SONIC ALCHEMY
Sonic Alchemy is where we play together to craft your song - where we sing, dance, drum, and make music and magic and powerful shifts in your life. Sonic Alchemy is where we shake the soul of the world!
Sonic Alchemy is a process of transformation using music as the catalyst. We start with the premise that, like a musical instrument, we can go “out of tune”. When we do, we lose our sense of connection and purpose, and life loses its glimmer. Sonic Alchemy rekindles our song, that we may regain a sense of harmony in our lives and our world.
Sonic Alchemy addresses 3 questions:
What makes me come alive?
What changes do I wish to see in the world?
How can I merge these two things to craft a life of joy, adventure and purpose for myself, my family, and my world?
Sonic Alchemy engages the power of song to delve into these questions. Using music and sound, voice and drumming, symbol and story, creative ritual, deep visioning, audacious imagining, and anything else that’s useful in the moment, we endeavor to stir, awaken, and inspire that deeply vibrant, free-flowing fount of unstoppable life force that is each of us unbound.
Ready to sing the world of your dreams into being? Here’s how:
Sonic Alchemy Singing Circles
Singing together is wonderfully cathartic! As you breathe deeply, your chest opens and your blood is infused with oxygen. At first you may feel timid, but gradually you find your voice in the safety of a circle with friends, facilitated by a strong singer to carry you, and you crack open, releasing emotions that lay dormant inside of you, and ecstasy overtakes you. Harmonies gel to create a true sense of unity and magick. Truly, there is nothing like it!
Here's how these work: You have 8 or more friends and a space large enough to host. Everyone commits $20. I come to your home and facilitate a 2-hour singing circle that will swell in peaks of joy and ecstacy, dip into mystery, release sorrow, open hearts, create spine tingling harmonies, and offer a lovely evening of bonding and connection with your community through song. Kind of like a tupperware party, except exquisitely beautiful.
Workshops and Retreats
For larger groups of 10-30 I offer Sonic Alchemy song shamanism in workshop and retreat formats. These are available in 2 hour, 4 hour, day-long, or weekend increments. Workshops are built around specific themes to focus group energy. Current themes are The Well of Song, Waking the Mythic Soul, and Romancing the World: Falling in Love With Life All Over Again! Custom themes can also be created with advance notice. Always we use the Sonic Alchemy formula of combining song and ritual, only the focus changes and can be tailored to each group's priorities.
Rates vary based on time and circumstances. Let's talk.
Want to read the workshop descriptions? Here they are!
One-On-One - All day
Spend an entire day with me in a ritual of song, beauty, visioning, self-exploration, brainstorming, challenging, crying, rejoicing and breaking through. This is an all-day ritual, crafted by me for you, bringing everything I have to help you get unstuck and inspired. We will go out in nature, hike, talk, drum, sing, journal, have a picnic, envision your ideal life, sing some more, light candles, meditate with tones, and sing even more! We will sing all the songs in your soul - the places you are stuck, the sorrowful, the silly, the hopes and dreams, the fears, the grief, the terror, the confusing, the ironic. You will emerge from our day supercharged and ready to claim your destiny.
If a passion-drenched, song driven inspiration-fest sounds like just what you need, get in touch and let's see what we can do together.
$400 for 8 hours of my complete and unwavering focus on whatever it is you want to work on. Includes homework and a followup 1 hour phone call or online check-in a week later.
(Also available for groups of 3 for $600. Get two friends to join you and save a little green).
One-On-One - Hourly
Description the same as above, except they happen in my home, and are of shorter duration than my day-long sessions. I recommend 2 hours minimum though, especially if it's your first one.
$75 an hour.
Harmonic Bodywork Therapy
Harmonic Bodywork Therapy is a one-on-one healing session combining deep tissue massage, Acutonics, and toning to facilitate deep relaxation and rejuvenation. Acutonics is a system of healing which uses precisely calibrated tuning forks in conjunction with the meridians and points of Chinese medicine. Using vibration instead of needles, Acutonics stimulates the meridians with different musical intervals, helping the body reset to it's own natural rhythms.
I was a master bodyworker for 12 years before I began wandering the globe singing songs for people, and I still enjoy offering these sessions as part of my greater work. The combination of Acutonics and massage is a stunningly effective therapy for addressing anxiety, stress, and the pain that often accompanies them. For a deeply refreshing reset, I wholeheartedy recommend these sessions.
Rates: $70 for 1 hour, $100 for 90 minutes
Sonic Elixirs
Sonic Elixirs are recorded meditations using Tibetan bowls and Acutonics tuning forks, and are developed along the lines of Acutonics philosophy. Each meditation is crafted with a specifia focus in mind - Grounding and Centering, Deep Relaxation, Opening to Intuition, Energizing, etc. Each peice is 20 minutes long and is very pleasant to listen to. I often joke that this is the lazy person's guide to meditation as the sound does most of the work for you! These will be available in the Summer.
Would you like to experience one now? Here is a free downloadable sample, with written instructions for how to meditate to it - Sonic Alchemy Meditation.
You can read more about Sonic Alchemy from a healing perspective here: http://www.sharonknight.net/blog/2011/07/what-is-sonic-alchemy/
To learn more about Acutonics, please visit www.acutonics.com
