The Healing Power of Singing

The Healing Power of Singing

Author: Emm Gryner

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1773057820

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Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning recording artist Emm Gryner has navigated through life’s highs and lows using a secret compass: singing. Her voice, and her desire to express herself in music, has been a constant: from the early days of playing in bands while growing up in a small town, to playing arena rock shows and stadiums. Across these years and on many travels, she’s discovered the human voice to be an unlikely guide, with the power to elevate and move people closer to authentic living. This book is about that discovery: part study in the art of singing, part guide to finding one’s voice, and part memoir. This book is a must-have for anyone who knows they should be singing.


The Healing Power of the Human Voice

The Healing Power of the Human Voice

Author: James D'Angelo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-05-27

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1594776385

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A complete introduction to using the sounds of the voice to promote healing • Explains the emotional meanings and healing attributes of human vocal expression, from vowels and consonants to natural sounds such as laughter or sighs • Includes easy-to-follow vocal and breathing exercises • Contains chants and mantras from cultures around the world As infants and children we use our vocalizations to express our needs and emotions. As we grow older these vocalizations become confined to language. The suppression of emotional sounds because they may be considered childish or undignified is quite commonplace in Western cultures. Yet when done with vigor, the sounds made by laughing, groaning, humming, keening, and sighing hold within them great power for healing. In The Healing Power of the Human Voice James D’Angelo introduces the concepts behind sound healing and provides simple, practical exercises to put these concepts into practice. He explains in detail the meanings and healing attributes of the whole range of human vocal expression, from vowels and consonants to the natural sounds of laughter or sighs. He reveals the power of singing and the ways in which group singing can contribute to physical and mental health. He also presents authentic classical chants and mantras from cultures around the world and shows how we can combine various vocal sounds to form our own mantras to help clear chakra blockages. All of the sounds discussed, as well as the techniques for producing overtones, are placed in a ritualized context and are accompanied by simple movements to enhance tuning the body toward inner harmony, health, and peace. In addition, the author demonstrates all the major vocal techniques in the accompanying audio tracks--including mantras, chants from major religious traditions, seed sounds and syllables, and overtones--giving you all the tools necessary to create these sounds yourself.


The Healing Power of Sound

The Healing Power of Sound

Author: Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2002-08-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0834824264

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A guide to the surprising benefits of music on your mind, spirit, and body—complete with sound-based breathing and meditation exercises Since 1991, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor has been achieving remarkable results by integrating music, vocalization, breathing, and meditation techniques in his work with patients. In The Healing Power of Sound, he presents his sound-based techniques for self-healing—techniques that anyone can use, whether faced with a life-threatening disease or simply seeking relief from the stresses of daily life. Numerous studies have demonstrated the health benefits of music: it can lower blood pressure and heart and respiratory rates; reduce cardiac complications; increase the immune response; and boost our natural opiates. Gaynor shows how, when integrated as part of a mind-body-spirit approach to wellness, music can play a significant part in maintaining a healthy lifestyle or in healing serious disease. The Healing Power of Sound includes twelve exercises involving breathing, meditation, and “toning”—using pure vocal sound to resolve tension, release emotion, and spur the healing process—that can be used by anyone to improve health and quality of life.


The Healing Forces of Music

The Healing Forces of Music

Author: Randall McClellan

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0595006655

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The Healing Forces of Music explores the shamanistic practices and musical cosmologies of the ancient world, the worlds of Eastern and Western classical forms, as well as contemporary resources. McClellan takes us into basic acoustics, the process of hearing and the vibratory nature of the human body. He presents a healing method through cymatics (the effect of vibration on physical matter), and also systems of healing with sound, voice and mantra, Tantric therapies and the utilization of the Endocrine Gland system and Chakra energies. He presents a thorough investigation of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual effects of music, the characteristics of healing music, procedures for using music as a healing agent and advocates a new philosophy of music as a transcendent experience. -- Back cover.


How to Heal with Singing Bowls

How to Heal with Singing Bowls

Author: Suren Shrestha

Publisher: Sentient Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1591810876

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Book & CD. Over the centuries many people have found relief from pain, stress, negative energy, and a variety of physical ailments through the sound and vibrations of Tibetan singing bowls, whose use has become increasingly popular in the West. This book offers step-by-step techniques for using the bowls for meditation, relaxation, and healing ailments such as insomnia, headache, stress-related intestinal disorders, and high blood pressure. A CD demonstrating the methods accompanies the book.


