2021 SSS Bios
International speaker, Master of Bio-Energetic Theory, and Quantum Field visionary, Dr. Sue Morter utilizes the embodiment of high frequency energy patterns to activate full human potential. Through her seminars, retreats, and presentations, she illuminates the relationship of quantum science and energy medicine – elevating human consciousness into life mastery.
Dr. Sue is the USA Today bestselling, #1 bestselling LA Times and #1 Amazon bestselling author of THE ENERGY CODES: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body and Live Your Best Life. Through THE ENERGY CODES, Dr. Sue provides techniques to activate untapped energy and neurocircuitry in the body, empower hidden potential, and become one’s true, essential self.
She is the founder and creator of the globally-taught coursework, The Energy Codes®,
a multi-level body of work on Personal and Spiritual Development. Dr. Sue also created the BodyAwake® RYT 200 Certified Yoga Program and is co-creator of the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.). She has served on professional licensing boards, providing guidance to health care practitioners on integrative approaches to healthcare leadership. Dr. Sue is also adjunct faculty at two medical schools at Michigan State University, an AAU school classified as one of the top 100 universities in the world. Dr. Sue is the host of Gaia TV’s Healing Matrix, and co-host of Your Year of Miracles lifestyle training. Dr. Sue is E-RYT 200 and E-RYT 500 certified in Yoga Instruction, and was recently recognized for her outstanding achievements as an honored member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
In addition to founding Morter HealthCenter in 1987, she is the founder and visionary of the Morter Institute for Bio-Energetics, an organization committed to teaching individuals self-healing techniques with an inner wisdom-based approach to life based on Quantum Science and higher consciousness. With three distinct schools representing the unification of mind, body and spirit: the School of Energy Medicine, School of BodyAwake® Yoga, and School for Higher Consciousness and Personal Development – Dr. Sue provides tools and avenues to empower the global community to discover and embody a joyful, inspired life, lived from the true, Soulful Self.
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Daniel J. Levitin is an award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity, and creativity.
Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been featured over 1900 times in the popular press.
He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and Successful Aging, as well as the international bestseller A Field Guide to Lies. A popular public speaker, he has given presentations on the floor of Parliament in London, to the U.S. Congress, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He has consulted for a number of companies including Apple, Booz-Allen, Microsoft, the United States Navy, Sonos, Philips, Sony, Fender, and AT&T.
Dr. Levitin earned his B.A. from Stanford in Cognitive Science, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon, and completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley in Neuroimaging and Perception.
As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar, vocals, and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten, and Tom Scott. Levitin has produced and consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and on the films Good Will Hunting and Pulp Fiction, and has been awarded 17 gold and platinum records.
Levitin is currently the Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, San Francisco, California, and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Music at McGill University.
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Ben Nelson is the Founder of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across 22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor, Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million.
Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was President and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities.
Nelson’s passion for reforming undergraduate education was first sparked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he received a B.S. in Economics. After creating a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year of school, Nelson went on to become the chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE), a pedagogical think tank that is the oldest and only non-elected student government body at the University of Pennsylvania.
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JONATHAN GOLDMAN, M.A. is an international authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. He is author of numerous books including HEALING SOUNDS, THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING, and his latest, the best-selling THE HUMMNG EFFECT which won the 2018 Gold Visionary Award for “Health Books”. Jonathan is director of the Sound Healers Association and president of Spirit Music, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. A Grammy nominee, he has created over 25 best-selling, award winning recordings including: “CHAKRA CHANTS”, “THE DIVINE NAME” (with Gregg Braden), and “REIKI CHANTS”. Jonathan has been named as one of Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit magazine’s “100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People”.
