ecstatic song: a group singing experience

with meg ruby

professor of piano at umass-lowell and certified yoga instructor

 

every other friday new sesson begins jan. 23rd

7:30 - 9:00 pm

 

cost: $10 

 

 

“SOUND IS THE FORCE OF CREATION, THE TRUE WHOLE”
-Hazrat Inyat Khan

 

Pianist and Yoga Teacher Meg Ruby leads this fun and eclectic chanting session that will include sacred and popular music from many different lands and times. No group singing experience necessary. Everyone is welcome, the more the merrier. Side effects of group singing include, but are not limited to---a free mind, an open heart, laughter, an overall blissful feeling...

Come check it out!

 

 

about meg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meg Ruby is a classically trained concert pianist, certified yoga instructor and sound/music healer. She integrates her grounding in classical music training and her extensive performance and teaching experience with a deep passion and knowledge of yoga and healing. Meg shares her insights with others to help facilitate and guide them on their own journey of self-discovery through sound/music and movement. She sees music as a powerful vehicle for healing. Meg uses tuning forks, Tibetan Bowls, percussion, singing, toning, yoga/movement, breath work, improvisation, and more in her group and private sessions.

 

Meg is currently a Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She has recently performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC, and with Grammy Award winner Howard Levy. She has also been scoring music for TV and film, including a TV pilot starring Judd Hirsch. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Performance from the University of Michigan, a Master’s Degree from Arizona State University in Performance, and Doctoral Studies at The Eastman School of Music in New York. Meg performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist throughout the world. She has given master classes and workshops on movement, yoga, and improvisation at The Eastman School of Music, Arizona State University, University of Hawaii, University of Massachusetts, University of Cuenca-Ecuador, Bowling Green State University, Steinway of Phoenix and Boston, at various music camps, community music schools and music teachers associations. Meg has also taught yoga at the YMCA and at various yoga studios in New York. 

 

Meg earned a Certificate as a Sound and Music Facilitator from the New York Open Center Sound and Music Institute 2012. “Our founder and director was Don Campbell, the author of the best selling book, The Mozart Effect. Joshua Leeds, innovator in sound healing, who wrote, The Power of Sound “ was also our teacher. Additional faculty Meg trained with for her certification include Grammy Award winning new age cellist and composer, David Darling, and John Beaulieu, who manufacturers tuning forks and wrote Human Tuning.  She studied Indigenous Healing with Pat Moffitt Cook, Healing through the Voice with Silvia Nakkach, and Sacred Drumming with Layne Redmond, among other distinguished faculty.

 

Meg studied with and earned her yoga teacher certification with Francois Raoult.

http://www.openskyyoga.com/