Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 (April 18) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Dan O’Neal.
Where/When: Online only, through ZOOM at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/106042756, Saturday, April 18,2020,
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. See the more detailed ZOOM instructions at the bottom of this notice.
Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 Program
“Scientific Sound Healing for the 21st Century.”
Our April 18, 2020 meeting will feature a talk by Dan O’Neal. Sound has been used for healing the mind, body, and spirit from the beginning of Man’s history. Like the Hindu god Shiva, it has the power to create or cause chaos, to heal or harm depending on its use.
In this ZOOM presentation we will focus on the HEALING use of sound and learn about the most recent and exact techniques of SCIENTIFIC SOUND HEALING THERAPY.
Through a combination of PowerPoint and video clips shared remotely from Dan’s computer at home, Dan will lead us through history with sound clips and commentary to modern techniques of entraining our brains to our own personal frequencies of balance.
We will learn about brain wave entrainment, what brain waves are, and about the different brain wave frequencies from deep sleep to mystical states. We will also learn about different techniques to alter our brain waves, especially by focusing on binaural beats.
Dan will briefly cover a little anatomy and physiology of our autonomic nervous system and how the brain controls all functions in our bodies. This presentation will be educational and useful no matter what you watch it on, but, regrettably, we cannot experience it in-person together with a high-quality sound system as originally intended.
Given the current world condition with each of us “sheltering in place” (who thinks of these phrases?), we will attempt to make this presentation as experiential as possible. However, a large part of that experience will depend on the quality of your personal sound system.
To enhance your experience, we recommend using the highest quality device (computer/TV/speakers) that you can. You also can call into the presentation on your phone by teleconference if you wish, but you may miss the visual aspect and higher quality of sound.
About Dan O’Neal, Our Richmond IONS Meeting April 2020 Presenter:
Dan O’Neal has been passionately drawn all his life to healing practices, spiritual and metaphysical thought, and especially music. Growing up in a loving family in Baltimore, he remembers an experience at about 1 1⁄2 years old of kissing each molecule of air good night as he fell asleep.
As a young altar boy, he was exposed to the heady power of frankincense to enhance spiritual experience. Disillusioned at 14, he fell away from traditional western religion and was attracted to eastern mysteries, flirting with Rosicrucians and Yogananda and eventually finding Unity and A Course in Miracles.
At age 5, he was given a children’s drum kit which his mother quickly replaced with bongos after a short period of time. He began playing
guitar at 15 to “pick up girls” and hasn’t’ stopped since, with many folk, rock, jazz, and classical influences.
Dan has been a musician and sound man for over 50 years, a massage therapist for 25 years, and more recently a scientific sound healer. He was introduced to the healing uses of essential oils and has been teaching about them and using them regularly for the last nine years.
He studied with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson in California two years ago and is continuing his study on biweekly Zoom training calls with Dr. Thompson to the present. Dan uses Dr. Thompson’s cutting-edge sound equipment and techniques to find custom healing frequencies for clients. Dan can be reached by email at danshands11@gmail.com.
Zoom Instructions:
Many of you, like myself, may have recently downloaded the ZOOM app to your smartphone or computer, but for those who have not, simply click on the link above or right below (at 10 a.m. on Saturday) and follow the instructions:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/10604275
As anyone who has used ZOOM before is aware, this meeting platform is interactive and provides for participation by all in attendance, which will mean the potential for questions and answers during the program.
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Our March program will feature a talk and experiential presentation by Richmond-based sound healing therapist, Krista Springer. Sound healing, both with vocal tones (sometimes referred to as toning) and with a variety of musical instruments, is a very powerful healing modality that very few of us have directly experienced.