Upcoming Events

Join me for soft, long and slow tones to bring you into relaxation for your healing journey. I’ll play zither, hand pans, gongs, bowls, chimes and native flutes, with soft drone while you experience this state of the art healing device.

Dear Friends I’ll play percussion backing some fine musician friends as we engage you to sing with us.

On Saturday October 19th I will collaborate with my long term friends Dr. Laura Barry and Dhyana Bonnet and create some meditative music in the Atrium at 120 Pleasant Hill Ave. North. This building has become a hub for healing and transformation. Please join us this is free event.

I’ll see many of my old friends from Lark Camp, play dun duns for African Dance class with Tyhimba, and lead a Samba Reggae circle in the evening before the Fula Brothers Show.  Please join us!! Tickets and more information

On Sunday April 21, 4 to 5:30 PM I’ll collaborate with Teitzah in creating a beautiful healing space for your rejuvenation.

I’ll play hand pan, flutes, zither, kalimba, drums, gongs, chimes and more to accompany qigong with Nina at POST Wellness by design in Petaluma, Sat April 20 . Please join us in this beautiful large well lit space with easy parking.

Dear Friends Please join us for this self healing and peaceful time.

Dear Friends. For this event I will play a wide array of natural instruments: flutes, hand pan, bowls, chimes, strings, kalimba and light percussion to create a sonic space for your individual  journey and  rejuvenation. On occasion, I move about the space and bring the gentle sounds close to you. 

Dear Friends:  I will perform with long time friends Jacob and Sahar in a spontaneous and all improvised drum show at the Wonderland Mystic festival. We are on at 5 PM.  There are many other fine parts to this event. Please join us.

Dear Friends   Please join me for and amazing experience!

Dear Friends. I’ll play percussion with my long term friend and musical partner Fantuzzi on Saturday night October  7th at the Soft Medicine Sanctuary in Sebastopol. We will be in the large room up stairs with plenty of room to move and groove.  Please join us. Get advance tickets, it will sell out.  There will be a special  drum dance and song workshop with Fantuzzi at 3pm the same day.

I’ll play a sound journey with my friend Teitzah in Sonoma this Sunday

I’ll play with the amazing Ruti Celli at Osmosis at 8AM on Tues the 21st of March. This will be a full plugged in event with looping, sampler, handpan, cajon, flutes and more. More information here  

I’ll conduct a free Community Drum Circle at Unity in Marin on Thursday June 9 at 7PM.  Many drums provided or bring your own.  It is a beautiful and serene location and we had a great time when I was there May 12. Please join us at 600 Palm Ave in Novato CA.  For more information contact Melissa (707) 975 -8572

For the opening of the 2022 Peacetown Summer series in Sebastopol on Wednesday June 8th,  I’ll play an improvisational free concert with the  multi-talented Ruti Celli, who has mastered not only the cello, but looping and effects.  I’ll play a variety of instruments including hand pan, drums, flutes, kalimba and sampler. We will be at the foundry stage.  click here is a short video of us playing

I will accompany Kiranjot and all of you singing at this event. Please join us!

Dear Friends.  YEA!!!  I will collaborate with Blue Muse, the Celestial Voice and Zachary at a beautiful outdoor location about 20 to 30 minutes from Santa Rosa.  You can get more information and tickets here:

The information is also poster here: https://www.facebook.com/events/345979913196251/

I hope to see and play with you there.  Keeping our joy may be the most important thing right now!!

On Sunday March 22 I’ll play gongs, hand pan, chimes, bowls, flutes, drums and other evocative sounds with digeridoo master Steven Kent, Blue Muse Sound Healing and The Celestial Voice Sound Healing at the Subud Hall in Sebastopol. Buy your tickets here.

Dear Friends. I know many of you have been traumatized by the recent fires.  I too, have experienced fire disaster; the home I shared with Anastasia was destroyed by fire in 1997 –  but Fire is one of the Elements that shape our world.  I invite you to join me and my friends in this workshop and reestablish your positive relationship with the Element of Fire.

On Saturday March 21 I’ll  sing and play for dancing at a workshop in “Expression of the Orixa” with long time friends Leah, Anna, Brooks, and Issac. All of us have lengthy and deep connection to Afro Brazilian Spirituality though dance, song, rhythm and philosophy. Please join us if you feel called. RSVP to the email address below

On Sunday March 1 I’ll conduct the Brazilian Bateria and accompany African Dance classes at this yearly Black History Month Celebration. More information Here.