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Chart-topping and world renowned musician and vocalist, Simrit, has been studying and working with the science of sound and consciousness for two decades. Alongside her bands, Simrit creates vibrationally powerful and healing music to impact both positive internal & external change. From lifelong vocal training in the classical systems of the East and West, to the dark and mystic chants of her Byzantine Greek choir, Simrit’s musical education is rich and diverse while her voice reverberates a sound that is at once ancient and fresh. Decades of study and experimentation with Kundalini yoga deepened Simrit’s relationship to the quantum technology of Naad Yoga (the ancient science of using sound to impact the brain’s neural pathways and chemicals, eliciting altered states of reality); the effects of which influence her music. In April 2020, the SIMRIT band released their Live in Los Angeles album. Over the 2020 Summer, the SIMRIT band also released 6 new singles, including the moody and epic music video to new release Some May Say. Also in Summer 2020, Simrit began collaborating with some of Roots Reggae’s heavyweights and formed together a band named Zion Collective. They are currently recording a studio album. Simrit also hosts regular classes, known as SIMRIT SESSIONS, centered on conscious repatterning. In June 2020, Simrit debuted her real talk, talk-show called The Athena Council with all range of powerful and influential female guests such as Sirius XM’s ‘Sex with Emily’ star Emily Morse and the timeless Belinda Carlisle of The Go-Go’s. Both SIMRIT SESSIONS and The Athena Council are hosted on the Life Force Academy, an online healthy-living network. Simrit’s highly acclaimed courses, including The Supreme Sound 2.0, are studied worldwide.
Phyllicia Bonanno is a certified yoga teacher the cofounder of Sisters of Yoga, reiki practitioner, and sound bath facilitator based in NJ/NYC. She has been practicing yoga since she was in highschool. She is an artist at heart and yoga has translated into a moving art and meditation for her. You can find Phyllicia teaching vinyasa flows, meditation, yin, and soundbaths. Phyllicia also shares the gift of sound healing through workshops with the use of alchemy crystal singing bowls. Each of her bowls are infused with different crystals that connect to the chakras and deeper self. The sound of the singing bowls vibrate through the body allowing you to achieve an inner cleanse and calm throughout your whole being.
Phyllicia is the co-founder of Sisters of Yoga; a safe space for women of color to explore yoga and mindful living, navigate self discovery and healing while having a sisterhood to support them.
She is an artist and has her BFA and MFA in fine art painting and is a certified art teacher. Full time she is a teacher of visual arts.
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Nina Collier is a Crystal Alchemy Sound Performer.
She provides interactive somatic experiences that integrate the mind, body and soul, using the modalities of mindful movement, body awareness, breath and sound.
Her somatic experiences combine Sound Healing, Electronic Music, Dance, Yoga, Breath Work, Performance Art, Jung Psychology, and Ritual that bridge the worlds of Western Science/Modern Psychology with Spirituality. Her work provides a space to safely process and integrate trauma, to connect to your higher self, and to heal as an individual and as a community.
Nina received her B.S. in Graphic Communication at California Polytechnic State University in 2015 and ran her own graphic design business, Nina Collier Designs LLC. In 2017, she enrolled in Graduate School at Southwestern College for Art Therapy but discovered she wanted to go beyond healing the mind with Western Psychology.
She discovered that healing her trauma through conscious movement with Dance and Yoga combined with Crystal Alchemy Sing Bowls, Singing, Breath, and Meditation was the key to freeing herself from her past and learning how to live in the present moment with an open heart.
This rediscovery her authentic self, passions, and higher purpose provided the confidence and tools to switch focus to Sound Healing in 2020 when she completed her Level 1 & 2 Intensive Studies with Professor Jeralyn Glass and Susy S under the auspices of the Sacred Science of Sound Crystal Alchemy Trainings. Since then she has held sound healing workshops integrated with somatic dance, ceremony, and art therapy. She has worked one on one with clients as well as collaborated with yoga studios.
She is currently working on her Masters in Natural Medicine and her PhD in Integrative Medicine from Quantum University.
