Publication:

Journey to the Sound God
Healing and Empowering Voice and Self Through Sound
By Saraswati Mimi O'Neill
In Journey to the Sound God (Nada Brahma [Sanskrit], meaning God as sound) S. Mimi O'Neill integrates her life-long experience in voice training and performance, spiritual awakening, and mystical exploration in an eclectic, teaching narrative. The reader travels on a journey of self discovery including spiritual and psychological teachings about working with the "inner critic," the nature of stage fright, healing emotional wounds, finding and empowering the real voice and the "hidden treasure" -- the real self. The reader encounters the personal stories of singers and students as they discover the nature of the real self and the nature of the real voice. O'Neill offers insights into working and training the voice, voice training exercises, spiritual toning exercises, meditation practices, and journal exercises. It's "The Artist's Way" for singers! For anyone beginning the process of opening the voice or the self, and for experienced practitioners interested in the deeper dimension of sound and voice work as it relates to one's life and spiritual unfoldment.

110 pages, 8 x 11 workbook format  $24.95
This book is complemented by O'Neill's CDs and training tapes

These CDs and tapes include the exercises and meditations described in Journey to the Sound God. Any or all of them provide an important complement to the text of the book. It's like having a voice teacher in your living room!

Vocal Development
Comprehensive vocal development exercises for opening, strengthening, and rehabilitating the speaking and singing voice. Instruction on posture, breathing, and voice placement using simple tips and exercises. Both for beginners and those with previous voice experience who seek a renewed and healthy orientation to voice work.

High Voices (tenor and soprano)
54 minute Compact Disc $16.99

Low Voices (baritone, bass, alto, and mezzo-soprano)
49 minute Compact Disc $16.99

Sound Healing Journey Through the Chakras
Mimi O'Neill speaks on identifying and working with the psychic chakra centers and then guides listeners through a chanted journey of sound in each chakra, accompanied by meditative piano improvisation. Instruction on breathing, toning, chanting and the development of consciousness and healing energy using the voice.

59 minute Compact Disc $16.99

The Body Centering Meditation
Mimi O'Neill guides listeners step by step into an embodied spiritual experience, including the body in the journey to higher levels of awareness and through a fully integrated experience of body/mind/feeling/soul. The meditation in the belly or "kahf" center opens a key doorway in the practice of embodied awareness. By practicing body meditation regularly, participants learn to extend this same personal and embodied presence into daily life.

53 minute Cassette Tape $12.99

The Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether
Healing and Revivifying Guided Meditation and Music Improvisations
The ancient Sufi practices of the healing element meditations release, revivify and renew energy to allow opening and connecting with the universe. Music, vocal improvisation and guided meditation offer new entries and ways of deepening with these core practices. Highly recommended for dancers, meditations classes, or for personal listening and meditation.

90 minute Cassette Tape $12.99

All material recorded by Mimi O'Neill
at Brooksong Recording, Chatham, NY.
All material co-produced by Mimi O'Neill and Howard Segal.