July 26th 2015
www.jeremysills.com
New Moon Shamanic Sound Healer Training
AUGUST 14-16 2015
Sills & Smith – Indigogo Campaign for our 5th Studio Album JULY/AUGUST 2015
V – Vishudha – Throat Chakra Singing Bowl Meditation AUGUST 13 2015
Opening to the Inner Senses ~ Guided Visualization AUGUST 16 2015
Bhakti in the Woods – Yoga & Music Festival AUGUST 23 2015
VI – Ajna – Third Eye Singing Bowl Meditation AUGUST 27 2015
Full Moon Sound Healing Concert– Raven & The Light Tree
Date: Friday, August 28
Time: 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Pine Ridge Healing and Learning Centre, Carp, Ontario
July 9th 2015
JAMS
I ~ Muladhara ~ The Root Chakra ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation – TONIGHT !!
Having returned from an extended retreat and journey in Peru, Jeremy Sills is back and offering a special Thursday evening summer series exploring the entire circuit of the 7 major chakras through sound and silence.
Thank You to Karen Osborne of Ascension Healing for hosting this summer series at her new beautiful Healing & Learning Centre in Carp, ON
Once again, we begin the Thursday Night Series of Chakra Meditations – Always different yet never the same ! ~ These sessions are approximately weekly throughout the summer months on Thursday evenings ~
Register for all, some or absolutely at least one !
We shall be sounding and co-creating uplifting frequency together ! No previous experience necessary.
Thursday July 9th 2015 7:30 – 9:30pm
Cost: $25 Drop-in for any single event – Or save $ by registering for the complete series.
Location: Pine Ridge Healing and Learning Centre, Carp, Ontario
155 Pineridge Road, Carp, Ontario, K0A 1L0
MULADHARA=Root/Base Support
II ~ Svadhisthana~ The Sacral Chakra ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation
Thursday July 16th 2015 7:30 – 9:30pm
Cost: $25 Drop-in for any single event – Or save $ by registering for the complete series.
Location: Pine Ridge Healing and Learning Centre, Carp, Ontario
155 Pineridge Road, Carp, Ontario, K0A 1L0
SVADHISTHANA=Abode of Sweetness
III ~ Manipura ~ The Solar Plexus Chakra ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation
Thursday July 23rd 2015 7:30 – 9:30pm
Cost: $25 Drop-in for any single event – Or save $ by registering for the complete series.
Location: Pine Ridge Healing and Learning Centre, Carp, Ontario
155 Pineridge Road, Carp, Ontario, K0A 1L0
MANIPURA=CITY OF JEWELS
Shamanic Sound Healer Training
Come learn the science of sound healing ! in Chelsea, QC – last weekend in July 2015
Sound and Music directly affect us each and everyday, and as we begin to apply this knowledge and experience to our daily lives, with practice, we can begin to consciously affect our life experience with sound and music.
This course can support you in your own personal journey with sound as well as complement various healing practices.
3-Day Workshop Fee: $230
: DEPOSIT $100 due upon registration :
Location: waterfront in Chelsea, QC. – exact location disclosed upon registration
Please contact me with any questions and when you are ready to register !
RSVP – jeremy@jeremysills.com
skype: soundgnosis
DAY I – July 24 – Evening 7pm – 9:30pm
DAY II – July 25 – Daytime 10:30am – 4:30pm
DAY III – July 26 – Daytime 11:00am – 7:00pm
Open Mind Festival ~ La Patrie, QC
OpenMind Festival: Embody
8 Days of Celebration and Well-Being
www.openmindfestival.com/en/
Featuring Raven & The Light Tree – Monday July 27th @ 10PM –
August 13: Throat Chakra
August 20: Third Eye Chakra
August 27: Crown Chakra
September 10: Journey Through the Chakras
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SYMPHONY OF SOUND – Jeremy Sills & Johannes Welsch – 8-8-2015 @ 8:08 pm
Dunrobin Sonic Gym
Saturday, August 8, 2015 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Ticket Information – Buy your tickets Online – buy early and save $
Early Bird Ticket (until July 8) – CA$20.00
Regular Online Ticket – CA$25.00
June 12th 2015
Dearest Sound Healing Community – I am on my way back to the Ottawa Valley to share some wonderful events this Month – I trust the journey is flowing well and I look forward to catching up soon – Lots to share that might simply not be conveyed in one email…
— SYMPHONY OF SOUND —
Ticket Information – Buy your tickets Online – CA$25.00
Sound Mystic Jeremy Sills and Percussionist Johannes Welsch have mesmerized audiences at the Sonic Gym for half a decade with a concert program entitled SYMPHONY OF SOUND.
