by jasonc | Dec 18, 2009 | Talent Pool
FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE
This workshop provides an intimate group setting where people can share their thoughts and ideas about their experience using their voice. We will discuss common thoughts as concerns associated with singing, followed by standard breathing exercises, stretches, warm up exercises, and then create group harmony, and finally improvisation. In the end we will create our own song, where each voice can be heard, exclaimed, fully expressed or even shouted! Come share your thoughts, notes, song, and find your own beautiful, natural singing voice from within.
LeeLoo is an active performer, singer, dancer and graduate of Berklee College of Music. She has fronted several Boston bands, toured the Northeast, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and has written several albums. Among many of the competitions and battle of the bands festivals she has participated in, she also took part in American Idol in 2010 and The Voice in 2013.
LeeLoo discovered her love for music and singing at the age of 5, taking parts in many musical theater shows, while gaining a foundation in classical music, and learning songs in 4 different languages. She also has a tremendous dance background having performed in The Nutcracker through Joseph Stanford Ballet Company at age 7. However, as she grew up her passion for music superseeded dance and she followed her voice. She was chosen to sing the “National Anthem” at Shea Stadium in NY, and was chosen to open Adelphi University’s Matriculation ceremonies as the college’s official anthem singer.
Later, she wanted a complete musical make-over, and attended Berklee College of Music, to study contemporary styles including, pop, rock, metal, jazz, blues and R&B. She studied under Gabrielle Goodman, back-up singer to Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. Diversity, versatility, and pushing the limits in edgy genres of music have been her primary focus.
LeeLoo draws from a wide range of influences that make her the versatile artist she is today, including metal, R&B, jazz, classical, pop and rock. She continues to work with many different artists, either coaching them on their own albums in the studio, or recording vocal tracks for various records. She is also a singer/song-writer and is available to WRITE, COACH, COLLABORATE OR RECORD on virtually ANY music projects you have to offer.
She will be available for teaching group vocal workshops, performances with Incus, drum circle jams, and general consultation about anything regarding your voice!
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 17, 2009 | Talent Pool
Ilana is an artist, herbalist, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga Instructor in the Greater New York City area. Having spent over 14 years in the healing arts, she has worked with and apprenticed for several of the pioneers in Botanical Medicine & Ayurveda in the US. Ilana’s greatest passion is to help steward the plants of Gaia and do her part to share the love, magic and healing gifts the natural world brings forth to share. Ilana is an avid nature photographer and is found most days singing to the plants and observing the magical wonders of the forest.
Her time at the Ayurvedic Institute working & studying with Dr. Vasant Lad was very powerful, greatly formative and has helped Ilana create beautiful, simple and effective tools to offer clients and students on their journey towards balanced living and radiant wellness. Originating in India, Ayurveda dates back over five thousand years and integrates lifestyle practices, proper nutrition, yoga, pranayama, botanical medicine and many other physical and spiritual tools in its practices. It is a fully holistic system of healing that honors the unique self’s needs while focusing on practices that are gentle, effective and blissful.
Ilana regularly produces fine art floral photography, compounds tinctures, salves, essential oil blends, teas and flower essences for her local community. She loves to connect with others on their path and hopes you will feel free to reach out anytime to say hi or to inquire about herbal healing. Please visit her at Shaktibotanica.com to learn more about her healing project Shakti Botanica which is an offering and online boutique in celebration of the divine feminine and her endless gifts of creative expression, beauty and healing.
Electronica and the venues that celebrate music and dance are as vital to Ilana as the breath. An original jungle dancer, her long love of the beats has brought her to a deeper understanding of the power of sound, the brilliance of community gatherings and the revolutionary role music has in creating the new earth so many of us are dreaming of.
Ilana will be working with Starhawk, bringing her love of Permaculture to the garden.
One Love. One world. One Heart. <3
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 17, 2009 | Talent Pool
Kelli Joy, Vibrational Visionary will be co-creating the Sound Sanctuary at Unifier with a gifted collection of sound healers presenting inspired styles of vibrational artistry and vision. We will hold sacred space for those who wish to take a transformational sound journey, ignite the inner fire and connect heart and mind through harmonic convergence.