From Silence to Celebration

On Wednesday February 19th I’ll play percussion with long time collaborators Schawkie Roth, Christine Hodil and Ian Dogle at Unity of Marin, in the Sanctuary.

Be part of an evening that goes from silence to celebration! Schawkie Roth plays sax, flute and spoken word, Kim plays the frame drum and percussion, Ian Dogole plays the udu, hand drums & melodic percussion, Christine Hodil on vocals and percussion.  More information Here

On Monday February 17 from 7 30 to 8 30 PM I’ll play gongs, hand pan, chimes, bowls, flutes, drums and other evocative sounds with The Celestial Voice Sound Healing. This is part of the weekly Monday Sound Journey at the Sebastopol Youth Annex. More info Here

Join Blue Muse, The Celestial Voice, Kim Atkinson and two other special guest Sound Healers for a New Year’s Experience like no other! If you are looking for a meaningful and conscious way to usher in the New Year then this Sound Bath is for you! During this activation you will have the opportunity to reflect upon the past year and celebrate where your are right now. The frequencies help us let go of the old with ease and clear the path for the new!  Come bath in the space of 4 Gongs, Crystal bowls, Hang Drum, Harp, Koshi Chimes, Flute, Native drum & Shamanic Voice.

Through the release of Stagnant Energy, and the Awakening of Dormant Prana we can step more fully and brightly into the New Year and our 2020 Vision of who we want to be and who we truly are!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1407651662734637/

The event will take place from 7 to 8 30PM at a Yoga Studio in Santa Rosa CA.

Please reserve your tickets by calling  707-545-9642
$25.00 early bird $35.00 after Dec 21st

An EnChanted Evening: Benefit UndocuFund   Meditations for Peace and Healing

Tickets:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-enchanted-evening-benefit-undocufund-tickets-78721091905

This event will be an intimate house concert in Downtown Sebastopol.  Address sent upon receipt of ticket purchase. Proceeds will Benefit the local organization UndocuFund who support undocumented children, families, and communities affected by the fires in Sonoma County.  https://undocufund.org/

EnChanted
Reunited after an eleven year hiatus Alyx Autuori and Kiranjot Kaur’s new project EnChanted fuses devotional mantras and original songs. Both founding members of the vocal trio Copper Wimmin have been singing together since they were 12 years old. They were featured on Amy Goodmans NPR program Democracy Now and their song Bleeding Rivers was on the Showtime television series The L Word, they were also the recipient of the Isadora Duncan Dance award for best musical score. Now back together with their spellbinding vocal harmonies, EnChanted is not just a listening experience, it is a communal meditation in which the distinction between audience and performer is dissolved.
https://www.becomenchanted.org/

I’ll conduct a free drum circle on Sunday September 8th from 3:30 to  around 4 PM at the Peace Garden in Sebastopol, next to the Community Center. This is part of Jim Corbet – Mr Music’’s  70th birthday party. Please come and celebrate with us. The event starts around Noon and includes lots of music. I hope to see you there.

Here is what the scene looked like before we had planted very much. Thank you to Jim for making this space happen.

We’ll be back here for more drumming on Sunday September 22nd as part of the Day of Peace. I hope you will join us.

I’ll facilitate a free community drum circle Fri night Aug 9th at the outdoor coffee stand at Hwy 116 and Bloomfield Rd in Sebastopol.

This is their annual thank you party and features free food, live band, fire spinners and more. The event runs from 7pm to 10 pm. They open for coffee at 6AM.

I do this event as part of a thank you to the proprietor Molly, who helped me and my partner Anastasia in 1997 after our house burned down.

Please come and enjoy gardens, fireplace, artwork, crafts, etc of this neighborhood meeting place. The coffee is excellent too!

I’ll have a few instruments to share, but bring yours.

My next free community drum circle will be part of Mr Music’s World Peace Celebration September 22 noon to 6pm at the Sebastopol Community Center.  More details on that later.

On Sunday Aug 4th I’ll accompany Kiranjot Kaur in her Sunday morning chant session especially for moms with young ones. We meet at Studio Ganesha in Sebastopl at 10 30AM, by donation. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/mantramamas Please join us.

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From July 11 – 14 I’ll be at WorldFest in Grass Valley CA

Friday July 12th I will present my Rhythm Revival workshop at 3pm on the Evergreen Stage.  Friday and Saturday late night I’ll be assisting the Community Drum Circle.   I’ll also be part of the Parade.

