One of the most popular ballets, scores, and slices of our culture, The Nutcracker ballet is not just a seasonal tradition, but a chance to come together and celebrate the magic of dance, year after year.

Singing Therapy brings out the best in us, helping us express who we truly are and how we genuinely feel. It enhances brain activity, improves breathwork, and turns the body into a resonating singing bowl, offering healing that goes beyond what we can measure.

Blessed Assurance is an example of how women in gospel music can embody technical, emotional, and spiritual depth. Through music therapy, I healed my cramps while unlocking a deeper relationship with God and the robust strength that comes with repetitive pain.

Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) are mental, physical, and emotional health specialties that integrate art, dance, music, theater, and poetry to foster authentic healing, enhance self-awareness, and provide multidimensional forms of communication. After meditation, progress to our personal truths may arise as well as emotions, memories, and traumas. CATs can help to heal those tough emotions as well as enrich our soul.

Song of the Open Road extends an awareness of how beautiful the synchronicity of everyone and everything around us is. With scenes of our expanding universe, symbolism, concepts, and analogies, it ignites the feeling of freedom, wonder, direction, drive, and travel. Join me for an evening of lit therapy, float therapy, music therapy, and the song of the open road.

Making playlists is great fun, it has art, tech, and music therapy wrapped in one. I wasn’t expecting it to have any therapeutic benefit but this topic created a specific venn diagram of music and video content that struck chords in nostalgia, self-realization, and emotional healing. Favorite tv intros are specific enough to cut the fat from popular opinion and get down to the intros that spark joy in relaxing and watching tv.

Granada Hills, CA

Prema Yoga in Granada Hills, CA offers different types of yoga classes including hath, vinyasa, kundalini, and yin. Other classes specialized in energetic and physical healing such as urban zen, meditation, yoga nidra, and spine health. I would recommend their studio for those who want to try a variety of yoga styles taught by educated and spiritually-minded instructors.

The Hall of Healing at the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo are specialized rooms for concentrated technologies to enhance a meditation experience. This year I’ll be working in these spaces and in this introductory blog post, I’m sharing what they have to offer, what to expect, and how to be emotionally and spiritually prepared. At first glance, the event descriptions sound esoteric and distant but these healing modalities are essentially wellness paths to feelings of love and expansion.

Los Angeles, CA
I didn’t go to see Ross From Friends with the intention of charging my pocket crystals but after a night of all-encompassing vibrations in a space packed with nice people, the next day I noticed a difference in the crystals that I had in my clutch. When I go out dancing, I prefer to drink soda water and wear earplugs so my kind of hangover is more like some really sore legs and discovering these positively charged crystals.

Since music is processed and stored in multiple parts of the brain, especially our memory, there is a strong and special connection to the importance of music in each of our lives. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, studies have linked listening to music with stronger memory recall, proving music therapy to help heal emotional traumas, self-expression, and the feeling of joy.

Made of a metal alloy or quartz crystal, singing bowls are sacred instruments for meditation, contemplation, and healing. We can visualize the physics behind their healing abilities, map their vibrational patterns, and notice how we feel from their psycho-acoustic therapeutic qualities.

What’s the difference between listening to relaxing music while lying down versus sitting up? I experimented with this morning’s meditation and found subtle yet fulfilling benefits to simply sitting up.