Tito La Rosa, beloved sound healer, musician and national treasure of Peru returns to the United States to offer Viaje De Curacion (Healing Journey) Concerts and Sound Healing Flower Blessing Ceremonies
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 To talk about Ayni Projects, it is first important to define what Ayni means.... Ayni is a Quechua word that means reciprocity. It is a cornerstone of Quechua culture, the natural flow, the give and take of everyday life when people in community participate in their collective well being. It is also a universal law that exists not only between people in community, but also between cultures, and between all objects of the natural world. When the Ayni between people is in balance, it creates a social climate in which there is more possibility for justice and well being.A portion of event proceeds will be donated to AYNI Projects, a Northern California non-profit organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for a variety of worthy endeavors including a hospital and two schools to benefit a Quechua community in the Ancash region of Peru. It is also a tour to benefit you; that you glimpse the music and mystery of an ancient culture where the natural world and the power of love are paramount, that you fill yourself with all that these mystical sounds have to offer you. |
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The Viaje de Curacion Concerts
A call to Spirit, a peace prayer for the world, Tito La Rosa performs with Peruvian violinist Pauchi Sasaki.Tito is a "Curandero de Sonido", a Shaman of Music. When performing he enters into an altered state to bring forth sounds that elevate the frequency of an individual and assist in allowing healing and balance to occur.
Dates, Times and Locations:
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December 7th, 7:30pm - The Art Zone, 3245 Pali Highway, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Concert Canto Shamanico (Shaman Song), Featuring Tito La Rosa. ($22 at the door) |
Concert Tickets:
You can order tickets on-line with a credit card or by electronic check through our PayPal shopping cart system.
Tickets available in advance from your area contact (listed below), or here by clicking on the ticket icon to the left of concert dates above, or at the door. All online ticket sales will close 24 hrs prior to performance time. Desired tickets after this online sales cut off time will be sold at the door. All on-line-purchased tickets will be held in will-call at the concert location.
ATTENTION: Concerts accommodate people who pre-pay and who pay at the door on a 1st come-1st served basis, so arrive early to guarantee a seat.
Please purchase concert tickets online or by personal check via U.S. Postal Service (contact area promoter for address).
Sound Healing Flower Blessing Ceremonies
An exquisitely beautiful and passionate sound healing ceremony with a showering of flower petals is played to individuals in an intimate group gathering. See description below. Wear comfortable clothing - bring water, a mat, blanket and pillow as well as your intentions of deep healing for yourself, your loved ones and the Earth.Dates, Times and Locations:
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December 8th, 4:30pm - Private Residence, Oahu, Hawaii |
*Start times are firm, however due to the organic nature of ceremony, allow 4-5 + hours. Each person receives individual sound healing in these profound shamanic journeys, which have been passed on to Tito from the Quero Nation. Each ceremony is limited to 16 participants. (directions given upon registration) Advanced registration is necessary.
Ceremony Tickets:
Tickets available in advance from your area contact (listed below) or here in advance only please, by clicking on the ticket icon to the left of ceremony dates above.
ATTENTION: To monitor event capacity limitations, Class and Ceremony participants must pre-register. Please contact the Area Coordinator who will register you if space is available and you may then proceed to pay online or by personal check via U.S. Postal Service.
Private Sound Healing Ceremony Sessions for 1 to 4 people, by appointment only. Please contact your area representative (see below) to book a session.
| "Tito's flower healing ceremonies are perhaps the most unique experience you may ever have. They certainly have been for me. I have personally felt Tito reach into my heart with a hauntingly beautiful melody from one of his many ancient instruments, and mend an old wound...Tito has been the most powerful teacher for me and absolutely pivotal to my life direction." -- RJ, California |
El Poder Curativa de los Instrumentos Ancestrales del Antigua Peru (The Healing Power of the Ancestral Instruments of Ancient Peru)
Join us for a magical, experimental and experiential class -- a journey through the acoustical universe of ancestral Peru. We will explore the uses of the instruments and their applications to healing body, mind and spirit. Working with a variety of instruments such as whistling vessels, zamponas, bamboo flutes, patutos (conch shells) ceramic antaras, feathers, seeds, shakapas, bells and drums we will discover their uses in healing and their connection to the realm of spirit. We will explore how to use these instruments in ceremonies and rituals. This course will be taught using the knowledge and principles of the Cosmovision of the Peruvian Andes.Please eat before hand and bring healthy snacks for yourself . Due to the ceremonial nature of this course, We will not take a break for a meal. Pre-registration/payment is required (20 person maximum tuition $125.
