You are registering for the free Introductory class on Friday, September 28, 7-9pm. To sign up for training program, see Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training.

A 190-Hour Certification Training:

October 5, 2012-June 9, 2013

Wendy Young MMus • Thomas Amelio • Dorinne Davis MA RCTC • Louise Montello PhD • Ginger Clarkson MT-BC • David Darling • John Beaulieu PhD • Pat Moffitt Cook PhD • Nacho Arimany • David Hykes • Silvia Nakkach MMT• Robert Notter •

The Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner certificate program is a  multicultural, multi-disciplinary and highly experiential approach to the study and practice of sound, music and voice and its powerful effect on the human organism. Our faculty is composed of prominent international sound and music teachers, researchers and practitioners. Our program offers students a skills-based and in-depth study of the therapeutic power of sound and music to transform consciousness and improve well-being. A certificate of completion is given to those who meet the program’s requirements in becoming an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner. No previous experience in music or sound work is required.

“I am overwhelmed by the generosity and the quality of our teachers and the community that has developed among my fellow students in this truly astonishing course.”
—Thomas W. student
Click here to read testimonials about the program.

WHO SHOULD ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM?
This program is designed for anyone interested in learning about the transformative and healing power of sound, including healthcare professionals, psychologists, clinicians, educators, musicians, clergy, music therapists, yoga practitioners, body workers, and anyone seeking innovative ways to use intentional sound to engender well being in themselves and others.

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP YOU:
• Open doorways into deep states of healing and transformation
• Enhance therapeutic relationships between client & therapist
• Gain insights into physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life
• Receive continuing education credits
• Build networks of practitioners with like-minded interest in the power of intentional sound
• Develop knowledge and skill sets in using sound and music to help reduce stress, depression, anxiety and induce relaxation

CORE ELEMENTS OF OUR PROGRAM
• The technical and theoretical dimensions of musical expression including Sound, Voice, Rhythm, and Music
• Therapeutic use of sound and music including psychoacoustic music, auditory stimulation programs, creative arts/music therapies and scientific research applications
• Sacred Sound and Music—including shamanic, mantric, sound ecology and transformational sound techniques

2012
Oct. 5–7—Wendy Young MMus and Thomas Amelio
Understanding Therapeutic Sound
and Music/Sound Meditation
An introduction to the certification program, and an overview of the fundamental
concepts of music vocabulary and styles. Sound Meditation for healing and  awakening: mantra and energy practices to establish a sound meditation practice
for yourself and to offer to others.

Oct. 26–28—Dorinne Davis MA-RCTC
Foundations of Sound-based Therapies
An education and exploration of soundbased therapies, based on the Davis Model of Sound Intervention. Students will learn various methods, such as AIT, Tomatis, Bioacoustics, the foundation of those therapies and how they impact
the body.

Nov.16–18—Louise Montello PhD MT-BC
Discovering Your Essential Musical Intelligence
Develop your own and your clients innate ability to use sound as a self-reflecting tool to facilitate health and well-being on all levels, including transforming stress into dynamic energy for creative change.

Dec. 14-16—Ginger Clarkson MT-BC
Guided Imagery and Music
A practical and experiential introduction to the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, a music-centered form of psychotherapy used to resolve psychodynamic issues, elicit spiritual insights, and clear blocks to creativity.

2013
Jan. 11–13—David Darling
Improvisation as a Healing Tool
How to use creativity and spontaneity to create a healing environment for clients so they can come face to face with their own wondrous capacity to heal by using their own unique sounds and rhythms.

Feb. 8–10—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Biosonics: The Use of Tuning Forks in Healing
Practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align posture to visual harmonics. Learn to develop systematic evaluation methods based on structural analysis and the five elements.

Feb. 11—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Certification Student Clinic
Individual sessions to learn how to assess a client’s needs, drawing upon various sound healing systems (tuning forks, toning, five element theory, etc.), grounded in science.

March 8–10—Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD
Indigenous Sound Healing
An immersion into the use of sound and music as diagnostic tools, healing agents and connectors to spiritual domains in indigenous and cross-cultural traditions.

