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9/3/2018 UPDATE! This offering is currently on hold!

A couple weeks ago, I held an open house. It was so well received I am going to continue the practice to make the bowls available to people seeking a sanctuary from the daily stresses of life…or to just be. 

You are cordially invited to drop in to my studio every Friday between 9am and Noon!

I’m calling it Open House, Open Heart. Come in and meditate, sit with the bowls, learn how to play a bowl, shop bowls, have a cup of tea, talk to me….whatever you need… my door is open! Open your heart and take time to nurture your wellbeing. 

Open House, Open Heart will be available every Friday indefinitely, unless I have something else listed on the Events page. I will keep it in my schedule on the website and let you know if I can’t make a week.

The Singing Bowl Studio
at 293 Central Park West, between 89th & 90th

I’m thrilled to share this recorded meditation series from Wendy Parr, an award winning vocal artist, producer, songwriter, coach and more! She asked me to create a healing soundscape with the singing bowls to accompany her guided meditations for singers and performers. Anyone who is looking to present their work/healing/service to an audience can benefit from these meditations. 

I’ve facilitated sound healing concerts and accompanied many yoga classes with sound meditation using Tibetan singing bowls, but it was a new and exciting experience to go into a recording studio. I spent time with her recorded meditations weeks in advance, so when I went into the sound studio I could follow my guidance and synchronize with Wendy’s intentions in the meditation. And like a singing bowl healing, when the meditation focuses on the heart, I am playing the heart bowl, when the meditation speaks about the throat, I am playing the throat bowl. These recordings are truly healing and activating!

Please check out Wendy Parr, her variety of services and, of course, this meditation bundle:

This Complete Series includes all 5 of the Meditations designed for singers AND performers: 

• Free Your Voice: A meditation for authentic communication
• Daydream: A Meditation Dedicated to your purpose and passion
• Ready to Rock: A centering, grounding and empowering pre-show mediation

All Meditation feature an incredible healing soundscape of Tibetan Singing Bowls by Katherine Hamer.

Do you want your own recorded sound meditation or soundscape accompaniment? Drop me a line!

Kathy will be at Canyon Ranch, an All Inclusive Health Resort & Luxury Spa located in the Berkshires of Lenox, Massachusetts, on December 9th through December 10!

Now more than ever is an ideal time to take time for yourself and nurture your wellbeing – especially headed into the holiday season. This is a very special opportunity – sharing the bowls with people at Canyon Ranch. I hope you can join me!

~ Kathy

About Canyon Ranch’s Health & Wellness Services:

Learn how to feel your best every day, at every age. At the beautifully equipped Integrative Health Center in Bellefontaine Mansion, you’ll find a depth of holistic, integrative medical care far beyond that at any other wellness spa, and opportunities to establish healthy habits for life. You can have a full physical evaluation, as well as a complete range of diagnostic services for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic disorders, sleep disorders and genomics testing. The Canyon Ranch approach to medicine integrates the most effective Western and non-Western practices to provide the best comprehensive preventive care available. And where else can you spend 50 minutes with a top board-certified physician? [read more]

About Canyon Ranch’s Spa services:

Canyon Ranch is recognized throughout the world for unique, innovative programs that integrate fitness, nutrition, preventive health care and spiritual growth. In this singular vacation destination, you can enjoy a spa vacation and be inspired to transform your life. [read more]

Sound Therapy with Singing Bowls at Canyon Ranch

Friday – December 9th @ 4pm – Yoga Studio

RESTORATIVE YOGA AND HEALING TIBETAN BOWLS WITH KATHERINE HAMER
Soothing yoga slows your body – reducing physical and emotional stress – as the sounds of the singing bowls become vibrational healing moving through and around you.

Saturday – December 10th @ 8pm – Yoga Studio

SOUND HEALING WITH KATHERINE HAMER AND ANCIENT TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS
End your day with this peaceful unguided meditation using the vibrations of warm water and essential oil infused singing bowls. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing free of buttons and zippers.

To book your stay at Canyon Ranch go to http://www.canyonranchdestinations.com/lenox

I honestly had no idea what to expect when I was invited to facilitate a group meditation deep in the woods of the Catskill Mountains.  Carting my bowls up the drive, I’m greeted by the statuesque Melinda, her friendly dog and a brown rabbit hanging out near the front door. The rabbit seems oddly relaxed, vacillating between twitching and stillness. It’s staring at me and I’m curious as to why it’s not bolting with an active barking dog so close by.

“I think it’s the same one I saved”, says Melinda, as we both stand watching the rabbit watching us.

About a year ago, she spotted a rabbit caught in a fence on her property, its leg wrapped and tangled in wire. She managed to tenderly free it, without injury. Ever since then Melinda has become accustomed to its frequent, fearless visits into her garden and on the back porch. While setting up the bowls inside, I watch as the bunny stares at me again, now through the glass of the studio door.

This is a good omen. This is going to be a special night.

I could have stayed in her studio for hours, days…The silence was delicious. In every corner and crevice were layers upon layers of texture, paint, simplicity, complexity, handwritten messages, paper, brushes, beads, teeth, and rocks; laying among found objects haphazardly placed just so.

Being here brings out a deep sadness as everywhere I look I’m reminded of a friendship lost long ago. In this same moment, in an instant of a breath, I welcome the peace of the birth of a new kinship, a connection freshly formed.

As Melinda watches on, another part of me is tenderly freed.

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Recently I had the opportunity to self heal and reflect spending quiet time at the beach. The skies were overcast with an occasional appearance of the sun peeking through a gray cloud. It was quite an experience, being the only soul on a beach miles long, communing with the seagulls, terns, soft sand, the sky and the bluest of blue ocean that seemed to stretch onto infinity.

This time reminded and connected me of the reason why I love working with singing bowls so much. When I speak though the bowls there is need for no words, no language other than that of Liquid Language of Light and of Love. Transformation and reflection possible without every the need to utter a single word. A language first learned early on, rediscovered and recently remembered in the bluest of blue eyes of my beautiful Teacher.

A place so still, so serene in Trust and Faith I could walk up to a young doe, placing my hand on her head, stroking her behind her ears as her mother occasionally looked up from her morning meal.

How to put into words watching the sand dance in my bowl as I play then forming mandalas when it surrenders into silence. The jumping of sea water from my bowl as I place it on my husband’s knee, sore from the joy of years of bouncing twins on it.