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Unifier Sound Healing Sanctuary Schedule
Thursday
3pm Tuning Forks & Sacred Energetics
Featuring Josh Hilditch of Full Circle Holistics, Nikki Stearns, & Kelli Joy of Vibrational Visionary
Finely tuned in frequencies of the forking kind to be combined with Reiki energy therapy and Himalayan bowls that sing the song of perfect balance. May the Forks be with you!
4pm Earth Gong Meditation
Featuring Jeff Nickell of The Conduit Center
Immerse yourself in a soundscape of soothing harmonic frequencies. Jeff will take us on a journey into states of deep relaxation and effortless meditation. Allowing the awakening of subtle cellular vibrations that will echo through your entire being long after the last note fades to silence.
5pm Gaia’s Healing Heartbeats
Featuring Kelli Joy of Vibrational Visionary
Mother Gaia is calling upon her children to send healing to the planet! Be a part of this powerful community meditation & sound healing ceremony, where we will unite our voices & spirit to send an intention of Healing to our Earth Mother! Each person will receive a container of ceremonial soil to bless up the land!
6pm Plant Spirit Sound Journey
Featuring David Kuhn VT’s Shamanic Sound Healer
Journey with consciousness shifting herbs that offer a doorway to deep listening for the ancient wisdom of plants to help us drop in. Let the natural world nourish our bodies and the sounds nourish our hearts in a way that is both profound and fun. Bring a mug for some tea! !
Friday
11am Violet Light Activations
Featuring David Kuhn VT’s Shamanic Sound Healer
Dave has been working with Violet Light, this color is a high frequency that when invoked with specific Sound practices can clear any blockages & release old karmic patterns. These frequencies hold keys for DNA activation. Experience 2 out of 22 unique activations.
1pm Earth Gong Meditation
Featuring Jeff Nickell of The Conduit Center
Immerse yourself in a soundscape of soothing harmonic frequencies. Jeff will take us on a journey into states of deep relaxation and effortless meditation. Allowing the awakening of subtle cellular vibrations that will echo through your entire being long after the last note fades to silence.
2pm Sacred Sound Meets Visionary Art
Featuring Alex Vidaud of Awesome Tattoo & Healing & Kelli Joy of Vibrational Visionary & Chris Sturk of Binaural Beat Brothers
Visionary artist, Alex & Soundscapers, Chris & Kelli Joy will stimulate your inner artist with a playful and inspiring journey into the world of music inspired art. Color, shade and texture will skillfully flow from your hands as our soundscapers lead you on a magical musical journey leaving you with a masterful composition that reflects your inner Light.
3pm Violet Light Activations
Featuring David Kuhn VT’s Shamanic Sound Healer
Dave has been working with Violet Light, this color is a high frequency that when invoked with specific Sound practices can clear any blockages & release old karmic patterns. These frequencies hold keys for DNA activation. Experience 2 out of 22 unique activations.
4pm Intro to Sound Healing w/Singing Bowls
Featuring Jeff Nickell of The Conduit Center
Tap into your infinite healing potential with the use of ancient singing bowls.
Learn how to mindfully connect with these mysterious instruments and how this can be applied to other aspects of our lives. Explore the practical means and methods of skillful playing, discover how to apply the resonant sounds to invite deep states of meditation and automatic relaxation for healing body and mind. In our unified state of vibrational bliss we can reflect our true nature, fully acknowledging and honoring the beauty in ourselves and one another.
Saturday
11am Meditative Soundscapes
Featuring Chris Sturk of Binaural Beat Brothers
Chris will play gongs and singing bowls with the intention of fluid clarity. Share in the intention as you allow the therapeutic cosmic tones to wash through you.
1pm Didge Project Meditation
Featuring Jerry Walsh & A.J. Block of The Didge Project
Vipassana style meditation to develop deep body-awareness & acknowledge the impermanence of sensation in any situation. This sound bath utilizes didgeridoo, flutes, Native American drums, chimes, and singing bowls. Now meets zen to create an atmosphere of contemplation & inner peace, let the sounds envelop you in the present moment. The deep tones of didge drone is known to lower brainwaves into theta range.
