Music Garden Chatting

With Tim Jones and Suprapto Suryadarmo

Dorset

June 22-27th

Time together exploring, from a source of listening, the interconnected elements of sound/music, garden and chatting, in our garden in Dorset, on the nearby hill-fort of Bulbarrow and with 'studio' time in the local village hall.

Practice starts from the idea of ‘from the garden back to the garden’ as an approach to creativity in art and as an attitude of life.

"..to begin chatting is to open to a recognition of commonality, to things we can only value and share together." Rowan Williams

There is space for 10 participants, allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book please send a £50, non-refundable, deposit to me, at 524 Brown Street, Bishops Caundle, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5NE. 50% of the remainder of the fee is payable by Easter, the balance on the course.

Accommodation is at Folke Manor Farm. To view visit www.folkemanorholidays.com

Contact Tim Jones at tim@thenatureofsound.com or tel 01963 23792.

Music Garden Chatting - Avebury 2009
photo Keith Miller

Seven Shining Tones

With Tim Jones and Mala Sikka

at The Dharma Centre of Canada, Ontario

Oct 2nd - 7th 2009

Download or view printable poster here

Tim Jones & Mala Sikka will lead this workshop exploring the intuitive feeling of Awareness (Rasa) awakened in the simple act of singing and moving. Through this we can encourage a deepening receiving of ourselves and the beauty of life. Our starting point will be the Seven Shining Tones: SA RI GA MA PA DHA NI.

Course details;

Sounding, moving and singing as a natural home for us.
Meditations to help clear the senses.
Feeling the notes residing in the body as an essential aspect of our being. (The Sanskrit name for note is 'swara', whose fuller meaning is 'Self-shining')
Movement as sound, hearing through movement.
Working with rhythm in sound and movement and exploring how rhythm can totally affect our life and attitude in communication.

Please contact the Dharma Centre for details:
email: AdminOffice@dharmacentre.org
(the web link is on the Links page)

Sound, Dream and New Thoughts

With Franca Fubini and Tim Jones

Franca and I share an interest in Indian music, sound and movement. Our workshops are a meeting point for all those interested in sound and movement as development of consciousness and connection to the infinite source.

The theme, explored through sound, movement and with the stimulus of sharing our dreams, reveals the world of connections: the subtle threads amongst ourselves, the links to our cultural roots, to the roots of our common humanity, to the environment we live in, all expressions of connections to the infinite source.

Franca brings into the seminar "Social Dreaming", a method for accessing the thinking, thought and knowledge embedded in dreams. Social Dreaming focuses on what is shared among the participants' dreams. This takes place in a Matrix which mirrors in conscious, waking life the unconscious world of dream-work while sleeping. The dream, not the dreamer, is the focus of the work of Social Dreaming. Through the many free associations and amplifications to the dreams, the Matrix releases the potential of infinite possibilities of meaning.

I facilitate singing and sounding and the opening of what I call the 'hearing space'. There is a focus of a simple devotional song to help awaken each person's intuitive musical being and understanding of Nadabrahma, 'creating in sound'. In this, the song and not the singer is the focus.