At Sounds for the Soul, our meditations honor all paths.  There is no required belief system. 

We honor each person’s individual spiritual path. 

We hold a vibration of unconditional love and gratitude for each one present. 

 

Saturday, December 1, 2018
Winter Spirit Seekers Fair
Sounds for the Soul will have a booth at this Healing and Energy Work Fair.  15 minute individual private sound healing sessions at the special rate of $20.  We will also be offering the following for sale:  Meinl tongue drum, mallets and case; Nepalese singing bowls; Om Nadam singing bowl candles with mallets; perfect fifth tuning forks; Koshi elemental chimes; crystals; crystal resonator tuning forks; essential oil sprays; and Keith’s Cacao bars, beverages and bliss balls.  We will also have gift certificates available for private or group sessions-great gifts for the holidays!
The fair features vendors from the healing arts, energy workers, one-of-a-kind merchandise, and personal growth opportunities.  Held at Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31^st St., Des Moines IA.  10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Free admission and workshops.  For a list of vendors and workshops see www.unitydesmoines.com
 
Tuesdays, December 4, 11, and 18, 2018
Mid-day Sounds for the Soul Meditation
Connect with your source of inner peace in this weekly meditation.  Regular meditation is so beneficial for health and well-being.  Join Deb Jennings, Hollie McClay Johnson, and Justin Appel for an hour break from rushing and stress-filled day-to-day activities and spend your lunch break luxuriating in the peaceful Sounds for the Soul meditation energy. 12:00-1:00 p.m.  Relax, refresh, renew and restore! We invite you to set aside your electronics, all your tech gear, your calendar, your thoughts, your stress…and take that journey from your head to your heart. We offer you the opportunity to invite in inner peace, relaxation, restoration, renewal, compassion, loving kindness, unconditional love and gratitude. Put yourself first for this hour and feel the benefits for much longer.  If you have been feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious, this mindfulness meditation accompanied by the sounds will help you reach deep meditative states.  As we do this inner work, our healing begins.  As we heal ourselves, we heal our planet.  And as we heal our planet, we heal ourselves.   We are all connected and we invite you to come connect in this experience with us. For more information, contact Deb Jennings at 515-371-0725, or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com 
Website http://soundsforthesouldj.com/  Energy Exchange: $15 per person. You can pay on line at the website above via PayPal or credit card in PayPal at http://soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/  or cash or personal check at the door.
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31^st St., Des Moines, Iowa 
***NOTE:  NO MID DAY MEDITATION ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25  CHRISTMAS.***
 
Wednesday, December 5, 12, and 19, 2018
Wednesday Night Sounds and Silence Meditation
Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Hollie McClay Johnson of Sounds for the Soul and Rev. Cynthia Leveque of Unity Center of Des Moines collaborate to bring you a sounds and silence meditation, using the Sounds for the Soul instruments. 

Energy Exchange:  Offered on a Love offering basis with a suggested minimum donation of $10.   
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
***No meditation Wednesday, December 26***
 
Thursday, December 6, 2018
New Moon Gong Meditation
At the new moon, it is the perfect time to create what you want to manifest in your life. We set intentions on how we want things to look in our lives. The new moon gong meditation assists us to stay connected with our mind, body and spirit, utilizing the moon energy as a healing experience.  The sound of the gong “re-tunes” us on many levels, bringing us into harmony and deep levels of inner peace.  These sounds work on a cellular level as well as an emotional level.  Participants may bring a yoga mat and other items for their comfort (i.e. blanket, pillow, eye cover, bottled water, journal).  You will be “bathed” in sound during this session.  The gong sounds will help detoxify the body.  (Be sure to drink plenty of pure water following the session.)  The sounds of the gong will remind you of your inner ability to be in bliss, as well as take you into a state of deep relaxation and peacefulness. 6:30 p.m.  Contact Deb Jennings for more information. 515-371-0725 or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com. 
Website:  http://soundsforthesouldj.com/
Energy Exchange Fee:  $15 per person.  You may pay online at the website http://soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/ via PayPal or credit card through PayPal.  You may also pay cash or personal check at the door. 
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
 
Monday, December 17, 2018
Mindfulness Meditation
Join us at the Downtown Wellmark YMCA for a mindfulness meditation, accompanied by the Sounds for the Soul instruments.  It is open to all Y members and cancer survivors. Sponsored by the YMCA and  Above and Beyond Cancer.  4:45 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. in the Body, Mind, Spirit  Room.  Led by Hollie McClay Johnson.  Free event.
 
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Winter Solstice 2018:  Navigating Life in the Darkness
Experience Atlantean based technologies:  Channeling, Pyramid Energy, Ancient Sounds, Crystals.  There will be a big crystal star grid to help you feel at home in the darkness, vibes to support navigating life with comfort during the dark times, information on how to clear your path to be an instrument for Pure Source, channeled understandings of Atlantis, navigating life, and about you.  Learn to connect to Source during the dark times of your everyday life for the benefit of all beings everywhere.  Tuesday, December 18, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.  Held at Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31^st St., $45 per person.  Optional Sacred Cacao Beverage, $10.  Order in advance from Deb.  More info about cacao at www.soundsforthesouldj.com/ Register by email or text with Laura Jones at 515-975-6331, Laura@Lauracle.com or pay online at www.soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets  Deb Jennings 515-371-0725, soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com
 
