Ruth Cunningham: Sound Healing

“I love the work I’m doing now as a musician and a sound healing practitioner because it uses all the skills that I have worked on throughout my life: singing, flute playing, keyboard, harp as well as spiritual practices that I have engaged in for many years. I create music live for individual clients and workshops, reiki circles, yoga classes and massage. When I work with people, I encourage them to use music more consciously and especially to use their own voices as a tool for transformation, healing and connection to spirit. Music, sound and vibration are amazing tools and I think in times to come, people will realize more and more what a powerful gift they are for both healing ourselves and the planet.”

– Ruth Cunningham

INTUITIVE IMPROVISATION

SOUND HEALING

SOUND JOURNEYS
Intuitive sound and musical improvisations
created for each individual or group.
Voice, flutes, keyboard, and harp are used
for this work which promotes relaxation and a meditative space.

VOICE PLAY
Learning to use the voice as a healing tool.
Humming, mantras, toning and improvisation
as a way to enhance creativity and intuition.

INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Sessions are tailored to each individual according to what they would like to receive from the work. Practices taught that can be incorporated into daily life include humming, toning, mantras and improvisation. There is also the option of receiving music that Ruth creates specifically for you which can be used for reflection, relaxation and stress reduction.

Everyone can benefit from consciously using their voices sound and music in their lives. Daily practices with sound can be especially helpful for people during life transitions and compliments other healing modalities. It is very helpful for introducing as well as deepening spiritual practices. Intuitive skills are enhanced by this work. Musicians and artists of all kinds find that a sound practice allows them to open even more to their own creativity.

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Ruth is located in New York City

Workshops Descriptions

SOUNDS OF TRANSFORMATION
Learn to consciously use the voice and music as tools for personal transformation, creativity and connection to spirit. This SOUNDS OF TRANSFORMATION workshop will introduce practices of humming, toning chanting, mantras and simple improvisation. Tools that can be used in creating a daily sound practice to continue after the workshop. We will explore new ways of experiencing music and how to use music and sound more effectively in daily life. In addition to sound the group makes together, Ruth will be creating live music using voice, medieval harp and flute created specifically for the group of people gathered.

This workshop is available as a 90 minute, half-day or full day program.
For more information and availability, contact Ruth

NURTURING THE CAREGIVER
This workshop introduces simple practices of humming, toning and mantras that offer support to caregivers and can be incorporated in to daily life to help with centering and clearing. Ruth will also create music with voice, harp and flutes to promote relaxation and reflection. You don’t have to be a professional musician to learn how to integrate music into your own practice and daily life.

This workshop is available as a 90 minute, half-day or full day program.
For more information and availability, contact Ruth

A day long or weekend workshop with HARC (Ruth Cunningham and Ana Hernández)

A Not-So-Quiet-Day
of Spiritual Exercises
Using Sound and
Shared Silence.

If you can hum, you can come.

We will:

° Re-discover God with and in our voices
° Listen deeply and bask in the presence that unites us all
° Explore sacred chant to heal ourselves and the world
° Experience the ways sound touches spirit
° Learn how sound enhances mental and physical well-being
° Reflect on sounds that open (and close) our hearts
° Pray for inner and outer peace

The voice is nature’s most perfect instrument; other instruments have been trying to replicate its magnetism since the dawn of time. Our voices reveal things about us before we realize them ourselves – like emotions or mood - and can clue us in to our physical and emotional realities. Your voice is a barometer: it measures the atmospheric pressure of your emotions. Voices can betray energy level – picture a child before bed, hoarsely crying, “I’m NOT tired!” Our voices disclose attitude: honest or dishonest, sincere or insincere – how often are the words “Oh, I’d love to, but …” belied by the feeling in the voice (“No way in hell!”) . When we dream about our greatest dreams or suffer our biggest hurts, they are present in our voices.

Join us for a day of singing, deep listening, and seriously fun prayer. All are welcome! Knowing yourself can put you on the fast track to a healthy inner life. Learn how your voice lives in your body, and how to use it to generate health and healing. Listen to yourself for a change. The voice you’ve been given is a part of your gift to the world, and is unique in the universe.

Open to absolutely everybody. A multi-faith experience.

– Ana Hernández

For more information and availability, contact Ruth

“Ruth received an enthusiastic response at our Mind/Body/Spirit Programs Center at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan. Most recently she did a ‘Sound Healing’ in-service for our psychiatric behavioral health hospital in Harrison, New York. Ruth’s program was 2 hours and about 28 counselors attended including deptartment heads. With clarity and simplicity she lead them through humming and toning exercises and then created an intuitive musical piece specifically for the group with harp and flute as well as voice. It was extremely powerful and people were deeply moved. There are many centering and healing techniques that are available for people today. Ruth’s blends the simple with the aesthetic so that anyone can easily access their own sacred space.”

– Linda Rapuano, Consultant/Coordinator Mind/Body/Spirit Program Saint Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center

“Ruth Cunningham has [sung and played] in this Acupuncture Stress Reduction Clinic for many weeks now. The clinic was begun on September 12, 2001 in response to the World Trade Center disaster. The combination of her music – harp, flute and soothing voice – has been a major component in the healing atmosphere created here, and in many ways ‘completes’ the milieu. Ruth’s music accompanies the work of massage therapists, energy practitioners, and acupuncturists. Clients and staff continue to be moved by the presence of Ruth and the calming sound.”

– Joan Dolan, RNC, ADS, Senior Staff Nurse, Department of Psychiatry St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center, Medical Center of New York Medical College

“Ruth’s Sound Healing/Voice Play Class is one of the most popular and well-loved workshops at the Women’s Center. We offer the class monthly because so many women value it and love attending it. Women say that it soothes, centers, connects and supports them in their lives and in their spiritual journeys. Not only do the women get to make sound together and learn practices that they can use in their daily lives, but they get to experience Ruth’s beautiful, healing and grace-filled voice and sound journeys. We feel grateful and and blessed to have Ruth teaching at the Center.”
– Arleen K. Ketchum, SC, Director of The Elizabeth Seton Women’s Center and Karen O’Brien

Ruth wrote an article in “Women's Spirit,”
the newsletter for the Elizabeth Seton Women’s Center in New York
Click here to read the full article