Advice for the Sound Student: Discernment and Caution with Ceremonial Study
“Always use your discernment, critical thinking and a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to grandiose claims about what sound can do or what a “sound healer” can do.”
Advice for the Sound Student: Language to Avoid
“I believe Sound as a modality, offering and practice is for everyone and for everybody. It can be non-sectarian, non-dogmatic and open for all people of all beliefs, faiths, colours, creeds and socio-economic status. Therefore, to do Sound Work justice we must learn not to segregate and exclude because of our own beliefs, ideas and opinions.”
Practitioner Principles for Continual Contemplation
“Remember the common verb for the act of music is to play. Don’t take things too personal, have fun, practice often and always be a student.”
Letting Go.
“Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.”
Pranayama.
“In the yoga text Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the breath is compared to a wild animal. Just as elephants, lions and tigers can be controlled with steady and prolonged training, the yogi also brings the breath under his control with constant practice.”
Nāda Yoga.
“The word Nāda or Nad refers to sound or tone in a similar sense it also means current, stream, river or flow. Therefore Nāda is the flow of sound, the constant current, the sacred sound stream; a river of sound.”