Spirit, Sound, and Planet Medicine

Week of March 4, 2023

Spirit Medicine
The Psychedelic Renaissance and “New” Tools for Transformation

Sound Medicine, with Kendra Simmons
A Musical Healing Experience

Planet Medicine
The Power of Sound and using the Human Instrument for Health and Healing

 

Ben Brown, MD, is a professor at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco. He is the National Medical Director for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine and is the Founder of multiple non-profits, including Planet Care, the Burmese Refugee Care Project, and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4Us). He is an award-winning Teacher, Author, Photographer, and Humanitarian.

 

 

Hello, I’m Kendra Faye. Officially, I am a harpist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, though my joy comes from seeing the transformative power of music.  Music has taken me around the globe. To environments as varied as the Amazonian jungle and the hospital wards; it has taken me from teens struggling to overcome addiction to sharing the joy of new born baby; and finally, it has taken me to the bedside to help ease the fear of an illness or offering music to comfort the biggest of life’s transitions in my work with hospice.  Sharing the power of music has been both ecstatic and humbling; being both performer and witness; being both minstrel and student; learning from the Universal language of song that crosses borders and blends appreciation with wonder. The ways we sing, play and praise in devotion awakens the heart to experience more fully the healing, the pleasure, the celebration, and utilize the lessons from pain or sadness.  I am grateful that my lifelong love of music reminds me of the power and beauty that we all are and how sound can help remind us of our inner beauty. Song speaks our stories.  There is something sacred about deep listening and expression of song that our soul thirsts for. It soothes us, comforts us, and inspires us as we dance with life’s mystery.