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

Rachel McPherson

Rachel McPherson of the Good Dog Foundation

Today we will learn how “therapy dogs” are trained to help heal traumatized humans, so that we might draw from this training in improving our relationships with our own companion animals and help improve their lives as well as our own. We will learn from a leading expert how dogs communicate, how to recognize signals of canine stress, how to maximize their socialization skills, how to achieve deep relaxation with our dogs, and how to test a dog to see if he/she might be a good candidate for animal-assisted therapy work. Come learn how to radically deepen the human-animal bond, one of the most uplifting experiences available in life.

Note: For both this workshop and the Friday evening workshop, dogs may attend with their handlers or guardians, but dogs must be friendly with other dogs.

A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, June 17, 10am–5:30pm
12SHP17S
Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130
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On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Good Dog Foundation was recognized by media outlets and charitable organizations for its work in disaster response after the attacks of 9/11. Good Dog teams visited the NYC Family Assistance Center and traveled on ferries with victims’ families and survivors.

Rachel McPherson

The Good Dog Foundation does wonderful work providing therapy dogs for people in need and recovering from disasters. This evening its founder will share meditation techniques that can help us and the dogs in our lives find healing and deep inner calm. The Good Dog Meditation method is a highly effective way to center our animal with compassion, lower stress in our own and our dog’s life, and connect to the extraordinary unconditional love only companion animals can give us.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, June 15, 7–9:30pm
12SHP16M
Members: $25 / Nonmembers: $30
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On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Good Dog Foundation was recognized by media outlets and charitable organizations for its work in disaster response after the attacks of 9/11. Good Dog teams visited the NYC Family Assistance Center and traveled on ferries with victims’ families and survivors.

Susan J. Squittieri

Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive energy healing technique that all animals can benefit from.  It is safe, effective and can do no harm.  Reiki balances the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of an animal by releasing energy blockages which create imbalance and dis-ease. When an animal's energy is balanced and flowing, healing and change occur.  Animals respond quickly to the ease that Reiki produces on these levels, often harmonizing seemingly difficult and impossible attitudes and conditions.

This class is designed for individuals who have been attuned to Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Levels I & II and would like to learn how to use Reiki with animals. This course will cover.

Level I: an introduction to cat and dog - anatomy; the auric and chakra energy systems; and hand positions. By the end of the training we will perform a Reiki treatment on an animal in person.

Level II: goes more deeply into the energy systems of animals and how to consciously sense and move energy into that system to remove emotional and mental blockages, send energy over distance and time, to clear energy, and to create safe places. By the end of the training we will be able to perform a Reiki treatment on an animal both in person and at a distance.

Note: This course is recommended for the layperson Reiki II practitioner, animal guardians and caretakers that are affiliated with an animal-based practice and or an animal shelter or animal rescue group.

A Certificate of Completion in Reiki Level I and II with an Animal Reiki emphasis will be given by the instructor after the completion of this course.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Wednesdays, June 20–
July 18, 8–10pm
No class on July 4.
12SHP20T
Members: $150 / Nonmembers: $170
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Aparna Bapat

Ayurveda, the ancient indigenous medical tradition of India, is characterized by its reliance on natural means to avoid disease, it’s extremely sophisticated system of diagnosis, and its categorization of patients into distinctive anatomic and metabolic “types.” In this class a renowned Ayurvedic physician will share this ancient tradition’s guidance about choosing foods appropriately based on their qualities, our own needs and the season; introduce us to the general principles of Ayurveda. She will then teach us: the “six tastes”; food and body typologies; healing and cleansing recipes; and the use of Ayurvedic herbs, common spices, teas, and seasonings, as well as herbal medicine compounds and formulas to address health issues such as digestive disorders, skin conditions, hot flashes, hair loss, coughs, aches, insomnia, etc.

Note: Materials fee of $10 is payable directly to the instructor.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Wednesdays, June 6–27, 8–10pm
12SHN20T
Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130
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Joel Fuhrman, MD

Today, a leading nutritional researcher will make the case that we can prevent and
reverse almost all heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes with the right nutritional strategies, and he will help us get on the path to a health-promoting and healing diet. We’ll learn how to pick and prepare foods rich in micronutrients, plant fibers and healthy starches so that we can maintain optimal health. We’ll discover how including some fatty nuts and seeds in our diet actually promotes body fat reduction and can help reduce atherosclerosis and sudden cardiac episodes.   The diet also contains the nutritional research used to prevent cancer.  The day will also include food preparation demonstrations as well as guidelines on how best to flavor and prepare salads, dressings, soups, smoothies, sorbets, stews, etc.

A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, July 8, 10am–5:30pm
12SHH25S
Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130
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You are registering for a FREE INTRO on Monday, July 9, at 8pm. To sign up for the weekly course, see The Aromatic Lifestyle.

Christina Dille

This class is for the do-it-yourself inclined among us who want to be able to blend
essential oils safely and produce some basic,effective products for our own wellness, beauty and home needs without having to rely on a professional aromatherapist. In these five weeks we will receive a solid foundation in fundamental aromatherapeutic concepts and detailed profiles of 25 essential oils. The topics covered will include: basic aromatherapeutic first-aid and self-care (using oils for common ailments and such conditions as cuts, burns, bruises, muscle pain, stress and insomnia); the cost-effective use of specific oils for beauty and skin care; and using essential oils to reduce or eliminate synthetic chemicals in home cleaning. Each week we will practice making our own products, including: topical first-aid kits, custom body oils, facial toners, disinfecting cleanser sprays, etc.

Note: A $35 materials fee is payable directly to the instructor.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(5 sessions) Mondays, July 16–August 13, 8–10pm
12SHH20T
Members: $150 / Nonmembers: $165

Trish O’Sullivan, LCSW

In this workshop we will be introduced to yoga psychology’s view of addictions, how they form and how they can be healed. According to yogic teachings, there are tendencies which exist in the subconscious mind (samskaras) created by past experiences that can fuel compulsive behaviors. This workshop will explore the types of samskaras and psychological elements (disconnectedness, impaired will power, etc.) that contribute to addictive behaviors as well as the particular chakras involved. We will learn an integrative approach to breaking addictive patterns of all types, including techniques for identifying and releasing samskaras and balancing specific chakras along with yoga and meditation practices to facilitate the healing process.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Friday, July 27, 6:30–9:30pm
12SHH05M
Members: $30 / Nonmembers: $35
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