Here’s a sketch of my workshop – bring instruments:

Rhythm Revival is a fun and informative class for anyone interested in sound, rhythm, music and their beneficial effects. We’ll experience and discuss how rhythm attracts, entrains, calms, inspires and heals us. We will speak rhythm and learn body drumming patterns that will expand your sense of time, test your perception, and challenge your awareness. We will also play some quiet improvisational music – bring drums and percussion. Rhythm Revival connects Body, Speech and Mind through the spirit of music, developing coordination, focus and teamwork.

More details at Worldfest.net

On Thursday June 20th, at 8am, I’ll accompany singers Alyx Autuori and Kiranjot Kaur (former members of Copper Wimmin), at a Solstice gathering at Osmosis in Freestone, CA. Please note the event is at 8 AM in the morning.

I’ll play music with my friend Steven for another of our wonderful events marking the cross quarters of the year.

On Saturday Feb 23 I’ll play percussion and lead the band for a Brazilian Dance class with Marta from Bahia Brazil, as part of Tone Fitness day of African and Brazilian Classes in Santa Rosa CA. You can get the details here: http://www.cdonorthbay.com/

On Friday the 22 I’ll play cajon, cymbals, conga, bongo and percussion with Phil Lawrence and the I-Believers at Credo High School, 1300 N Valley House Drive in Rohnert Park CA

Here is a link to the music on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDm-9A48-wU&list=PLcf28iCu1F9m6bYQLRQdLidDfX9BYUwGg&index=1

an eight week class with Kim A and friends
Wed Evenings 7 to 9PM Feb, Mar and  April 2019
Sebastopol Location  Fee: $200 or $30 drop in
email Kim@pulsewave.com to register

Join us for experience and discussion of the tools, techniques, art, spirit and science of sound healing.  Hands On!

Each session will begin with with toning and improvisational singing and end with a group healing.

At each session I will give a presentation and initiate discussion on topics in the emerging field of sound work, including science, art, spirit and ethics.

In the second half, you will have guidance in playing instruments from my vast collection, including:

metal and crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, kalimbas, tuning forks, small drums, metal and wood tongue drums, hand pan, ethnic string instruments: tambora, gobichand and berimbau, many kinds flutes, conch shell horns, animal horns, digeridoo, wind wands, udu drums, shakers, scratchers, shruti box, harmonium, electric keyboard, tabla drums, shacapas, damaru.

Week one: Mystical Sound
What is Nada Brahma and the inner sound? Experience sonic and silent mediations. Mantra What is sound and how does it affect the human organism. What is noise? What is music? Self tuning thru the experience of vocal toning, pitch matching and rhythm matching. Tune your perception. What is the Music of the Spheres and how does it relate to our work?

Week two: Our Senses and Perception
How does our sense of hearing work? What are the limits to what we can hear?
other theories: Zuccarelli Holophonics/ Human physiology: development of the senses of a fetus, the sense of pressure, the piezoelectric effect, biophotons, stress, bone conduction, Relationship of polymeter and harmony. The continuum of pulsation and pitch. How do other creatures hear?

Week three: The Science of Vibration.
what are waves? Rope waves, spherical waves What is frequency, how is it measured? What are “Hertz”. What is pitch?
What is time and how does it fit into the equation. Cycles per second vs Beats per minute. Our perception of the spectrum of Sound vs Spectrum of EM radiation What is the relationship between sound and light? Similarities and differences.

Week four: The basics of Music and Harmonious sound.
Music – tuning, temperment, and scales. How many divisions to an octave? 432A vs 440A vs 528C (444 A)
What are intervals? How do we use them? Harmonic, melodic What are harmonics? find the harmonics on various instruments. Overtone singing, resonance of the body and head. Consonance and Dissonance in our experience and throughout history. How are they used in Sound Work? What are these names: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do, ABCDEFG sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa

Week five: Sound Healing Why does sound healing work? How does it work?
Why does sound healing work? How does it work? What can it do, what can it not do? What is Cymatics ( show video)
How does consciousness interact with sound? Mood, emotions, mind, and sensation. Conscious, Subconscious. Define Consciousness. The Elements: E W A F S the nature of each, current theories of the aether. How do they relate to sound and body? What sounds evoke each element?