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Christine Stevens, MSW, MA, MT-BC
Christine Stevens is author of Music Medicine, The Healing Drum Kit and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles. The founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, she has appeared on NBC, PBS, KTLA, Discovery Health, Living Better TV, and is a faculty for The Shift Network. She has trained facilitators from more than twenty-five countries including Iraq, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Europe. Christine has worked with Fortune 500 companies, survivors of Katrina, students at Ground Zero and most recently, led the first drum circle training in a war-zone in northern Iraq. Her is the host of Global Rhythm Sangha Online, and teaches a variety of online training programs, including Awaken Your Rhythm which has served hundreds of people from over 35 countries.
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Angel Kyodo Williams is an author, activist, master trainer and founder of Transformative Change. She has been bridging the worlds of transformation and justice since her critically-acclaimed book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace was hailed as “an act of love” by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, and “a classic” by Buddhist pioneer Jack Kornfield.
These days, almost all of her time is devoted to advancing the work ignited by her co-authored book, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation: to have the conversations necessary to become more awake and aware of what hinders liberation of self and society. The Connections, Circles and Conversations that have emerged from Radical Dharma confront head on the most formidable and critical impediment to justice and social transformation of our time. They have initiated profound healing and deepened commitment to dismantling oppression across lines of race, class, sexual orientation and other divides.
Her work has been widely covered by such publications as New York Times, Boston Globe, Ms., Essence, Buddhadharma, and on On Being with Krista Tippett. Rev. angel happily splits time between Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY with her partner, Elena and African Grey parrot-friend, Mitra.
Whether in writing, teaching or speaking, her voice is unique. She was made for these times.
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Gina Breedlove
I am a vocalist, composer, author, & sound healer from brooklyn, ny. I began my professional career at 16 yrs old, singing background for the incomparable Goddess, aka Phylis Hyman. I went on to tour with Harry Belafonte as his featured vocalist, worked in regional theater, created the role of “Sarabi”, for the Broadway production of “The Lion King”, worked on 2 Spike Lee joints; “Living Da Dream”. & “Chiraq”, as actor & sound healer on set, & now I tour the world with my music I call folksoul, holding sound healing circles in every city I visit. Concerts are rituals to me, and when we gather to share music & sound, I know that we are opening portals and changing cells.
Whether in writing, teaching or speaking, her voice is unique. She was made for these times.
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Eileen Day McKusick is a researcher, author, inventor, educator and speaker who has been researching the effects of audible sound on the human body since 1996.
She is the author of the best-selling book, Tuning the Human Biofield, and the upcoming book (1/21) Electric Body, Electric Health. Eileen is also the founder of the sound therapy method Biofield Tuning, and the non-profit Biofield Tuning Institute.
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Maejor is a singer-songwriter and producer who is channeling his art into pop music with a purpose. The 3-time Grammy-nominated musician taps into the healing power of music on his latest album, Vol 1: Frequency. Maejor is the first notable pop star to release music at a frequency of 432Hz, which is considered a therapeutic and healing frequency.
“A simple way of describing the process is that by the music vibrating in frequencies that match nature, they help bring the listener into increased harmony,” he says. Maejor’s music is striking a chord with listeners around the globe. His single “I Love You (432Hz)” featuring Colombian singer Greeicy has over 10 million views on YouTube and was certified Gold in France. His album also features rap stars like Juicy J on “Issues (432Hz)” and Lil Keed on “I Am Sorry (432Hz).”
Maejor has written and produced songs for several prominent artists in the music industry, including Justin Bieber, Trey Songz, Keri Hilson, Ciara, T-Pain, Ne-Yo, Wiz Khalifa, Three 6 Mafia. He is also a part of the EDM duo AREA21 alongside Dutch DJ Martin Garrix.
In 2010, Maejor was nominated for a Grammy Award, for his work on Trey Songz’s album Passion, Pain & Pleasure, and again in 2011, for Monica’s album, Still Standing. In 2012, Maejor produced two songs on Justin Bieber’s album, Believe. Maejor teamed up with Bieber again in early 2013, co-producing his single “Heartbreaker”, and producing three songs on his worldwide No. 1 album Purpose.
