THE SOUND SOAK! - JANUARY 2016
An Immersive Participatory Healing Sound Event
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Hosted and Created By: Joule L’Adara
Featuring Special Guest: Porangui
We invite you to lay back on yoga mats and pillows and go inward for THE SOUND SOAK! Donning eye-masks that shut out the light, embark on an inner journey guided by live acoustic and electric sound and music. Soak in the sounds as they surround you and allow the frequencies to open up your body, mind, and spirit to see what is residing there inside. Thereafter, you will be guided through a participatory vocal sounding and activation!
This magical mid-winter Sound Soak will feature the incredible music of guest artist Poranguí. Currently on tour, Poranguí is a musician, healer, and creative, residing in the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Steeped in music and ceremony since birth, Poranguí was raised between the lands and cultures of his native Brazil, Mexico, and the Southwestern United States. Carrying on his lineage, he offers uplifting music and deep transformational bodywork and sound healing designed to awaken the body, mind, and soul.
Doors open at 7:15, event begins at 7:30 pm
No late entry after 7:45!
Followed by Tea & Integration
Tickets: $35 online, $40 at the door
Location: The New York Open Center - 22 East 30th Street, New York City
This Sound Soak Features:
Special Guest: Porangui
Reared among the three cultures of Brazil, Mexico and the U.S., Porangui was steeped in various traditional forms of music, healing and ceremony since birth. Drawing from his cross-cultural background and ethnomusicology training at Duke University, Porangui has over fifteen years of international work experience as an artist, musician, educator, filmmaker, consultant and therapist, utilizing the healing properties of sound and movement to foster our individual and collective well being.
As an accomplished musician, Porangui is proficient in world percussion, guitar, voice and a variety of indigenous instruments (didgeridoo, Native American flute, etc.). He has been featured on a diverse array of albums ranging from latin jazz to Brazilian batucada, and his musical compositions have been used in independent theatrical and film productions. Porangui has performed and traveled internationally with numerous renowned artists including touring Europe, recording with the BBC in London at the Jazz Cafe, and sharing the stage with such sonic pioneers as Bobby McFerrin and DJ Spooky. His expertise extends into sound design and media production providing opportunities for innovative collaborations such as a New Media art installation at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Experimental Vocalist: Joule L'Adara
Joule L'Adara: experimental vocalist, opera singer, and sound healing bodyworker is on the distinguished teaching faculty of the New York Open Center, Integral Yoga Institute NYC, and Brooklyn's award-winning Green Spa. She offers private Sound Wellness sessions utilitinzg Reiki, Acutonics, Feeltone Instruments and Vocal Sound Healing through the Open Center's Wellness Department and in her home wellness studio in upper Manhattan. Joule is the founder of SOUNDING CIRCLES - offering Zany, crazy, fun and life-affirming vocal circles to help people "find their inner wildness!" She also offers vocal toning and Sounding Circle facilitation training world-wide through her online courses. In September of 2012, she launched THE SOUND SOAK series in NYC which has been running regularly ever since, featuring rotating guest collaborators so that every SOAK is different. Rrrrrr -Zzzzzz- Wheeee!