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HARMONIC PRESENCE & HARMONIC CHANT Teachings in France
David will conduct a new cycle
of Harmonic Presence teachings
about music, meditation and healing
harmonization
during three weekend retreats at Pommereau,
the
Foundation's main center near Paris, France,
on March 8-9, 15-16,
and 21-23.
Pommereau is on a beautiful 12th century Cistercian site
just 90 minutes southwest of Paris, near the Loire River,
in a park
surrounded by forests, fields and lakes.
Our guided Harmonic
Presence retreat and training programs
include intensive daily
music, meditation and healing harmonization teachings
and sessions
with David Hykes, plus accomodations and meals.
For information
about any of our programs or activities,
you can e-mail us, or call us at +1
203 843 3524 in the USA,
or in France at +33 9 52 56 74 69.
David Hykes gives concerts of Harmonic Chant as well as
offering the Harmonic Presence teachings in the
form of
seminars, retreats and healing sessions in many different
countries.
Some recent calendar highlights:
David had the honor to offer a benefit concert in December, 2007 in Boudhanath,
Nepal,
in honor of
the 10th anniversary of Rangjung Yeshe
Institute,
directed by one of his gurus, the Tibet Buddhist
reincarnate lama,
Tulku Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche.
Inspired by this occasion, and his recordings of the amazing huge
bell
at the Boudhanath Stupa, David has begun a series of new Dharma
Music
meditative music compositions which include the resonances of
the
mantra-covered bell. He offers YOU
the chance to listen to
the first composition of the series,
called "First Attunement" HERE.
HARMONIC PRESENCE & HARMONIC CHANT Teachings in Denmark:
David will offer the
9th annual Harmonic
Presence retreat
August 4-9, 2008, in the amazing old stone
church high above the sea
in Hojerup, Denmark (see photo below).
Last year's retreat was fully booked. This guided Harmonic Presence
retreat and training program
includes daily Harmonic Chant and
guided meditation sessions with David.
Accomodations and meals are
separately organized
at a lovely motor hotel by the sea near the
church.
For information,v please contact the Danish organizers,
Mme. Benedicte Sales and
Harmonix.
The Foundation is devoted to events
that foster the growth of authentic knowledge and direct experience of
essential Harmony, especially in ways that connect Mind, Meditation,
Music and Medicine.
We host seminars and retreats with leading
spiritual teachers
like revered Tibetan Buddhist lama Chokyi Nyima Rinpoché.
We also encourage
support for the enlightened and compassionate activities
of the renowned
lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche
and his Pundarika Foundation,
and their support of the amazing Nangchen Nuns.
Our recent project in New York,
the first wave of our Festival
entitled "Resonance and Radiance: Sacred Music, Sacred Mind",
brought together practitioners of traditional and contemporary sacred
chant
to explore the emerging relationships between mind, music,
meditation and medicine.
You can download the brochure here.
Harmonic Presence weekend
June 1-6, 2008, at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California:
Bringing Harmony to Life and the Music of All Spheres
"Being in Harmony is a blessed service to the universe, to others, and
oneself,"
says David Hykes. "How can we bring Harmony more to life in
ourselves and in the world?"
This goes to the heart of what we
feel, see, and hear every single day.
"Harmony," writes David, "is
present in us Earthlings since the Beginning: The harmonics of the Big
Bang still echo now.
When we are attuned, listening, and harmonizing, we
can accompany energetic transformation in any sphere,
and help bring
true happiness and joy to life.
Through cultivating a practice
of Harmony,
through direct experience of the vibratory nature of all
existence, we can greatly serve this world."
David Hykes is a
respected pioneer in the philosophy and contemporary practice of sacred
sound
and related meditative practices, which he calls the Harmonic
Presence work.
The teachings and practices include the universal
sound yoga called Harmonic Chant, and meditative energy work with deep
harmonization, listening awarenes
s, and attunement.
The work resonates
in the body, heart, and mind—in all the octaves of our experience.
Uniting sacred music and sound yoga, meditation and mindfulness
training, and the medicine of healing harmonization, the Harmonic
Presence
work can help attunement in every walk of life.
Soul, self,
society, and spirit are all potentially related
in the Great Chord of
Being, right up to the music of the spheres.
You can apply to our HARMONIC
PRESENCE ONLINE STUDY PROGRAM with CHANT ROOM, allowing you, and
even an entire CHANT ROOM group, a personalized online course of study
and harmonic satsang with David Hykes, including Harmonic Chant and the
Harmonic Presence work, through live Internet sessions, e-mail and
audio/video exchange. It really works.
For information about this (r)evolutionary new learning and spiritual
practice method, you can write
the Harmonic Presence Foundation for information, and apply by
e-mail.
The concert DVD, "Harmonic Meeting," a concert evening with
David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir, filmed live in Paris, will soon be available
again for online order.
Announcing the latest CD of authentic Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing)
by David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir,"HARMONIC WORLDS," sharing the
further evolution of contemporary Harmonic Chant in 7 compositions with
the full Harmonic Choir and master percussionists Ev Mann and Bob
Muller. Here are 3 of the 7 Harmonic Modes from the 32 Modes of Harmonic
Chant explored on the CD.
The Harmonic Presence work offers first-rate musical quality, joyful harmonizing with self and others, meditative depth, and a flair for getting to the heart of the matter-- what's real, true and beautiful.
He is a long-time spiritual practitioner and meditator.
For all those seeking help with work on the Path involving music, meditation and healing, the Harmonic Presemce work remains a fine place to put your attention. This universal way is toward --and from-- harmony and reality, through musical and contemplative harmonic work with sound, listening awareness, meditation practice and living, practical spiritual philosophy.
The triple focus is on music, meditation, and healing/harmonization work. Chant, listening awareness, breath work, physical sound sensation, and gentle movement are the principle elements of David's Harmonic Presence teaching.
David takes the harmonic series, universal to all musical sound and voices, as both the practical and symbolic starting point for the work, and the organic source in music of melody, harmony and rhythm.
The workshops, retreats and seminars emphasize Harmonic Presence both as an approach to Reality and as an evolutionary tool. The teaching is open to all. He has given retreats, seminars, workshops, concerts and lectures since 1980 in the U.S., France, and many other countries. In each teaching/learning situation, the emphasis is on actual experience of the original, primordial, luminous harmonic consciousness. Harmonic Chant is presented and practicedin harmony and respect of all wisdom traditions, especially Tibetan Buddhism and the Gurdjieff Work. Hykes emphasizes the transdisciplinary context of the research, to show the unity between the musical, contemplative and spiritual aspects of this work.
In the workshop and retreat groups, a wealth of specific exercises give the opportunity for everyone to discover and develop new relationships between the voice, harmonics, and transformation of the listening.