Lou is the co-founder and resident Gong Master at ASTRO.GONG.YOGA, a newly opened sound healing and yoga center with an astrology-informed approach. Their intention is to share and make sound healing, yoga and astrology available to everyone in the Fairfax District of Los Angles and beyond.
ASTRO.GONG.YOGA has a full suite of planetary gongs, Lou is lucky enough with the help of their in-house astrologer, Britney, to be able to play the gong that reflects the planetary energy of the the day and to factor this into all of his sound healing classes and workshops.
Lou has many years of playing and training experience, he has played and taught the gong all around the world as well as leading numerous sound healing events. With his natural gift of channeling the sacred sounds he guides his students through a gentle and transformational experience that has deep, long-lasting, relaxing and rejuvenating effects.
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Victor Wooten, now a five-time Grammy winner, hit the worldwide scene in 1990 as a founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Continuing to blaze a musical trail with the band, Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy nominated solo recordings and tours.
Among other things, he is a loving husband and father of four, a skilled naturalist and teacher, a published author, a magician and acrobat, and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist including being voted Bassist of the Year in Bass Player Magazine’s readers poll three times (the only person to win it more than once.) In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassist of ALL TIME.
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Stephanie Ryu is a board certified chaplain who has been working in palliative care and hospice since 2013. She is the full time chaplain at the Doak Center for Palliative Care at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, CA where she is also the coordinator for the No One Dies Alone program or “NODA.” Stephanie earned a BA in English with a minor in music before moving on to seminary. She earned a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. Stephanie often uses singing both at the bedside and with her team as a way to provide space for difficult or complex experiences that so often arise in the grieving process. Music puts us in touch with what is unspeakable inside us, and offers glimpses of joy in moments least expected but most needed.
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International speaker, Master of Bio-Energetic Theory, and Quantum Field visionary, Dr. Sue Morter utilizes the embodiment of high frequency energy patterns to activate full human potential. Through her seminars, retreats, and presentations, she illuminates the relationship of quantum science and energy medicine – elevating human consciousness into life mastery.
Dr. Sue is the USA Today bestselling, #1 bestselling LA Times and #1 Amazon bestselling author of THE ENERGY CODES: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body and Live Your Best Life. Through THE ENERGY CODES, Dr. Sue provides techniques to activate untapped energy and neurocircuitry in the body, empower hidden potential, and become one’s true, essential self.
She is the founder and creator of the globally-taught coursework, The Energy Codes®,
a multi-level body of work on Personal and Spiritual Development. Dr. Sue also created the BodyAwake® RYT 200 Certified Yoga Program and is co-creator of the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.). She has served on professional licensing boards, providing guidance to health care practitioners on integrative approaches to healthcare leadership. Dr. Sue is also adjunct faculty at two medical schools at Michigan State University, an AAU school classified as one of the top 100 universities in the world. Dr. Sue is the host of Gaia TV’s Healing Matrix, and co-host of Your Year of Miracles lifestyle training. Dr. Sue is E-RYT 200 and E-RYT 500 certified in Yoga Instruction, and was recently recognized for her outstanding achievements as an honored member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
In addition to founding Morter HealthCenter in 1987, she is the founder and visionary of the Morter Institute for Bio-Energetics, an organization committed to teaching individuals self-healing techniques with an inner wisdom-based approach to life based on Quantum Science and higher consciousness. With three distinct schools representing the unification of mind, body and spirit: the School of Energy Medicine, School of BodyAwake® Yoga, and School for Higher Consciousness and Personal Development – Dr. Sue provides tools and avenues to empower the global community to discover and embody a joyful, inspired life, lived from the true, Soulful Self.
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Owner and founder of Safe & Sound Wellness in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a healing polymath committed to the principles of integrative wellness and unification of science and spirituality. Her curiosity for these matters began early in life and for over 25 years she has been studying ancient wisdom traditions and the evolution of consciousness. Her passion led her to achieving an MSc in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, a Postgraduate degree in Bio-neuro decoding, Quantum Physics and Epigenetics.
