Erik Lawrence will take you through a musically guided Sound Meditation. These are deep sound experiences, utilizing flutes from many cultures, bells gongs, pitched bells and tuning forks. Improvised and created on the spot using looping technology and designed to respond to the dynamic of the group in the room and their experience with the intention of uplift, healing, well being, cleansing, rejuvenating. Leave with a renewed sense of safety, encouragement and inspiration. Listeners can lay or sit in quiet meditation, sketch, draw mandalas, journal or write poetry.
Please feel free to bring a journal & pen, drawing materials, etc.
$25
Your guide through this musical meditation:
Erik Lawrence
Erik is a certified sound and vibrational practitioner, having studied ancient and modern sound techniques with masters, including Dr John Bealieu (Biosonics tuning forks), Silvia Nakkach (Yoga of Voice), Dr Pat Moffett Cook (Music Healing of Indigenous Peoples). He sits on two boards of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine in NYC, one of the oldest and most celebrated Music Therapy Centers in the world. In addition, he has taught in colleges and clinics throughout the world since the age of 18, including Williams College, Dartmouth, and nursing, music therapy and piano tuners guild recertification programs.
His unique practice draws upon his experience as an empathic saxophonist and flutist, having traveled the world performing festivals and clubs and recording on hundreds of albums, soundtracks, and commercials. For Erik, music is based on an emotional response system, starting with his own breath. He belives that the deep listening he has learned playing with artists, is the foundation of how he works during private and group sessions. He then responds with his own music, improvising to the sound and vibration of the moment you now share, to get to the depth of why we are here, to acknowledge and uplift. Through his studies and vast experience, Erik has learned that the vibration of sound can change the molecular structure of an issue, physical or emotional and bring it back into balance with true nature.
In Sound Sanctuary and private sessions, Erik will use his tools, tuning forks, singing bowls, toning and humming and his wind instruments (sax and flute), as well as sharing techniques you can implement yourself. At times, he will create and record music specifically in response to your session, which can be used as a constitutional remedy throughout your days.
He’s played toured and recorded with Gabrielle Roth (Five Rhythms), Little Feat, The Band, Chico Hamiton, Buddy Miles, two time US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Tibetan masters Yungchen Lhamo and Nawhang Khechog, Henry Butler, Sonny Sharrock and many others, garnering two Grammys for his work with Levon Helm and platinum records for work with both The Spin Doctors and Joan Osborne.