March 11—Nacho Arimany
Elemental Sounds & Rhythms™– Integrating Inner Balance
For thousands of years, patterns and circles in nature have been generating and regenerating life. Discover the rhythmic patterns of nature and entrain with them using your own body and movement.

April 12–14—David Hykes
Harmonic Healing
Through harmonic (overtone) chant, meditative mindfulness training, and guided
exploration of the harmonic series, we will transform our listening awareness and ability to harmonize with others and ourselves.

May 17–19—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Medicine Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
An in-depth study of the world’s cultural traditions through healing songs. How melodies and rhythms are used as healing tools.

May 20—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Certification Student Clinic: An Integration Laboratory
Individual sessions in methods and strategies to integrate the use of all of the healing systems taught in this training into a healing practice, as well as for personal enrichment.

June 7–9—Wendy Young MMus and Robert Notter
Certification Student Weekend: Applying Sound
and Music to Your Life and Practice
Review of entire course content, applications, and practices. Setting up your business, the ethics of caring, and creative approaches for the integration of student interests.

PROGRAM STAFF
Program Coordinator:
Wendy Young
Wendy teaches music at Princeton University, is the director of the Princeton Sound School, and is a sound therapist specializing in Cymatherapy, Himalayan Singing Bowls, Helen Bonny GIM, and sound meditation. She will provide the integrative structure of the program, monitor student insight and understanding of the course work, and help students apply their studies to become an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner to their personal and professional lives.

Free Introductory Classes on Tuesday, June 26, 5-7:30pm, and Fridays, August 24 and September 28, 7-9pm, offer presentations and Q&A with staff and graduates.  September 28 intro also features presentation by John Beaulieu.

REGISTRATION AND FEES
A 9-MONTH PROGRAM
Fridays, 7-9pm
(Friday sessions for certificate program registrants only)
Saturdays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–5:30pm
Sundays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–4:30 pm
Sundays, 4:30-5:45 (for certificate program registrants only)

For CEUs click here

Full Payment: 12SHH55SA $3,575
Early Bird Registration by August 17: $3295

Payment Plan: 12SHH55SB $3,950
A non-refundable deposit of $970 is due upon registration. Four further payments of $745 are due Nov. 30, 2012, Jan. 25, 2013,  March 22, 2013,  May 2, 2013 (automatic credit card payments only).

Individual Weekends only: $365
Certain weekend programs are open to the public and non-certificate students. (Does not include Fridays, final weekend or extracurricular offerings, which are for certificate program registrants only.)

For general inquiries, please email:
soundandmusic@opencenter.org

Thomas Amelio

Thomas Amelio intensely studied yogic disciplines in India, where he edited Rajarshi Muni's classic, Yoga--The Ultimate Spiritual Path, in 1994. He is a founding member of and has been a senior teacher at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health for 20 years.

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

The Alchemy of the Chakras

FREE INTRO: The Alchemy of the Chakras

Meditation, Concentration and Breath

FREE INTRO: Meditation, Concentration & Breath

Kirtan: Sacred Chanting

FREE INTRO: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

Enrich Your Life with Meditation

FREE INTRO: The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

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Media Available From This Teacher:

Introduction to Mantra and Meditation

David Darling

David Darling is a classically trained cellist who has taught and served as orchestra conductor and faculty cellist at Western Kentucky University. In 1969, he joined the Paul Winter Consort, an extraordinarily progressive band for its time whose sound blended jazz with Brazilian, African, Indian and other world music—and at times even the voices of animals. Since he left the Consort in 1978, he has dedicated himself to a solo performing and recording career, and to teaching music and improvisation. In 1986 he co-founded Music for People, a non-profit educational network that teaches and fosters improvisation as a means of creative self-expression. In 2010, David won the Grammy Award for his album "Prayer for Compassion."

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

FREE INTRO: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

FREE INTRO: The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

David Hykes
David Hykes composer, singer, musician, author and meditation teacher is one of the earliest modern western pioneers of overtone singing. In 1975 he founded the Harmonic Choir to codify his interest in harmonic singing. After research in Mongolian, Tibetan and Middle Eastern Singing forms, David began a long series of collaborations with traditions and teachers of wisdom and sacred art, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Gyuto and Gume monks.

