Sound & Music in Healing, 
             Therapy and Development            

the fourth Training Programme in Ireland

with Daniel Perret

in two parts starting 13-16^th May 2010, course modules can be taken individully

Healing through Sound

The five elements in expression

Healing and the human energy fields

Inspiration, creativity, spirituality

A course for therapists, musicians and non-musicians, amateurs, and people who want to expand their use of sound and music for the benefit of others and themselves. The courses include exercises for self development and dream interpretation.

A certificate will be given at the end of the course.

venue : Blanchville House, Co. Kilkenny

price per 4 day module : 300.- Euros / book by end of february

Daniel's books :

“Music - The Feeling Way"  (1997) -  you can download this one for free from our website

'Roots of Musicality, Music Therapy and Personal Development'  - (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005)

'Sound Healing with the five Elements' -  (Binkey Kok Publications, NL, 2005)

Daniel Perret has worked until 2010 for thirteen years as a Music Therapist with young children at Brive Hospital and with adults in sound healing.

Monochord and Koto by Raphael Duss, Burgdorf

each module can be taken separately. priority thoughy will be given to those who already have attended previous modules.

the first module can be taken as a trial, before an eventual inscription for the whole training programme or a series of modules.

We differ from ‘classical’ music therapy training by

• - referring to and bringing you in touch with your spiritual level
• - teaching the understanding of our energy fields
• - exploring the effects of sound
• - promoting the understanding of sound healing
• - emphasising personal development
• - encouraging the use of ‘simple’ sound sources as gongs, singing bowls, voice, etc.
• - referring to our psycho-energetic system through the use of the 5 elements in music and its close connection   to shamanic traditions
• - the length of the training programme

All courses are 4 days

1^st part :   Music and Energy

Module 1. Subtle Anatomy         13-16 May 2010

• - human energy fields & their functions
• - the deeper meaning of body parts
• - music and therapy
• - the laws that govern sound healing

Module 2. The 5 Elements & Impact of Sound 21-24  September 2010 

• - in play and diagnosis
• - their links to the different levels
• - guided imagery
• - the sounds, the instruments for healing
• - the etheric fields of instruments
• - the five factors directing the impact of sound
• - music for pregnancy and the new born

Module 3. Body, Voice and Silence   december 2010

• - self-healing
• - treatments with the voice
• - mudhras - energy gestures - dance
• - meditation and the source of inspiration

Module 4. Therapeutic Scales and Tuning Systems    2011  4 days

• - sound and colour
• - freeing your improvisational skills
• - uplifting and nourishing music
• - tuning systems and consciousness
• - Aulos and Lo Shu scales
• - Scales and their effects

Module 5. Rhythms, Intuition & Improvisation   2011  4 days

• - hand drums and the element "water"
• - deep body rhythms
• - healing aspects of rhythm and drums
• - sound-paintings and clusters
• - centring oneself
• - mental relaxation
• - individuality and intuition
• - intuitive elements in playing
• - natural creativity and its function

2^nd part : Sound and music in therapy & healing

Module 6. Music for Healing and Harmonising

• - the physical body
• - the etheric energy field
• - the emotional energy field
• - the mental energy field
• - the spiritual part of the aura

Module 7. Therapy and Personal Development  

• - sounds as mirror
• - the expression workshop
• - use of sound in spiritual development
• - energy exercises and meditation
• - music for the dying

Module 8. Therapy for those with Special Needs

• - autistic and intellectually challenged children
• - techniques of support in the therapy session
• - intellectually challenged adults
• - therapeutic situations
• - evaluation and directions of therapeutic work
• - neuro-musical thresholds

Module 9. Sound in Treatments and Healing  

• - male/female balance
• - grounding, feet, legs
• - music therapy in traditional Chinese medicine
• - pelvic area, belly, back, chest
• - harmonisation and healing
• - a.o. voice, singing bowls, tuning forks in healing
• - recognising and balancing the 5 elements

Centre du Vallon, F-24290 Sergeac Dordogne Tel. 0033 5 53 50 80 38 - or IRL : 056 77 27004

E-Mail : vallonperret@wanadoo.fr

Information on B&B’s and payment schedule on inscription

inscription : with an Irish cheque of 300.- best before end of January, please.

Generally speaking we do not teach music reading, music theory, the playing techniques of 'classical' or other complex music instruments, theoretical psychology or psychopathology, nor physical anatomy.

You do not need to be a musician, or be practising regularly on a musical instrument, nor do you indeed need to know how to read music.

Throughout the training your personal experience will be encouraged and will be more important than any theory. Discovering more about the impact of sounds will first of all lead you to discover more about yourself and about silence. Only through knowing ourselves better are we able to really understand our fellow beings.

The psycho-energetic approach is similar to transpersonal therapies and is explored primarily through our personal experience and feelings.

This approach is transpersonal in so far as it does not focus on pathologies, childhood traumas or the paramount sufferings of life. We will encourage everyone to find their link to their inner source and thus to higher consciousness and to understand that there is ultimately no separation between everyday life and so-called spirituality.

