In
September, 1999, Amrita Cottrell gave birth to
this beautiful organization just after healing
from her miraculous healing from breast cancer.
The Healing Music Organization was born out of
her love for music, and the excitement over the
incredible healing she experienced in combining
sound and intention. It has been an amazing experience
to have a vision and bring it into manifestation
through sheer will and the grace of God. It is
her sincere desire for this website to be a comprehensive
source of information and a working resource for
those who want to learn more about the science
and art of vibrational medicine (also known as
psychoacoustics), sound healing and music therapy.
The internet has become an important tool to Amrita over the years since her amazing miracle of healing. Much of her research about cancer and wellness issues was done via the internet since access to large libraries wasn't readily available in Hawaii where she lived at the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
When she conducted research and literature searches in the area of sound healing and music therapy, she discovered that there didn't seem to be one source that really covered the wide-spectrum of information existing about sound healing. At the time Amrita realized that interest in sound and healing through music was quickly spreading as more and more are people were becoming aware of its power. There wasn't any one place that bridged the gap between science, sound, music, sound healing and music therapy and all the many specialties of working with sound and vibration.
Amrita decided to create a website as a comprehensive resource for disseminating this information worldwide. She says that she loves performing, recording and working with people one-on-one and in groups, but that the internet gives her the ability to inspire large groups of people simultaneously.
The Healing Music Organization advocates no one specific modality, but presents all possibilities for those who want to learn. We do not feel that sound and music should be a substitute for seeking the advise of a medical practitioner. We do, however, believe that sound can always assist you in your healing journey.
The information on this website is for your use. Please feel free to access it and share it. We ask that if something has a reference, that you respect those who have taken the time to make it available and give them credit.
Our intention is to provide a website that gives people extensive, interesting, and up-to-date information in a pleasing format. If you visit us regularly (and we hope you will), you will notice changes over the next few months. Join our Healing Music egroup to keep abreast of what people from around the world are doing and saying in the area of sound healing by requesting membreship. Please send us emails if you want to give us suggestions about the design and content of the website as well as any technical problems you may encounter as you traverse our site.
Mission Statement
The Healing Music Organization provides information, resources, tools and a forum for dialogue to people interested in the healing power of music and sound. The Healing Music Organization serves as a bridge between the worlds of spirituality and medicine by honoring the value of both modalities. We support the concept of miracles in healing when the spirit and body learn to harmonize together and resonate with the vast energy of the universe.
The Healing Music Organization supports the concepts of entrainment, harmonics and resonance in serving a vital role in bringing body, mind and emotions into alignment with a person's spiritual essence. This alignment allows the opportunity for experiencing deep healing, a sense of lasting wholeness and continued wellness.
The Healing Music Organization furthers the work of visionaries, researchers, scholars, artists, historians, healers, and those seeking healing as we move into a new paradigm. May we access the ancient wisdom of the universe, through intuition, by becoming still, listening to and resonating with the vibrations within our being, and allowing the flow of synchronicity with the world around us.