The SYMPHONY OF SOUND (SOS) consists of a number of fascinating soundscapes around the insight that crystal singing bowls and symphonic gongs are powerful sonic catalysts for each other. Experts have maintained that these soundscapes are setting a standard in musical expression through the use of idiophones!
While considered a music shaman and sound mystic by many open-minded people who subscribe to the idea of sound healing, multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Sills’ university education in composition becomes evident listening to the SOS. Sills and Welsch neither recite a composition nor do they improvise exclusively, they much rather perform a powerful, deep ritual carefully crafted over years of musical collaboration at the Sonic Gym. To this percussionist Johannes Welsch adds the results of a lifelong exploration of rhythm and sound, beginning at the age of seven. Symphonic gongs became the center of his attention a quarter century ago. Some critics consider his album Sound Creation, released 2012 on Deep Listening Label, a quintessential recording of Paiste gongs.
Above all this music is carried by a deep understanding and appreciation of the voice of the other, an intuitive familiarity with each others sonic vocabulary. These soundscapes thrive on the fact that the duo is the only human group in which the number of relationships is smaller than the number of individuals. Throughout the evening listeners can expect to be mesmerized by this artistic unison underlying the complex sonic tapestry Sills and Welsch seem to generate effortlessly in a performance best described by its title: SYMPHONY OF SOUND.
Journey Through the Chakras Crystal Bowl Meditation
There will be two opportunities to experience this incredible sonic meditation – Thursday June 18 & Monday June 22nd – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Serendipity Books & Gifts – 1337B Wellington St W, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3B8
cost: $25.00….Pre registration is required…space limited… call 613-722-3400 to reserve your seat !
Cosmic Pathways Healing Fair
“Cosmic Pathways is dedicated to lighting new and ancient pathways to health, wellness and higher consciousness for all people.”
Naomi Athena and I will be giving private sessions during the fair in a small room adjacent to the main Healing Fair Hall. Drop in for a 15 minute sonic treat !
We also have a sound ceremony in the Multi-Purpose Room from 3:45 to 4:45pm.
March 27th 2015
Dear friends in sound,
There are 4 spots left in the Women’s Retreat that Naomi Athena is organizing in The Sacred Valley of Peru. It’s coming up for the End of May – It is an amazing opportunity to experience the medicine of the jungle in the tranquility of the Mountains – Also their retreat was just featured on RetreatGuru including a great video on youtube !
- One of my music projects, Sills & Smith, has produced 4 Studio Albums. The ultimate of which, Etched, was produced and recorded by the legendary Phillip Victor Bova @ Bova Sound in Ottawa, ON.
- We’ve even had a video made of this powerful classic/progressive rock track that explores the issue of mental illness.
- Watch on YouTube Now – subscribe to our channel
- Find us on Facebook – facebook.com/sillssmith
- Please consider Voting Everyday ! – bookmark the direct link
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Public voting opens on Monday March 30th ! Please scroll down for our press release. Direct link here: Sills & Smith on CBC
- IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING SERENDIPITY PLEASE HAVE THEM CALL 613-722-3400 OR SEND AN EMAIL TO…info@serendipitybooks-gifts.ca to make an appointment to discuss this opportunity.
- Please forward this email to family, friends and colleagues you feel might be interested.
- blessings, PJ
JAMS
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(Ottawa, March 22, 2015) Sills & Smith band of Ottawa has entered the CBC Music Searchlight 2015 contest. The song that they’re showcasing is “Where You’ll Find It”, a powerful classic/progressive rock track that explores the issue of mental illness.
