These days, we are all concerned about our wellbeing.
How often have you heard of therapies being helpful for certain ailments and conditions, or even just for relaxation? Among the more popular ones are music and sound therapy.
So what exactly is Sound Therapy? How does it heal and what are its benefits?

Join Amelia as she speaks candidly with the charming Dr John Sharpley, former composer-in-residence for Singapore Symphony Orchestra, founder of Our Music Foundation Nepal and lecturer at LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore).

Dr John Sharpley is composer, performer and teacher with a unique and multi-faceted career spanning geographic and cultural borders. Born in Houston, Texas, USA, he has a Doctorate in Composition from Boston University; a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music from the University of Houston; in addition to diplomas for piano, violin, and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Strasbourg, France. His composition teachers include Michael Horvit, David Del Tredici, John Harbison, Betsy Jolas and Leonard Bernstein.

Subsequently he was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University co-directing a music programme in Singapore. He has been featured in concerts, universities, conferences and festivals across the globe recently including the Performer’s Present Symposium, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), solo recital of original works (Kathmandu, Nepal), Illinois Wesleyan University, the New Composition Festival (Bangkok), the Texas Music Teachers’ Association Convention, the Asian Composers League Festivals (New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines), Singapore Piano Pedagogy Symposium, the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Symposium (Melbourne), Across Oceans International Festival (Toronto), and the Hong Kong Asian Arts Festival, San Francisco State University, Concordia (Montreal), University of Houston and the Present of Orchestra Festival (Kyoto, Japan) in addition to adjudicating music competitions.

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We use our voice every day to communicate with the world. How often do you pay attention to how you sound and what it says about your emotional state or mindset? Do you realise that your voice can be an instrument of healing, both for yourself and others? Join Amelia as she speaks with Ms Cynthia Zhai, Voice Coach, Speaker and Author of the book Influence through Voice published by McGraw Hill, to discover how our voice can be the source of our power.

Cynthia is a Voice Coach, Speaker and Author of the book Influence through Voice published by McGraw Hill. She has helped Senior Executives from MNCs and Government bodies with their voice and speeches to speak with impact and conviction, engages and inspires people to embrace change and take action. Cynthia has worked with clients from 42 countries across 5 continents. She has worked with many high-profile clients incl. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Simultaneous Interpreter at G8 Leaders Summit, a governmental forum attended by the heads of government.Cynthia has been a professional speaker and coach for the past 16 years and her engagement spans U.S., Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, India & Brunei. She has appeared in U.S.A Discover Your Talent Show, Singapore Radio Program 938Live 4 times, Hong Kong Radio 3, and Malaysia Business Radio Station BFM as a guest speaker on the subject of Voice and Presentation.Cynthia has spoken to more than 8,000 audience members across industries, from the world’s top MNCs as K & L Gates Washington D.C., Stanford University, Sofia University, Google Asia Pacific, HSBC Singapore, Procter & Gamble International Operations Southeast Asia Singapore Branch, to Government bodies as British High Commission Singapore, Singapore Air Force.

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Vibrations and frequencies are all around us. How can they affect our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states? Can vibrational frequencies be combined with yoga to enhance the benefits? Join Amelia as she speaks with Ms Amanda Ling, tibetan singing bowl specialist, healing music producer, tidying consultant and yoga teacher, on how she created the Sonic Flow Therapy.

Amanda Ling is a sound healing practitioner specialised in tibetan singing bowls. She is also an established musician & DJ based in Singapore for the past 15 years. She is most recognised as the keyboardist for local groups; instrumental rock band, In Each Hand A Cutlass , indie rock band, Electrico , live electronica duo, The Synth Experience formerly known as The Vibesetters and experimental jazz funkband, Throb . As a DJ, she has been going under the DJ moniker Doopz  and has been moderately active in the Electronic music and Dance scene since 2005. She now specialises in producing healing music, a tidying consultant trained in the KonMari Method™  and a yoga teacher who focuses on the therapeutic applications of yoga. It is her life passion and path to share the healing wonders of sound therapy through the ancient art of tibetan singing bowls and benefit-specific music. Amanda is also creator of the Sonic Soundscape for Sammasati, a healing concert piece for voice, singing bowls and sonic soundscape.

Experience the magic of Binaural beats in this wonderful sound track composed by Amanda Ling. Download the FREE track: here

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Have you ever wondered how the celebrities keep their glow and their looks? Or what their wellness routine is like? Join Amelia as she speaks with Ms Michelle Saram, actress and wellness enthusiast about her wellness journey and her take on sound healing.

Michelle Saram shot to fame starring with Aaron Kwok in a series of advertisements for CSL Hong Kong’s One2Free network and in Kwok’s MTV for the theme song 愛的呼喚[Love's Call].
She starred in award-winning movies like Wilson Yip’s Bullets over Summer 爆裂刑警 with Francis Ng and Louis Koo; Skyline Cruisers 2 神偷次世代 with Shu Qi, Leon Lai, Jordan Chan, Sam Lee; Vincent Chui’s Fear of Intimacy 追踪眼前人 with Tony Leung Ka Fai; and most recently, a cameo role in Wilson Yip’s Paradox 殺破狼・貪狼. Her roles in the TVB dramas - At the Threshold of an Era 創世紀 2 and A Step into the Past 尋秦記 made her a household name in Hong Kong and Singapore. And her role in the wildly successful Taiwanese tv drama Meteor Garden 流星花園 2 increased her popularity in Taiwan and all over Southeast Asia. She also starred alongside Li Bingbing and Ken Zhu in the drama City of Sky 天空之城which was filmed in the beautiful Yunnan countryside; followed by a dreadlocked, flying carpet riding, Middle Eastern princess role in the period drama Fairy 天外飞仙with Ariel Lin and Hu Ge. Michelle also released a Mandarin music album Upfront with Sony-owned Epic Records.
Michelle finds it ironic that while English is her native tongue, apart from the handful of guest appearances on travel and food shows, her main body of work is in Cantonese and Mandarin. She is currently working on an English tv drama featuring myths and legends of Singapore and looks forward to working on more projects focused on the environment, health and wellness, and honouring and strengthening the communities we live in.
Michelle, together with her husband, has owned and operated several restaurants and boutique hotels in Singapore and Sri Lanka.
Michelle has lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan and spends a significant part of the year in their home in New York. She enjoys the wonderful experiences her constant travelling has exposed her to and the remarkable, sometimes unexpected contrasts and similarities these experiences reveal. She speaks and writes fluently in English, and speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese.