Week six: The Vibrating Human
How do humans vibrationally relate to their environment? What is Rhythmic Entrainment? What is Brain Wave entrainment? How does it relate to resonance, harmony and coherence? How do Drum Circle, and Kirtan relate to this work?

Week seven: How do instruments work?
Winds, strings, drums, idiophones. Making simple instruments, straw flutes, blowing bottles, straw reeds, diddly bow. What is resonance?

Week eight: Styles of Sound Work, Vibrational Medicine and Ethics
SonoTherapy, Music Therapy, Sound Healing, Sound Journey. Use of the word Therapy. Leaders and Authors in the field : Johnathan Goldman, Jill Purce, Tom Kenyon, Dr Jeffery Thompson, Mitchel Gaynor, Joshua Leeds, Sylvia Nakash The Globe Institute. Sonic and PEMF healing devices: Heart Math, Bemer, Scenner, Theta Wave entrainment CD ( I will bring all of these to class.)

I am inspired to offer this class based on my years of study of sound and music.  In 2006, 2007, 2008, I accompanied singers and dancers and presented my rhythm work at the International Sound Healing Conference in Santa Fe NM, where I was able to study with the top teachers and practitioners in the field of Sound Healing. I hosted World Sound Healing Day (Feb 14) in Sebastopol several years in a row.

email Kim@pulsewave.com to register or call 707 889 4949

Feb 20th 27th,  Mar 6th 13th 20th 27th April 3rd 10th

I’ll be providing soundscape for this amazing three night event, in conjunction with Hari’s longtime collaborator Gordon Pugh.  I’ll play tabla, hand pan, musical bow, flutes and many other sounds to enhance your experience of the story.

Fire Victims Healing Concert & Benefit
Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma, CA
7:00 – 9:00pm | $15 donation at the door

PanGaia is honored to be part of this special event in association with Petaluma Arts Center’s new exhibit focused on Sonoma Wildfires remembrance and renewal.

Acknowledging the grief that still lives in our community after the tragic October 2017 fires, PanGaia will create a container to allow these emotions to be honored in this collective space. Through poetry, sound healing and audience participation, PanGaia will create the opportunity for this grief to be a catalyst for deeper community connection.

The performance features bilingual spoken word poet Joaquin Lopez, invoking Earth – reconnecting us with our origins; René Jenkins, masterful sound healer and indigenous instrumentalist; singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Tami Gosnell; with renowned musician and drum circle facilitator, Kim Atkinson, weaving his Pulsewave percussion style.

for more information: VibeTherapy.org     PanGaiaMusic.com

The Ancestors are watching…and listening…
Let us honor them together–in the spirit of ceremony, prayer-formance, and reverence…

Get your tickets here: https://pangaiaceremony.brownpapertickets.com/

I’ll play djembe and percussion with Jens and band this Saturday night 19th at Subud Hall in Sebastopol. Please come and sing with us!

I’ll have a short part in this concert, playing hand pan with Sheridan on Flute and doing some drumming at the end. Please come and support this great cause, and enjoy some good music.

Sebastopol Celebration of World Sound Healing Day     Sunday  Feb 14th – Valentines Day – 11 AM  to 1 PM.

Wordlessly Facilitated and Hosted by Kim Atkinson and Friends    www.pulsewave.com

This world wide event is in its 14th Year. Please vista http://www.worldsoundhealingday.org/more-wshd-info

Out door celebration of Chant, Gongs and Bowls.   by donation, benefiting the Sonoma County Food Bank

Please Come in Silently, leave Silently.  Hold the space for Toning, Singing, Chanting. 

 “The Gift of Sound is Silence” – Jill Purce

This event revolves around people all over the world chanting for 5 minutes to Mother Earth at 12 noon in their time zone.

The event is sponsored by  Chant Master, Recording Artist, Author Jonathan Goldman

www.worldsoundhealingday.org/more-wshd-info

We will open the space around 11 AM  and bathe in the Sacred Sound of Gongs, HandPan, Bowls, Flutes, Chanting.

 At 12 Noon, we will all chant Ahh for 5 to 10 Minutes, then rejoice for another hour in sacred sound.

Held at Miss Daisy’s Wonderland 790 Hurlbut Ave Sebastopol,

near Hwy 116, at the North end of Sebastopol toward Forestville, Opposite Lucky Market.

Please park in the driveway or on the same side of the street as the house. There is parking near Hwy 116.

http://www.missdaisysmagicalmusicland.com/

Please respond with your interest so we can plan kim@pulsewave.com

Please arrive no later than 11:40

Please dress in layers, we will be outside on a covered patio with a fire.