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

FREE INTRO: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

FREE INTRO: The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

LIVE WEBINAR: Music of the Spheres of Being

Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer, psychologist, voice culturist, author, and pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness. She is the founding director of Vox Mundi School of the Voice, an international project devoted to teaching and preserving sacred music traditions. She has created and is the academic advisor for the Sound, Voice, Music Healing Certificate at the California Institute for Integral Studies, and she leads training retreats in sacred music and the Yoga of the Voice in the United States, Brazil, India, and Europe. Nakkach interest in indigenous music cosmology and spirituality has led her to collaborate with renowned shamans from Indian and South American shamanic traditions, and for more than 26 years Silvia has studied Hindustani music with the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and masters of the Dhrupad tradition

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

The Yoga of the Voice: A Musical Path to Practical Spirituality

FREE INTRO: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

FREE INTRO: The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

Robert Notter
Robert Notter is founder and president of Robert Notter Business Coaching. He supports health and wellness processionals to find more clients, increase their income, and have long term success. He has worked with and taught to over 16,000 people nationally about what it means to build a business you love. He has taught at numerous locations including Lincoln Center, the Beacon Theater and the Miami Convention Center. In addition, he leads the marketing education program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Learn more about his practice here www.BookClientsNow.com

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

Building a Thriving Practice: Business and Confidence-Building Skills for Helping Professionals

FREE INTRO: Building a Thriving Practice: Business and Confidence-Building Skills for Helping Professionals

FREE INTRO: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

FREE INTRO: The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training

You are registering for the free Introductory class on Friday, August 24, 7-9pm. To sign up for training program, see Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training.

A 190-Hour Certification Training:

October 5, 2012-June 9, 2013

Wendy Young MMus • Thomas Amelio • Dorinne Davis MA RCTC • Louise Montello PhD • Ginger Clarkson MT-BC • David Darling • John Beaulieu PhD • Pat Moffitt Cook PhD • Nacho Arimany • David Hykes • Silvia Nakkach MMT• Robert Notter •

The Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner certificate program is a  multicultural, multi-disciplinary and highly experiential approach to the study and practice of sound, music and voice and its powerful effect on the human organism. Our faculty is composed of prominent international sound and music teachers, researchers and practitioners. Our program offers students a skills-based and in-depth study of the therapeutic power of sound and music to transform consciousness and improve well-being. A certificate of completion is given to those who meet the program’s requirements in becoming an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner. No previous experience in music or sound work is required.

“I am overwhelmed by the generosity and the quality of our teachers and the community that has developed among my fellow students in this truly astonishing course.”
—Thomas W. student
Click here to read testimonials about the program.

WHO SHOULD ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM?
This program is designed for anyone interested in learning about the transformative and healing power of sound, including healthcare professionals, psychologists, clinicians, educators, musicians, clergy, music therapists, yoga practitioners, body workers, and anyone seeking innovative ways to use intentional sound to engender well being in themselves and others.

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP YOU:
• Open doorways into deep states of healing and transformation
• Enhance therapeutic relationships between client & therapist
• Gain insights into physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life
• Receive continuing education credits
• Build networks of practitioners with like-minded interest in the power of intentional sound
• Develop knowledge and skill sets in using sound and music to help reduce stress, depression, anxiety and induce relaxation

CORE ELEMENTS OF OUR PROGRAM
• The technical and theoretical dimensions of musical expression including Sound, Voice, Rhythm, and Music
• Therapeutic use of sound and music including psychoacoustic music, auditory stimulation programs, creative arts/music therapies and scientific research applications
• Sacred Sound and Music—including shamanic, mantric, sound ecology and transformational sound techniques

2012
Oct. 5–7—Wendy Young MMus and Thomas Amelio
Understanding Therapeutic Sound
and Music/Sound Meditation
An introduction to the certification program, and an overview of the fundamental
concepts of music vocabulary and styles. Sound Meditation for healing and  awakening: mantra and energy practices to establish a sound meditation practice
for yourself and to offer to others.

