Alana Woods, BA,CMP spends her life using her knowledge of sound to help her own life and to help change the lives of others. Her intuitive childhood experiences listening to sounds in nature, piano from age 3 to 18 years,and hearing inner solar sounds the first twenty years of her life were enhanced as an adult by intensive studies with leading pioneers in music, consciousness, and the healing arts. She says " music has been a constant companion all my life".
Included in her background are work as a professionally trained ,artist, harpist, Unity Minister, certified Clinical Aromatherapist and certified Music Practitioner. Music research with the dying, mentally challenged children and adults, and private practice working with an acoustic sound table, harps, and harp storytelling with (stories of transformation) "Musical Tales for the Inner Being" helped develop her work in Music Medicine, or prescriptive sound. She has a long -time interest and study in pre-and perinatal psychology, development of babies before birth and early years of life, and spiritual transformation.
As an author, Alana has documented her work since 1980 and traveled teaching and speaking in conferences, colleges, hospitals and private groups in the US, Greece and Ireland. She has been a recording artist for soundtracks, and her own multimedia products. She is also a harp teacher to persons who ask to learn about music for their health.
In 2003 she wrote the book "The Healing Touch of Music: an Exploration" with teaching CD in back of book. This book records the foundation of her work. She is currently works as a sound consultant, creating protocols for music at an Ageless Living Center spa and assisted living. Her current home is in the Sandia mountains of New Mexico.
Interwoven throughout this book and attached teaching CD,are highlights exploring the uses of prescriptive sound. There are examples of different approaches taken in western and nonwestern cultures to utilize the amazing power of sound to bring health and wholeness.
Alana uses her own personal journey to discover and harness music for the purposes of healing. As well, she gives insights into establishing clarity as to why, what and how the elements of sound, rhythm,melody, harmony and form, when produced naturally, electronically and acoustically, serve to affect the mind-brain-body systems for the ultimate purpose of enhancing wellness. Both ancient and modern approaches as well as current methods and resources in exploring future trends and programs are given, in the development of a new science of music, as it relates to healing.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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