The tune opens the band’s 4th, full-length studio album Etched. “Where You’ll Find It” has been entered in the Ottawa area under the CBC radio All In A Day program (91.5 FM), so you will be hearing it on CBC during the contest. To listen online and vote for the song, go to the Sills & Smith CBC Music page, give the track a spin below the Searchlight icon and select Vote for This Artist: http://music.cbc.ca/#!/
“Where You’ll Find It” is featured on the Sills & Smith CBC Music page, along with the painterly YouTube music video created by David Duchow with his photography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Sills & Smith is an independent band, that has delivered its unique sound and style across four critically acclaimed albums. The group includes core members, singer-songwriters Frank Smith (words, music), Jeremy Sills (music). The Etched album and “Where You’ll Find It” were recorded and produced by Phillip Victor Bova, at Bova Sound in Ottawa.
The 13 tracks on Etched address social justice and the triumphs and tragedies of the human experience to a hard-driving, guitar-based sound — rich in melody. The music is a genre bending and blending stew that touches on alternative folk, classic rock and progressive rock. “Where You’ll Find It” features the excellent studio band rocking out, with Phil Bova (electric bass), T. Bruce Wittet (drums), Don Wallace (electric guitar), Kevin Breit (electric guitar), Jeremy Sills (acoustic guitar). Jeremy and Frank share vocals on this melodic, layered track.
Check out “Where You’ll Find It” and vote for the song throughout the CBC Searchlight contest. For further information about the music of Sills & Smith — including full songs streaming, music videos, retailers for the albums — visit these websites:
www.reverbnation.com/
www.facebook.com/sillssmith
https://twitter.com/
http://sillsandsmith.bandcamp.
https://www.youtube.com/user/
http://music.cbc.ca/#!/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/
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“Sills and Smith have made Etched an obvious labour of love, and this effort permeates the entire album.” Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson, Earshot – The National Campus Community Radio Report
“Smith pens the words and music, and Sills composes music for the contributing musicians (eight in total on Etched). The terrifically well-played compositions really accentuate the vocals, which are surprisingly good at times (e.g. “A Love For All Seasons”)…the songs are very catchy.” Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson, Earshot – The National Campus Community Radio Report
“Friday Find: Sills & Smith – For those who like: no nonsense rock music. I’ve featured Ottawa’s Sills & Smith several times in the past. However, I realized that I hadn’t done anything on their fourth album, 2014’s Etched. You should listen to it. It is good!” Peter Kearns, Snob’s Music
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AUGUST 27th 2015
Coming up this Friday ! Get your tickets early @ www.lisavirtue.com
Come and experience the healing sounds in the beautiful setting of Empower Me Yoga Studio in Ottawa’s West End.
Hosted by Energy Healer Lisa Virtue of www.lisavirtue.com
Raven & the Light Tree ~ Sound Healing Concert
A spontaneous co-creation, with voice & crystal bowls weaving a deep tapestry. a journey through voice, crystal singing bowls, Nepalese singing bowls, feng gong, drumming, drones, and harmonic overtones.
We will be leaving to Peru very soon, where we will continue to work with the vibrational power of sound and will be offering concerts, workshops, soundhealing courses and sessions out of the sacred valley.
Friday August 29th 2014
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Empower Me Yoga
1712 Carling Ave
Ottawa, ON
K2A 1C7
Tickets $25 ($20 for student/senior)
CDs $10.00 !
door open at 7:00pm
BUY YOUR TICKET ONLINE NOW !
empowermeyoga.com
(Free parking at the back of the building).
AUGUST 20TH 2014
We will continue offering workshops/trainings and concerts out of the Sacred valley near Cusco, Peru – so if you hear the whisper of the mountains do come visit !
JAMS
JUNE 19TH 2014
Longer days and early mornings – the sun is offering up great amounts of light to feed us through these fast days as summer solstice approaches – take it all in one breath at a time !
