| John Beaulieu, ND, PhD, is a naturopathic doctor, composer, and sound therapist. He is the founder of BioSonic Repatterning™ and the author of Music and Sound in the Healing Arts. He currently oversees molecular research on sound and the healing effects of tuning forks, and has published numerous research papers. |
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| Don Campbell is a recognized authority on the transformative power of music and listening. He is the acoustic and musical director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, an innovative company that provides quality music to health care facilities. He is also a consultant to many health care organizations and the renowned author of the best-selling books on The Mozart Effect®. |
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| PatMoffitt Cook, PhD, FAMI, CCMHP, is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center inWashington. She is a pioneer in the use of cross-cultural sound and music in health care. Her doctoral work in music paralleled extensive practical training and certification in methods of Auditory Stimulation and Sensory Integration (TomatisMethod) and in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). |
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| David Darling is a world-renowned, classically trained cellist and composer who has dedicated himself to teaching music and improvisation. In 1986 he cofounded Music for the People, a nonprofit educational network that teaches and fosters improvisation as a means of creative self-expression. David’s recent recording, “Cello Blue,” was a 2002 Grammy nominee. |
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| Laurie Herron is a certified teacher of Acutonics, with a shamanic background that includes training in Touch for Health, Native American herbology, and energy balancing. Acutonics® implements the tuning forks and teaches the meridians and points as pathways for sound, cellular memory, and energy repatterning. |
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| Joshua Leeds is a music producer, sound researcher, and educator specializing in psychoacoustics, the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system. He is the author of The Power of Sound and Sonic Alchemy. |
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| Joanne Loewy DA, MT-BC, LCAT is the founder and director of The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC, where she has been practicing for 13 years. She specializes in music therapy and its application for a variety of populations from NICU to End of Life. |
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| Katie Mink, LAc, is a certified teacher of Acutonics®, Healing with Tuning Forks System, and she is the founder and director of the Bancroft Center of ChineseMedicine in Berkeley, CA, where she specializes in acupuncture, nutrition and Chinese HerbalMedicine. |
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| Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, and director/ choreographer, as well as a creator of new opera, musical theater works, films, and installations. A pioneer in “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” she has created more than 100 works. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship and two Guggenheim Fellowships. |
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| Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is the coordinator of CIIS Public Programs’ Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Certificate program. A pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness, she is an award-winning composer and a psychologist. Silvia is the founder and artistic director of the international Vox Mundi School of the Voice. |
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| Claudio Naranjo, MD, a pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, studied medicine, music, and philosophy in Chile, where he was also a resident at the University of Chile Psychiatric Clinic and later Director of the Center for Studies in Medical Anthropology. He was among the staff in the early stages of Esalen Institute, where he became one of three successors to Fritz Perls. |
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| Pauline Oliveros is a professor and a composer who has been one of the most influential figures in experiential music. Her Deep Listening® philosophy, a meditation practice, advocates expanding awareness and attentiveness by “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing.” |
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| Janis Phelps, PhD, teaches at CIIS in the graduate departments East-West Psychology and Clinical Psychology. She has researched and taught graduate courses in childhood development, enhanced expectancies and treatment, clinical supervision, mind-body wellness, transpersonal and wellness therapy, Eastern disciplines, research methodology, and meditation and creativity. |
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| Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a master of the Bön Dzogchen and founder of the Ligmincha Institute. An accomplished scholar in the Bön Buddhist textual traditions of philosophy, exegesis, and debate, Tenzin Rinpoche completed a rigorous 11-year course of traditional studies at the Bönpo Monastic Center in India, where he received his doctorate, or Geshe. |
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| Jim Ryan has taught Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy at CIIS for 24 years. He teaches courses on the Upanishads, Bhagavadgita, and Hindu Tantrism. He has a special interest in the Integral Philosophy of Haridas Chaudhuri. His focus in teaching on yoga is the issue of embodiment and the intersection of worldly and transcendental aims in yoga. |
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| Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC holds master's degrees in both social work and music therapy. She is the author of The Healing Drum Kit, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles and has drummed in New Orleans with Katrina survivors, Columbine High School, and Ground Zero. |
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| Glen Velez is a Grammy Award-winning percussionist, an international soloist, and a seminal figure in the history of the frame drum. After 15 years performing and recording with Steve Reich and Paul Winter, he is working as a soloist while continuing to collaborate with a variety of prominent artists in many genres. Glen’s own compositions have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and John Schaefer's New Sounds. |
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