The Healing Power of Sound with Yuval Ron & Dr. Richard Gold

Aired Thursday, 9 March 2017, 7:00 PM ET

The Healing Power of Sound with Yuval Ron & Dr. Richard
Gold

In this week’s show Award-Winning Composer and peace activist Yuval
Ron and Pioneering Integrative Health Practitioner Dr. Richard Gold
join forces to discuss the healing power of music, and their new
sound remedies for healing and well-being as part of their new
Metta Music Medicine Series based on the wisdom of traditional
Chinese medicine five element theory and recent advances in modern
neuroscience.

Topics Include:

* What is Sound Remedy?
* Can Music Medicine be created by musicians per instructions of
doctors and scientists
* How can sound impact the body?
* What is brain entrainment and how does it promote healing and
well-being?
* What are the healing principles that guide these new sound
remedies?
* And more…

About the Guests: Yuval Ron & Dr. Richard Gold

YUVAL RON is a world-renowned musician, composer, educator, peace
activist, and record producer. Among his many honors, he composed
the music for the Oscar-winning film, West Bank Story, was invited
to perform for the Dalai Lama, and has collaborated with Sufi
leaders, Zen Buddhist priests, visual artists, choreographers and
neuroscientists. A noted lecturer, he has spoken at Yale, John
Hopkins, UCLA, MIT, and other schools, and has been on the faculty
of Esalen Institute. His book Divine Attunement: Music as a path to
Wisdom, won the Gold Medal Award for Best Spirituality Book at the
Indie Book Awards 2015.

Website: www.yuvalronmusic.com

Dr. RICHARD GOLD is a licensed acupuncturist and holds a Doctorate
in Psychology.. He graduated from the New England School of
Acupuncture in 1978 and since then has devoted his professional
career to the study, practice, researching, teaching and publishing
in the field of East Asian Medicine.

Dr. Gold has pursued advanced studies in China, Japan, and Thailand
and was one of the four founders of the Pacific College of Oriental
Medicine. Dr. Gold was first introduced to meditation and yoga in
1970 during a month-long meditation retreat and has pursued mental
mindfulness and meditative awareness over the past 40+ years. In
recent years, Dr. Gold has studied neuroscience and the evolving
understanding of the effects of sound and meditation on the brain.
His best-known book is Thai Massage: A Traditional Medical
Technique.

Website: http://www.mettamindfulnessmusic.com/about.html