February 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 11, 18 and 25th, 2020
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 Sounds for the Soul players 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, 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 may 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 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation
We will bring the benefits of restorative yoga poses and sound meditation into one unified experience in this special monthly class. Please wear your most comfortable clothes and bring your own pillow(s) and blankets. Some yoga mats and props, such as blocks, will be available but if you would like to use your own, please bring them.
Benefits of restorative yoga and sound meditation include:
Reduces stress, tension, and anxiety.
Balances body and nervous system energy.
Stimulates removal of toxins.
Promotes body, mind and spirit harmony.
Enhances your flexibility.
Deep relaxation.
Boosts the immune system.
Develops qualities of compassion, loving kindness, and understanding toward others and self.
Encourages good self care habits.
Improves mood states.
Science has confirmed that these practices can directly affect mood, brain waves, the nervous system and body chemistry. The vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, flutes, and percussion instruments stimulate the body to help produce the alpha waves that are present in the brain in deep relaxation. As you ease into each restorative yoga pose, the sounds will support you, inviting deep connections with your breath, body, mind and spirit.
INVESTMENT/ENERGY EXCHANGE
$20 per person. Reserve your space at www.mary-mccarthy.com/shop/
If drop in space remains available, $25 per person at the door.
TEACHER. Yoga taught by Mary McCarthy. mary-mccarthy.com
Sounds provided by practitioners from Sounds for the Soul by Deb Jennings. www.soundsforthesouldj.com
CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY
This special class is non-refundable and non-transferable. By enrolling, you are taking ownership of that spot. This guarantees your space in class and prevents someone else from being able to register into that slot. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation of this policy.
Location: Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Tuning Fork Class
Learn how to use the Pythagorean Perfect Fifth Interval Tuning Forks for tranquility and relaxation, balancing the hemispheres of the brain, clearing and balancing the chakras and balancing the auric field. Each student will learn how to use this set of C and G tuning forks on themselves and others. Powerful yet simple to use. Please contact Deb at 515-371-0725 or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com as soon as possible so we have enough sets of tuning forks in stock for the class. Class fee $35. 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuning forks will be available for purchase. Registration at www.soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/
Location: Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
Children and Family Meditation
Join us for a special meditation with sound designed for children to meditate with their family members. We will give a short instruction on meditation techniques. Then the actual meditation will last 15-20 minutes. Bring your children or grandchildren. Take this time to bond and share meditation with them. Help them learn to cope with stress in life at an early age! After meditating, a short period of time will be allotted for any questions the children have about meditation or the instruments. Our sounds for meditation are created with an intention of unconditional love and gratitude. 5:00-5:30 p.m. NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR THIS MONTH. Energy Exchange: By Donation. Your support is greatly appreciated. Please let people you know with children know about this opportunity. For more information, contact Deb Jennings at 515-371-0725, or
soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com Website http://soundsforthesouldj.com/
Location: Unity of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
Sunday, February 9, 2020
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
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Return to Love Meditation
This special evening candlelight meditation will focus on a Return to Love. We will examine what is our true nature? Why are we here? What is our purpose? And we will remember through a sound journey where we Return to Love. Bring someone you love if you would like to share this special meditation with them. 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! If you would like a cacao beverage to enhance the love vibration, it is an additional $10 and please order from Deb at least 24 hours in advance of the event. For more information, contact Deb Jennings at 515-371-0725, or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com Website http://soundsforthesouldj.com/ Energy Exchange: $15 per person. You may 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 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Return to Love Sound Yoga
Self love and self care are important aspects of our daily lives. However, it is easy to let ourselves slide, or to feel guilty or selfish for taking time for yourself. But we need to give ourselves love and acceptance so that we can give back to others. This session of sound yoga focuses on just that. Opening the heart and letting the love in. We will also work on practices that ignite self love and care. This heart opening yoga practice with EveryBODY Yoga with Corinne will start out with a guided meditation by Sounds for the Soul by Deb Jennings. Deb will also provide us with her soulful sound vibrations during our yoga practice. The session will end with a heartfelt heartwarming drink from the stylish creations of Natalie at Natural Grind. You can purchase a gift certificate for yourself or someone you love for $25 or you can share the experience together be it a sibling, parent, partner or bestie with a dual gift certificate for $40. You must purchase a ticket to secure your spot. 6:00 p.m. to 7:45.m. See the FB Event to reserve your space.
Location: 721 G Ave., Grundy Center, Iowa
Monday, February 17, 2020
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.
Location: Wellmark YMCA, 501 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Community Cacao Ceremony-The Path of Love
Experience the beautiful properties of cacao, the plant medicine from which chocolate is made. Cacao is a superfood plant medicine. We will be working with a ceremonial grade cacao from Guatemala. Do you already love chocolate? Would you like to try ethically sourced cacao which isn’t full of sugar and caffeine? What if each time you consumed cacao, you could connect more deeply because you attended this ceremony? The deep sense of connection would be brought to your memory each time you had cacao. Creating sacred space, connecting via ceremony and using ritual can add so much to your busy life. Take an afternoon off and share in this amazing experience. We will deeply explore our hearts and souls. 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. As we consume the cacao, and connect with the Spirit of the cacao medicine, we will open to what it has to offer us. We will create a safe space to share, reconnecting with our deep, inner wisdom, and then after sharing, go into a sound healing meditation. We invite you to take this journey with us. 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! We will share how you can add cacao into your own personal spiritual practices. 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.
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
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Gong Along Class
Join us for this experiential class. We will share gong-playing techniques so you can begin playing the gong! If you already have your own gong, please bring it (and any mallets you wish to use). If you don’t own a gong, you will be able to use one of the gongs in our collection. Sounds for the Soul players will share their tips and techniques in gong playing with you. You will get hands on experience playing the instrument, giving and receiving a mini gong healing session, and then we will join in playing a group gong meditation. There will be opportunities to both give and receive the gong vibrations in this class. This will be a fun, empowering, consciousness expanding evening which will raise your vibration! 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Contact Deb Jennings for more information. 515-371-0725
or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com. Website: http://soundsforthesouldj.com/
Fee for energy exchange: $35. Please sign up at www.soundsforthesouldj.com/tickets/ You may pay through the website to reserve your spot via PayPal or credit card. If you wish to pay cash or personal check at the door, you must preregister with Deb at soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com or 515-371-0725.
At Sounds for the Soul, we periodically offer all night gong meditations. Students in this class may at some point be invited to play at longer gong meditations. We also help empower individuals to use sound healing in their own self care program at home as well as attend our group events. You will learn techniques for your own self-care as well as giving a session to your friends or family members. This class may be taken more than once and each time will take you deeper into your connection with the gongs. If you have taken this class before, you may attend each subsequent time for $25.
Location: Unity of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, Iowa.
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! Other services we offer: leading private drum circles, accompanying yoga classes, playing for Celebration of Life Services, Weddings, Other Celebrations, Hospital/Retirement Home/Hospice Visits with Sounds, Meditations for Peace, Bridal/Marriage Blessing Meditations, Baby Shower Blessings, Energy Clearings of Space, Home Blessings, Corporate Wellness Programs, and Speaking to Organizations. Prices vary. Please contact Deb Jennings at 515-371-0725 or soundsforthesouldj@gmail.com for booking and pricing inquiries.