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Meditation Around Town
This is a free community meditation that meets monthly on the 3^rd Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at a different location with a different leader each month.  Hollie McClay of Sounds for the Soul provides the sounds of the Sounds for the Soul instruments each month.  This month’s meditation leader is Ofelia Mohr.
Location:  Urbandale Senior Center, 7305 Aurora Ave.,  Urbandale, Iowa
 
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Full Moon Cacao with Chakra Clearing Ceremony
Experience the beautiful properties of cacao, the plant medicine from which chocolate is made.  Experience the chakra clearing ceremony incorporating the use of sound healing instruments to release all that no longer serves you and start the new year refreshed, renewed, restored and balanced! All on the full moon, and the energy supports release!   Limited to first 12 people to register. Cacao is a superfood plant medicine.  We will be working with a ceremonial grade cacao from Guatemala.  A cacao ceremony allows you to connect more deeply with your inner self.  It is heart opening and inspires increased focus, clarity and creativity! It assists you in any transformation you are working on. You set your intentions and cacao aids in your insight and awareness in achieving your goal.  You will learn about your ability to love unconditionally, about your truest, deepest self and living your purpose.  You will release negative energy and blocks as you open to more love and gratitude.  We will sit in sacred circle, and the cacao will be taken.  We will create a safe space to share, reconnecting with our deep, inner wisdom, and then after sharing, go into the sound healing meditation to clear the chakras.  The cacao will enhance these practices, taking you to deeper levels of consciousness and understanding.  Cacao connects us with our hearts, and elicits feelings of joy, bliss, love and transformation.  It raises your vibration!  Then we will go into a meditation with sound healing designed to clear, balance and harmonize the chakra system.  Then we will reconnect in our sharing of the experience and participants will have an opportunity to share their creative inspirations if they so choose. These ceremonies expand our connection in community with others who attend also.   Bring a yoga mat or cushion, or use one of ours, a blanket, pillow, whatever you need to be physically comfortable, a bottle of water, a journal if you want, and an open heart!  Also, if there is something creative you want to share in the last round, i.e. a poem, a painting or drawing, a song, etc. please bring it or feel free to create in the moment.  You may also bring a personal sacred item to be blessed on the altar and taken home with you after the ceremony and/or an offering for the altar. 
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Contact Deb Jennings for more information.  515-371-0725
or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com. 
Website:  http://soundsforthesouldj.com/ 
Energy Exchange:  $50 per person. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa.  Please note because of the small size group of this event, you must preregister on the website by paying your ticket fee.  The website accepts paypal or credit card via paypal.  If you are unable to pay this way and want to attend, contact Deb at the above contact phone number and arrange to reserve your space and pay at the door.
 
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Full Moon Gong Meditation
The full moon is an excellent time to release what is no longer serving you.  The gong meditation enhances the releasing process.  Members may bring a yoga mat and other items (i.e. pillow, blanket, eye cover, bottle of water) for their comfort. Many enjoy bringing a journal to jot down guidance and messages received during the meditation.  You will be “bathed” in sound during this session.  The gong sounds will help detoxify the body.  (Be sure to drink plenty of pure water following the session.)  The sounds of the gong will remind you of your inner ability to be in bliss, as well as take you into a state of deep relaxation and peacefulness. At the time of the full moon, the energy supports us in releasing anything that no longer serves us, perhaps a behavior, a belief, thought pattern, whatever you are ready to let go of, to make room for the new that you wish to create. At this group meditation, we will combine our intentions with the frequencies of multiple gongs, crystal singing bowls and other instruments to bring about the healing process within each of us. As we do this healing work on ourselves, we help to heal our world. As we heal our world, we heal ourselves. We will work with our breath and the vibrations of unconditional love and gratitude    6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Contact Deb Jennings for more information.
515-371-0725 or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com.  Website:  http://soundsforthesouldj.com/ 
Energy Exchange:  $15 per person. Tickets may be purchased at http://soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/   You may also pay by cash or personal check at the door.
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
 
Monday, December 31, 2018
Year End Releasing Meditation
Release all that no longer serves you before the beginning of the new year with the assistance of gongs, percussion instruments, and singing bowls in this powerful New Year’s Eve group meditation.
Held at Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31^st St. 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
 515-371-0725 or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com.  Website:  http://soundsforthesouldj.com/ 
Energy Exchange:  $20 per person. Tickets may be purchased at http://soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/   You may also pay by cash or personal check at the door.
Location:  Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
 

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Very excited to invite you to the Celestial Sound Bath that Deb Jennings, Hollie McClay and Justin Appel, all of Sounds for the Soul, will be offering for the Des Moines Social Club’s New Year’s Eve Bash on Another Planet. Come check out our out of this world sounds from 8 to 11:30 p.m., December 31st.   All details in link below.

http://desmoinessocialclub.org/events/bash/

 

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DID YOU KNOW SOUNDS FOR THE SOUL OFFERS PRIVATE SESSIONS?
 
Sounds for the Soul offers private sessions with sounds for personal growth and increasing your vibration.  These one hour sessions are very transformational.  $108.00.  We also offer private sessions with sounds and cacao ceremony.  Cacao enhances the session.  These one and one half hours sessions will help you with clarity, focus, inspiration and creativity.  $158.00.  And additionally, we offer couples sessions either one hour with sounds or one and one half hours with sounds and private cacao ceremony  $177 for one hour sounds session; $277 for one and one half hours sounds and private cacao ceremony.  Cacao opens the heart to more love.  Ideal for couples!
We also offer with Heather Brown, Matriarch Massage, private sessions with massage accompanied by sounds.  $120/hour.