Sounds of Healing

Sounds of Healing

Author: Mitchell L. Gaynor

Publisher: Broadway

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780767902656

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When one of Mitchell Gaynor's patients gave him a singing Tibetan bowl several years ago, the oncologist's practice was transformed. Turning to the revolutionary medicine known as sound healing, Dr. Gaynor began using sound and voice in the form of chants, singing bowls, and music to treat his patients -- with remarkable results. The Sounds of Healing presents the sound therapies Dr. Gaynor has perfected, including rhythmic, mantralike compositions, Sound meditation, and vocal techniques. Together, these methods awaken the spirit for self-healing and blend our positive and negative sides so that we can achieve a state of inner resolution and reach our highest potential.Complemented by the latest scientific findings about the effect of sound therapies on physiology, The Sounds of Healing brings a physician's perspective to the increasingly popular sound medicine movement first explored in The Mozart Effect. As never before, Dr. Gaynor shows the way to inner harmony for the body, mind, and spirit.


How Music Can Make You Better

How Music Can Make You Better

Author: Indre Viskontas

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1452172277

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How can certain songs carry us through a tough workout, comfort us after a breakup, or unite 50,000 diverse fans? In this fascinating field guide, neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas investigates what music is and how it can change us for the better—from deep in our neurons to across our entire society. Whether hip-hop fans, classically trained pianists, or vinyl collectors, readers will think about their favorite songs in a whole new way by the end of this book. This is a vibrant and smart gift for any audiophile.


Free Your Voice

Free Your Voice

Author: Silvia Nakkach

Publisher: Sounds True

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1604078332

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Science is beginning to prove what ancient cultures fully embraced: your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of transformation in every facet of your life. Free Your Voice offers you the liberating insights and personal instruction of music healing legend Silvia Nakkach, whose four-decade immersion in the voice as a creative force makes her a uniquely qualified educator. With co-author Valerie Carpenter, Silvia shows how to reclaim the healing potential of your voice (regardless of training or experience) through more than 100 enjoyable exercises that are steeped in spiritual tradition and classical vocal technique and backed by the latest science. Free Your Voice invites us to “savor a banquet of our own divine sounds” as we practice breathwork, chant, and other yogic techniques for emotional release, opening to insight, and much more. Supplemented by 32 downloadable digital audio tracks offering Silvia's guidance through many of the exercises, here is a definitive resource for implementing the voice as an instrument of healing and fulfillment, exploring: How to develop a practice of breath and voice, performed with consistency and imagination, where sound designs its own landscapes through the expressive power of the voiceA series of sonorous yogic practices that involve subtle movements and the sustained focus of the mind in soundA gentle path for developing a voice that is fully embodied, uniquely expressive, and played like a fine musical instrumentInvocatory words and ancient seed sounds that deliver explicit spiritual information for expansion of consciousness and well-beingA beginning repertory of mantras and chants from many cultures that you can build on and share as you deepen your practiceTechniques for vocal improvisation to engage your singing imagination and enrich your musical offeringsHow to foster confidence and kindness toward yourself as a vulnerable chanteur of the universal songHow to cultivate singing as a spiritual practice for yourself and to serve a larger community “With regular practice,” writes Silvia, “vocalizing, singing, and chanting become an ordinary miracle that effortlessly leads you to a sense of self-confidence, compassion, and Love Supreme.” Free Your Voice is your guide to discovering, opening, and revealing the full potential of your own voice.


Spirit Singing

Spirit Singing

Author: Shawna Carol

Publisher: Spiritsong Publishing

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780985710705

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A GUIDE TO FINDING THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE Release Stress Naturally Enhance Creativity Experience Ecstatic Self-Expression Composer and sound healer Shawna Carol has taught thousands of students SpiritSong, her unique singing method. In this practical and supportive book, she shares her wisdom and experience - illuminating a sure path to connecting with the joy and the power of singing. Whether you are new to singing, or have long experience, this book opens pathways to new dimensions of the power of song. It includes a step-by-step guide to a personal SpiritSong practice that is healing, creativity enhancing, and a practice for spiritual awakening. Ms. Carol brings her grounded, compassionate, and humorous approach to overcoming the inner critic, releasing trauma, and gifting yourself with the joy of Spirit. As a composer, whose music has been performed around the world, she shows the way to open the creative flow, remove obstacles, and bring forth the songs and the music within you. From her long experience, Ms. Carol gives you the nitty-gritty, real-world information you need to create SpiritSong circles and connect with others in extremely powerful and transformative group practice. She details the safety concerns, shows you how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and provides examples to lead you quickly and surely to success. The book is also a companion and guide, showing how these practices can lead to shamanic experiences of other dimensions for those who are so inclined. It includes helpful advice received by Ms. Carol in such journeys. Distilling a lifetime of experience and wisdom, this book is an invaluable companion to all those who walk the path of song.