I loved choir.

I loved the records my father played in the house. My grandmother forced me to listen to the metropolitan opera on Saturday afternoons, but I must admit I did not enjoy this.

I love all kinds of music, but I had a fascination with sound. Nature sounds, echoes in a canyon, the rhythm of ocean waves, dolphin language, birds of every sort, neighborhood dog sentinels, crickets, crickets, crickets on the hot nights in Florida, and thunder.

I loved the overtones my voice could make in resonant spaces, whistling, camp songs and rounds, the timbre of people’s conversation, poetry, harmony sung with my family members at every childhood holiday I can ever remember.

I come from a family of musicians and music lovers. There is no surprise I earned postgraduate degrees in classical piano performance.

Classical piano music is complex, structured, disciplined, emotional, transcendent, and magical. The repertoire is so vast that I could never have possibly learned it all in even two lifetimes. It has absorbed my life on every level, in my heart and soul, on stages of the world, and with hundreds and hundreds of piano students over 30 years.

My life has been about the art of making beautiful sounds. I know how to play it, enjoy it, listen to it, and teach it.

Something happened to me when I found the crystal alchemy singing bowls. Something mystical came in with them, and something mysteriously mystical comes in for others when I hold space with the bowls. Their sound creates an atmosphere of divine mystery. They are vehicles, like all instruments, but their overtones and imprecise tonal quality allow one to sway out of the realm of exactitude.

With the bowls, there is binaural alchemy. Therefore, I find myself immersed in overtones, binaural beats, harmony, and the play my voice has upon those tones. There are waves upon waves of sound overlapping like ripples in a pond when various stones are dropped in. Even raindrops on water create this pattern. That is what I am listening to. With the vast possibility of multiple binaural beats and their resolution, a system is born.

So when I say there is binaural alchemy with these crystal singing bowls, I mean that there is a way for this sound to assist in holding space, break up energetic blocks, fuse bones, restore emotional well-being, eliminate insomnia, help people enter theta states for shamanic journey or just relaxation, place someone outside of time and space, and contact other lifetimes. This may

seem like a panacea, but I have experienced these myself. I have documented notes from hundreds of clients who have experienced all of these things. The mystery of the bowls, the science of binaural beats, and me the practitioner all play a hand in this healing scenario. How each contributes to such deep healing continues to be my research and my gift. I did not choose it. It chose me, and so my intimate relationship with sound continues to unfold.

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