Oct. 26–28—Dorinne Davis MA-RCTC
Foundations of Sound-based Therapies
An education and exploration of soundbased therapies, based on the Davis Model of Sound Intervention. Students will learn various methods, such as AIT, Tomatis, Bioacoustics, the foundation of those therapies and how they impact
the body.

Nov.16–18—Louise Montello PhD MT-BC
Discovering Your Essential Musical Intelligence
Develop your own and your clients innate ability to use sound as a self-reflecting tool to facilitate health and well-being on all levels, including transforming stress into dynamic energy for creative change.

Dec. 14-16—Ginger Clarkson MT-BC
Guided Imagery and Music
A practical and experiential introduction to the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, a music-centered form of psychotherapy used to resolve psychodynamic issues, elicit spiritual insights, and clear blocks to creativity.

2013
Jan. 11–13—David Darling
Improvisation as a Healing Tool
How to use creativity and spontaneity to create a healing environment for clients so they can come face to face with their own wondrous capacity to heal by using their own unique sounds and rhythms.

Feb. 8–10—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Biosonics: The Use of Tuning Forks in Healing
Practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align posture to visual harmonics. Learn to develop systematic evaluation methods based on structural analysis and the five elements.

Feb. 11—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Certification Student Clinic
Individual sessions to learn how to assess a client’s needs, drawing upon various sound healing systems (tuning forks, toning, five element theory, etc.), grounded in science.

March 8–10—Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD
Indigenous Sound Healing
An immersion into the use of sound and music as diagnostic tools, healing agents and connectors to spiritual domains in indigenous and cross-cultural traditions.

March 11—Nacho Arimany
Elemental Sounds & Rhythms™– Integrating Inner Balance
For thousands of years, patterns and circles in nature have been generating and regenerating life. Discover the rhythmic patterns of nature and entrain with them using your own body and movement.

April 12–14—David Hykes
Harmonic Healing
Through harmonic (overtone) chant, meditative mindfulness training, and guided
exploration of the harmonic series, we will transform our listening awareness and ability to harmonize with others and ourselves.

May 17–19—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Medicine Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
An in-depth study of the world’s cultural traditions through healing songs. How melodies and rhythms are used as healing tools.

May 20—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Certification Student Clinic: An Integration Laboratory
Individual sessions in methods and strategies to integrate the use of all of the healing systems taught in this training into a healing practice, as well as for personal enrichment.

June 7–9—Wendy Young MMus and Robert Notter
Certification Student Weekend: Applying Sound
and Music to Your Life and Practice
Review of entire course content, applications, and practices. Setting up your business, the ethics of caring, and creative approaches for the integration of student interests.

PROGRAM STAFF
Program Coordinator:
Wendy Young
Wendy teaches music at Princeton University, is the director of the Princeton Sound School, and is a sound therapist specializing in Cymatherapy, Himalayan Singing Bowls, Helen Bonny GIM, and sound meditation. She will provide the integrative structure of the program, monitor student insight and understanding of the course work, and help students apply their studies to become an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner to their personal and professional lives.

Free Introductory Classes on Tuesday, June 26, 5-7:30pm, and Fridays, August 24 and September 28, 7-9pm, offer presentations and Q&A with staff and graduates.  September 28 intro also features presentation by John Beaulieu.

REGISTRATION AND FEES
A 9-MONTH PROGRAM
Fridays, 7-9pm
(Friday sessions for certificate program registrants only)
Saturdays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–5:30pm
Sundays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–4:30 pm
Sundays, 4:30-5:45 (for certificate program registrants only)

For CEUs click here

Full Payment: 12SHH55SA $3,575
Early Bird Registration by August 17: $3295

Payment Plan: 12SHH55SB $3,950
A non-refundable deposit of $970 is due upon registration. Four further payments of $745 are due Nov. 30, 2012, Jan. 25, 2013,  March 22, 2013,  May 2, 2013 (automatic credit card payments only).

Individual Weekends only: $365
Certain weekend programs are open to the public and non-certificate students. (Does not include Fridays, final weekend or extracurricular offerings, which are for certificate program registrants only.)

