Lisbie Rae hosts a class of healing music and yoga outdoors on her farm near Freelton. Cheryl Durst leads flowing yoga poses to Brian Wall’s beautiful music on harp, sitar, violin and djembe.

Music has an immense power to express our feelings and raise our consciousness. The intention behind Healing Music and Yoga is to create a positive, healing environment that allows yoga students to go deeper in their practice. Music calls our awareness to the present moment and calms the senses, releasing tensions and anxiety. We are then more able to generate feelings of compassion towards ourselves and others.

The class: improvisational melodies and rhythms flow as Brian subtly interacts with Cheryl’s instructions and flows with the rhythms of the asanas. Whether softly floating on the harp, or providing grounding rhythms on the djembe, Brian moves with the class as one unit, finally ending with a shavasana accompanied by voice, sitar and Celtic harp.

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Biographies

Brian Wall has been studying and performing Celtic, western classical, and Indian classical music for over ten years. He has blended the various techniques from each tradition, creating his own unique style. in 2003, he received a grant from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to further his studies of Indian music with Pt. Sukhdev Prasad Mishra. Among other performances, on March 9, 2005, he performed in a concert with "Ragaffaire" at CBC's Glenn Gould studio in a CBC radio concert as part of the "Ontario Musicians in Concert" series.

Brian is currently enrolled in the Contemplative Musicianship Program through the Chalice of Repose Project in Mt. Angel, Oregon. One of his goals is to continue his studies in music and provide healing music for hospices and hospitals. In the summer of 2007, Brian toured with Cheryl Durst from Ontario to British Columbia, offering master classes in Healing Music and Yoga. In November they traveled to Nova Scotia to teach at the Atlantic Yoga Conference in Halifax.

Cheryl Durst is a certified yoga teacher who trained first in Astanga yoga, then with David Swenson, followed by 3 months in Mysore India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath. Next, Cheryl dived deeply into an 18 month Iyengar teacher training at The Yoga Centre of Burlington, which inspired her to return to India to study with the Iyengars. Cheryl notes, “Along with the above mentioned studies, I have taken and continue to take workshops and classes with many great teachers, the most recent being a 20 hour training with Judith Lasater on Restorative Yoga.”

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