 

Harmony - as in music so in life

Your inscription

please join a recent photo, Name, First name, Birth date, Your address, Profession / present activity / your records in personal development and music

If you cannot attend a course and you let us know by mail 6 weeks before the date, your deposit stays valid for the course that follows. If you don't do this on neither, you will lose your deposit.

Daniel Perret works as a music therapist with young children at a day clinic of Brive hospital. He has also led weekly music ateliers in a variety of different settings, in a prison, with adult disabled people, with unemployed people.

He trained with Bob Moore in Transpersonal Psychology & Spiritual Healing at Psykisk Center, Ringköbing, Denmark between 1979 &1999. He has a university degree in economics.

He leads training programmes and courses on "Therapy & Music" in France, Ireland and Switzerland.

 

The general structure of the courses

During the training programme personal experience will be at the centre of our common research. Dream interpretation, energy exercises, relaxation, body work, grounding, dance, individual and group improvisations, painting, intuition, feelings, musicality and meditation will be an important part of our exploration together. Different techniques and approaches to music-therapy will be explored as well as aspects of bodywork & movement.

 

Therapy &Music

Whilst our usual expression enables us to experience everyday practical communication in areas like work, shopping, role distribution, etc. the aim of spontaneous artistic expression is to allow deeper layers of  feeling, our subconscious or higher consciousness and its invisible dimensions to be expressed and revealed. The use of non-verbal language in music, dancing, or painting encourages the pure expression of feeling.

Therapy through art starts a self healing process that allows different parts of our being to dialogue and 'breathe', helping thus their progressive harmonisation. In order for this process to become progressive it is essential to establish a connection to our inner source that lies beyond emotions, beyond suffering and the traumas of life. The expression of emotions, though often a necessary step, cannot be an aim in itself.

The field of sound, music or art therapy is vast. There exists a diversity of approaches. My approach seeks to train people to be therapist/ musicians (if only with simple gongs, singing bowls, percussion or other simple instruments) to develop self awareness and compassion, and the ability to listen with humility. During the training a range of experiences /methods using sounds or art to therapeutic ends will be offered.

Since the expression 'music therapy' is being already used and linked to a specific history and context, we prefer to use the term 'therapy & music' or 'musician-therapist'. Although you do not need to be a classically or traditionally trained musician, you will learn to use either your voice or any instrument (from simple chanting bowls and bells to more complex ones if you wish). In our approach the role of musician-therapist, is not limited to a dialogue with musical instruments. It includes talking where necessary, and can draw upon other therapeutic methods if the client requires it (body therapy is very helpful in going deeper into rhythms or dance as well as grounding, dream interpretation, energy work, other facets of art-therapy (drawing, dance e.g.).

It is essential to have explored through one's own experience the harmonising potential of sound, colour, energy and what they can induce. The most complete observation tool we know of, is the refinement of our own perception in order to detect the impacts of energy, sound and art on the different levels : physical, subconscious/etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual. To learn how to reach into our own well and express what we find there is synonymous to living our own destiny, our reason for being here now – and will fundamentally stay linked to the respect and the liberation of all sentient beings, including ourselves.

As all psychotherapy, art-therapy is not trying to be a substitute for medicine, allopathic, homeopathic, eastern or traditional.

The Science of Spiritual Healing)

Marie & Daniel Perret

Blancheville House, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

• We are offering a series of workshops on the Science of Spiritual healing where we will present an in depth study and practical approach to healing, subtle energy and consciousness. Spiritual Healing involves a growing awareness of the interaction between all the levels within an individual, allowing them to become aligned to the spiritual level. We aim to guide participants to greater self awareness, understanding of energy and consciousness – which will naturally increase their sensitivity and means of helping others. Our approach aims to develop a deep respect of all beings; any progress will be reflected in the way we relate to others in our daily life and to nature in general.

Through experiential work with the energy fields and chakras, participants will be guided into a deep process of self healing, allowing them to transform blockages and difficulties and develop an increasing connection to intuition and sensitivity. We will be working with energy awareness exercises and progressive meditations that gradually increase clarity and awareness, thus allowing the connection to our qualities and our Essence to grow stronger.

The understanding of the energy fields and their harmonisation is based on an exact science. We work with the 7 main chakras, 21 secondary chakras and some 30 other points on and around the body on precise locations. Each point, each structure connects us to a number of defined levels of consciousness. Our approach is largely inspired by the teachings of the Irish Healer Bob Moore (1928-2008).

 Content :

• Structure and function of the human energy fields
• Real contact with the spiritual dimension
• Perception, interpretation and healing of the mental aura
• Heart energy and our essence
• Contact healing (with our hands)
• Distant healing
• Using colours in healing
• Dream interpretation
• Sound Healing
• Transformation of energy
• Progressive forms of meditation
• Earth healing
• Spiritual guidance

There will be a maximum of 12 participants. We are planning three four day courses a year, in May/June, October and March. The group will be open to newcomers, but priority will be given to people who have taken part in the previous course(s) of this series. It is preferable to already have some understanding and experience of subtle energy work.

The first three dates :      20-23 May 2010   28-31 October 2010   3-6 March 2011

Price 300.- per course, payable with booking. One individual session per year is included.

inquieries : vallonperret@wanadoo.fr   F-24290 Sergeac, France, Dordogne, Tél. 0033 5 53 50 80 38