Confirmed Presenters

David Hykes

composer, singer, recording artist, founder, global sacred music Harmonic Chant, author, Pilgrim Movements; Harmonic Chant Global Sacred Music; A Search for Awakened Listening; All Along the Waterfront; Mind, Meditation, Sacred Music and Healing and A Life or Two in the Harmonic Chant, pioneer of throat singing, his Taos Pueblo grandmother told him “We gave you the privilege to sing.”

Pre-Conference All-Day Retreat: The Harmonic Presence Work and Harmonic Chant: Visions, Resonances, Perspectives and Possibilities

Keynote: Mind, Meditation, Sacred Music and Healing Workshop: The Harmonic Presence Work and Harmonic Chant: Teachings and Practices for Reattunement to the Pure Primordial State

Evening Event: Harmonic Chant: Music from the Heart of the Cosmos

Nikolay Oorzhak

hereditary shaman from Tuva (Southern Siberia, Russia), virtuoso of throat singing, healer, musician, recording artist, ex-Chairman of Tuvan shaman society Tos-Deer, cofounder of ensembles Tuva and Ertinelig Tuva, coauthor, Un-Hun: System of Sound Healing and Spiritual Development

Pre-Conference All-Day Retreat: Un-Hun: The Shamanic Throat Singing System for Healing and Personal Development

Workshop: The Healing Power of Throat Overtone Sounds in Tuvan Shamanic Tradition

Evening Performance: The Soul of Sound: A Voice Healing Ceremony Based on Tuvan Shamanic Throat Singing

Tom Kenyon

scientist, sound healer, psychotherapist, musician, songwriter, singer, shaman, author, The Alchemies of Horus and The Sex Magic of Isis, The Hathor Material, Brain States and Mind, moves with equal facility between Tibetan Buddhism, Egyptian High Alchemy, Taoism and Hinduism and the sciences relative to each leaving you empowered with a vast body of knowledge suffused with tones that awaken all the physical centers, thus allowing for greater understanding of the words and Spirit imparted

Keynote: Sound of the Nagual: The Use of Sound in Shamanic Healing

Workshop: The Portal: An Experience in Shamanic Sound Work

Jill Purce

pioneered the sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, introduced Mongolian overtone chanting to the West, author, The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul

Keynote: The Magic of Voice: Resonance and Liberation Through Sound

Workshop: The Healing of Voice: Ritual, Resonance and Re-Enchantment

Post Conference 1: The Healing Voice Intensive

Post Conference 2: Ritual and Resonance: The HealingVoice

Don Campbell

composer, author, The Mozart Effect, Introduction to the Musical Brain, The Mozart Effect for Children and many others, is a recognized authority on the transformative power of music, listening and “The Mozart Effect”

Keynote: From the Big Bang to Harmonic Healing: Awakening the Spirit of Sound

Workshop: Advanced Healing Techniques for the Voice

Christine Stevens

MA Music Therapy, author, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles, creator, The Healing Drum Kit, consultant to Remo (the world’s largest drum company), trains health-care professionals in HealthRhythyms group drumming, consultant, Percussive Arts Society, advisor, Drum Circle Facilitators Guild

Keynote: Rhythm Salam: Cross-Cultural Applications of Peace-Making


Workshop: The Healing Drum: The Rhythms of Life, Spirit and the World

Chris James

pioneer in voice and sound work from Australia, singer, musician, martial artist, monk, voice therapist, his CDs are played in prenatal courses, birthing suites, doctor’s surgeries, hospital emergency wards, hospices and medical clinics, his extraordinary voice and vocal range open the heart and soul, founder, International School of Sacred Sound, founder, The Sound Foundation

Keynote: Songs from the Inner Heart

Workshop: The Healing Power of Esoteric Sound

Workshop Speakers

Kim Atkinson

Kim Atkinson, master drummer and percussion facilitator; studied Nigerian, Ghanaian, Congolese, Cuban and Brazilian drumming and Yoruba, Buddhist, Vedic and Taoist spirituality; facilitated 4,000 drummers (Guinness World Record for the most people playing the same song) for Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum

Workshop: Embody Rhythm: Space, Time, Sound and Form

Joel Andrews

harpist, composer, pioneer music healer, author, A Harp Full of Stars, producer of 33 recordings including collaborations with Paul Horn and the Paul Winter consort

Workshop: Advanced Music Healing

Donna Carey

cofounder, Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, sound healer, Clinical Dean, Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, coauthor, Acutonics: There’s No Place Like Om, Sound Healing, Oriental Medicine and the Cosmic Mysteries and Acutonics: From Galaxies to Cells

Workshop: Frequency and Physiology: The Healing Power of Sound

Roxanne Daleo

founder, MindWorks for Children, offering sonic solutions for stress management, biofeedback training and cognitive/behavioral therapy, helping children with anxiety, fear, depression, pain, sleep disturbances and behavioral disorders

Workshop: Open a Child’s Mind To the Power Within: The Use of Guided Imagery and Music for Hospitalized Children and Families

Toby Christensen

The Healing Drummer, part rock drummer/part ancient healer, childhood drumming prodigy, studied with the Dagara of Burkina Faso, inventor, Sound Attunement Therapy, inventor Crystal Healing Bed, producer 5 Element Drumming DVD

Workshop: Five Element Drumming: Rhythms for Transformation

James D’Angelo

author, The Healing Power of The Human Voice, composer, Portraits of Krishna, pianist

