Dave Stringer and Healing Chants

Dave Stringer Performs at The Yoga Barn, Bali

An excerpt from my new article on the unifying power of chant in Newsvoice.se .  It is a feature about respected Kirtan singer, Dave Stringer, who recently performed at the Yoga Barn. Stringer discussed singing in gibberish to be therepeutic in a way that reminded me of a practice used by some shamans.

In certain shamanic chants or mantras bits and pieces of words come through in a vocal soup that makes little sense to most. Still, some believe there is a healing force that can be traced to the quality, shape and combination of the sounds themselves.

After learning about Kototama, an ancient study of sound, I was made aware that certain vocal sounds can stimulate while others sedate and that different combinations of vowels and consonants have symbolic and universal significance--it can start with how you utter your name--the name being each person's principal mantra for life.

ICARO TO MOTHER NATURE AMAZONIAN CHANT
Dairandaidrandidai
Hasto cielo mantchini cinchi cinchi medicoy

Mediconche coy na mi hapa morish vwa miquay

Dairandaidrandidai

Dairandaidrandidai

In this way, may be sounds do make up a world language like Stringer suggests--most musicians call music a universal language for a reason, and the words used in their songs don't have to make much transliteral sense.

To access the healing power of sound, there is an implied delinking of the mind involved, which is simply another altered state or pathway to the second attention.

The most interesting aspect of Stringer was his personal history and how he came to discover the therapeutic power of song. As a youngster, Dave would sing gibberish to himself—uttering a string of vocal sounds that often made no coherent sense– “it appeared and I just followed it,” he recalled.


Dave described this practice as a spiritual communication process from within, “it was the kind of nonsense that was meaningful to me,” He acknowledged there were possible shamanic elements to these non-linear vocalizations. And he came to consider them as ways to take negative emotions and to release and replace them with positive ones.

Dave discovered Kirtan later on while traveling in India... as a study and practice that gave structure and definition to the inner processes that he had privately engaged in all along. In a sense, Kirtan validated the gibberish.

“It gave my life a rich meaning—I could transform what was dark and difficult into something brighter and allow it to spread. So I went around the world singing.”

The full piece can be found here

Interview with Sound Therapy Master Fabien Maman, September 8, 2010

I am training with Fabien Maman, who will be interviewed by Jonathan Goldman, on his Healing Sounds Radio show this Wednesday.  Fabien is a pioneer in vibrational sound therapy--he created the 12 meridian acupuncture point tuning fork system.

Although it is not mentioned in the text below, Fabien also incorporates shamanic soundscapes into his healing practices--using different frequencies, the voice, and acoustic instruments to clear subtle body fields and help realign and balance energy channels.  For more information on Maman, visit the Tama-Do Academy website at:  http://www.tama-do.com/roothtmls/aboutfabien.html

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Healing Sounds Newsletter

HEALING SOUNDS RADIO with Jonathan Goldman & Fabien Maman

http://www.healthylife.net/ --September 2010

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Please tune in September 8th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to http://www.healthylife.net/  when I present "The Healing Sounds Show". My guest for this show will be Fabien Maman .

Fabien Maman is a musician, composer, acupuncturist, author, researcher, healer, teacher, "bioenergetician" and martial artist. As a musician/composer, he performed his original compositions in the great concert halls of the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Tokyo Opera, the Paris Olympia and the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the recipient of the Grande Prix de Composition Francaise (Grand prize of French composition). In 1977, Fabien became an acupuncturist, linking music with acupuncture. He created the now famous system which uses tuning forks instead of needles on acupuncture command points. In the early 80's, Fabien conducted his revolutionary biology experiments at the University of Jussieu in Paris, showing the impacts of acoustic sound on human cells and their energy fields. Fabien found that through a series of acoustic sounds, he could explode cancer cells, as well as energize and empower healthy ones. This would become the driving theory behind Fabien's life's work: 'that blockages in our subtle energy fields can result in physical illness if they are allowed to crystallize. Sound, Color and Movement are the most effective tools we can use to dissolve these negative energetic patterns.'

In 1988 Fabien founded Tama-Do ("Way of the Soul"), the Academy of Sound, Color and Movement®, offering a three-year training program for the evolution of consciousness using non-invasive vibrational techniques composed of Sound, Color and Movement® and Seasonal Healing Concerts. For nearly 30 years, Fabien has created research and practical applications to balance the body, mind and spirit through the subtle energy fields. He is the author of numerous books including: The Role of Music in the 21st Century and Raising Human Frequencies. He has also created several music healing CDs. He may be contacted at: http://www.tama-do.com/

Fabien is an extraordinary healer and pioneer in this field. This will be a remarkable radio show. Please join us on September 8th.

If you have a question and would like to be "live" on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here's the audience call in telephone number: 800 - 555 - 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, September 8th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman