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The New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI)

NESHRI's  Fall Sound Healing Gathering
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004
in Lanesville (Gloucester), MA
 1-10 PM, at the Lanesville Community Center
Vulcan Street, at High Street

We look forward to seeing you for an afternoon and evening of sharing and sound healing.
This event is open to the community at large, and we support each other by broadening this network of sound healers & those interested in sound healing!!  Feel free to pass this information on to your networks, and friends.
Cost and additional information follows.

Our event begins at 1 PM, with some of New England's most influential sound healing teachers offering experiential exercises in their fields of expertise:

1-4PM
Kevin Michael, invocation, and teaching (guided meditation with sacred sound)
Saruah Benson, teaching (as only Saruah knows how!)
Michael O'Leary, teaching (group chants)
Benyamin Sheppard and Michelle Herrara Foster, teaching (healing music)
Zacciah Blackburn, teaching (using sacred sound streams)

4-6 PM
Community building, networking, organizational/business meeting
Michelle Herrara Foster (Director,) & Zacciah Blackburn (Director of Education,) moderating

6-7:30 PM
Potluck, bring something to share!  Small kitchen available.
(There may be some instruments for sale.)

7:30-10 PM
Intentional group sound healing ceremonies.
John Ananda will begin with a gong/Tibetan bowl sound meditation.
All present may participate in sounding/receiving healing intentions of group.  Bring your voices, instruments, and good intentions!
Zacciah will guide us in a group world healing ceremony.
If time permits, we will have improvisational music at the end.

Cost:  $50 prepaid, $60 at the door for members!  $60 prepaid, $70 at the door for non-members!  Non-members may include a check for membership with your payment, and receive the discount, see member info below!)  Directions to the Lanesville Community Center below. 
Send checks to NESHRI, c/o Zacciah, PO Box 389, Ascutney, VT  05030
We can also e-mail you a list of local accomodations if useful.
Don't forget to sign up on NESHRI's web site with your personal directory listing information, if you have not yet, as a member, or to receive future mails as a user of the NESHRI site, if you are a non-member.  And, as a member, add your news, articles, and events listings.  To see our current events listings, go to the web site!!
www.neshri.org

Good soundings!!

Your NESHRI Board of Directors
Michelle Herrara Foster, Director
Zacciah Blackburn, Director of Education Zacciah@neshri.org
Ben Sheppard, Director of Technology

We appreciate your assistance in furthering our networking efforts.
If you have a web site, please consider adding www.neshri.org to your links page. 

(Please consider adding http://www.thecenteroflight.net as a sound healing reference, as well.)
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Additional information regarding NESHRI, from a recent newsletter:
I want to formally invite you to join the New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI), and to join in our upcoming sound healing events.  NESHRI was formed in November of 2002 as a worldwide network of sound healers with the goals of sharing experience and knowledge, coordinating workshops and educational programs, and conducting informal and formal research into the effects of sound and music on healing and building community.
NESHRI has a growing membership with benefits including practitioner/directory listings on our web site, web pages (soon available), article publications, event listings and publications, event discounts, and more.  One of NESHRI's primary goals is to further research into the nature and effectiveness of sound healing modalities.  We will be assisting members in creating and participating in research opportunities.  Soon individual web pages will also be available for members. 
We have practitioners whom are active using sound healing in therapeutic applications as massage therapists, clinical psychotherapists, reiki therapists, and more.  They use, and teach methods, in the use of sound, with voice, instruments (including, but not limited to drums, crystal and Tibetan bowls, bells, and gongs, didgeridoo, and classical western and eastern instruments,) tuning forks, sound tables.  They utilize and teach sound therapies in intuitive and scientific approaches to sound.

We welcome you to come and check us out at www.neshri.org.  We are excited about new/upgraded features of the site, but more is to come.  We have just begun our directory listings (members have just begun their listings.)  Much more will soon be added to the web site, including greater information about our organization and sound healing, research opportunities, etc. 

You may join as a user/member without any fee, and add your name to the NESHRI mail list, in order to receive free updates on sound healing events listed by members, and other sound healing news.  (We will not be using the list you received this mail from, to forward NESHRI news to you, on any regular basis, so please sign up if you would like such news.  Your name/address is not shared with others.)

NESHRI is fast becoming a premier organization to further the use and research of sound as a healing modality.  Whether your interest is personal or professional, visit us, list yourself as a member to receive our newsletters, join for the simple $35/year directory listing or $55/year web page memberships, or donate to our soon to be non-profit status to further the work our members are engaged in.  As a professional, this is an awesome opportunity to associate with a working Sound Healing Network, which will gain you greater visibility in search engines on line, the most effective method of exposure on-line, as we will be generating high visibility in search engine rankings through our awareness of search engine strategies, high profile content of sound healing information, and service based organization.