For general inquiries, please email:
soundandmusic@opencenter.org

You are registering for the free Introductory class on Tuesday, June 26, 5-7:30pm. To sign up for training program, see Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training.

A 190-Hour Certification Training:

October 5, 2012-June 9, 2013

Wendy Young MMus • Thomas Amelio • Dorinne Davis MA RCTC • Louise Montello PhD • Ginger Clarkson MT-BC • David Darling • John Beaulieu PhD • Pat Moffitt Cook PhD • Nacho Arimany • David Hykes • Silvia Nakkach MMT• Robert Notter •

The Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner certificate program is a  multicultural, multi-disciplinary and highly experiential approach to the study and practice of sound, music and voice and its powerful effect on the human organism. Our faculty is composed of prominent international sound and music teachers, researchers and practitioners. Our program offers students a skills-based and in-depth study of the therapeutic power of sound and music to transform consciousness and improve well-being. A certificate of completion is given to those who meet the program’s requirements in becoming an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner. No previous experience in music or sound work is required.

“I am overwhelmed by the generosity and the quality of our teachers and the community that has developed among my fellow students in this truly astonishing course.”
—Thomas W. student
Click here to read testimonials about the program.

WHO SHOULD ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM?
This program is designed for anyone interested in learning about the transformative and healing power of sound, including healthcare professionals, psychologists, clinicians, educators, musicians, clergy, music therapists, yoga practitioners, body workers, and anyone seeking innovative ways to use intentional sound to engender well being in themselves and others.

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP YOU:
• Open doorways into deep states of healing and transformation
• Enhance therapeutic relationships between client & therapist
• Gain insights into physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life
• Receive continuing education credits
• Build networks of practitioners with like-minded interest in the power of intentional sound
• Develop knowledge and skill sets in using sound and music to help reduce stress, depression, anxiety and induce relaxation

CORE ELEMENTS OF OUR PROGRAM
• The technical and theoretical dimensions of musical expression including Sound, Voice, Rhythm, and Music
• Therapeutic use of sound and music including psychoacoustic music, auditory stimulation programs, creative arts/music therapies and scientific research applications
• Sacred Sound and Music—including shamanic, mantric, sound ecology and transformational sound techniques

2012
Oct. 5–7—Wendy Young MMus and Thomas Amelio
Understanding Therapeutic Sound
and Music/Sound Meditation
An introduction to the certification program, and an overview of the fundamental
concepts of music vocabulary and styles. Sound Meditation for healing and  awakening: mantra and energy practices to establish a sound meditation practice
for yourself and to offer to others.

Oct. 26–28—Dorinne Davis MA-RCTC
Foundations of Sound-based Therapies
An education and exploration of soundbased therapies, based on the Davis Model of Sound Intervention. Students will learn various methods, such as AIT, Tomatis, Bioacoustics, the foundation of those therapies and how they impact
the body.

Nov.16–18—Louise Montello PhD MT-BC
Discovering Your Essential Musical Intelligence
Develop your own and your clients innate ability to use sound as a self-reflecting tool to facilitate health and well-being on all levels, including transforming stress into dynamic energy for creative change.

Dec. 14-16—Ginger Clarkson MT-BC
Guided Imagery and Music
A practical and experiential introduction to the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, a music-centered form of psychotherapy used to resolve psychodynamic issues, elicit spiritual insights, and clear blocks to creativity.

2013
Jan. 11–13—David Darling
Improvisation as a Healing Tool
How to use creativity and spontaneity to create a healing environment for clients so they can come face to face with their own wondrous capacity to heal by using their own unique sounds and rhythms.

Feb. 8–10—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Biosonics: The Use of Tuning Forks in Healing
Practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align posture to visual harmonics. Learn to develop systematic evaluation methods based on structural analysis and the five elements.

Feb. 11—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Certification Student Clinic
Individual sessions to learn how to assess a client’s needs, drawing upon various sound healing systems (tuning forks, toning, five element theory, etc.), grounded in science.

March 8–10—Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD
Indigenous Sound Healing
An immersion into the use of sound and music as diagnostic tools, healing agents and connectors to spiritual domains in indigenous and cross-cultural traditions.