This is a Non Talking Event:   Please Come Silently, leave Silently,   Leave speech out side.

And if one of our instruments breaks
It doesn’t matter
We have fallen into the place where everything is music

 The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere
And even if the whole world’s harp should burn up
There will still be hidden instruments playing

Stop the words now
Open the window in the center of your chest
And let the spirits flow in and out.

– RUMI

I’ll  play a variety of instruments to co-create the soundscape for this production.

Several of my advanced students will perform drum music from West Africa and Brazil on djembes, dun duns, surdos, ganza, caxia, agogo, and more, in this benefit for the country’s only Waldorf oriented Public Charter High School.

Please join me, Clair and Spruce in this restorative and transformational journey on Saturday March 28.

Music to Open Your Heart
In a Spectacular Sacred Space

Sunday March 22nd 5:30-8:30 PM
Doors Open at 4:30 to listen to the Crystal Bowls

With Special Guests
and The Sound of Love Choir (10 amazing singers)
Piano, Cello, Vibraphone, Horns, Drums,
Crystal and Tibetan bowls, and Gongs galore.

at Congregation Sherith
2266 California St. San Francisco 94115

Tickets $25
$35 at the door

Go to www.SoundHealingCenter.com/concert.html
for more information and to buy tickets
or call 415 777-2486

We will be incorporating a wide range of subtle Sound Healing techniques from the Institute to activate each chakra and massage your etheric fields. We will be holding an Intention of Love and Joy throughout the evening to create a delightful, enchanting, interactive, transformational experience.

“The last event was unbelievably powerful with 6 singers — each channeling deep and beautiful energies through their voices. We went from beautiful angelic melodies that brought sweet tears to many eyes, to powerfully transformative movements that seemed to release deep stuck energy from the past. The piano, guitar, native american flute and cello sometimes supported the healing and enlightening work, and other times actually led it. However, when everyone came together in the Chakra Journey, Unconditional Love and Pachelbel Canon songs, it was like bringing love into a power. And then when it all ended, no one moved for about 15 minutes. It was like we were all in this deep ecstatic peace that wasn’t going to go away. No one wanted to leave!”

This will be a sacred event celebrating the love all around us.
It is designed to help us all to move into the higher frequencies of
joy, love, gratitude and appreciation.

MUSICIANS

Emmanuel
Emanuel is a medical intuitive voice healer. Over 80 clients report that their cancer is completely gone. His voice is a direct conduit of Source. For a transformative experience check out his voice at www.soundhealingcenter.com/online/emanuel.mp3

Silvina Vergara – Vocals and Crystal Bowls
Silvina is holistic counselor, conscious guide, educator, singer, minister, dance instructor, and she incorporates dance, drama and movement composition to her training. She plays the singing crystal bowls and brings more than twenty years of experience in the areas of energy work, self development, movement and voice. She is also working as a facilitator in stress management for San Francisco General Hospital for a special program for cancer patients.

Lis Addison – Vocals and Drums
Lis Addison is an innovative Composer, Circles of Light magazine says her music “paves the way for a new genre of music,” a powerful singer, her last CD The Grace of the Green Leaf won Best Vocal Album of 2010 and a masterful dancer, Conscious Dancer magazine says her dance practice “KiVo: The Kinetic Voice® is a path to embodiment and self-realization.” She is a passionate and visionary artist, performer and teacher who is in service to the practice of music and dance a transformational tools. A skilled energy mover, Addison has had in-depth training and practice in the Shamanic and Yogic traditions and is a certified Akashic Records Consultant. She travels to Africa to do tree-planting service work and learn and share KiVo and the song/dances of communities in Eastern Africa. www.lisaddison.com

Claire Victor – Vocals and Bowls
Claire is a gifted vocalist, songwriter, teacher, recording artist, shamanic life coach, sound healing practitioner, and personal enrichment guide. Her powerful voice and “other worldly” whistling is a channel for clearing and activation. As a transformational sound artist, she facilitates workshops in sound expression, restorative voice, and sound alignment using chanting and crystal bowls to support people in finding their own sense of grounding and personal empowerment through her deep work. Claire also offers shamanic sound healing sessions for groups and individuals. She is currently the choir director for the 80 voice “One Heart Choir” at the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, CA. www.clairevictor.com

Tami Gosnell – Vocals
Tami Gosnell is the Core-Us Sound of Love Choir Director. a singer, songwriter, musician, chantress, shaman, permaculture designer, plumber, radio personality, activist, choir master. Using what she has learned over the years at the Sound and Consciousness Institute, she has become an “energy mechanic” where she helps people to “tune-up” using crystal bowls, tuning forks, rattles, drums, flutes, a sound table, angels, and her voice, which she believes — when coupled with the heart’s sacred intentions — is the most powerful technology on the planet.