2pm Over the Rainbow ~ Mandala Creation & Sound Meditation
Featuring Kelli Joy of Vibrational Visionary & Special Guests Jon & Lisa
Sound is the bridge between etheric and manifest reality. Intention is the calling into creation that which we would like to see in the world, let us use this practice of imaginative mastery, sound innovation & mandala art to co-create a new vision and visual artwork of sand that escapes the hourglass.
3pm Resonant Vibrations ~ Didge & Gong
Featuring Chris Sturk & Casey Ray of Binaural Beat Brothers
Let the cosmic audio of our perceived duality play out in an aboriginal orchestra of gong, didge and singing bowls. Get deeply grounded and then sail to the stars, as these power vibrations fill the space.
4pm Intro to Didgeridoo
Featuring Jerry Walsh & A.J. Block of The Didge Project
Learn the basic elements of didge playing. We will cover the drone, animal sounds, harmonic overtones, circular breathing, and simple beatbox rhythms. Practicing the didgeridoo is a meditation a form of pranayama, and just a few minutes of playing is a powerful ecstatic experience. The intuitive nature of the didge makes it accessible to everyone.
Sunday
10am Universal Peace Chant
Featuring Kelli Joy of Vibrational Visionary
I call together the tribe of peaceful warriors to send out a mantra of Sanskrit origin for the happiness and liberation of all beings. Let it start with us! Discussion, pronunciation and exploration of the powerful practice of mantra.
11am Resonant Vibrations ~ Didge & Gong
Featuring Chris Sturk & Casey Ray of Binaural Beat Brothers
Let the cosmic audio of our perceived duality play out in an aboriginal orchestra of gong, didge and singing bowls. Get deeply grounded and then sail to the stars, as these power vibrations fill the space.
1pm Sound Portal
Featuring Tala Durso of Sacred Alignment
Tala uses drumming, rattles, singing bowls, channeled vocal toning and sacred handmade tools to connect with ancient Egyptian guidance from the Hathors, Native American spirit guides and ascended masters to open a sound portal. This portal is an opportunity for you to connect with your guides and journey to receive messages.
2pm Unified Field Soundscape
Featuring Unifier’s Sound Sanctuary Artists
Fundamental sound forces intermingle to co-create elementary particles to be written in terms of a single unified field. Unifier’s soundscapers will close the weekend out together as one note, one tribe . . . One Love
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 16, 2009 | Talent Pool
“Usko-Ayar Amazonian School Power Animal Pendants”
Rainforests are treasures troves of life, and home to some of the most biologically and culturally diverse landscapes on earth. The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and home of ten percent of the worlds known species. Andres will share some interesting facts and stories from his travels in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon, which will then be followed by two hands on crafts.
Choosing from a series of hand painted Amazon animals by students of the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting, Unifier kids will have the opportunity to create their own “Usko-Ayar Power-Animal Pendants” . The Usko-Ayar (Quecha term for “Spiritual Prince”) is more than an art school. It is an institution devoted to the rescue and preservation of the knowledge and the traditions of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon. Their art is a documentation of the flora, fauna, and culture of the Amazon, and it promotes and preserves the traditional knowledge of medicinal and other plants of this region. Copied painting of animals (such as snake, jaguar, eagle, anteater, and others) will be available to paste onto cardboard circles and adorn them with feathers and beads. Explanations will be available to offer some insight into the power that each animal carries. The finished product is a co-creation between children of the Amazon and the kids in attendance at Unifier, and may serve as a tool to help the kids bond with and develop a deeper relationship with their “power-animal.”
Another craft option is the creation of “Talking Sticks.” Kids will learn about some of the functions of a talking stick in traditional cultures, and have a chance to create their own using sticks from the forest, adorned with yarn and feathers.
We will conclude our time with a guided drumming “imaginary journey” to a rainforest and share our experiences as we use our talking sticks.
Andres Doxer has worked in the field of education for over 15 years. During this time he has worked in a variety of educational institutions, with a wide range of ages, and on four separate continents. Andres has a passion for exploring various world cultures, and as a result a big part of his educational work has focused on cultural sharing and understanding. Among the more exciting work he has been involved with was working for Living Routes in Peru and Israel. Living Routes offers college students a chance to earn academic credits overseas while living in communities that are devoted to the principles of living and creating a socially just and sustainable world.
