Jill Mattson is an author, artist, musician and widely recognized expert and composer in the emerging field of Sound Healing. She has written four books and produced six CD's that combine intricate Sound Healing techniques with her original Award winning musical compositions (Deep Wave Beauty CD - Best New Age CD of 2012 - Silver Award). The CD's consist of intriguing, magical tracks using ancient & modern techniques - with sound energy & special healing frequencies to achieve profound benefits.
My guest on Shaman's Keep will be Steven Ash, author of "Sacred Drumming". He was born in Britain, but grew up on Native American reservations in Canada where his father was the reservation doctor. Steven learned healing and natural medicine with his father, and later lived and studied with Ted Williams, Chief and Medicine Man for the Raven Tribe. He was given the name, Buffalo Spirit Man, and given the honor of being a pipe carrier by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man. He now resides in the UK where he teaches alternative healing methods at the College of Sound Healing.
Raymon Grace will be our guest this week. He is a native of the mountains of Virginia and has spent 35 years doing healing work and teaching dowsing and psychic development. He is a frequent teacher at the Ozark Research Institute's Power of Thought School, and he lectures across the country at dowsing conferences and alternative healing seminars. His style is unique, and he tells stories in a down-to-earth mountain man way. Among those he has learned from are Rolling Thunder, Cherokee Medicine Man, and Chief Two Trees, Cherokee Chief and Healer.
This week Christine Stevens will be with us to awaken your Music MEdicine - for mind, body, heart, and soul. She holds a Masters Degree in both Social Work, and Music Therapy, and authored a book called "Music Medicine" linking healing of emotions and mental and physical illnesses with sound and rhythm. She is Founder of Up Beat Drum Circles and has some wonderful and exciting drumming CDs available. She has appeared on NBC, PBS, KTLA, and has worked with survivors of Katrina, Ground Zero, and recently trained the first drum circle in a war zone in northern Iraq.
PATRICK PINSON, of Mingo heritage and founder of Cedar Mountain Drums, shares his unique perspective on healing spiritual, emotional, and addiction issues with drumming and Play Therapy. After a profound Vision Quest experience, he began making drums. He had been a Gestalt Therapist, a stockbroker, fundraiser, and Play Therapist. After two years of drum making and drumming circle experience, he realized that his true path was in helping people through the power of the drum.