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The „BORYNA” Foundation.centre of Sound and Music Therapy Our foundation is a non profit, non -governmental organization in Poland, dedicated to spreading the idea of using music as a tool for healing, therapy, supporting education.
Brief history: BEGINNING. STARGARD SZCZECIŃSKI. The Association of Spiritual Unity for Love, Light and Life.
We, Andrzej and Mira Boryna, started our activity in 1980s in Stargard Szczeciński, where we established The Association of Spiritual Unity for Love, Light and Life. We were given personal blessing by great personalities, like Yogi Bhajan, and also Shri Chinmoy, Swami Vishnu Devanada, Swami Omkarananda, Pir VIlayat Inayat Khan. PEACE UNIVERSITY IN POTSDAM We were listed in the Peace University in Potsdam as member of the Honorary Advisory Board, among such personalities: Dalaj Lama, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Nelson Mandela, Sir Jehudi Menuhin, Lech Wałęsa. WEEK OF WHOLENESS AND HEALING. CRACOW. 1988. WAWEL MEDITATION We were honored that way because we initiated and brought to realization the international event “Week of Wholeness and Healing” in Cracow 25 April – 1 May 1988. Among the lecturers were: Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, Richard Baker Roshi, Keith Sherwood, Atum O’kane, Brigitte Mueller. At the beginning of 1989 we MET RABBI SHLOMO CARLEBACH, a legendary world famous singer and philosopher. We got his personal invitation to come to a concert in Cracow at the Slowacki Theatre.
Since 1989 we have been officially publishing healing, relaxing and meditative music as a firm Ananda Music, basing on licenses given by musicians or companies representing them.
We were in the USA In 1990/1991. Here we met musicians, from which we got licenses for their music and took parts in concerts – Rahul Sakyaputra, Jim Berenholtz, Ani Williams, and great events they organized. We met also YOGI BHAJAN, the founder of the 3HO Foundation.
In 1991 “Ananda Music” organized a tour for American harp virtuoso Joel Andrews, a pioneer of healing music. One of the performances was at the Children Hospital in Toruń. In 1996 we were in Munich and we had a great pleasure to meet FLORIAN FRICKE, a German composer, author of music to Werner Herzog films, the leader of the legendary group POPOL VUH.
On 17 th November 2003 we established the Rahul Sakyaputra Centre of Sound of Sound and Music Therapy.
In 2005 it the Centre became the “BORYNA” Foundation. Centre of Sound and Music Therapy Spiritual Patrons of the Foundation are: Rahul Sakyaputra, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and Florian Fricke. We created the Honorary Advisory Board of the foundation and invited our friends, musicians, scientists and people of good will to become its members.
We cooperate with the Hospice for children “NADZIEJA” (Hope) in Toruń, working with children and their parents, providing music and workshops on music and sound therapy. We take part in medical conferences sharing knowledge and results of scientific researches on potentials of sound to heal, introducing also great music to medical authorities. Music of ANi Williams, Erik Berglund, Michael Stillwater was honored by commission of medical authorities on oncology and diabetes to get a prize in category of rehabilitation equipment.
We do workshops for teachers and for children on using music to learn languages. We work to involve personalities on medicine and science in promoting the ideas of sound healing, to get to media. We were on Whole Poland television twice, and we also gave programs in local television and radio.
PROJECTS 2007 We got a donation from the Kujavsko-Pomorskie Voivoidship for our project supporting education. We organized 10 workshops called MUZIACZEK for teachers, therapists, parents and for all interested, related to possibilities of using music, sound and rhythms to support teaching. There were also two conferences: at the Nicolas Copernicus University and at the International College of Tourism and Culture. We have also published a booklet reporting the whole project.
MICHAEL STILLWATER IN POLAND. 5-7 October 2007. TORUŃ We invited Michael Stillwater to take part in the World Action VOICES FOR HOSPICES, and World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. We realized the project in cooperation with the Hospice for Children “NADZIEJA” (Hope), managed by Mrs Ołena Bożemska.
During his stay in Toruń Michael Stillwater had a meeting with teenagers at school, and with children, their parents and the team of the Hospice “Nadzieja”. He gave a beautiful concert at the Youth Centre of Culture as well. Read more PROJECTS 2008 We invited Ani Williams who visited the “Nadzieja” hospice for children and gave a small concert and a healing session on 1st March 2008. In the evening she performed a concert at the “Baj Pomorski” Theatre. She had a workshop and individual voice analysis sessions. Ani Williams was also the main guest of a conference at the Nicolas Copernicus University related to therapeutic use of music and sound.
