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Tibetan Healing Sound Instruments Mysteriously Alter

Space, Mind, Time

(Palmer Lake, CO PRWEB, September 16, 2009) In an alchemy of metal,

human voices, sacred geometry and field recordings from the Tibetan
plateau, Richard Rudis (Sonam Dorje) is launching two new CDs whose voices
may “alter space, mind and time.”

Tibetan healing sound instruments are mysterious and singular. Rudis, a

student of Buddhism for over a quarter century, has been teaching sacred
sound workshops for more than a decade. He invites listeners “to sip at the
elixir of Dharmakaya (unwavering truth) and bathe your self in its soothing
harmonies.” He said that listening effectively stops the mind’s internal
dialogue, and awakens and stimulates cellular memory into a “natural blissful
state” of dynamic trance meditation and a vibrational dance of harmonics.

Pilgrim’s Prayer; A Sojourn into Sacred Sound Healing by Richard

Rudis (Sonam Dorje) is articulated using the uniquely expressive voices of a
38” Paiste planetary earth gong, an ancient Tibetan singing bowl, tingsha’s,
overtone voices and field recordings from the Tibetan plateau.

Track 1 of Pilgrim’s Prayer explores the reconstructive healing waves of

harmonic sound. Its “choir” of energy will awaken, dismantle and recreate
within its metamorphic overtones. Track 2, entitled “Coherence,” is a tantric
journey into the ancient sacred geometry of the “Sri Yantra.” Its complex
structures of overtones and harmonics induce natural healing to balance the
mind, body and spirit. The final track, “Three Jewels,” offers refuge in the
natural collaborative energies of spiritual potential, the Dharma and the
Bodhisattvas. It promises fundamental shifts in phenomenon space, clarity,
vigor, joy and the sense of peace.

Terma-Yana: A Glorious Sound Mandala, another CD offering by Rudis,

also features the multi-tonal voice and soothing harmonies of a large earth
gong. The Tibetan word "Terma" means hidden treasure, and the word
"Yana" means a path, way, or vehicle. This CD may prove to be your
pathway to hidden treasure. Both CDs are available at
http://satiama.com/store/index.php?target=categories&category_id=184
Gong Baths
For more than a decade, Richard Rudis has offered group sound experiences
known as “Gong Baths” and has taught sacred sound workshops with the
Himalayan sacred sound instruments in select locations across the US. While
he is considered most knowledgeable in this esoteric field and has thousands
of followers, much of the population has absolutely no idea what a Gong Bath
is or what it can offer them.

Upon entering a large, nearly empty room, gong bathers’ eyes are drawn to
the 38-inch gong hanging suspended from a frame in the center. This is the
planetary earth gong, tuned to the vibrational signature of the Earth as it
transits around the sun. For thousands of years, in the Vedic tradition, this
has widely been known as the sound of the “Void,” “Still Point,” or “Aum.”

Participants lay out their cushions and blankets in circular patterns on the
floor, with head pointed toward the gong. Soon the gentle sounds of sacred
singing bowls begin the sound journey, followed by the first, unmistakable
sounds of the Earth Gong, as Rudis shepherds participants through an hour-
long sound journey like none other. Few can believe an hour has passed as
they are bathed in the ancient and sacred sounds.

Afterwards gong bathers share their range of individual experiences, from

simply feeling refreshed, experiencing relief of a physical ailment, or even
reports of altered consciousness, mind travel and out-of-body experiences.

“We have experienced many of Richard’s Gong Baths, and recommend the
experience without equivocation,” remarked Susan Stuth, co-founder of
Satiama, LLC. “It is a marvelous event that simply defies description.” In
fact, gong bath enthusiasts will often attend a series of gong baths spanning
weeks, as allowed by Rudis’ workshop schedule.

Non-Traditional ‘Marriage’
Rudis is now experimenting with a whole new sort of non-traditional marriage
-- of sacred sound healing and sacred geometry. “Sacred geometry? Like
inThe DaVinci Code?” Well, yes!

Consider Rudis’ background. An American practitioner of Vajrayana

Buddhism, Rudis has studied Eastern philosophy and Buddhism for more than
a quarter of a century. He is a long-time pilgrim and guide to sacred sites in
Asia. While in Tibet in 1996, Rudis was granted refuge in the Buddha from His
Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa. At that time he was given the Tibetan name
Sonam Dorje (Meritorious Thunderbolt).

Rudis holds degrees in Fine Arts and English from U.S. universities, and has
also studied engineering and architecture. He is a recognized photographic
artist, having studied with such notables as Paul Capreonegro, William Parker
and Ansel Adams. He has taught “Zen of Photography” at the university level,
and has been a guest lecturer at various schools across New England.

In between Gong Bath appearances, Rudis spoke about the marriage of

sound healing and sacred geometry. “Everything is energy and has a sound
or vibrational signature,” Rudis said. “Within the energetic aspects of our
universe, we find light, ultrasound, infrared, etc., separated between degrees
of frequency.”

Rudis is experimenting with creating a “circular, fully coherent experience”

that will touch on the coherent qualities of our own, human vibrational
nature. He expects to do this by creating sound of a coherent nature and light
of a coherent nature coupled within a sacred space.

For more information in his own words, excerpts of Satiama’s video interview
with Richard Rudis on YouTube can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eyZcrqg47A.

For those who cannot attend a gong bath in person, Rudis, under his Buddhist
name of Sonam Dorje, has produced several CDs, including Terma Yana and
Pilgrim’s Prayer, and a Gong Bath DVD of the Gong Bath experience at the
third International Sound Healing Conference in Santa Fe, available through
www.satiama.com. Rudis’ gong bath schedule, as well as ancient Buddhist
singing bowls and artifacts, can be found at www.buddhistartifacts.com

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SIDEBAR ARTICLE: “Planetary Earth Gong” by Richard Rudis

In our everyday lives of mortgage payments, taxes, traffic jams, near

destruction and treasured moments, it is easy to lose touch with our inherent
wholeness. Perhaps at some deep level we all, in a shared moment of
consciousness, have designed gurus, saints, buddhas and gods as vessels of
learning – each a relic of discovery to awaken the Divine that is innate within
us. In the moment that the Planetary Earth Gong is first heard and the mind
enters a state of natural bliss, a gift is seeded.

That gift is our very core and available to each of us if we choose to listen.

Like a stone thrown into a calm pool of water, the harmonic resonance and
overtones of the Planetary Earth Gong ignite the surface of existence,
touching the very primordial nucleus within each devotee. Just as the stone
awakens the pool’s surface in ever-expanding circles, the voices of the Gong
embrace and guide each listener into synchronization with the Universal Life
Force. Consciousness is altered; reality reshaped, and each listener is
transported into expanded states of meditative dimensions.

Within this state of tranquility and balance, the mental, spiritual and physical
healing is attained. The Gong’s reverberations touch the Bodhi self within all,
escorting each into deeper understandings of the Dharma. It is “Voidness”
teaching, the sound of “AUM,” the resonance of life, the universal chord.

Creation in all of its vast diversities is the reflection of the omnipresent being
manifested within time and space through sound. The ancient mantra “Aum
Mani Padma Hum” – the dewdrop slips into the ocean as the ocean slips into
the dewdrop – mirrors that undiminished, interdependent nature of life.
Duality ends and the true essence of reality, undivided and yet individually
distinct, is revealed.

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For more information contact:

Karen Stuth, Satiama
(719) 487-0424
Karen@satiama.com