Sole is skilled and certified in different Breathwork Modalities, RYT 500 Yoga Instruction, and Sound Healing, in which she is certified as a SSS level II healer. Italian-Argentinian, residing in Canada, Sole maintains a global cohort of private clients and has been teaching and leading workshops and trainings in North America, South America, Europe and India at the Pantanjali International Yoga Foundation in Rishikesh.
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Dr. Todd Ovokaitys was first in his class in high school and won the coveted Bucky pioneer award. He was also at the top of his class at Northwestern University with the highest possible grade point average and after two years was one of 26 people accepted into an accelerated undergraduate and medical training program at Johns Hopkins university and medical school. He then completed specialty training in internal medicine and subspecialty training and pulmonary and critical care medicine at Georgetown University hospital. He was assessed by a faculty committee as the best of all the residents across the board. He was inspired to move to California to understand energy medicine and shortly after the journey had a vision of communicating with the pure consciousness of DNA. This has resulted in coinventing a laser based interdimensional platform which has numerous US and international patents granted in the areas of nutraceuticals, agriculture including cannabis, and especially stem cell biology. He also pursues and provides training in the area of psycho emotional medicine, getting at the core root of any condition, physical or psychiatric, that can offer lasting relief. These discoveries have the potential to be a part of what may revolutionize and personalize the practice of medicine. He is also the composer and at times co-conductor of the Lemurian choirs that create patterns of tones and information that can accelerate expansion of consciousness.
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Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary’s combined expertise in both modern neurology and the ancient science of health known as Ayurveda has uniquely positioned her as an expert able to pull from the broadest possible base to treat her clients. She is passionate about raising awareness for the need of a paradigm shift in contemporary medicine that focuses on patient empowerment and a health-based (rather than disease-based) medical system. Dr. Chaudhary is a regular guest on the Dr. Oz show, where her teachings about Ayurvedic medicine have been applauded by a national audience.
Dr. Chaudhary was the Director of Wellspring Health in Scripps Memorial Hospital for ten years, and remains a pioneer in the field of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Chaudhary has successfully developed a powerful system to manage chronic neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and migraine headaches, by incorporating fundamental changes in diet, behavior, and stress, in addition to the standard allopathic approach to these issues. This program has been so successful that many patients now use it not just for neurological issues but also for a wider range of health concerns, including weight issues and chronic disease.
Dr. Chaudhary is the author of The Prime and Sound Medicine and has appeared as a medical expert on numerous programs including The Dr. Oz Show and Home & Family. She is also a neuroscientist and has participated in over twenty clinical research studies in the areas of multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Her research includes groundbreaking work in stem cell therapies for diabetic peripheral neuropathy and drug development for the treatment of ALS.
Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary spends her time doing research in Siddha Medicine in Tamil Nadu, India and seeing patients for Integrative Medicine consultations from San Diego, CA. To schedule your virtual or in-person consultation with Dr. Chaudhary, please send an e-mail to drkcinfo@gmail.com.
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On stage from the age of five, Carlos Reyes never ceases to amaze. World renowned for his mastery of the Paraguayan harp and violin, Carlos’ musical talents have touched the hearts and spirits of people around the world. From performances on the stages in Havana Cuba to the Vatican, his music transcends all boundaries. Carlos bridges traditional musical genres and mesmerizes audiences with unique fusions of Blues, Rock, Jazz, Latin and Classical styles.
Born in Paraguay to a world-famous musician and national hero, Carlos began to play the violin at age three and a half under his father’s strict tutelage. He moved with his family to the United States as a child and continued to develop his already extraordinary musical talent. At age ten, he debuted on harp with the Oakland Symphony and made his debut on violin with the Oakland Youth Symphony at age fourteen.