Ani Williams was also in Katowice, where she had a workshop and a concert at Musical Academy. Read more MY MUSIC FOR PEACE On 1 st September we started an action called “My Music for Peace”. It is addressed to people in all the World to connect their thoughts and hearts in the wish for peace through music that makes them happy.
WESTERPLATTE 2009 Project relates to celebration of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the 2nd World War and the 20 th anniversary of communism collapse. It is to be organized by Polish Government at Westerplatte, near Gdańsk, because it is the place where the war started.
Our project concerns both musical part of the celebration and involves KITARO and Józef Skrzek as the main performing artists of a big Peace Concert and inviting laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize. We proposed to invite His Holiness Dalai Lama as the special guest of the celebration. |
Has held the World Wisdom Seat at Naropa University and is Professor Emeritus at Temple University. He is a major figure in the Jewish spiritual renewal movement, presenting the central teachings of Hassidism and Kabbalah in a contemporary and heartfelt manner. Born in Poland in 1924 and raised in Vienna, he fled the Nazi advance by coming to the United States in 1941. He was ordained in 1947 and received a Ph.D. in 1968 from Hebrew Union College. www.wie.org/j13/zalman.asp
Dr. Thompson has been experimenting with sound since 1980. He first started in his Holistic Health Center in Virginia which grew to be the largest Center of its kind in Virginia at that time. His experiments were in using exact sound frequencies to make Chiropractic spinal adjustments, cranial adjustments, stimulate and normalize organ function and balance Acupuncture Meridians. www.neuroacoustic.org
Is a multi-talented artist and inspirational educator using music for healing. A recording artist of over a dozen albums, his songs reflect universal spiritual principles through the eyes of his human journey, and his chants are known worldwide for opening the heart to a peaceful place of love and harmony (see ChantWave and Recordings). He is founder of Inner Harmony/Medicine Music and MusicHeals.Net, offering musical services and healing arts. www.innerharmony.com
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Dallas attended Florida State University and then went on to study in Germany, India, and Sweden. Following schooling, he performed in the San Francisco Bay area, India, Japan, and Europe. From 1987-1992, he was the chairman of the Department of Recording Studies at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. Dallas has taught CEU and CME courses for nurses and physicians since 1989. www.healinghealth.com
Legendary bansuri (Indian flute) master Sachdev accompanied on tabla (drum) by the equally acclaimed Swapen Chaudhuri performs the classical music of India. The bansuri, one of the oldest instruments in existence, is a bass flute made of bamboo capable of infinite pitch nuances. Each note stands alone, so special care is given to the purity of intonation. Its seductive vocal beauty lies in a sound that is an interplay between the flute and the tabla. http://bansuri.net/gssachdev
Is a pianist, composer, teacher and author. He writes pop, musical theatre, jazz and new age music and film music. Since 1982 he has pioneered a transformational approach to music relaxation which sensitized him to the connection between to the mind and the body.
MBA is the founding director of Village Rhythms. Onye’s drumming and dance artistry has electrified audiences in the United States and abroad for over thirty years. His training and consulting have improved hundreds of lives and organizations. www.villagerhythms.com
He is a percussionist, playing also many other instruments and various music for different people. He has Bern building Therapy - Instruments since 1993. He uses them in shamanic – healing ceremonies. He gives percussion lessons and works with sound as teacher – therapist in several schools and homes for disabled people. www.artemoris.minihub.org/index.htm
Is one of the most popular composers of relaxation music. His "Music of the Angels" and "Music from the Pleiades" were # 1 and # 2 on the charts and are considered classics. He studied at the Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music where he received Bachelor and Masters degrees. He has practited meditation and natural healing since 1961, and is a certified Yoga teacher. www.astromusic.com
Is a musician, composer, acupuncturist, bioenergetician and martial artist. As a musician/composer, he performed his original compositions with his quintet in the great concert halls of the world including Carnegie Hall, the Tokyo Opera, the Paris Olympia and the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the recipient in 1980 of the Grande Prix de Composition Francais (Grand prize of French compotision). When Fabien Maman was thirty years old he was a successful jazz musician touring the world with his band. In Tokyo he decided to treat his stressed-out musicians with a massage before the concert. http://tama-do.com
Professor Jacek Łuczak, MD, FRCP - Medical Director of Hospice Palium Head of Chair and Department of Palliative Medicine Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznań. Poland Professor in Palliative medicine since 1991. Specialization: internal medicine, anaesthesiology, cardiology, palliative medicine, hopsice physician since 1987. Polish Hospices Fund, UK (vice – Chairman). Founder and honorary president of Polish Assocciation of Palliative Care, Chairmen of ECEPT (Eastern and Central Europe Palliative Care Task Force. www.oncology.am.poznan.pl/ecept/task.php
