The Sound & Music Instititute: Integrative Sound & Music Practitioner Training
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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 wellbeing 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 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.
Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD, is a composer, sound healer, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Naturopathic Doctor. After receiving advanced degrees from Indiana and Purdue University he went on to integrate Eastern and Western natural healing disciplines. His work at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital as well as his teaching in several universities has made him a much sought after lecturer around the world. Dr. Beaulieu is an expert on Stress science, and oversees molecular research on the effects of sound and music. He is also the author of Human Tuning, Music and Sound In The Healing Arts and numerous CDs including "Calendula, a Suite for Pythagorean Tuning Forks."
Ginger Clarkson is a Board Certified Music Therapist, a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, and a teacher of Vipassana meditation. She trains students internationally in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). Ginger is the author of A Silent Cure: Transforming Preverbal Trauma Through Meditation (Velvet Spring Press, 2007) and I Dreamed I Was Normal: A Music Therapist’s Journey into the Realms of Autism (MMB Music, 1998).
Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, is director of the Open Ear Center in Washington. For over 25 years, Cook has traveled extensively throughout the world recording and participating in musical healing rituals and the daily life of other cultures. She is a pioneer in the field and an international teacher and clinician. Her scholarly research in music and ethnomusicology paralleled extensive training and certifications in auditory stimulation technologies including the Tomatis Method, and crosscultural music-evoked imagery methods from Asia and the United States (GIM). Pat is the author of numerous articles; Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures: Shaman, JhankrI and Nele (book and CD), and Brainwave Symphony.
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."
Dorinne Davis MA, CCC-A, FAAA, Is an educational and rehabilitative audiologist and founder and president of the Davis Center, one of the nations premier sound therapy institutions. She is the author of several seminal publications in the field of sound-based therapy including Sound Bodies through Sound Therapy and Everyday Miracles: Success Stories with Sound Therapy. Dorinne is credentialed in 20 different methods of sound therapy.
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.
Dr. Louise Montello is a board-certified music therapist, psychoanalyst and award-winning author of Essential Musical Intelligence. A jazz pianist and composer, Dr. Montello directs the Creative Arts Therapy Program at The New School, and is co-founder of Performance Wellness, Inc. She maintains a private practice in psychodynamic music therapy and supervision in NYC.
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
Wendy Young has been studying, teaching, and practicing the healing effects of sound, music, and vibration for over 30 years. Her particular specialties are Cymatherapy, Himalayan Singing Bowls, Sound Meditation, and Guided Imagery and Music. Wendy lives in Princeton, where, in addition to being a sought-after teacher and therapist, she has an active performing career as a harpsichordist and teaches harpsichord both privately and at Princeton University. She is also the director of the Princeton Sound School. Wendy 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.
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