Workshop: Awakening Chakra Energy through Sound and Meditation

Dorinne Davis

Educational and Rehabilitative Audiologist, founder, The Davis Center for Hearing, Speech and Learning, associate, BioAcoustics Research, certified practitioner in Berard Auditory Integration Training, Tomatis, Fast ForWord Language, The Listening Program, Read- Spell-Comprehend, Samonas, Interactive Metronome, Earobics, Lipreading, Aural Rehabilitation and other sound-based therapies, author, Sound Bodies Through Sound Therapy and Every Day A Miracle: Success Stories with Sound Therapy

Workshop: Supporting Natural Self Healing with Sound-Based Therapies

Sharry Edwards

director, Sound Health Research Institute, author, Decloaking Pathogens with Low- Frequency Sound, researcher, Human BioAcoustics

Workshop: Bringing Math Medicine to Life: Breaking the Sound Barriers of Disease

Ellen Franklin

CEO, Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, co creator of Acutonics System Healing and Education, creating a new training program for Equine Acutonics

Workshop: Frequency and Physiology: the Healing Power of Sound

Chloe Goodchild

founder, The Naked Voice, dedicated to healing the divide between silence, speech, and song, to find ways to express the ‘naked’ voice prior to the social or personality voice, enable singers and non-singers alike to access their true sound, from a deep and non-judgmental listening sourced from silence, from which a wide range of expression becomes possible, from the stillness of inner contemplative sound, to wild love song and spontaneous improvisation, creative rapture and soaring serenity, author Your Naked Voice and Awakening through Sound

Workshop: Sound Intelligence: Awakening through Sound

Arthur Harvey

internationally known authority in music for special needs individuals, music and the brain, music and learning, music and health, past President, Hawaii Music Educators Association, featured on video series, Music and the Brain, author, Learn with the Classics and A Journey of Explanation: A Roadmap to Understanding Music and the Brain, coauthor, training manuals in music for special needs individuals, recording artist

Workshop: Music: A Prescription for Stress

Sita Jamieson

musician, singer, recording artist, Presence: Chants of Sacred Power, has performed with Krishna Das, Ram Das and Baghavan Das

Morning Classes: Sound Healing and Chanting

Fabien Maman

acupuncturist (created system using tuning forks instead of needles on acupuncture points), conducted revolutionary biology experiments showing the impacts of acoustic sound on human cells (found that acoustic sounds could explode cancer cells as well as energize and empower healthy ones), founder, Academy of Sound, Color and Movement, discovered musical scales that correspond with seasons, elements, meridians, chakras and subtle bodies, created Tama-Do Sound instruments to “shatter” negative patterns and bring harmony to the energy field, author, The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century, Raising Human Frequencies, The Body as a Harp: Sound and Acupuncture and Healing with Sound, Color and Movement, composer, musician, Resonance of Ancestral Memories and A Winter Soulstice Harmonizing Concert

Workshop: Sound Healing: The Way of the Soul

Workshop2: Kototama: The Ancient Science of Pure Sound

Vladislav Matrenitsky

former Senior Researcher of Institute of Gerontology Academy of Medical Science of USSR, overtone and throat singer, founder, Aum Center for Human Development which explores ancient and modern sound technologies, coauthor, Un-Hun: System of Sound Healing and Spiritual Development

Pre Conference: Un-Hun: The Shamanic Throat Singing System for Healing and Personal Development

Workshop: The Healing Power of Throat Overtone Sounds in Tuvan Shamanic Tradition

Evening Event: The Soul of Sound: A Voice Healing Ceremony Based on Tuvan Shamanic Throat Singing

Onye Onyemaechi

founder, Village Rhythms, Nigerian master drummer and dancer, spiritual advisor, recording artist, healer

Workshop: The Healing Rhythm: From Self-Discovery to Wellness

Evening Event: The Village Rhythm Experience

Sue Raimond

pioneer of harp enrichment/therapy for pets and people, world expert in cytocymatics and vibroacoustics, adjunct lecturer specializing in pain management for University of California hospitals, lecturer at Tufts University veterinary school on acoustical nourishment and stress management for animals, veterinarians recommend Sue's albums for pets with anxiety 

Workshop: Music to Soothe the Savage Beast

John & Annaliese Reid

acoustics engineer from England, inventor, CymaScope, researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space, author, Egyptian Sonics

Annaliese teaches Cymatherapy, co-creator, Sound Healing Resource, co-author, Journey Into Wholeness

Workshop: Lucy in the Sky with Deoxyribonucleic Acid: The Role of Love, Sound and DNA in Healing

Richard Rudis

practitioner of Vajrayana, teacher of Vibrational Sound with Healing Himalayan Sacred Sound instruments

Workshop: Sri Yantra ‘Gong Bath’: A Sojourn into Vibrational Sound Healing

Jeff Strong

founder, REI Institute, creator Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention for people with neurological disorders, author, AD/HD for Dummies and 7 other books.

Workshop: Rhythm and the Brain: Historical
Perspectives and Scientific Mechanisms

Maboud & Tara Swierkosz

Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace

Greg Tamblyn

musician, songwriter, recording artist, Shootout at the I’m Ok, You’re Ok Corral and others Weaver/MC

Char Tara

creator, WaveDancz transformative movement system, vocal artist, mime

Morning Classes: WaveDancz 

Zhi Gang Sha

doctor of traditional medicine; founder, Institute of Soul Mind Body medicine; author Power Healing: The Four Keys to Energizing Your Body, Mind and Spirit; Soul Mind, Body Medicine: a Complete Soul Healing System for Optimum Health and Vitality; Soul Communication and Soul Wisdom; trained in advanced cellular healing science now occurring in China; grandmaster of Tai Chi, Qigong, I Ching and Feng Shui; 373rd generation lineage holder of Peng Zu anti-aging system passed down through oral tradition for more than 4,300 years

Workshop: Bring Out Your Soul Song for Healing, Blessing and Rejuvenation