Ken Becker – Cello
Ken Becker, cellist, bassist, guitarist, instrument maker and audio/video engineer, finds sound a powerful medium through which to cultivate and share healing energy. Performing and recording prolifically, stringed instruments are his heart’s channel to instill peace and nurture inspiration. Presently involved with a variety of ensembles as instrumentalist and engineer, ultimately, music as meditation is his ongoing practice.

Roger Glenn – Sax, Flute, Vibraphone
Roger, master multi-instrumentalist, composer and entertainer on the flute, sax and vibraphone, is the son of the late Tyree Glenn who was one of the 57 notable jazz musicians pictured in the historic photo “A Great Day in Harlem.” Roger has performed, toured and recorded to enthusiastic, sold out audiences with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie (Bahiana), Mongo Santamaria (Mongo ’70), Rosemary Clooney (Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin), Herbie Mann and Pete Escovedo (Solo Two). Roger’s flute playing is featured on the Grammy-award winning album “La Onda Va Bien” with Cal Tjader, as well as many notable recordings by Donald Byrd (Black Byrd), Peaches and Herb (Reunited), ConFunkShun (Chase Me), Bobby Hutcherson (Ambos Mundos) and Mongo Santamaria (Mongo at Montreux). Roger is finalizing studio production on his long-awaited CD “In the Moment” by The Roger Glenn Latin Jazz Ensemble. The San Francisco Jazz Quartet is also one of Roger’s main touring groups since the release of their debut CD “Ode to Swing.” You can hear samples of the music at www.myspace.com/rogerglenn and www.sfjazzquartet.com.

Bodhi Setchko
Bodhi is a multi-talented shamanic flute healer, songwriter, composer, recording artist,producer, teacher & professional band leader. He has been performing and providing music for special events, weddings, workshops and church services for over 25 years, has produced 9 albums of original music and is the founder of 2 recording/touring bands,”CRYSTAL WIND” and “RHYTHM MATRIX”. Having studied with many fine musicians, including renowned artists Paul Horn, William Mathieu, and G. S. Sach dev, he has developed a unique style of improvisation using the sounds of nature as his inspirational source. He has contributed to the recordings of many contemporary musicians including Aeoliah, Erik Berglund, Anton Mizerak & Matisha. At home on flute, piano, guitar, conch shell or turning an affirmation into a chant, Bodhi brings a genuine lightness of being to every concert and workshop setting, while his music empowers people to manifest their deepest dreams and desires.

Gabriel Gold
Gabriel Gold, described to have “The voice of an Angel; familiar of the voices of Tom Kenyon, Jonsi (Sigur Ros) and Lisa Gerard (Dead can Dance)” is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound healer and a teacher of using the voice for healing, shamanic journey-work and meditation; having studied at the Shamanic Institute of Ireland and at the Globe Institute Sound and Consciousness Institute. Voice (overtone singing and wordless chant/glossolalia) and Handpan (A family of melodic steel instruments which includes the Hang and Halo) are the heart and soul of his current performance, which has been described by world-renown yoga teacher Darren Main “to transport listeners to that elusive, quiet refuge inside every human heart.”. www.gabrielgoldmusic.com

Kim Atkinson
Kim Atkinson is an internationally recognized percussion recording artist, teacher, and ecstatic drummer who has many years of experience with Brazilian shamanic rituals. He brings his mastery and artistry to group facilitation, integrating sound and rhythm for personal transformation. He has released 9 CDs and 2 DVDs of his work, and has recorded and performed with healing music pioneers Constance Demby, Steven Halpern, Rafael, Sophia, Steve Kindler, Teja Bell and many others. www.pulsewave.com

Bruce Hauschildt (Spruce)
Spruce is a shamanic sound dreamer weaving sound and light into healing frequencies with percussion, gongs, flutes, bowls, bells and unusual instruments to activate your cells on healing journeys. Best known for holding the heart beat drum in Sebastopol Community, Live Soundscapes for Yoga Studios, Assisting Therapist Healers with sound, Leading Sound Healing Journeys. Producing and assisting in large soundscape journeys in Northern California. Contact Bruce at: bruce@earthpaths.com

