There’s something particularly healing about experiencing live music. It brings mental and physical wellness to people who experience stress, anxiety, or even trauma. Vibration healing through music has been used for thousands of years to move energy and invoke peace, serenity, and space.
This workshop will provide live music with the specific intention to promote relaxation, release, and healing.
Therapeutic movement techniques with yoga and Qigong flows will open up energetic pathways to allow stressors to exit the body, regulate the nervous system and bring the systems of the body into rhythm.
The harmonic mechanics of music – known as modes – are implicit in stringed instruments – especially the harp and guitar. In ancient times, modes were considered to have healing properties. Plato believed that soldiers should only listen to certain modes which elicit strong powerful vibes, but not others, as they feel more dreamlike and innocent – not qualities wanted in warfare. Aristotle writes that the essential differences between the modes create a different effect on all those who listen, “Some of them make men sad and grave…enfeeble the mind… produce a moderate or settled temper” or “enthusiasm.”
Today, musicians still use these modes to help influence people’s moods.
Joanne’s philosophy as a yoga teacher is to help people who seek personal empowerment feel connected to their bodies, quiet their mind, stimulate a healthy nervous system, and release tension in the body caused by stress, anxiety, or trauma. Her teaching techniques use a combination of breathwork, meditation, gentle asanas, somatic yoga, medical qigong, and neurogenic tremoring.
Kristal Schwartz is a professional full-time harpist and teacher, a domestic violence advocate and mother of three children. She holds a Masters Degree in performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is the owner and founder of Bay Area Harp & Music Academy, the largest harp academy in Northern California.
After getting out of a 10-year abusive relationship she began her healing journey and extensive education in trauma recovery. Using music to facilitate peace and recovery, her holistic and trauma-informed approach brings clarity, direction, and positive support for her clients and harp students of all ages.
If you have questions about the harp music she uses to facilitate healing or interested in healing harp lessons she’s always happy to chat.
Proud parent to kids and pets, and RYT-500 yoga instructor, Ricardo started his life as a musician, music educator, and web developer. He has been a dedicated Ashtangi since starting at Breathe Together. Ricardo’s mission is to inspire other students to go inside themselves, connect with their inner playful child, as well as the divine, and help them reach their short and long-term physical and spiritual goals in the form of flexibility and calmness.
Always a dedicated student of life, music, and yoga, Ricardo loves to share what he knows. Ricardo is also a member of a chamber ensemble for a ballet set to the music of Fugazi; as well as the guitarist and arranger for French impresario Laurent Fourgo, and Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito. Visit www.ricardosound.com or www.ricardoyoga.com to learn more.
We’re sorry, but we don’t offer refunds or account credit on workshops or trainings.
This workshop will be conducted in-studio.