March 11—Nacho Arimany
Elemental Sounds & Rhythms™– Integrating Inner Balance
For thousands of years, patterns and circles in nature have been generating and regenerating life. Discover the rhythmic patterns of nature and entrain with them using your own body and movement.

April 12–14—David Hykes
Harmonic Healing
Through harmonic (overtone) chant, meditative mindfulness training, and guided
exploration of the harmonic series, we will transform our listening awareness and ability to harmonize with others and ourselves.

May 17–19—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Medicine Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
An in-depth study of the world’s cultural traditions through healing songs. How melodies and rhythms are used as healing tools.

May 20—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Certification Student Clinic: An Integration Laboratory
Individual sessions in methods and strategies to integrate the use of all of the healing systems taught in this training into a healing practice, as well as for personal enrichment.

June 7–9—Wendy Young MMus and Robert Notter
Certification Student Weekend: Applying Sound
and Music to Your Life and Practice
Review of entire course content, applications, and practices. Setting up your business, the ethics of caring, and creative approaches for the integration of student interests.

PROGRAM STAFF
Program Coordinator:
Wendy Young
Wendy teaches music at Princeton University, is the director of the Princeton Sound School, and is a sound therapist specializing in Cymatherapy, Himalayan Singing Bowls, Helen Bonny GIM, and sound meditation. She will provide the integrative structure of the program, monitor student insight and understanding of the course work, and help students apply their studies to become an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner to their personal and professional lives.

Free Introductory Classes on Tuesday, June 26, 5-7:30pm, and Fridays, August 24 and September 28, 7-9pm, offer presentations and Q&A with staff and graduates.  September 28 intro also features presentation by John Beaulieu.

REGISTRATION AND FEES
A 9-MONTH PROGRAM
Fridays, 7-9pm
(Friday sessions for certificate program registrants only)
Saturdays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–5:30pm
Sundays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–4:30 pm
Sundays, 4:30-5:45 (for certificate program registrants only)

For CEUs click here

Full Payment: 12SHH55SA $3,575
Early Bird Registration by August 17: $3295

Payment Plan: 12SHH55SB $3,950
A non-refundable deposit of $970 is due upon registration. Four further payments of $745 are due Nov. 30, 2012, Jan. 25, 2013,  March 22, 2013,  May 2, 2013 (automatic credit card payments only).

Individual Weekends only: $365
Certain weekend programs are open to the public and non-certificate students. (Does not include Fridays, final weekend or extracurricular offerings, which are for certificate program registrants only.)

For general inquiries, please email:
soundandmusic@opencenter.org

Experience outstanding programs from anywhere in the world with Open Center Online Learning webinars. This season, the Open Center is launching a compelling new initiative: live webinars with distinguished faculty, accessible from the comfort of your own home. It’s time to take the Open Center’s work worldwide via the Internet! To participate in any of these events, only a computer and broadband connection to the Internet are needed. Each webinar is an interactive, two-hour experience with an intimate feel. We encourage you to let friends and family outside the greater New York area know that these new programs are now available.

Music of the Spheres of Being

David Hykes

Contemplative teacher-composer-singer David Hykes shares the Harmonic Presence work, integrating mind, music, meditation and healing harmonization, including his “music of the spheres,” Harmonic Chant, and deep awareness practices with breath, sensation, sound and listening. A spiritual practitioner for over 35 years, Hykes founded Harmonic Chant and the related contemplative and healing work in New York in 1975 and has collaborated with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Mind and Life Institute. His groundbreaking albums include “Hearing Solar Winds.” His music is heard in many films, including “Travelers and Magicians,” “Meetings with Remarkable Men,” and “Journey Into Buddhism.” Hykes runs a contemplative retreat near Paris, France. www.harmonicpresence.org

By registering for this live webinar, for each webinar event you will receive the following:

• 90 minutes of live, interactive webinar content.
• 30 minutes of question-and-answer time with the teacher.
• Access to download a recording of the complete webinar, after the event. (Free software provided to view.)