He continued to develop his talent on both harp and violin, establishing himself as a successful solo artist, touring the world and also sharing the stage with a long list of musical superstars such as Steve Miller, Zac Brown, The Doobie Brothers, Clint Black, Charlie Daniels, Willie Nelson and many others. Bay Area audiences have been fortunate to see Carlos in concert with legendary slide guitarist Roy Rogers. Carlos has performed for 6 presidents and recently invited to perform at The White House along side Gloria Estefan, trumpet master Arturo Sandoval, Mexican artists -Lila Downs and Marco Antonio Solis.
In addition to his profound mastery of harp and violin, Carlos also plays guitar, bass, mandolin, and keyboards; and is a well-respected producer, composer, and engineer and has been at the forefront of introducing the Electric Harp to the world. He has consistently broken technical and musical boundaries and pioneered techniques that have expanded musical possibilities for musicians and audiences alike. Standing ovations are the norm, not the exception — when Carlos and his aptly named band “The Electrick Symphony” performs.
The magnitude of Carlos’ musical talent is matched only by his spirit and generosity. His passion for helping others is evident through his frequent appearances at benefits such as Hope for Haiti, the Voices of Latin Rock, the Animal Rescue Foundation, work with local school systems and numerous community events.
Carlos is also a known speaker and lecturer giving talks, workshops and master classes in the field of music, Harp, violin and stage performance, and the psychology of the artist’s performance on stage. …This at a college level. His vast experience and training has given him so much knowledge to share to his academic audience from a learned and real world personal experience, He has recently shared the stage and lectured with renowned author and speaker Dr. Daniel Levitin. Some of his classroom stages have been Miami University, Diablo Valley Collage, Special invitation to Cuba to speak, teach and record with the world famous La Camerata Romeu producing a CD of Latin American/Jazz music for The Camerata and Carlos on Harp and Violin.
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Lalah Delia is an author, spiritual writer, wellness educator, and the founder Vibrate Higher Daily. Her writings and new bestselling book Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power is guiding readers around the globe on a journey back home to their empowered, higher-potential, and whole selves. Through her lyrical and organic writing and teaching style and experiences, Lalah enlivens spiritual seekers looking to live with more intuition, empowerment, purpose, confidence, high vibrations, and grace.
Her work is a response to her journey and to the current vibrational-state of the world we live in, share, navigate and journey in and through daily.
Lalah can be found featured in an array of press including, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Glamour Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Thoughtfully Magazine, The Fullest, as well as by ESSENCE, Girlboss, Goop, Black Girl In OM, MindBodyGreen, The CUT, i-D Magazine, The ChalkBoard Mag, LA YOGA, Refinery29, Hollywood Reporter, and more.
Lalah has held talks, given workshops, and participated in panel discussions at SXSW, Girlboss Rally, Girlboss Retreat, In Goop Health, The Wing, Create Cultivate’s Self-Care Summit, Well & Good, Athleta, WITMA, among more.
Lalah was selected by Target as a wellness expert and mentor for their Advice series ‘Wednesday Wisdom’, via @TargetTag. Alongside that, Lalah is an ambassador for Reebok’s #BeMoreHuman campaign.
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Jahnavi Harrison was raised in a family of Bhakti-yoga practitioners at Bhaktivedanta Manor, one of England’s most important spiritual landmarks. As a child she was fascinated with song and story, and has nurtured that interest through her life long exploration of music, dance, visual art and the written word. She is a musician who aims to channel her creative expression as a path to self-realisation and service.
For over 12 years she has travelled the world, offering her voice and violin playing in the performance of sacred music and call-and-response mantra chant (kirtan). Her sound encompasses rich influences of East and West, and aims to offer an experience which truly nourishes the spirit.
She released her debut album, ‘Like a River to the Sea’ in July 2015, and features on the Grammy nominated ‘Bhakti Without Borders’ charity album (2016). Jahnavi presents regularly for BBC Radio 2’s ‘Pause for Thought’ and ‘Something Understood’ on BBC Radio 4. In 2020 she collaborated with Willow Smith on the single ‘Surrender (Krishna Keshava)’ and the EP ‘RISE’.
