Music Therapy

Music for Meditation & Healing Concert - By HH Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji
Date & Time:	July 4th 6:30PM
Venue:	Bass Performance Hall

HH Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji founder of Datta Yoga Center, Himself a great Musician and a composer, has been conducting Music Concerts for Meditation and Healing in India and many other countries in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Micronesia, Australia and Caribbean Islands. Listening to His Healing and Meditation music in person, or to his many recordings, is the melodical medicine prescribed by Sri Swamiji for all ailments and conditions ranging from Coma to Cancer and Migraine to Mental Depression.

"The music therapy is combined with Ayurveda, Psychology, Gemenotherapy and Astrology" says Sri Swamiji. He further adds "I only effect a rapport between man and God, the supreme reality, with help coming from man himself in good measure. I attune man to God through belief and music. Once that results, body-consciousness vanishes gradually, and with that, affliction ceases to be experienced and ceases to exist. That is healing through Music and Meditation.

"There is no complication about it, once you are in tune with the 'modus operandi'. "Listen with your heart and not with your intellect" He insists, not without reason, for He is no purist composer or musician. Sri Swamiji's therapy lays stress on concentration on the part of the Healer-Musician and listener. "Listening, " He says "is a special technique requiring sense control." Cerebral sounds are aroused and long concentration on a tune creates a healing effect on the listener. He Himself plays a synthesizer which produces the sounds of many instruments. He has opted for the synthesizer to reduce the number of accompanists in His concert troupe. The resounding synthesizer sets pace and the other instruments keep company, thereby resulting in a melodious fusion that produces Divine Healing at the gross, subtle and Spiritual levels.

Music Therapy Session Live Performance - By Cheryl Gallagher
Date & Time:	Sunday 5th July 2009 3:30PM to 4:30PM
Venue:	Embassy Suites & Conference Center

Cheryl Gallagher is an innovative harpist from Austin, Texas, who has released several albums on her own record label, Gracie G Records, which she founded in 1997.

Cheryl's debut recording, Pregnant Pause is a beautiful harp and instrumental album for mothers and children that both can love. Pregnant Pause set Cheryl's music career off to a great start by winning her five national awards, including a prestigious Parent’s Choice Award, an ABC parenting award, and received an ASCAP Popular Music Award, among others. The album was also one of the top 50 most popular radio airplay New Age albums in 1998, according to NAV magazine.