J.O.U.R.N.E.Y.© Framework

This framework is based on my years of experience cultivating sacred space and sound meditation journeys. As part of this training you will explore this framework as we weave together sound.

• J = Journey

  • Opening Sacred Space with a Sonic Sweep before participants enter

  • Smudging: Burn incense/sage/palo santo

  • Smudge participants as they enter

  • Opening comments, themes, elements

  • Instruments: Gong (sonic sweep), Rainstick, Chacapa, Drum

• O = Origins

  • Grounding section

  • Instruments: Crystal Bowls, Drum

  • Vocals: Droning, Toning

• U = Uplift:

  • Expand section: Starts gradually, lift-off and out of physical space and bodies

  • Instruments: Drum (up-beat), Crystal or Tibetan Bowls, Shruti Box

• R = Reverberate

  • Dissonance section

  • Instruments: Gong, Pentatonic Scale instrument, Chime, Kalimba, Rattle, Binaural Beats

  • Vocals: dissonant toning

• N = Nurture

  • Sustain section: keep people in deep space but start to bring them out of dissonant space, slow, sensual, ethereal

  • Instruments: Ocean Drum, Water Sounds, Rainsticks, Chimes, Tongue Drume

  • Vocals: sweet tones

• E = Embody

  • Re-Ground section: Bring people back into their bodies

  • Instruments: Koshi Chimes, Chacapa, Rattle, Crystal Bowls, Shruti Box

  • Vocals: Sing a song or mantra to get people to come back

• Y = Yield

  • Silence and Integration section: surrendering to the journey and it’s lessons, yielding control

  • Several minutes until people start to move