Leigh Ann Phillips is an award-winning singer songwriter, sound healing practitioner, lecturer, and teacher. She is on a mission to merge sound and music to assist people in leading more fulfilling lives in healthier bodies. Her work is taking her all over the world and back again – to her nest in the San Luis Valley of south central Colorado.
Through her sound healing work, Leigh Ann began to travel around the Southwest, then across the USA, and now internationally. She also owns and operates The Dragon House Sound Sanctuary, a retreat, workshop, and sound healing space in Crestone, Colorado. She is also the Executive Director of the newly formed Shimmering Sounds Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing sound healing as a complimentary therapy to the masses.
Leigh Ann has developed a method of shifting and slowing the brain states, allowing people to not just relax but release emotional blocks that are allowing dis-ease in the body. Her method incorporates the crystal singing bowls, harp, tingshaws, tuning forks, herbal medicine, piano and her voice. She also uses the crystal bowls as percussion instruments, allowing the vibration of sound to run even deeper throughout the body.
More recently, Leigh Ann has been bringing sound healing and the music of the quartz crystal singing bowls to the mainstream. She has given demonstrations and sound healing sessions at the Gem Exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C, as well as the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA. She has also made television and radio appearances on various new age, health, and lifestyle programs in New Mexico, Colorado, and the Southwest region of the United States.
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 promise.
In the recording world, Leigh Ann broke out with the release of her 2004 debut CD, Just Over Those Mountains. The title track won the Silverton Jubilee Songwriting Competition that year as well as a songwriting award in England. Her compositions are a dynamic blend of piano-based thought-provoking pop, folk, and “orchestral Americana” flavored with a bit of jazz.
Expanding her musical palette even further, in 2007 she released Journey Into the Mind, a beautiful guided meditation CD featuring piano, vocal toning, and the hypnotic sound of the crystal bowls. An instrumental CD of Journey into the Mind is also available (electronic mp3 only).
In November, 2008, Leigh Ann finished working with Alamosa, Colorado producer and musician extraordinaire Don Ricomond, and released Call of the Feather, her second singer-songwriter album of original compositions. It is an expansive work with a wide range of musical influences that make it a diverse and stimulating album, with major themes of connection to the Earth and hope in the midst of change in the difficult times in which we live. The songs are powerful and personal, yet universal.
Leigh Ann’s lyrics are often inspired by the dramatic surroundings of her home in the foothills of the spectacular Sangre de Cristo range. The rural beauty and vast expanse of the San Luis Valley at her doorstep provides a buffer from the frantic media clutter of modern-day life. When not working at home in this secluded retreat, Leigh Ann speaks and performs often throughout southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest.
Her newest release, Dawn Mountain (2010), is a musical project in collaboration with Don Richmond, where Crystal and Gemstone Singing Bowls are featured as the protagonist in a musical play with other instruments and vocal toning. Inspired by the landscape which surrounds her and dedicated to Mount Blanca (known by Native Americans in the area as “Dawn Mountain”), this is Leigh Ann’s first release of acoustic and ambient healing music. Within the first months of its release, Dawn Mountain received much praise as a featured album on Stillstream Radio.
Stillstream’s Review of Dawn Mountain:
“We only recently discovered the music of Leigh Ann Phillips, but after hearing her sublime album Dawn Mountain we definitely want to hear more. A collection of deeply moving acoustic ambient tone poems of great maturity and insight, this is an album that we think is simply essential listening for anyone who truly loves ambience. Between the delicate synthetic textures, acoustic guitars, flutes, fiddles, and other instruments, she has crafted an album of enduring beauty and artistic value that belongs in everyone’s collection. Our highest recommendation.”
Contact information: Leigh Ann Phillips
email:
la@leighannphillips.com
phone:
970.596.0835
New Videos!
Follow Me!