We dance the ecstatic on Friday night to move into the solstice weekend – and we are giving an intimate concert at days end of the annual Cosmic Pathways Healing Fair on Sunday – come early and take in a few mini-sessions and talks throughout the day – ( I hope you can make it – it will be our last dance and concert till the fall )
After that we are on retreat for a couple of weeks before we begin a series of children’s Summer Day Camps in Perth, Chelsea & Ottawa – “The Imagination Tree” – focused on art, music, nature, and yoga ! If you know of any 4-9 year olds that would enjoy an alternative to their usual day please let us know – and be sure to share this flyer with them – !
Have the best day ever !
living sound,
Friday June 20th 2014
time: 8:00pm
place: surround circle yoga$20 includes all you can dance, gluten-free treats, ayurvedic tea & sharing circle ! {$15 for students or fixed income}Please Note: the entrance to the studio is 7 Galt Street (far west side of building on the top floor).No experience necessary – wear comfortable clothingEVENT – Cosmic Pathways Healing Fair 22/06/2014
Date: Sunday, June 22
Time: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Place: Glebe Community Centre
175 Third Avenue
Admission: $8
Featuring: Concert by “Raven & The Light Tree” – Jeremy Sills & Naomi Athena – @ 4PM
4:00pm – 4:45pm
Raven & the Light Tree ~ Sound Healing Concert
Jeremy Sills and Naomi Athena
A spontaneous co-creation, with voice & crystal bowls weaving a deep tapestry
of high vibration frequency, in which profound awareness, transformation &
healing may occur. Their debut CD entitled “The Harmonic Crown” – A Seventy
Seven Minute Sonic Journey through voice, crystal singing bowls, Nepalese
singing bowls, feng gong, drumming, drones, and harmonic overtones!
http://raventhelighttree.bandcamp.com |
jeremy@jeremysills.com, naomi@naomiathena.com
www.cosmicpathways.ca
raventhelighttree.bandcamp.com
DAY CAMP – The Imagination Tree – Perth, ON 21-25/07/2014
DAY CAMP – The Imagination Tree – Chelsea, QC 11-15/08/2014
DAY CAMP – The Imagination Tree – Ottawa, ON 18-22/08/2014
The Imagination Tree is a Nature, Art and Yoga focused Summer Program taking place this 2014 and we would love for you to Join us!A Creative filled day with summer Magic and Inspiration. Our program is focused on three major sects. Nature, Art and Music and Yoga. Everyday is filled with amazing activities Geared to inspire and educate children in the rhythm of the natural world. We use yoga as a means to ground and focus our energy before and at the end of our days. We explore different mediums of the arts to encourage the innate creative within children to come alive and give children a chance to try new artistic endeavors.
Spaces Available for 4-9 year olds !
Contact naomiguzmanpoole@gmail.com to reserve your child’s space today !
The Imagination Tree on FB
APRIL 3RD 2014
Care to Listen ?
Listen Carefully ?
Care is the word we use to invite and/or demonstrate that we are in this moment – conscious of our actions – and it implies that these actions are healthy within the limitations of the knowledge available to us in this given moment. When it comes to listening, we are re-mind-ed that everything resonates, and that in order for us to tune into the music around, without, and within us – we need take care – just take it ! – and so listen carefully to the other person – or dive into that piece of music that someone cares for us to hear – and so stretch our ears across the entire surface of our body and become the Great Receiver & Transmitter of carefully chosen frequencies ! Om…
VI ~ Ajna ~ Third Eye ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation 7/04/2014
SEMINAR – I Am Abundance ~ Meditation ~ 13/04/2014
ECSTATIC DANCE – @ Surround Circle Yoga – 18/04/2014
VII ~ Crown Chakra ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation 21/04/2014
CONCERT – Mother’s Day – BIEN ÊTRE PAR LE SON 9/05/2014
VIII ~ The 8th Chakra ~ Crystal Bowl Meditation 12/05/2014
MEDITATION – Journey through the Chakras 26/05/2014
EVENT – Cosmic Pathways Healing Fair 22/06/2014
MARCH 9TH 2014
Dear friends in Sound,
Awoke an hour later than expected this morning ! 😉 – Only to find a family of 5 Squirrels, and a Red Cardinal Singing up a tree in the backyard. Time to Spring Into Action !
