SOUnd heaLing for the People! (Free Event)

Branch (Civic Center).Experience The Sonic Shamanic weaving sound and melody into mysterious delight, combining the healing resonance of Tibetan singing bowls, quartz crystal bowls and bronze gong with inspiring musical imporvisation incorporating vocals, strings, woodwinds and horns, and percussion...
All designed to relax the body and carry the mind into the realm of SOUL and Spirit. You'll leave feeling refreshed, happy, and connected... no matter your state upon arrival! 

Our SOUnd heaLing journey will follow routes Indian and Eastern, featuring the vocals of Shivpreet Singh, and accompanying dance by Seema Shree.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 2PM
Participating musicians and sound practitioners:SHIVPREET SINGH(Vocals)Shivpreet Singh is a California based singer and composer. Trained initially by the legendary Indian Classical master Pt. Raghunath Prasanna, and later at U.C. Berkeley, his music blends multiple genres. He was the first south asian in the US to land a major label contract. Since 2010 he has been producing music independently in collaboration with musicians around the world and his compositions have been downloaded and streamed over 1 million times in the past 5 years.JEREMY MARAIS(Alto and Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Hang Drum)Born and raised in the French Alps, Jeremy started to study saxophone as a kid and very soon developed a strong interest for improvised music. He has been living and studying traditional music in various parts of the world: West Africa, Spain, India, Turkey and Israel. As a multi-instrumentalist, Jérémy, in addition to alto and baritone sax, performs with frame drum, balafon and clarinet. He played and recorded with French bands L' Amarante, Le Grotorkestre, Israeli bands Sumsumband, Madboojah project, Portuguese band Terrakota, Burkina Faso band Farafina, Indian band Rajasthan Roots, . While living in France, Jérémy opened for musicians like Louis Sclavis, Rabi Abu Khalil, Michel Godard. SUELLEN PRIMOST(Cello)A seasoned, highly sought-after cellist, recording artist, improviser and sound healer, Suellen is known for her soulful expressivity, creative imagination and versatility across genres, ranging from Classical, Ambient and Jazz to many types of World Music: Celtic, Roma, Turkish, Arabic and Indian Classical. For over a decade, Suellen served as Music Director for The Artship Ensemble, an innovative, traveling dance theatre company based in San Francisco, creating scores for 10 productions. Suellen has also played on films and performed with acclaimed vocalist, Silvia Nakkach, hang drum maestra, Laura Inserra, gifted oudist, Gary Hegedus, digeridoo maestro, Stephen Kent, jazz trumpeter, Jeff Oster, and percussionist Peter Maund. Other collaborators and ensembles include North Indian vocalist, Shivpreet Singh, soundhealers Eostar Kamala, Buddy Comfort and Clare Hedin, Soul Tones/ Crystal Infinity, The Murmurations Duo (with Jeremy Marais), Ya L’ayl, Spiral Dance Chamber Jazz, Hardly Strictly Jazz with Jon Rubin, The Pacifica Duo with Larry Walker, and The Espiritu (Classical) Ensembles.KARMA MOFFETT(Tibetan Singing Bowls, Hang Drum, Tibetan Horns)Karma composes music designed to relax and heal thru harmonic vibrations, using his unique collection of instruments featuring antique Tibetan Bowls, Bells, Tingsha, Longhorn, and Conch Shells. Karma has sifted through nearly five-thousand Tibetan bowls over a period of thirty-five years to accumulate twenty bowls. These were selected for their purity and clarity of sound, sustained resonance, and harmonic blending or pairing with the other bowls within the set. When the bowls are played in runs or struck as pairs, their harmonics penetrate the physical and subtle bodies of the listeners. The audience easily relaxes into a natural state of meditation.ERIC OLSON(Sitar, Hang drum, Gongs, Flutes)Eric started playing music in orchestra and band as a child and then developed a passion for the guitar as a teenager. He has traveled extensively around the world with his guitar and first started performing as a busker on the streets of Taiwan while working as an English teacher. He has collected many instruments from around the world and studied sitar in India as well as the Bay Area. He has also studied bhakti music and kirtan with Jai Uttal. Eric has played gongs and flutes for sound baths at the Oregon Eclipse Festival and Bhakti Fest. Eric seeks to create sacred improvisational music that is transcendental and transformative.Chat Conversation EndSERENA MALKANI(Crystal Bowls, Vocals)Serena is a certified sound practitioner and organizational psychologist. She is also a professionally trained jazz singer and finds great sanction in making music. Through the use of crystal bowls, simple melodies, chants and healing sounds, she creates a meditative sound experience that helps people release stuck emotions so that the body can restore itself back to harmony. With specific tones and frequencies, the sound sessions reduce stress and anxiety while shifting brainwave patterns from beta to theta state, allowing for deep healing to occur. Listen to Serena: http://bit.ly/2y3lLVSLEO RADERMAN(Alto Saxophone, Native American Flute)A descendent of Russian Klezmorim, Leo conceived and co-founded The Sonic Shamanic. An inventor by profession, Leo graduated from the Sound, Voice, and Music in the Healing Arts Certificate Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, is a practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork, and holds a Masters degree in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley.