The invitation for this experience on Orkney calls us with a deep and resounding yes! It comes as a gift of time and place in which you will be able to bring attention to your own biography...your own passage. Through the attunement with land and allowing yourself to come full circle, integrating aspects that may have been forgotten, buried or not yet met. We will ask you to invite your future self to come into resonance... a communion with the earth and the wider cosmos. |
Crafting a Singing Bowl
Working predominantly in brass and bronze, you will scribe and cut the metal, working closely with the fire and all of the elements to sink and shape a finely crafted sounding vessel; an instrument that will outlast many generations to come. Instruction in the use of the tools and one to one support will be available throughout the workshop.
You will be guided not only in the physical, but also in the metaphysical implications of making a singing bowl. Modern science has come full circle to rediscover the wisdom of the ages - all matter is in essence, pure vibration, and that intention colours form. Throughout the workshop we will co-create and hold a focused space in order to bring forth your instrument. This act of bringing consciousness to how we perceive and experience sound, and our developing sensitivity to resonance, will underpin all that we do.
There are no pre-requisites. Contact us if in any doubt about skill set or fitness.
The workshop is open to all ages from 14 and up.
You will be guided not only in the physical, but also in the metaphysical implications of making a singing bowl. Modern science has come full circle to rediscover the wisdom of the ages - all matter is in essence, pure vibration, and that intention colours form. Throughout the workshop we will co-create and hold a focused space in order to bring forth your instrument. This act of bringing consciousness to how we perceive and experience sound, and our developing sensitivity to resonance, will underpin all that we do.
There are no pre-requisites. Contact us if in any doubt about skill set or fitness.
The workshop is open to all ages from 14 and up.
The Facilitating Team “Working with Gabriella, Heather and Quentin has been the deepest and most profound experience of transformation for me. Never before have I felt so safe in a workshop. My process with the bowl was tough at times, and always - like a miracle - one of these beautiful enablers showed up to be with me. Sometimes to support me in the handling of the tools, sometimes to listen, sometimes to just be in silence together for a while, sometimes to ask this one question that allowed me to move on… three souls who can hold the rim of the circle in wondrous ways…a healing sanctuary … a sacred vessel.” M. S. Brussels. Belgium
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Gabriella Kapfer has been co-facilitating vibrational healing workshops and retreats as well as transformational journeys and pilgrimages to sacred sacred sites working with sound and Nature for 12 years. She is a deeply intuitive sound healer/ sound alchemist with many years experience of accompanying individuals in their souls journey and path and a deeper connection with the natural world and one's own soul resonance. Gabriella also studied a little astronomy as a hobby and will be happy to introduce you to the planets and stars in this star oriented island. The Orkney islands have played a vital part in the beginning of her journey, where she spent days at a time in stone circles receiving downloads and songs to share with the world. She is very excited to share these sites with you and work with the energies of this land and its amazing sites to forge an alchemical vessel of frequency, sound and vibration. She learnt the craft of metal instrument making with Ton Akkermans since 2004 and started offering workshops of singing-bowl making in 2011. She is particularly skilled at facilitating the alchemical process with metal, fire, the elements and the vibration of conscious heartfelt connection as a way to consciously invite, birth and/or transform energies in our personal lives and in the world. As such the making of the singing bowls becomes a tool of creation way beyond the instrument itself. Through the embodiment of the craft sound as vibration becomes physical form.' See Gabriella's website for more information http://peace-trails.com/ Heather Cowen nee 'Smith' has a wide reaching background in facilitation. As a musician, cook and energy healer, she focalises social, community and creative circles. Many years of committed inquiry to transformation through spiritual, emotional and physical healing as well as a deep respect for the intelligence and consciousness in all life have forged her awareness and sensitivity to a fine degree, making her a potent facilitator. Inspired by the innate magic and oft unseen aspects that live in each person, Heather empowers others to widen their lens and perceive beyond the evidence based surface. She gives people access to more of themselves through sound, music and creative mentoring, body processes, intuitive and well developed skills of deep listening as well as energetic healing work and one to one facilitation. Heather has been hosting and co-facilitating the work of the singing bowl crafting since having first met Ton Akkermans in 2010. It brings together all of her gifts. It is a work she thrives on - the act of engagement with a physical process and the continual invitation to greater consciousness. Many have described her as a bowl whisperer. See Heather's website www.fieldsofbeing.com for more of her work. |
"The possibility of making your own healing instrument is rare.
The experience of forging with your own hands is transformational in itself.
The instruments that result are exceptional.
Book this course, bring your soul-spirit into your hands."
Tobias Kaye –Devon – Director of Sounding Bowls – Tuning the Circle