Computer System Requirements
No matter where you are on the planet, as long as you have a computer with a broadband connection, web browser, and sound capabilities (microphone and speakers or headset), you will be able to participate and engage in the question-and-answer period. If you can watch YouTube videos, you can attend this webinar online. Recommended System Requirements: Windows XP (PC) or Mac OSX 10.5 or higher, and browsers version Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 3, Safari 4, and Chrome 11 or higher. ACCESS INFORMATION WILL BE EMAILED TO REGISTERED STUDENT A FEW DAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT.

A WEBINAR SERIES
(2 sessions) Saturday, June 30, & Sunday, July 8, 1–3pm EDT
12OLWHH103 • $59 (No Member Discount)
$50 Early Bird rate by June 16
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Thomas Amelio and special guest musician Nacho Arimany

Kirtan is the ancient practice of communal chanting, a powerful and profound way of elevating the spirit, expanding consciousness and awakening the heart. Join Thomas Amelio (Shivanand), who has led Kirtans for over 25 years, for an inspiring evening of devotional music and song.

Saturday, June 23, 8pm
12SAP45N
$15 (No Member Discount)
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John Mason

Jam Ja Band, formed in 1998 by Yoruba scholar and priest (and a percussionist with 48 years’ experience) John Mason, has performed widely at prestigious cultural institutions including The American Museum of Natural History and Yale. Mason is first to take traditional, ritual Yoruba song lyrics praising the orisa in Cuba, Brasil, and the United States, and translate them into English, while retaining the original idea content, aim, and melodies of the songs. Tonight’s concert will focus on music and songs in praise of feminine power and will include some of NYC’s leading jazz and classical musicians. Come be inspired by the powerful rhythms and melodies of West African traditional music, which have had such an impact on modern popular music.

Saturday, July 7, 8–9:30pm
12SAN01P
Members: $22 / Nonmembers: $25
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Rashida Veronique Fitzgerald, DWS

The moderate consumption of wine is finally becoming accepted as a healthy part of an American lifestyle. Tonight wine expert Rashida Fitzgerald will explain what makes wine improve health more effectively than non-alcohol based grape products or dietary supplements. She will discuss the most recent research and theories and share information about organic and biodynamic wines and about which specific wines are said to deliver the greatest benefits. The evening will also include a short winetasting tutorial using traditional methods to taste organic local wines.

Note: Registration by June 29 required. Materials fee of $20 (glassware, wines and handout) is payable to the presenter.

Saturday, July 7, 7–9:30pm
12SAN03P
Members: $20 / Nonmembers: $22
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Film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see: how mainstream media contribute to the under representation of women in positions of influence in America. This film challenges the media’s portrayals of women and girls who, along with young men, receive the collective message that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty and sexuality. Sixty-five percent of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors. Startling facts, stories from teenage girls, and interviews with Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson and others arm the audience with a vital, new perspective.

A Film Screening
Saturday, June 23, 7:30pm
12SAN04P
$10 (No Member Discount)
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Amir Vahab and Ensemble, with The Daf Caravan

Amir Vahab has been described by The New York Times as an “ambassador for a silenced music.” One of NYC’s most celebrated composer/vocalists of Persian sacred and folk music, he has recorded six albums, and sings in the evocative, traditional Persian style which embodies millennia of mystical tradition. This evening, Amir Vahab and ensemble will perform songs selected from the poetry of the great Sufi masters Rumi and Hafiz and other legendary mystical poets—to transport us to 13th century Persia with all its beauty and exoticism. The ensemble will also perform lively traditional music from Persian, Turkish, Kurdish and other sources featuring the mystical reed flute, ancient lutes, and the daf drum. The concert concludes with a dynamic drumming performance that echoes the universal heartbeat of existence.

Saturday, July 14, 8pm
12SAN02P
Members: $18 / Nonmembers: $20
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The Actors’ Ensemble

Join the Actor’s Ensemble as they delve into early 19th century Manhattan through
selected scenes from Henry James’ masterpiece “Washington Square,” of which Cynthia Ozick says, “every line, every paragraph, every chapter is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony ...”

Saturday, May 12, 7pm
12SA16P
$10 (No Member Discount)