This month’s Events are quite fullfilling – chakra meditations – ecstatic dances – a day of sound & movement – and a Spring Equinox Concert –
Monday Night is the Heart Chakra Meditation at Serendipity – A Favourite ~!
Enjoy the longer days and see you in the future !
living sound,
JAMS
FEBRUARY 11TH 2014
What goes up must come down; frequency, pitch, the pendulum, a baseball – the waxing moon approaches fullness and creates the illusion that things are going up ! Up in tempo, faster rhythms, more of everything all at once, faster heart beat, quick shallow breath – as all of the waters within our precious body feel a pull towards the heavens and an excitement for the coming Leo Love Full Moon! – ARTISTIKA – a time to celebrate with our loved ones, our beloveds, the beloved, and surrender to the UP ! in anticipation of it’s complete release into the stillpoint within each moment – always available, though not always accessible – the eye of the storm…. seeking the bright star in the dark night … a complete lullaby for the soul :
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
‘Till the sun is in the sky.As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are.
How I wonder what you are.
by Jane Taylor c.1806
living sound,
JAMS
www.jeremysills.com
raventhelighttree.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/raven-and-the-light-tree
DECEMBER 1ST 2013
I am part of an amazing event TONIGHT ! – at The Bronson Centre – if you wish to be moved, experience truth, in song, word, dance and storytelling – then Titty Talks is a Must See for you ! – voted byOttawa Citizen’s Top Picks for Events in Ottawa this Weekend –
NOVEMBER 15TH 2013
JAMS
living sound,
JAMS
OCTOBER 23rd 2013
Dear Friends in Sound,
Friday October 25th 2013
time: 8:00
place: surround circle yoga
sliding scale donation 15-20$
No experience necessary – wear comfortable clothing
Crystal Bowl SAMHAIN (Saw’een) Celebration & CD release
Come join us for an evening of intention to the soundscape of crystal and Tibetan bowls, gongs, Peruvian flutes and whistling vessels,vocal harmonics, throat singing and resonance.
SAMHAIN (saw’een) CELEBRATION & CD RELEASE
Tickets $15 – CDs $10
7:30pm November 1st 2013
@ ECCLESIAX SANCTUARY 2 Monk St. Ottawa, ON
The Concert will take place on Samhein which is one of the most celebrated times across the planet as a time when the veil between worlds thins. A time that is celebrated all over the world as a time of gathering, prayer, ceremony, ritual and celebration. It was in prechristian times the biggest and most significant holiday of the Celtic year. A time that symbolizes the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. A New Year.
It is a wonderful and very powerful time to gather with intention and welcome the presence of winter and its womb like nature. To honor life and death and its cycle and honour all those who walked before us and welcome the light of the other world into ours.
We would be so honored if you would join us!
November 4th Monday 7:00 – 9:00pm
Pre-registration required $20.00 – seating 15
CALL PJ to Register
613-722-3400 info@serendipitybooks-gifts.ca
Location: Serendipity Books & Gifts
VISSHUDHA=PURIFICATION THROUGH SOUND
CONCERT – HuDost with special guest Jeremy Sills – 08/11/2013
HuDost return to Ottawa for their ‘Baby on Board Tour’
along with special guest Jeremy Sills
for an evening of Song & Sufi Kirtan at Surround Circle Yoga !
The music of HuDost, the Neo Folk World Rock Ensemble from Montreal weaves a seamless tapestry of sound that renders tears and laughter in listeners, cultivating that nameless longing that abides somewhere in all our hearts.
Their new 2013 acoustic album ’4th Way Folk’ has just been released as of April 02nd. You can find out more and listen at http://hudost.bandcamp.com/
Friday November 8th 2013
time: 7:30PM
place: surround circle yoga
sliding scale donation 15-20$
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGEwww.hudost.com
www.facebook.com/hudost
www.surroundcircleyoga.com
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That the yielding conquers the resistant and the soft conquers the hard
is a fact known by all men and women, yet utilized by no one….LAO TZU…..until now!