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 14, 2009 | Talent Pool
Reading Tarot with the Major Arcana
The tarot’s Major Arcana have long been associated with the journey of life and the various stages we encounter along the way. Join Lina for a tarot workshop where we will set aside the Minor Arcana and focus on exploring reading techniques using just the 22 cards of the Major Arcana. Learn simple methods to make the most of your readings, as well as practical uses of the Major Arcana as a tool for personal insight and self-development. All levels welcome. If you have tarot decks, please bring them along.
Lina’s fascination with tarot began 19 years ago and she has been exploring, learning, and reading ever since. Originally from Punta Arenas, Chile, and currently residing in Brooklyn, Lina’s travels have enabled her to learn, read and teach along the way. Her other passion includes Reiki as she has been a Reiki Master Teacher and Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher since 2009. In her other life, she is an event planner and fire artist. She is thrilled to be performing with Enchanted here at Unifier all weekend long.
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 13, 2009 | Talent Pool
Flight is a Metaphor for Freedom: Exercise through the Art/Science of Play
Join Jen Taylor for a PLAY-ful approach to the magic of aerial yoga on the trapeze and silks. Get upside down in a handstand, find new partnerships with flying yoga & partner acrobatics. The more we concentrate, the more fun we have. This workshop includes warm-up, conditioning, individual skill development along with creative and compositional exploration. www.om-fly.org
Jen Taylor, Artistic Director of Om-FLY, brings DAKINI to the stage, celebrating those who take flight. Literally translated as Skywalker, Dakini refers to pre-Tibetan Buddhist era priestesses. Interdimensionally-practiced yoginis, these ladies were known to fly. It is probable George Lucas borrowed the phrase for Star Wars. Luke, we are your mother.
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 12, 2009 | Talent Pool
Finding the Center
When we connect to our center, (our midline, our core), and we cultivate a sense of stability this fosters a sense of trust in ourselves. It’s from this stability that we can trust our foundation and explore our edges, pushing our boundaries outside of our comfort zone.
We practice this on our mat in physical asanas when we try a new pose or develop a new perspective on a pose we’ve done thousands of times. We experience this in our lives when we trust ourselves to step into the unknown.
In this class we will thread together vinyasa, chi gong, and yin to connect to our center and to explore our true capacity to expand.
Carolyn Little, MA, RYT 500, Reiki Master, Holistic Health & Life Coach
In my classes I hold a safe, open space, free from judgement, guiding students through an integration of vinyasa, kundalini kriyas, chi-gong, yin, meditation and pranayama. I encourage students to honor all of who they are, to recognize that they are enough. As we all experience plenty of challenges and suffering in our lives, I believe a sense of light-heartedness and humor is essential both on and off the mat!With a graduate degree in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations, and a focus in Public Heath, I bring a multidisciplinary approach to wellness, empowerment, and leadership shaped by my experiences working and traveling nationally and internationally. I integrate techniques of meditation, movement and integrative nutrition, providing a unique opportunity for my students to mindfully learn to love and heal all parts of themselves in order to live fully with vitality, ease and grace. I am a Reiki Master, Pranassage Practitioner (an integration of yoga and massage) and am trained in Experiential Anatomy, Prenatal Yoga, and Yin Yoga.
www.livethrivelove.com
by Hadas Yanay | Dec 11, 2009 | Talent Pool
Multi Instrumentalist KB Whirly has been delighting kids and their parents
since 2012 with his folksy, hand clappin’, toe tappin’ songs that serve up
comedy, poignancy, and a whoop whoop spirit.
A self described “musical theater geek” – Mr. Whirly draws on his love of
performance and theatricality to deliver a One-Man-Band musical
experience that engages and entertains kids with high energy beats, and
catchy melodies.
After honing his songs with a focus group of pre-schoolers,
The Whirlygigs produced a four song studio EP titled “Tickle Machine”
and have been delighting audiences since. With titles like Portobello
Mushroom, Don’t Ask me Why, Puddle Jumping, & Tickle Machine,
get ready to stand up and sing, or fall over laughing.
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