We appreciate your assistance in furthering our networking efforts.
Please consider adding www.neshri.org to your links page.  If you are a service based organization, we will consider reciprocal links to your site.   (Please consider adding http://www.thecenteroflight.net as a sound healing reference, as well.)


NESHRI presented its First Annual Conference of the New England Sound Healing Research Institute in April of 2004.  We had over 85 individuals gather with about 15 highly experienced teachers of various sound healing modalities sharing their work.  We feel this was a most successful first year event, and intend to nurture and grow this event through each year.
We are looking at sites for our Annual NESHRI Conference in Spring, 2005.  We are considering conference/retreat centers, universities, and the like.  If you know of a worthy site for consideration, for a conference with multiple classrooms, meal and overnight facilities for up to 200, please advise us of such.  We are hoping to find a suitable site in the Greater Boston area, or other centralized location, but no place in New England is out of the question.  We welcome your input to Zacciah, at zacciah@neshri.org.  

NESHRI's Advisory Board draws from great pools of talent in the sound healing community, from the East & West coasts, including Dr. Molly Scott, Saruah Benson, Gail Byrnes, Kevin Michael, Peggy Black, Barbara Hero, and Christine Tulis. We look forward to working with each of them in assisting us in determining our future goals and direction.  

We also look forward to your participation.  Member input is always important to us, and will be an important ingredient at each of our main events, including the Nov 6 Fall Gathering and Spring Conference.  Please come and join us, and assist with our growth and direction.  We will be looking, also, for those of you wanting to be local contacts for each of your regions.  We would expect this to include regular networking in your area for NESHRI memberships, fundraising, etc.  This will be the foundation for building regional chapters, and hopefully, eventually, community centers.  Let us know of your interest.

If any of you would like to create a NESHRI fundraising event, or support such an event by one of our teachers, in your area, please contact us.

Thank you for your membership, and support of NESHRI, furthering our goals to support you and others in the sound healing community!
Blessings in your path.
Good soundings!!

Your NESHRI Board of Directors
Michelle Herrara Foster, Director
Zacciah Blackburn, Director of Education,  Zacciah@neshri.org
Ben Sheppard, Director of Technology

Important additional information:

NESHRI Email list – Please sign up on the website before 11/1

If you would like to continue being on the NESHRI News distribution list after 11/1, please sign up as a member on the website (if you haven’t already). Signing up as a guest/user is free; Directory listings and opportunities to post events come with $35 membership, along with other benefits (such as discounts to events). We don’t have the staff to compare individual email lists with that on the website, so we are asking everyone to sign up on the website to make sure you are not missed. Remember your password – you’ll need it everytime you sign up and whenever you want to update your directory listing. If you are a paid member you are already on the e-mail list!

NESHRI Fall Gathering, 11/6:

Hold Saturday November 6, 1-10  for the NESHRI Fall Gathering in at the Lanesville Community Center, in Gloucester, MA, hosted by Zacciah Blackburn, Michelle Herrera Foster, Ben Sheppard, John Ananda, and Heather Wolfe. Join us for a day of soundhealing, sharing, and networking, $50 for members paid in advance, $60 at the door.  $60 for non-members paid in advance, or $70 at the door for non-members. Proceeds will go to NESHRI to cover future website activities, non-profit incorporation, 2005 Conference, and other working costs.  To hold your spot, send a check paid to NESHRI c/o Zacciah Blackburn at P.O. Box 389, Ascutney, VT 05030.  The day will entail several hours of teacher presentations, organizational meeting, potluck, and an opportunity to experience an intentional sound healing environ in which everyone in attendance is invited to participate.  If time permits, there may be a musical improvisation for all, as well.

Directions to the Lanesville Community Center:

NESHRI Membership News: Directory is On-Line! Don’t forget to post your events and articles.

Check out News/Events now and periodically for sound healing workshops, ongoing sound healing circles, and performances.  If you are a member, POST YOUR EVENTS and articles!!

 
Volunteers Needed
NESHRI is a volunteer organization, and your help is appreciated. We need volunteers to assist with boosting our membership, hosting fundraising events, writing articles, and finding research grants and research opportunities, such as in hospitals or holistic centers. We are working together to raise awareness about the power of sound and music in healing and building community. The NESHRI family is growing!  We will also be looking for a greater number of volunteers for our next conference to assist in planning, admin, doorkeeping/ticketing, and general overall conference assistance, in exchange for attendance.  Please let Zacciah know if you are interested.

  

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Zacciah Blackburn, Director
The Center of Light in Vermont
P.O. Box 389
Hidden Glen Rd.
Ascutney, VT  05030  USA

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