David Gibson – Concert Producer, Keys and Mix
David Gibson is the Founder and Director of Globe Institute. He is one of the top selling Sound Healing music producers in the field with over 30 CD’s available. He is the head of the Sound Therapy Center that offers over 15 different Sound Healing treatments. He is also the founder and Conference Coordinator of the Globe Sound Healing Conferences. David is the author of the book, “The Complete Guide to Sound Healing (Physical Healing, Emotional Healing, Mental Clarity, Opening the Heart, and Connecting to the Soul and Source).”

GLOBE SOUND AND CONSCIOUSNESS INSTITUTE

www.SoundHealingCenter.com
info@SoundHealingCenter.com

(415) 777-2486

351 9th St. #202 San Francisco
(Between Harrison and Folsom Streets)
San Francisco, CA

Sebastopol Celebration of World Sound Healing Day     Saturday  Feb 14th – Valentines Day – 11 AM  to 1 PM.

Easy Sebastopol in town Location will be sent  when you register to kim@pulsewave.com

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Wordlessly Facilitated and Hosted by Kim Atkinson and Friends    www.pulsewave.com

This world wide event is in its 13th Year. Please vista http://www.worldsoundhealingday.org/more-wshd-info

Out door celebration of Chant, Gongs and Bowls.   by donation, benefiting the Sonoma County Food Bank

Please Come in Silently, leave Silently.  Hold the space for Toning, Singing, Chanting.

“The Gift of Sound is Silence” – Jill Purce

This event revolves around people all over the world chanting for 5 minutes to Mother Earth at 12 noon in their time zone.

The event is sponsored by  Chant Master, Recording Artist, Author Jonathan Goldman
www.worldsoundhealingday.org/more-wshd-info

We will open the space around 11 AM  and bathe in the Sacred Sound of Gongs, HandPan, Bowls, Flutes, Chanting.

 At 12 Noon, we will all chant Ahh for 5 to 10 Minutes, then rejoice for another hour in sacred sound.

Easy Sebastopol in town Location will be sent  when you register to kim@pulsewave.com

Please respond with your interest so we can plan.  50 person maximum

Please arrive no later than 11:40

Please dress in layers, we will be outside on a covered patio with a fire.

This is a Non Talking Event:   Please Come Silently, leave Silently,   Leave speech out side.

Carnaval Spirit Parade Group and friends will play for Trick or Treaters at a block party in Marin County CA.

To have us entertain at your holiday party, please contact me.

Carnaval Spirit Parade Group will  play with our friends at Hardcore Coffee at Hwy 116 and Bloomfield Rd in Sebastopol, celebrating their new location, right across Bloomfield Rd.  Blues Burners follow us.  This is a free event and we thank Molly for all her contributions to Sebastopol Culture.

I’ll accompany Lillia Lobo de Albuquerque and play with other musicians at this multicultural artistic presentation  at the Grace Hudson Museum, 431 S Main St, Ukiah CA,

Drummunity Circle is an improvisational hand drum/sound circle event dedicated to Gratitude and World Peace.  Kim will facilitate the group to it’s highest potential, and provide focus, ideas, transitions, stops, starts, bass parts, encourage dialogs, and get out of the way so the group can express itself. Some instruments provided, please bring your own djembes, congas, shakers, bells, dun duns, gongs and more. Everyone is welcome. 4 to 6 PM  $10 – $20 requested donation.

Kim will conduct a Drummunity Circle at Lydia’s Sunflower Center in celebration of their 2 year anniversary. Drummunity is a Peaceful (but not solemn) improvisational drumming and dance gathering full of celebration and gratitude  for all the blessings we receive.  All are welcome, please bring drums, bowls, gongs, chimes, other percussion, and a seat if possible. We will most likely be indoors.  There is a whole day of events, please plan to stay or come early and eat the wonderful food available and take in the other presentations. For more information visit www.thesunflowercenter.org

Friday, 5:30 to 8PM    Ukiah CA.   Kim will present a Brazilian Percussion Workshop, focusing on the instruments of the Bateria and the Rio Samba style as well as Afoxe’, and  then conduct the group and play for dancers. This is a private class for the musicians who play for the Ukiah Brazilian Dance class with guest teacher Maria Souza, hosted by Carmen, Lilla and friends.  To have me present to your group, contact me via email.