Dates, Times and Locations:
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December 9th, Noon-5pm - Ong King Community Center, 184 North King Street, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii |
(Class size is limited to 20 participants)
Tickets:
Tickets available in advance from your area contact (listed below) or here in advance only please, by clicking on the ticket icon to the left of dates above.
ATTENTION: To monitor event capacity limitations, Class and Ceremony participants must pre-register. Please contact the Area Coordinator who will register you if space is available and you may then proceed to pay online or by personal check via U.S. Postal Service.
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More About Tito La Rosa
Tito La Rosa, a descendent of Quechua Indians of the Peruvian Andes, has devoted over a decade to recovering and preserving, studying and intuiting the ancestral music of Peru.La Rosa was asked by the Peruvian Institute of Culture to recreate the ancient sounds of the Mochica Culture for the Museum of the Lord of Sipan in Northern Peru. La Rosa was honored to accept their invitation to reproduce the music of a 2000 year-old-culture that had disappeared into time. "Time, like death - is a lie," states La Rosa.
Experimenting with the sounds of the 2000-year-old musical instruments found onsite, speaking with the archeologists, listening to the sounds of the wind and the murmuring of the birds in flight, La Rosa was deeply moved by this acoustical and magical Ochican world, resulting in new "ancient" compositions.
Featured guest artist on New Age superstar Kitaro's 2001 Grammy-winning CD "Thinking of You," La Rosa has recently toured with Kitaro in Japan. Kitaro has said of La Rosa, "His attraction to the Spirit Dimension and his love of all things from the nature world allow him to traverse musical landscapes with tranquility and deep passion." La Rosa's 2002 CD, "The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor" was nominated for a Native American Music Award for Best World Music Recording.
La Rosa was a main presenter at the International Conference on Traditional Instruments in Contemporary Music, sponsored by the French Government. He also participated in "Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America," a Smithsonian traveling exhibit.
About Pauchi Sasaki
Playing the violin since age of five, Pauchi's astonishing musical
range has made her one of the most well-known violinists in Peru. Charting new pathways for the violin, she has taken the instrument into unknown territory drawing from and blending many cultures and styles from the Andes to the Jungle, from Hindu to Klezmer and from classical to electronic. Her Shamanic background comes through her music giving it a power to assist people to open and deepen beyond the superficial into their interior experience.The Flower Ceremony
Ceremonia de las Flores. The Blessing of the Flowers, is an ancestral ceremony passed down to Tito from the Q'ero elders from Cuzco. It is a ceremony of a community that has been adapted and passed down for hundreds of years.Imagine that out of the limits of time and space that Kokepelli or a Spirit of Music is standing in your living room.
For this occasion you have filled the room with flowers and candles and you have invited 20 or so of your best friends and family for you are not sure what. You have been requested not to eat for 2 hours before so that you can feel light and open and curious.
He begins to set up his mesa, he lays out the ancient beautifully woven tapestries from high in the Andes. On them he places with loving respect the sacred objects that represent the four directions and the four elements. He lays out his ancestral instruments, his condor bone and condor feather flutes, his churango, the patuto (conch shell), his 2000 year old ceramic antara, along with the new wind wand, a gift from a friend in California. As he does this he appears to be in a meditative trance. Occasionally he looks up, peering at members of the audience with silent intent. Eventually he has his mesa just the way he wants it. By now the feeling in the room has changed from restless curiosity to a gentle expectant stillness.
He stands, his face serene, seemingly in prayer he holds the conch to his mouth with one hand and raises the other hand to the sky as he begins to call in the spirits of nature, the spirits of the elements and of the four directions. The room is filled with a vibration that raises the frequency of everyone in it. The ceremony has begun and with it time stops as we are transported into the sound, into ourselves yet connected by the sound to each other.
He moves about the room, now playing the pan flute made of condor quills, the one he made after seeing it in a dream. Its sound pierces the room raising the energy to even a higher frequency.
As he moves, he is guided throughout the room letting intuition tell him what to do next.
Choosing a different instrument to play to each person, he goes from one person to another. It seems like he is massaging the body of the group with the sound. As one person lets go and moves from side to side, or takes a deep breath and smiles, or releases the tears that want to be set free, a wave of relaxation moves through the room.
He plays to each person sounds that they need to hear to feel their power, to feel their vulnerability or to feel their love. Sometimes he stops, kneels or stands tall, eyes closed to just breathe, to empty himself and to wait for the next moment to instruct him in the work of healing. At these moments he returns to his mesa and the relationship that he has with his instruments.
When the ceremony ends, the vibrations of peace and love are palpable. The group rises, forming a circle in silence. Gradually and spontaneously those that feel like it express what is in their hearts by offering prayers or blessings.
After the close of the ceremony Tito carefully places each instrument back into their bag with care and gratitude. To Tito, they are alive.
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