Brent's life is his music, and the study of tribal rhythms. His education has been intense and in-depth studying with drum masters in different parts of the world. His experience studying with the master professor Mr. Kwasi Badu of Ghana, Africa, was profound and very meaningful. Brent has traveled throughout Africa to study the roots of African music, tribal ceremonies and rhythms. www.brentlewis.com
(J. Donald Walters) is a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and the founder of Ananda. Ananda is recognized as the most successful intentional community in the world. Today, over 800 people reside in six Ananda communities throughout the U.S. (Seattle, Palo Alto, Portland, Sacramento and Dallas) and in Europe. www.ananda.org/ananda/kriyananda
Since 1995, Nestor has explored and practised the ancient art of overtone singing, also referred to as vocal harmonics, with particular attention to its therapeutic and meditational uses. An experienced teacher, he has now taught thousands of people the techniques of overtone singing and Sound Healing in Spain, UK, Sweden, Finland, Italy, South Africa, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Canada and France. He is one of a handful of Westerners to master the “Deep Voice” overtone chanting employed by Tibetan monks and Tuvan (Mongolian) singers, which enables him to sing up to four simultaneous notes, with a range of 5 octaves. www.harmonicsounds.com
Long recognized as one of the most acclaimed recording artist in the Orient and America, Kitaro has always taken his music far beyond the borders of his native Japan. As a composer and multi- instrumentalist, he has reached millions of people on every continent with his stellar recordings. For many years, a small and devoted audience in America, through albums imported from Japan and Europe, knew Kitaro. By 1985, that audience widened considerably when Geffen Records simultaneously released a number of Kitaro compliations. www.domo.com
Is the Director of a non-profit, educational research institute, Sound Health Alternative & Resource Center International, Inc., dedicated to the pioneering and emerging field of Human BioAcoustics. Through the concept of vocal coherence, Edwards has been able to demonstrate that the human voice is a unique frequency representation of the structural and biochemical aspects of the body. www.healingmusic.org/ISS/sharry_edwards.htm
Is a classically trained vocal musician, and has been involved in the areas of mind, body, and spirituality for over twenty years after suffering a severe spinal chord injury from which she recovered fully. Amrita studied theology and music at seminary twenty-five years ago. She plays the singing crystal bowls with impressive skill, her voice becomes transparent, the music that comes from it is like a sonic universal mandala. www.healingmusic.org
From the moment I was old enough to know I was alive, I knew I wanted to perform. trained as a singer and actor from when I was five years old, and began singing with my father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, of blessed memory, when I was fifteen. Never in my lifetime did I imagine that I was developing the strength, knowledge and skill to follow in his footsteps.
The President of the Social – Charitable Foundation “Help for Family and Land”, the manager of a hospice for children “NADZIEJA” (HOPE), She has been doing a heroic work for creating a second home for incuralby ill children, afflicted by serious brain damages, suffering from different kinds of cancer. Our Foundation cooperates with the hospice by doing workshops for children and their parents, delivering CDs with music published by ANANDA MUSIC. We also take part in conferences. www.expo-andre.pl/hospicjum/witamy.html
Is a unique recording artist who like the troubadours of yore, combines his extraordinary musical talents with the Spirit and power of God's healing gifts. Erik sings like an angel with a refined tenor voice accompanied by the crystalline sounds of his Irish harp. He tours the world facilitating group energy in concerts, workshops, and thousands of private healing sessions. www.erikberglund.com
is a composer of music for theatre, dance, film and the concert stage. He is best known for his work bridging the classical and contemporary musical styles of the Western world with the indigenous sounds of ancient and native cultures. Among his many compositions are “Buffalo Nation”, a Native American -themed opera, “Luna”, an astrological ballet, and “Songs of Forgotten Relatives”, a musical play about the disappearing diversity of cult ures and lifeforms. 
Is a harpist, composer, author, and he was the pioneer music healer in America. He tours and presents concerts and workshops worldwide. Captivating international audiences with his exquisite music for over 30 years, he has produced 33 recordings, including collaborations with Paul Horn and the Paul Winter Consort. He was presented in Town Hall, New York, with critical acclaim and has soloed with the San Francisco Symphony under Arthur Fiedler. 
Is highly regarded as one of the finest visionary vocalists and motivational speakers within the New Thought/transformational movement. His focus on remembering the Divine within and reclaiming that connection has empowered hundreds of thousands on their spiritual journey. The union of David's charismatic message and heartfelt singing has elevated him to guest speaker of choice in many nationwide churches and global organizations.
