Ira Fein is a graduate of MHTP or the Music for Healing and Transition Program. Ira says that this wonderful training helped him hone his therapeutic music and sound healing skills and it introduced him, as well, to other kindred souls called to this holy work.
Ira Fein is currently employed doing therapeutic music and sound healing in a hospital and nursing homes. His work in the hospital focuses mainly with patients in the oncology center where he plays and does sound healing for patients in the chemo and radiation treatment areas. Ira plays a variety of instruments in his work, including guitar, bowed psaltery, cedar flute and voice. In addition, he uses several sound healing tools including Tibetan Tingshas, Acutonics Tuning forks and Crystal and Metal Singing Bowls. The underlying intention of his work is to help himself and his patients to enter a calmer, quieter kind of meditative consciousness wherein they can begin to access their own inner healing potential. This is accomplished by combining the gentle music and sound healing instruments with the meditative breathing exercises that he teaches. Together, these approaches help those in the oncology center as well as individual patients in their rooms and patients in the emergency department and intensive care.
In addition, Ira works in the psychiatric unit of the hospital facilitating therapeutic music and sound healing groups and working as well with patients individually. He says that this kind of work is some of the most challenging and the most fulfilling. Ira says that when he sees a person returning through the portal of stillness to their fuller awareness, with a smile of recognition lighting their face, his soul sings. He provides a similar type of work in nursing homes as well working with those with mild to severe dementia. In addition to sound, he uses meditative movement in a system he calls Ty Chai to help others to reconnect to their bodies and spirit. Ty Chai is a form of sacred Hebrew dance, moving to the contours of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Ira has found this flowing dance to be especially helpful to those who have suffered from the debilitating effects of stroke for it integrates the motor with the cognitive centers helping to retrain the brain. This type of sacred movement can also lead one into deep communion with Spirit which is also at the heart of my work.
Ordained Hazzan (Cantor)
Ira is an ordained Hazzan or Cantor, a kind of Music Minister, in the Jewish faith. As a Cantor he is minister to the spiritual needs of others through music. Helping himself and others enter healing spirit through music has been his passion and focus for many years.
MUSICIAN
Soul Calling CD
"Soul Calling" is a collection of Ira's spirit songs that he has composed over the last twenty years with a recurring chant connecting all the music to an ever renewing spiritual spring.
Come Beloved CD
"Come Beloved" is a meditative journey into the Sabbath, continually returning us to Sh'cheenah, our Sabbath Beloved within, through songs, chants, stories and breath meditations. The CD is designed to be an ever deepening experience of Sabbath wonder, healing and peace.
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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