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Noor Che’ree’s journey through music includes many stops around the world with a variety of artists and organizations. A former US Marine Musician for the 1st Marine Division Band, UN Global Advisor, an Award Winning Multi-Instrumentalist, and an International Touring Artist, Che’ree strives to explore new territories in his eclectic taste of world sounds and cultures, while marrying his musical influences to the creative process of all music. Che’ree has worked with numerous artists such as Grammy Nominated Tracy Carter, Grammy Winner Bakithi Kumalo, Grammy Winner LV, Ghetto Romeo, SZA, Nobel Prize Winner Dario Fo for the ATICC theater show, They Don’t Pay, We Won’t Play, and many more.For over 12 years she has travelled the world, offering her voice and violin playing in the performance of sacred music and call-and-response mantra chant (kirtan). Her sound encompasses rich influences of East and West, and aims to offer an experience which truly nourishes the spirit.
She released her debut album, ‘Like a River to the Sea’ in July 2015, and features on the Grammy nominated ‘Bhakti Without Borders’ charity album (2016). Jahnavi presents regularly for BBC Radio 2’s ‘Pause for Thought’ and ‘Something Understood’ on BBC Radio 4. In 2020 she collaborated with Willow Smith on the single ‘Surrender (Krishna Keshava)’ and the EP ‘RISE’.
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Jonas Petersen loves to wear the hats of many. 15 years after being told by his Violin teacher to put his instrument aside to pursue a career as a sound engineer and music producer, he is still going at it. Playing violin, recording and producing music, every day. It was, after all, a good choice, to not listen to anyone’s advice. His career in the music industry has led him to collaborate with outstanding artists, producers, labels, and companies such as Hans Zimmer, Disney, ABC, Sony, Warner Bros, DreamWorks and many more. His focus on film- and music for media has awarded him the advertising industry’s highest honor in 2017, the Clio Entertainment Award. Every day he brings orchestral music to life, be it with live orchestras at Los Angeles’ legendary studio facilities or at his own studio, with his own violin.She released her debut album, ‘Like a River to the Sea’ in July 2015, and features on the Grammy nominated ‘Bhakti Without Borders’ charity album (2016). Jahnavi presents regularly for BBC Radio 2’s ‘Pause for Thought’ and ‘Something Understood’ on BBC Radio 4. In 2020 she collaborated with Willow Smith on the single ‘Surrender (Krishna Keshava)’ and the EP ‘RISE’.
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Multiple Grammy-nominated, including her 2020 Chilombo album, singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko was already more than a decade deep in the music game when she arrived at Def Jam in 2011 having been featured on singles, albums and mixtapes by A-listers like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Logic, J. Cole, and more. Jhené made history when her 2013 debut EP, Sail Out, became the biggest-selling EP in Def Jam history, earning RIAA-certified Gold status. The EP’s success was propelled when her sizzling BET award-winning and Grammy nominated Platinum crossover hit “The Worst” went #1 and the Childish Gambino-assisted hit single “Bed Peace” earned a RIAA-certified Gold nod. Keeping the momentum going, Jhené joined Drake on his 39-city North American Would You Like A Tour? after appearing with him on NBC Universal’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. A year later, Jhené’s 2014 solo album Souled Out, entered the Soundscan R&B chart at #1 with “The Pressure,” described by Billboard as “an otherworldly neck-snapper.”
In 2016, Jhené collaborated with fellow multi-platinum Def Jam superstar Big Sean on their debut duo project, TWENTY88. Jhené went on to release her sophomore album Trip, a passion project more than a decade in the making, with a trio of personal expression in the form of a Movie, Album, and Poetry book (M.A.P.) detailing an alternate form of therapy to deal with the loss of her brother Miyagi Hasani Ayo Chilombo to cancer in 2012. The short film explores many themes and images suggesting what to anticipate with her album and has garnered over 1.7 million YouTube views to date.