Testimonials
"This web site is absolutely wonderful. It's a wealth of valuable information. Thank you for sharing. Much Peace." - Maryanne (Hawaii)
"WOW! I discovered your site today and it was like hitting the mother load! The articles in your newsroom have given me the most wonderful resource to help people understand what exactly it is I am attempting with my Tibetan bowls. Wow! Congratulations on a fabulous site!" - Mitchell (New Jersey)
"Keep up the great work!" - Kiki (Capetown, South Africa)
"I enjoyed your web site! I have been practicing sound healing for several years, and have found it to be an amazingly powerful medium for transformation. I am currently studying body work and curious if you have any recommendations of resources that would help me bring both modalities together. I am also interested in any suggestions of resources that could help me combine shamanic work with the sound and body work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work!!" - Miles (California)
"Thank you for the wonderful website and the amount of effort you have taken to produce such a great collection of information. Thank you so much." - Sean (Washington)
"Just had a chance to spend a few minutes exploring...WOW! What a resource you have put together!. I play Celtic Harp in a Volunteer capacity, and have found what a difference "live" music can bring to the patients. Your site will become a standard stop for me. Thanks again." - Duncan (Washington)
"Hi, I talked to you on the radio today. I just wanted to let you know I think your web page is great! Who is your web master? I am starting my own web page soon. Keep up your healing work. The world needs it. Maybe I will be interviewing you on our show someday soon. Blessings." - Paula (California)
"Amrita, This is a wonderful, wonderful website! The site definitely shows the care, time and thought that you put into it. It will be a great honor to be part of it. This site is wonderful." - Trudy (California)
"This is a wonderful web site that is so full of information that I browse every chance I get. Thanks so much for sharing." - Love, Diana (Ohio)
"I’m a Musicotherapist since 1976 and have worked in many fields, especially in psychiatry, among others, but during the last years I felt interested in the real effects of sound, music and voice on people with pain or undergoing surgery, as well as the use of music in Hospice. I have already imprinted one of your papers: "Music Therapy Research" and think that we share the certainty of the real and musical effects of Music in various handicaps as well as patients in coma. I am eager to exchange information about more tools and technical management." - María (Argentina).
"Hi, my name is Miriam and I´m studying music therapy." - With love, Miriam (Sweden)
"Amrita, had a treat I found this morning when I was organizing my emails and went to your website! The content, the presentation and the intent are impeccable. You have provided a wonderful resource with your bibliography. Thank you for sharing this with the world. WIth your permission, I will add a link to healingmusic.org from our website. I wish you infinite blessings." - Anna (Singing Rainbow)
"Amrita, I just wanted to mention... Your organization is what I would consider to be a REAL and TRUE HMO!!! :O)" - Namaste, Ryan
About Amrita - Founder of The Healing Music Organization
Amrita is a classically trained vocal musician, and has been fascinated by the mind/body/spirit connection for over thirty years. She became interested in the possibility of self-healing after suffering a severe spinal chord injury at the age of eighteen, from which she recovered fully.
Amrita began her sound healing work in May, 1999, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in two years. She knew that "conventional treatment" was not the path for her the second time, so she began her journey into sound healing based on her own inner guidance. By using her voice, the voice of her partner and various healing instruments over the next two months, she was able to eradicate two tumors much to the astonishment of her physician.
Amrita studied theology and music at seminary over twenty years ago and then received her B.A. in Health Arts and Sciences from Goddard College in Vermont in 2001 as an independent scholar. She focused her studies on Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine. Amrita created a pilot study which investigated the issue of grief—how grief manifests in the human experience; how sound and music can assist people in expressing grief in a healthy way, and how the sounds in nature may provide the tones and rhythms to help people in their grief process. The study was impressive and the findings were intriguing. It is Amrita's intention to create a full study in the near future, and she is seeking funding for this study. Please contact Amrita if you are interested in learning more about this interesting study.
Amrita has just completed her first two books, "The Encyclopedia of Sound: A Researcher's Guide to Sound and Music in the Healing Arts and Sciences" and "The Dictionary of Sound: The Dictionary of Sound:
A Practical Glossary of Sound and Music in the Healing Arts and Sciences." These are being published now and will be availble for sale in January, 2007. If you would like to be notified when these are available, please send us an email, and we will put you on a mailing list for an announcement. She is also writing a book called "Graceful Amazon", which chronicles her experience in healing from breast cancer. Amrita is writing a book called "The Chantnal" with her colleague, Peggy Black, that compiles the work of over 50 of the top sound healers from around the world in their work with chanting and vocal exercises.
Amrita uses the crystal bowls, bells, chimes, drums and rattles along with her healing voice in working with individuals and groups. She also presents workshops around the country on the healing power of sound and music. Amrita is on the faculty at California Institute of Psychoacoustics in San Francisco and Vox Mundi School in Emeryville, California. Learn more about Amrita's healing work.
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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Amrita is a classically trained vocal musician, and has been fascinated by the mind/body/spirit connection for over thirty years. She became interested in the possibility of self-healing after suffering a severe spinal chord injury at the age of eighteen, from which she recovered fully.