Kim will lead members of a local religious organization in an improvisational drumming event during their annual retreat.

To have me come and lead your group, contact me.

Join us for group improvisational drumming, dancing, performances, food sharing, fire, and a public ritual offering of silent prayers for world peace, freedom, justice, unity, prosperity for all.

We will open with drum call at 4:00 PM, facilitated by Kim, everyone invited. This is a play by heart session with guidance. Dancing on the periphery is encouraged.

There is a fire pit on site that I will light at 6pm. Please bring a log if possible.  Dress in layers, bring picnic supplies and utensils if you like. This is a low cost, low impact event, we will have the use of the bathrooms and water fountain at the Community Center, and will be outside the whole time.

The plan is to alternate between short performances and longer group grooves. This will be finessed by Kim. Contact me if you are interested in presenting a drumming/dance piece of 10 to 15 minutes.

The purpose of this event is to bring our drumming community together to appreciate each other, our growth, our beautiful environment, and to give thanks for all the blessings we receive. I encourage people to dedicate our music for world peace.

Saturday,  4 to 7pm  at Mariposa, 3810 Low Gap Rd, out side Ukiah CA .     Kim will facilitate a Drummunity workshop, open to all, regardless of experience with music.  Bring various kinds of drums, percussion, bells, chimes, bowls and gongs.  I’ll give a short class to familiarize everyone with the basics of drumming and the way that Drummunity works, then we will move into improvisational drumming and movement with my facilitation.

This is a play by heart session and as we progress I’ll introduce tuned gongs and other melodic sounds. Together we will create a group prayer though our joy and presence.  Please join us.  Fee: $35 with discount for Seniors and High School students.

To register, call 707 459 2930 or visit www.mariposainstitute.org

Cazadero CA
August 25 to 31st 2013

Kim will accompany master dance teachers at the annual California Brazil Camp in Cazadero CA. This is a tremendous gathering of dancers, singers, and musicians and a great party! For more information visit: www.Calbrazilcamp.com

Friday, 4 to 8PM    Ukiah CA.   Kim will present a Brazilian Percussion Workshop, focusing on the instruments of the Bateria and the Rio Samba style as well as Afoxe’, and  then conduct the group and play for dancers. This is a private class for the musicians who play for the local Brazilian Dance class with Carmen.  To have me present to your group, contact me via email.

Lake County CA

I’ll perform with Cuban Pianist Elena Casanova at the renovated Soper Reese Theater in Lakeport, in a show of Brazilian music. The other musicians are Will Siegel – guitar, Steve Baird – bass, Lilia Albuquerque – vocals and Paul McCandless – woodwinds, plus special guests.

For more information visit http://elenacasanova.com

Sebastopol, CA

Kim will accompany Lou Montgomery, Hoytus Roland and Richard Mandel in Lou’s new play “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Emptiness” I”ll create the sound scape with a variety of instruments including flute, kalimba and cajon, plus many surprises. The show include beautiful projections, songs, and comedy. Any of you with a Buddhist perspective will appreciate this show! Lou is a master wordsmith and extremely funny, this will be the fourth play I’ve done with her. Please get a ticket early, it is bound to sell out.Tickets for the Occidental show are available at the OccidentalCenter for the Arts website, tickets for the Sebastopol show are available here.

Occidental, CA

Kim accompanies Lou Montgomery, Hoytus Roland and Richard Mandel in Lou’s new play “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Emptiness” I”ll create the sound scape with a variety of instruments including flute, kalimba and cajon, plus many surprises.

The show include beautiful projections, songs, and comedy. Any of you with a Buddhist perspective will appreciate this show! Lou is a master wordsmith and extremely funny, this will be the fourth play I’ve done with her.

Please get a ticket early, it is bound to sell out.Tickets for the Occidental show are available at the OccidentalCenter for the Arts website, tickets for the Sebastopol show are available here.

Aubergine Cafe,
Sebastopol CA
$12.00 Advance / $15.00 at the Door

Carnaval Spirit, my Brazilian percussion band, will lead a short parade at   Aubergine in Sebastopol, opening “Powerhouse night” for Zigaboo Modaliste and the Jug Dealers. There is more info on this event on Facebook here.

It’s FREE! Friday – Monday.

More info here:

SWP Festival Website

I hope to see you there!