Trip debuted at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Albums Chart and is now RIAA-certified Gold. Trip rose to critical acclaim after its September 2017 release with standout singles “Sativa” [featuring Rae Sremmurd] amassing over 130 million YouTube views and “While We’re Young,” both earing RIAA-certified Platinum plaques. A lifelong writer, Jhené completed her trifecta by releasing 2FISH (a poetry book), presenting an intimate portrait of herself as Penny, the nickname given by her grandfather, with excerpts pulled directly from her journals as a child. The book is now a Barnes & Noble Bestseller.
Jhené’s evolution into a pop culture icon includes a heavy presence in top fashion books like Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, CR Fashion Book, and Vogue, while gracing the covers of Status, Galore, and Nylon. She can be seen frequently attending fashion weeks around the globe as a fixture in the fashion world including Christian Dior, Roberto Cavalli, Chanel and more. Her interactive Trip exhibit was showcased as an art installation and performance at Art Basel Miami 2017.
While Jhené has proved to be a trailblazer in the music, art, and fashion space, she has created a movement between amplifying the convergence of music, literature, philanthropy and personal well-being. Last year, Jhené partnered with Viacom’s Get Schooled, an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to using the power of media, technology and pop culture to motivate and inspire young people to engage in paths toward higher education. Together, Jhené and Get Schooled created #PennysPen, a platform for students and young children to express themselves through writing. The campaign was launched on National Writing Day and went viral, engaging over 45 million nationwide. Jhené went on to lead an intimate poetry workshop at the first ever Teen Vogue Summit in Los Angeles encouraging girls of all ages to discover how to heal through creative writing.
In December 2017, Jhené continued her movement by launching the W.A.Y.S foundation, an acronym for “Why aren’t you smiling,” in honor of her late brother. The foundation, intimately led by Jhené and her family, is dedicated to instill hope into the lives of those who desperately need help.
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You know there’s magic and grace aboard from the heavens when your very first interview series draws a Grammy Award-winning musician, world-renowned energy medicine experts, and revered NY Times Bestselling Authors.
That’s exactly what happened when Broadway and Opera singer, master alchemist, meditation leader and crystal alchemy sound healer, Jeralyn Glass, stepped way beyond her comfort zone with the encouragement of her beloved son from the other side, and put together a completely free Sacred Science of Sound online interview series creating a global network of empaths, authors, healers, doctors, musicians, and scientists for the betterment of all.
One by one a list of who’s who in the field of music, sound vibration, and energy medicine heard the message and came to the table to create one of the most enlightening, engaging and thorough conversations on healing through sound ever recorded. With this success tucked into her heart and pocket, Jeralyn Glass then organically created a live event in 2019, followed by a fantastic lineup of presenters in 2020. These unprecedented times require more. Jeralyn is thrilled to present A Season of the Sacred Science of Sound, already in pre-press garnering the same mystical momentum, energy, and specialness as the previous years.
Focusing on the latest in bio-energetics, vibrational healing, sacred sound (including its modern-day application), and the power of music to transform us at the cellular level, The Sacred Science of Sound Series is attracting an intoxicating array of talent and experts like Dr. Sue Morter, Dr. Daniel Levitin, Eileen McKusick, Dr Todd Ovokaitys, and world class musicians Victor Wooten, Jahnavi, Maejor, Simrit and Jhene Aiko whose addition of crystal alchemy singing bowls in her original songs is both mesmerizing and healing for millions around the world.
Jeralyn Glass says of the Season, “Quantum Science tells us we are made of Energy. As a musician grieving the loss of my only child, I know now that we are indeed made of Energy, Sound Vibration and Light. My son has confirmed this again and again with his communication. The first online event inspired by him, was a magical spin into the unknown for me, into a deep and raw conversation about the power of music and sound vibration to heal, to connect in the ineffable, the places in us where words, touch, and medicines do not go, and cannot go. I am thrilled how this language of sound is breaking generational and cultural boundaries, unifying us, bringing harmony and peace.