3810 Valley Commons
Suite 6
SoundGate Meditation
First & Third Fridays of the Month
7-8 PM
Our SoundGate program offers an opportunity to meditate using sound as a source of concentration. Experience how the union of breath and sound can anchor you in the present moment. No prior experience or registration necessary.
The Buddha instructed his students to bring awareness and sensory clarity to each of the six sense “gates” of experience. Just as we can anchor in breathing, we can anchor in body sensations, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or mindfully track the activity of the thinking mind.
These SoundGate Meditations offer a sound-scape of sensory experience to be your object of meditation, allowing you to linger in the experience of hearing (and take a break from other sense gates perhaps). A variety of sounds will be offered, bells and bowls, chanting, music, recordings of the natural world and soundscapes of our common humanity. While most are designed to be pleasant and carry beneficial intention, some will be neutral or varied in content.
You may simply relax and bathe in harmonious sound, or more intentionally bring elements of Insight practice to your meditation.
Check our listings below to see what will be offered when, or simply drop in with curiosity and explore.
No registration necessary | Donations welcome; any funds collected will be split equally between the Dharma Center and Facilitator.
April 5: Frequency Sound Immersion with Jessie Solon
Enter a timeless space of listening as Jessie facilitates deep states of relaxation through the intentional use of overtone rich, sound healing instruments including crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, a symphonic gong, bells & chimes, wave, and monochord. The layering of these elements will offer a unique sound experience that will encourage a tangible shift in perceptual awareness, as well as an increased sense of nourishment and well-being.
April 19: Tibetan Bowls with Brian Sparks
Brian has received his spiritual teaching from several masters in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His teachers blessed his bowl work by giving him the specific “Prayer of Aspiration” and granted him many Buddhist empowerments. He has toured with notable Tibetan musicians, actors, and at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee.
He offers his practice of playing bowls in service of healing, compassion and awakening.
May 10: Soundbath with Mantras of Compassion
Annika Sophia Grace (vocals), Marius George (percussion) and Jessie Solon (bowls, gong, monchord) return to treat us to a bilssful sound bath.