About Leigh Ann Phillips
Leigh Ann is now back in Crestone, Colorado!
She has been bringing sound healing and the music of the quartz crystal singing bowls into the mainstream. She has given demonstrations and sound healing sessions most recently in Taiwan, the Hawaiian islands, at the Gem Exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, as well as at a Playboy event in the Los Angeles area. She has also made television and radio appearances on various health, and lifestyle programs in Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Mexico, as well as the Orient.
The sound and the music have merged, and Leigh Ann’s passion for life has sounded into a path where music can bring not just beauty, but health, peace and the evolution of the soul.
Leigh Ann’s latest recorded album release, Mik’ael (2013), is a musical tapestry of mantras, sung in the Enochian language, accompanied by quartz crystal singing bowls and world instruments. Mik’ael is a musical collaboration with writer and producer, Thomas Barquee, recorded at Zenden Studios in California. Ideal for yoga and meditation, Mik’ael is a healing offering to the Archangel Michael, and all that is peaceful in nature and ourselves. Her next recording project will be spoken word, co-created again with Thomas Barquee.
She is also the Executive Director of The Shimmering Sounds Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing sound healing as a complimentary therapy to the masses. The foundation has given hundreds of free sessions to people that could not normally afford holistic health sessions.
The foundation incorporates the use of a crystal healing bed as well, a complementary treatment to the sound using color, vibration and light.
Currently she has developed her own line of quartz crystal singing bowls, using unusual gemstones to infuse the bowls, as well as etching ancient mandalas that amplify the intention of this sacred art through the power of the sound.
Mission Statement
Some Thoughts on Music and Healing
Some years ago when I first decided to make music my primary focus, it was an adventure that took me on a magic carpet ride, propelling me from one cloud to another. Some gave way to rain. Some became sundogs, and some just cleared to sunshine. Anyone who thinks doing music is not like leaping out of a plane (with a parachute) does not really understand. And how can anyone of us know until we attempt to do the new and unknown.
Since releasing my first recorded album, there have been a series of steps that continue to lead me towards a convergence of music and sound healing. I am feeling much more reward in looking at sound as a service rather than an occupation, and part of that has to do with my love of working with the quartz-crystal bowls. The bowls have a way of permeating the boundaries of the unconscious and heart, allowing people to feel and hear their own inner voice, and the temple of their bodies. Hearing the bowls goes beyond words. Only people who have experienced and heard them understand the experience. The Tibetan brass bowls are certainly relatives of the experience, but there is something about the crystal bowls, for me, that enhance inward clarity. As Jonathan Goldman says, "Sound plus intention equals healing." That is exactly what the bowls have led me to understand.
I have made music with the bowls as well. In the beginnings, this occurred with the guided meditation recording, Journey Into the Mind, and now with the release of my album, Dawn Mountain - but I also do private sound healing sessions, sound circle workshops, demonstrations, and combined crystal bowl and song concerts. The feedback I am receiving from people has been enthusiastic and inspiring. When people hear the bowls for the first time, they truly do not know what they are hearing. But then they follow the sound, arrive by the bowls and wait to be told something so they can begin to understand linearly the experience they are having with their hearts and bodies.
My songwriting and voice are going through similar transformation. My voice is becoming an instrument of change, as are the songs that come through. We are in the midst of a remarkable time; a time when the old ways of being in this culture and on this Earth are dissolving, and yet the new ways are not quite here yet. We are literally living in the chaos of the in-between. My mission is to bridge the way with songs of the heart, and converge music as a sound highway to help bridge us to where we have been to where we are going.
-Leigh Ann Phillips