An Evening Of HARMONIC PRESENCE
With DAVID HYKES
Harmonic Chant ≈ Contemplative Practice ≈ Healing Harmonization
David Hykes's inspiring "evening" of our potentially united states of mind will be largely devoted to practice and exploration, including direct group immersion in his "mu- sic of the spheres," Harmonic Chant, and the Harmonic Presence work of the past 40 years, with practices with subtle breath (prana), listening awareness, sensation and vibration, group harmony, and luminosity-- as part of a full-spectrum approach to well-being and creative and spiritual inspiration. In short, the work links music, healing harmonization, and contemplative awareness practice, to help us reattune mind, heart and body, and to culti- vate deep qualities of being-- sense of har- mony, compassionate accompaniment, toler- ance, presence, joy, and openness. And to find again the ancient chords of being.
PRESENTER: David's journey as artist, mu- sician and contemplative practitioner and teacher includes immersion in wisdom tradi- tions, especially Tibetan Buddhism, native american tradition via the Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico where he was born, sacred world music, and cosmology. Remarkable beings he has had the honor to offer his music for include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Na- tive American elders, the Gyuto Monks and nuns of Nagi Gompa in Nepal, and his Ti- betan Buddhist teachers, filmmaker Dzong- sar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and for the Mind and Life Institute (which brings to- gether neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners). He is a noted “sacred cinema” composer ("Travellers and Magicians”, "Ba- raka”, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"...) as well as for films including "Ghost," and "Dead Poets Society" and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life." Hykes’s work has been honored by UNESCO, the National Endow- ment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Founda- tion, the Edwards Art Fund, and NYSCA. His 12 albums include "Hearing Solar Winds," the best-selling "throat-singing" album of all time. Info: www.harmonicpresence.org.
New Harmonic Presence groups forming in the Hampton(e)s and NYC. Info harmonicpresence@gmail.com