Ancient Echoes: The Power of Place
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Ancient Echoes: The Power of Place

Ancient Greeks cultures had a deep understanding of sound, its sacredness and how the dimensions of spaces could be used to enhance the psycho-spiritual effects of voice and music.

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Human: The Musical Species
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Human: The Musical Species

Music in its purest form is a direct translation of the unknowable, the great mystery.  It is part of humankind's deep striving for sacred connection. Like many of the conditions that support life on our planet, air, water, ideal proximity to the sun, the physics of sound and the harmonic series supports a hidden vibratory world that both influences and mirrors human consciousness.

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Music and the Hypnagogic State
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Music and the Hypnagogic State

Thomas Edison considered sleep to be an unproductive state, and legend has it he slept no more than four hours a night. Edison did, however, hold the hypnagogic dreaming state in high regard and developed a technique for ‘hacking’ the hypnagogic phase between waking and sleep.

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Tuning Into Birdsong
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Tuning Into Birdsong

From using birdsong soundtracks as a sleep aid to studies showing an improvement in cognitive function when birdsong is played in the background…“A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the benefits of nature for mental health, including higher mental wellbeing and lower risk of mental illness.”

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Forest Bathing
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Forest Bathing

Before I knew there was a term, Forest Bathing, from the Japanese Shinrin-yoku, I was immersing myself in the NZ rainforest on the farm where I grew up. The sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the New Zealand rainforest was a source of reverence and wonder to me as a child.

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Benefits of Brown Noise
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Benefits of Brown Noise

Brown Noise has an even deeper sound than Pink Noise and is prevalent in nature in the form of waterfalls and ocean waves. It is characterized by the roar of rushing water.

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