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While sound and frequencies have many healing benefits, do you know that sound can also kill? In our environment there are vibrational frequencies that fall below the threshold of our hearing. Some of these infrasound can potentially harm us physically, emotionally and mentally.

Join Amelia as she finds out more about the potential harmful effects of sound from the engaging Dr John Sharpley, former composer-in-residence for Singapore Symphony Orchestra, founder of Our Music Foundation Nepal and lecturer at LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore).

Dr John Sharpley is composer, performer and teacher with a unique and multi-faceted career spanning geographic and cultural borders. Born in Houston, Texas, USA, he has a Doctorate in Composition from Boston University; a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music from the University of Houston; in addition to diplomas for piano, violin, and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Strasbourg, France. His composition teachers include Michael Horvit, David Del Tredici, John Harbison, Betsy Jolas and Leonard Bernstein.

Subsequently he was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University co-directing a music programme in Singapore. He has been featured in concerts, universities, conferences and festivals across the globe recently including the Performer’s Present Symposium, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), solo recital of original works (Kathmandu, Nepal), Illinois Wesleyan University, the New Composition Festival (Bangkok), the Texas Music Teachers’ Association Convention, the Asian Composers League Festivals (New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines), Singapore Piano Pedagogy Symposium, the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Symposium (Melbourne), Across Oceans International Festival (Toronto), and the Hong Kong Asian Arts Festival, San Francisco State University, Concordia (Montreal), University of Houston and the Present of Orchestra Festival (Kyoto, Japan) in addition to adjudicating music competitions.

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Dr John Sharpley shares his sound healing composition, A Dream Within A Dream, with our listeners.
A Dream Within A Dream for mixed choir, erhu, zheng and vibraphone was commissioned by the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir. The Orchid Ensemble (erhu, zheng and vibraphone) based in Vancouver accompanied the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir directed by J. Scott Ferguson for the premiere in 2008 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
Subsequently, the work has been featured in the Asian Composers League (Taiwan) and at the Kyoto City University of the Arts Music Festival (Japan).

Many of us have experienced Tibetan Singing Bowls and seen them used in sound therapy and yoga therapy. Is it really as simple as hitting the bowl to produce a sound? What can the vibrational frequency of the Tibetan singing bowls do for us? Is there a difference between a good bowl and a bad one?

Join Amelia as she discovers more about the Tibetan singing bowls in conversation with Akiko Igarashi.

Akiko Igarashi is a distinguished teacher of healing. She is a Reiki Instructor, Qigong practitioner, a Yoga teacher, and a Tibetan Singing Bowl Master. Above all else, Akiko is a dedicated student of life. The practice of inner stillness and focus began at a young age with Akiko. Born in Hokkaido, Japan, she was raised in the Eastern tradition of mindful living and the knowing of the interconnectedness of all beings in our existence. For many years, even though Akiko chose a corporate life path, the practice of cultivating inner wisdom was never far from her heart, or her mind. Akiko has walked the pilgrimage route of Caminode Santiago Compostela three times, volunteered in orphanages, and studied healing with teachers in far-off places of Nepal, India and Japan.

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Looking for some tips on how to pick a Tibetan Singing Bowl that is suitable for you? Check out Akiko’s tips on choosing a singing bowl for yourself.

Join Amelia as she speaks with Pamela Akasha Kaur on the values behind the practice of Kundalini Yoga and the Gong and how it can change lives.

Pamela is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, KRI Certified Conscious Pregnancy Instructor, Gong Practitioner, Mandala Dance Practitioner – The Alchemy of Dance and Certified Reiki Level 2 Practitioner. In 2007, Pamela attended the first Kundalini Woman’s training camp in Malaysia. She was greatly inspired by the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and what it means to be a woman-the sensitivity, grace, power and nobility that we can manifest simply by virtue of being born a woman. Her life changed forever. That was when she started teacher training under KRI (Kundalini Research Institute) as Taught by Yogi Bhajan. Now a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher she believes that a woman is the embodiment of God’s creative power Shakti. And every woman has that divine power in her own being, waiting to be recognised. Passionate in sharing her knowledge and love for Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, she now teaches in Singapore and Thailand. She tells her student that, in the same way it takes pressure on a piece of coal to make it into a diamond, without the pressure, the pain and the challenges you can;t really go to the next level. “It has been many times that my teacher put me through challenges, and I always learned how to overcome my own negative mind.” “As a Kundalini Yoga teacher I teach with enthusiasm and humour. I hope to inspire and uplift students. I believe in Healing beyond medicine. We all have it in us to be strong and healthy. The way to achieve this is by taking responsibility for our own physical and mental health. We can develop more consciousness through working with yoga, meditation and dance. The capacity for self-regulation is what allows us to handle our own states of arousal and our difficult emotions. Our intrinsic ability to evoke a sense of being safely “at home” within ourselves, at home where goodness resides.

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Check out Pamela’s guide to balancing yourself anytime anywhere!