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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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