Hosie offers 'sound' intensive course




	Ken Hosie's sound, tone and chat workshops are designed to reconnect participants with "our common chord of vibration." The workshops are being held at Open Spaces Yoga Center in Pinetop starting Friday, Nov. 7.

Each human being comes into life within a culture: North American, Middle Eastern, Asian, South American, African, European, etc.

     However diverse, we all have "culture" in common. We all need to eat and sleep to survive. We may have different body types yet we all have the same body parts. This is not "news" to any of us.
     Add to this the following: From the farthest reaches of ethical spirituality to the exacting inquiries of leading-edge physics there is agreement on one thing at least: Everything we sense, think and experience is, at root, only vibration and potential ... nothing more. Yet look at what we've made of it. Complexity. Confusion. Aggression. Chaos. How, we may ask, can we be so fundamentally the same in our humanness and yet, throughout the centuries, be at odds with one another and with the earth? It's a fair question. Perhaps it's even an important one.
     In 1994, then a resident of San Francisco, I formed the non-profit organization, "The Harmonics Ascendance Project." Its purpose was to explore that which is most common to us all: vibration. Through seminars and gatherings, both large and small, the work that evolved has come to be known through the course "Sound, Tone and Chant." It's now a 12-hour intensive being offered to the public Nov. 7-8 at Open Spaces Yoga Center in Lakeside.

     "Sound, Tone and Chant" is designed to reconnect participants to that which is fundamental to all human beings. An experiential course, it offers - without ideology or dogma - direct insight into that which is our common cord: vibration. The result can be a profound experience of "community" (tribe) and that binds us throughout space and time.
     We explore the dynamics of vibration through the common human instrument of voice, amplified by the companion to vibration - rhythm. This does not mean people have to be "musical" or "rhythmic." People come to this work out of a curiosity about being more in-tune with their own nature, each other and the world around them. That is what the course is designed to elicit and that is the effect we intend to produce.
     An introductory session (both informational and experiential in nature) for "Sound, Tone and Chant" will run from 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Open Spaces Yoga Center, Ponderosa Village, Lakeside, (928) 367-4636.
     Here participants will be part of producing the actual experience of Profound Community, something well beyond the conceptually hard distinction of "others" that is our cultural basis for relating. The introduction session sets the groundwork for the remainder of the course, which includes a session from 8:30-10 p.m. that night and from 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.
     We work with the voice, but it's not about singing and it's not about pitch, quality and so forth. It's about listening well to others doing what you're doing and making space for the community atmosphere to emerge.
     The course will look at vibration through the use of the voice, rhythm, active meditation, ritual and allowing. Ritual is a tricky one because oftentimes people think of that as cultist ... and, indeed, ritual can be employed for that purpose. But here, ritual is simply employed as a vehicle for exploration.
     Again, there's no belief system involved, nothing that flies in the face of anyone's established religious or spiritual persuasion. The course is experiential and the experiential realm is the most organic of places in which we can learn and understand the very nature of who we are. Everything one learns from the introduction session and from the entire course can be taken away and used in any other environment.
     For those wanting more information or to pre-register, contact me, Ken Hosie, through Open Spaces Yoga Center at (928) 367-4636.
     Although the course is conducted in a light-hearted way, there is an expectation that participants will come with a maturity and respect of others that supports healthy community and deep exploration into our multi-dimensional world.