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Jeffrey has a great conversation with Don Campbell, an expert on the transformational powers of music. Don is a classically trained musician, composer, scholar, and consultant to symphony orchestras. Known for his energetic, empowering, and often dazzling style of teaching music, Don has traveled to over 40 countries and founded the Institute for Music, Health and Education, and wrote The Mozart Effect which has been translated into 26 languages. His newest book is Sound Spirit: Pathway to Faith. Don is music director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, a company that provides acoustic design and music for healthcare facilities and he has been part of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado since 1998. Don feels that music is a bridge of transformation from the mundane and personal to the universal connection and that through observing and experiencing the differences between horizontal and vertical spirituality, the powers of prayer and meditation can be actualized effectively. We think you will find Jeffrey’s conversation with Don most interesting and inspirational as they explore what Don has discovered through the years of his research and experience into the power of music for transformation and connection.

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Jeffrey’s release of a conversation broadcast on Transitions Radio Magazine with hosts Alan Hutner and Levi Ben-Shmuel.

Alan Hutner is the producer and co-host of Transitions Radio Magazine which is now in its 25th year on the air.

Transitions Radio Magazine is a Santa Fe-based new paradigm program of music, featured guest interviews and conversation focused on socially conscious issues and resources for a better world.

It airs Sunday mornings on KBAC FM 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe. Alan also is involved in various multimedia projects, including the recent launch of MEDIA21ST, LLC, a company that develops, produces, and distributes socially-responsible and environmentally-conscious media/communications/entertainment products for radio, the Internet, TV, print and direct consumer mediums.

Levi Ben-Shmuel is the associate producer and co-host of Transitions Radio Magazine. Levi’s road to radio was unusual. After spending close to 20 years in the computer business (plus earning a master’s degree in economic development from MIT during that time), he left his profession to create projects that fulfill his spiritual vision. While in business, Levi explored spiritual traditions from the East and West. A Tai Chi student since 1985, he taught Tai Chi and workshops on grounding in Israel and the U.S. In 1996, he started studying with his Kabbalah teacher Hadassah Ben-Yishai in Jerusalem.

Transitions Radio Magazine blends a varied pacing of special features, guest interviews, cutting-edge information and practical resources with an eclectic mix of contemporary music. Conversations center on topics of social responsibility and include interviews with best-selling authors and other prominent guests as well as lesser-known experts in their fields. Music crosses over typical industry classifications to provide a wide range of vocals and instrumentals, acoustic and electronic styles, from the familiar to the unique.

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Jeffrey has a wonderful conversation with Diane Mandle, a Tibetan Bowl and Polarity Therapist who works in Southern California.

Diane is bi-cultural, being born of a French mother and American father and spent her childhood going back and forth between Southern France and the US. This continual cultural contrast gave Diane two languages and two cultures to draw from, so early on she developed a sensibility and sensitivity for sound and rhythm in a very practical way. As Diane matured she was attracted to dance, and was very drawn to the poly rhythms of African and Latin music and thus traveled extensively learning to dance in these cultures.

Obtaining her masters degree in cross cultural communication with a thesis on African music, Diane  continued to search for a way to help people on a deeper level. Later, in her work as a Life Coach, Diane felt that there was still something missing for her that needed to be integrated and that brought her love of movement and dance, sound, and multiculturalism into her every day life.

Diane discovered Polarity therapy and was greatly attracted to this modality of moving and balancing energy. It was a welcome addition to her model for wholeness. She attended and helped to conduct workshops on Energy Balancing at Kripalu, the yoga center in MA, going on to obtain certification in Polarity at the Polarity Realization Institute in Ipswitch MA. When, several years later, Diane experienced sound healing for the first time, she knew that she had finally found what she was searching for.

Diane was certified and individually mentored by Richard Rudis, founder of Sacred Sound Workshops, and a pioneer in the arena of Sound Healing. When Richard retired from conducting healings and devoted himself to teaching instead,he passed the ’sound healer’ torch on to Diane who has now been practicing Sound Healing since 2000.

Diane  obtained certification through the state of California in 2004 and traveled to Nepal, India and Tibet to immerse herself to further her studies and understanding of the culture these instruments were born from so she can bring that knowledge to her sound healing practice.

As Diane says about her work:

“I believe that our memories, in the form of energy, are stored in our muscles and cells and organs and that we are unconscious about most of the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that drive our lives. When we are out of energetic alignment, (which we mostly are), our blocked or weak energy creates dis-ease.

An integrated approach to healing that combines cognitive, spiritual, and physical elements to obtain the vibrational alignment we need to be whole and healthy is exactly what I offer.. My lifelong philosophy is the Fourfold Path: Show up, Pay Attention, Speak Your Truth Without Shaming or Blaming and Let Go of Outcome.”

I think you will enjoy my conversation with Diane as we explore the ancient methods of Tibetan Sound Healing and how she has developed her practice to carefully bring out the deepest levels of healing that she has always wanted to focus on.

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Jeffrey has a great conversation with David Hykes, An award-winning composer, singer, recording artist, sound healer and  contemplative awareness teacher.

David is a modern pioneer of integral harmonic knowledge linking music, mind, meditation and medicine, recently serving on the faculty of the Mind and Life Institute, which brings together leading neuroscientists with contemplative practitioners, in collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

David is the founder of the contemplative music of the spheres called Harmonic Chant, which he has developed and shared around the world in concerts, retreats, seminars and master classes since 1975, and the Harmonic Presence work, a body of integral awareness practices for spiritual, emotional and physical well-being.  Hearing Solar Winds, his landmark 1983 recording with The Harmonic Choir, is the best-selling vocal harmonic album of all time, with over 300,000 copies sold and remains an essential milestone in the field.

David’s work, research in Mongolia, and projects within the Tibetan tradition since his collaborations with the Gyuto and Gyume Monks and the Dalai Lama, have all greatly contributed to the growth of global interest in harmonic knowledge. Besides 12 albums of his music, he is the author of numerous privately published teachings, recordings and writings since 1980.

David’s publications include: The Search for Awakened Listening, Pilgrim Movements, and Harmonic Chant:  Global Sacred Music. He is a well-known composer of music for sacred cinema and films including Meetings with Remarkable Men about the master G. I. Gurdjieff; Travellers and Magicians by lama Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoché, and the three films of Journey Into Buddhism by John Bush, endorsed by H.H. the Dalai Lama, and Baraka.

A long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism and the Gurdjieff Work, David’s earliest musical influences and inspirations came from Taos, Tibet, India, Mongolia, Tuva, Persia, Turkey and medieval Europe. He is a universally acknowledged master of throat singing, which he began in 1973 at age 20, and visiting Mongolia in 1981.

David presents his work often in spiritual communities at the request of eminent spiritual masters, particularly in the Tibetan tradition.

David was born in Taos, New Mexico where his Taos pueblo godmother said, “we gave you the privilege to sing.” He divides his time between the US and France, where he directs the Harmonic Presence Foundation’s main research and retreat center, Pommereau, offering teachings and harmonic healing practices throughout the year, and online.

We think you will find this conversation with David uplifting and insightful into how the harmonics in the univrse effect every moment in our lives.

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