan Singing Bowl and
Voice |
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What are You here to do Now? Two sacred geometry mandala videos |
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This
album invokes your personal connection to Archangel
Michael and provides a unique healing for you each
time you listen to it. |
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Featuring
Harmonic Tones, Tibetan Singing Bowls, and a small
woman's choir
-
chants of the mystic Hildegard von Bingen |
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A Note on Phone Meditations and CDs of Meditations and
Teachings:
As of today, I have 34 Meditations and Teachings recordings available. They cover all on different subjects, some are direct channelings from my guides, most often Archangel Michael, Mary, the Hathor Atamira, Thoth, Shesat or a group of Ascended Masters. Most of them invoke Sacred Space and then focus on an issue and provide time for your guides and angels to work with you energetically.
Many are drawn from the live Phone Meditations that I offer each month. About half contain healing songs or chants. All are offered freely as podcasts (you can subscribe directly on iTunes > Podcasts > Norma Gentile) or at cost CDs. At this time donations provide the funding for the free monthly (or so) Phone Meditations, the recording and editing process, posting them online and paying the monthly fee to maintain them online for free download. As of today, more than 40,000 downloads of these meditations has occurred. And chances are you have participated. Thank you! I know it is your energy that shapes each meditation and newsletter, and helps pull the information and insights that I share through me from Spirit.
I look forward to many more meditations, and many more downloads! And yes, please share these newsletters, podcasts and phone meditations with your friends, your email circle and others.
Private
Healing Sessions
(offered in person or by phone)
I am very good at helping to lift off heavy energies and get
chronic issues to begin to move. Any energy released goes
home, to follow its own growth and evolution. This means
that what is released does not return. And it means that
those energies with awareness know that I mean to help them.
In this way your agreement to "keep them safe" is brought to
completion, because they are released with honor and respect
onto their next step. This is true of all energies, big or
small, that your soul and body are ready to release.
Remember that any energy in your body or aura that is not in
time or in tune with you will cause a slow, steady draining
of your vitality. This leads to larger issues arising in the
physical body, emotional overwhelm, and psychic cloudiness.
A complete "deep cleaning" regularly can help you find,
address, and release what is no longer yours to carry. This
frees you up to engage fully with your own life's issues.
(and yes, we can address life issues as well in the
session).
A recording is made of the session. When you listen to the
recording your guides and the healing angels will return to
continue to help your personal inner understanding and
release continue. Sessions are $185 and last about an hour.
Please be in touch with me to secure an appointment time.
norma@healingchants.com or 734-330-3997. Read
more about private healing sessions
here
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