The Medicine Music Workshops

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You are invited into a day
For honouring the sweet muse of your music

A day for Re-igniting your Creative Intent

For Singing like its your last Song!

As you begin to remember in the circle of the dance, or in the tide of Tai Chi, In the Ancient Invocation of Devotional Song, or in the re-membering as we gather the simple sharing of our stories.

Each moment dedicated to Complete Awareness

As we breathe in and out and in..

WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN LOST

A Day dedicated to awareness and beauty in whatever you choose

A day to re-awaken our sense of wonder in the ordinary and the simple A Day to play, and be played Alone or Together Contained and orchestrated in the hands of two of South Africa's most gifted sound-workers Jennifer Ferguson and Courtney Ward, the Medicine Music Sessions are uniquely and miraculously sculpted to meet the needs, hidden and expressed, of each particular group that constellates itself.

During the workshop we will explore:

How to create a sacred space through sound
How to release the voice from habitual inhibitions
How to clear your your body/voice/spirit of tension areas using the movement forms of Tai Chi and Chi Gong to aid in clearing
The invocation of your name allowing deep levels of self acceptance and forgiveness to emerge
The joyful play of various ethnic instruments, creating rhythms and song for us to dance the remembering of our tribal centre
Devotional songs from various tongues, together in open heart space
The miracle of inspired music, co-creating a song from your awakened inner poet
Closure within a powerful Journey of Sound, where you need do nothing but receive a sonic bath of indigenous heart of song.

The Medicine Music Sessions
Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: Sage Healing Centre
Web: www.sagehealing.co.za
Address: 5 Geers Rd Greenside (off Gleneagles Road)
Cost: R450 for the day.
A deposit of R200 will secure your space, bookings are limited and filling up fast so please
contact

Jennifer: 084 614 25 74
Email: janifa@netactive.co.za to book your space.
Please use this bank account for your deposit

Bank Details
Nedbank Eastgate 1924-05
Acc no 1924244020
fax 011 6242133 for confirmation
Or Contact

Courtney Harmonic Choice
tel: 011 477 6648
cell: 073 544 1485
email: courtney@beagle.org.za

Some feedback from participants:

Our magical Medicine Music Day was like being given a beautifully wrapped gift. I so looked forward to the day - a bit like a child waiting for the dawn on Christmas morning - filled with expectancy. As the day (gift) began to unfold, I was blessed beyond words (how does one put words to such a spiritual experience). We all need to retreat, now and again, from our day to day routine to spend time with the Divine the Source of all love you for helping to create that space. Thank you, too, for your music, song, fellowship and council. Another milestone on the journey toward wholeness - Halleluiah!
Kim Carlile
PS: I may just become a Medicine Music Maniac!

A time for reflection, inspiration and joy. A day to rediscover the song within and share in the creation of beautiful music guided by the enormous combined talent of Jennifer and Courtney. Thank you !!
Janine von Zeneur.

For me it was a day of playing in the waves of sound. To experience expressing my "be-ing" through the wondrous vibrations of music & gentleness of movement. It was a time of re-discovering the song & melody "with-in" Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Namaste
Pam Dunbar

For me the Medicine Music Day was a day of significance. I felt bonded to our facilitators, Courtney and Jennifer, and went home feeling recharged!
from Rosemary (87 YEARS YOUNG!)

About your Facilitators

Jennifer Ferguson has spent many years initially using herself as a tool for voice and postural and inner-release as a performer and singer. Later working with groups, formal and informal, choral, HIV Aids youth, children and also individuals, both in Nordic and Southern African countries, she is constantly consolidating processes toward inner-release using meditative song/movement and sound. Whilst bridging the personal into the universal, her work seeks to integrate the individual need for Self-expression into the Oneness found in the field of the Collective. She is a qualified Metamorphic Technique Practitioner, Voice Coach, an experienced Tai Chi student, and an intuitive healer.

Courtney Ward is well-loved by many for her sound-journeys both those alone and as "Sacred Sound", her performances with "Soul Bird", as well as her facilitations of Dolphin Journeys. A gifted intuitive player of indigenous instruments, she is a spirit symbolising freedom, her sphere one that is often able to ignite creativity in others. Within the enthusiasm and passion she expresses through her sound explorations, she always holds generous space for deep integrity of listenership. She is also a qualified masseuse.

Both Courtney and Jennifer have worked extensively with children, (Jennifer has raised a highly gifted Downs Syndrome daughter) and within these experiences, they bring an invitation to the inner-child in all of us, to come out an play. Jennifer is currently preparing to record an album of devotional song, and time for both contemplation and sharing of some of these beautiful melodies and words, is promised.

Alongside Courtney, the day promises to be one for deep remembering what was merely forgotten, as well as, a day of delight-fully natural miracles!

What to bring

An object of significance, to share in circle of song/story.
A light vegetarian lunch to share
The day will end within the waters of The Sound Journey, so bring a cushion and a light blanket if its chilly.
And comfortable clothes

(PS NO PRIOR MUSICAL EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!!! Judgement-free space guaranteed!)

The Photo Album

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Enjoy

The Latest Medicine Music Sessions

2007-06-10T03:36:00.001-07:00

The cast and crew of the latest Medicine Music sessions create Love and Gratitude with Soulful Melodies.

This is what they had to say: