Chamber Meditations
November 1st, 6-8:30 pm
Shamanic Breathwork and Ancestral Healing with Live Music
In the Princeton University Chapel
ARTISTS:
Eleonora Berenyi - Breathwork Facilitator
Hope Littwin - Vocals
Gladstone Deluxe - Percussion 1
April Centrone - Percussion 2
Gian Torrano Jacobs - Harp
Mafer Bandola - Bandola
Sound Engineer: TBD
Film: Gabriel De Urioste
This concert will be free, un-ticketed, open to the public, and live-streamed on the chapel's livestream, my YouTube page.
About Chamber Meditations:
Hi, I’m Hope, and I am glad you are here. I started Chamber Meditations as a concert series that combines improvised chamber music, ambient sound healing, breathwork, and mantra to welcome the community to relax in a sacred space of intentional healing.
November 1st, All Saints’ Day, is an auspicious day to call in and work with our Ancestors. We will use a 3-step breathing technique, shamanic drumming, and live music to journey into a deeper state of consciousness to heal our Ancestral Lineage and celebrate this special day together. Please bring a memento/picture of your ancestor(s), an eye cover, a sweater, and water with you.
I would like to thank Dean Boden and Nicole Aldrich for their deep generosity and support in realizing this vision.
A note from Eleonora about the Breathwork Journey
Join us for a very special Breathwork and Ambient Sound Healing Journey on November 1st, 2023, Wednesday from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. November 1st is All Saints’ Day. It is an auspicious day to call in and work with our Ancestors. We will use the 3-step Breathing Technique to journey into a deeper state of consciousness to heal our Ancestral Lineage and celebrate this special day together.
Breathwork can change old beliefs and negative behavior patterns by moving stuck energy from your body, mind, and spirit. It is a powerful meditation technique for clearing emotional and mental blockages in your life.
The 35-minute Breathwork Journey, enhanced by Shamanic Drumming and Live Ambient Sound Healing will open up your heart chakra and allow you to access a higher state of consciousness; a state where healing can take place on a mental, emotional, and physical level.
The 3-step Breathwork Technique is a very effective way to heal emotional wounds on a deep level.
This multi-dimensional healing experience will raise your vibrational frequency and help you reduce anxiety and stress. It is a powerful method that will teach you how to quiet your mind in your everyday life. Breathwork can rewire subconscious beliefs and negative behavior patterns so that you can manifest a life you truly desire and love.
No experience is necessary. Please bring an eye cover or a bandana, a sweater, and some water with you.
‘The only way out is within’.
See you at the Princeton University Chapel.
ARTIST BIOS
Eleonora Berenyi is a certified breathwork facilitator, reiki master, angel practitioner, and shamanic healer. She is also a filmmaker and creative. Her intention is to awaken people’s authentic power within through nature-based practices and creativity so that they can recognize and realize their fullest potential on earth. She is a communicative healer and a visionary creative, assisting those who are ready to dive deep on their healing journey. Her primary focus is on ancestral lineage healing. She is interested in practicing and documenting shamanic healing rituals that connect the individual to their roots, allowing them to heal inherited wounds from time immemorial. You can find more info about Eleonora at soulstudiousa.com or on her Instagram: @soulstudiousa You can also take her classes and workshops at her app: soul-studio-breathwork.passion.io
American Composer and Music Producer Hope Littwin grew up in dance and theater before she took to music, first as a singer-songwriter then as a classical singer, and now as a composer and music producer. She loves to collaborate with artists of all kinds on big, daring, expressive works. Hope’s compositions fuse Chamber Music, Songwriting, Free Jazz, and Electronics. She has been commissioned by Choirs, Chamber Ensembles, and Theater and Dance companies to create original works that combine electronics, acoustic instruments, and vocals with a strong poetic narrative. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University. Hope’s original works (including “Songs of Communal Becoming”, “Kitchen Dances” and “Colonize Mars”) are available for streaming on band camp and YouTube, albums (Wild Beast, Husk, and others) can be found on Spotify/iTunes. Find Hope on Instagram @hopelittwin
Hi! My name is Gian Torrano Jacobs, my pronouns are he/they, and I’m a classically trained electronic harpist-composer with a passion for dissolving dichotomies, challenging norms, and cultivating communities. I’m currently working on a composition featuring sonification of biorhythmic and orbital resonance data. Some of my hobbies include soaping, gardening, foraging, mycology, rock climbing, fire spinning, poetry, knitting, and jewelry-making. Sometimes I like to play guitar or banjo and sing folk tunes with my friends and family.
Gladstone Deluxe (they/he) is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics. Their work takes form in recorded music, installations, and performances. Gladstone has performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center, released multiple tracks charted in the Beatport Top 10, works in fields of research as a technical audio engineer and software engineer, and is an installation artist addressing concepts linking rhythm, geometry, the black body, and technology. Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA from Columbia University, and will be pursuing a PhD at Princeton University in the fall. This year, Gladstone will be releasing/has released music with Black Techno Matters, is/was, DETOUR, Ongoing Box, and Miscellaneous Records.
Mafer Bandola: (Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Olivo)
A Venezuelan bandola player, educator, self-taught composer and oral practitioner of Joropo, an Afro-Indigenous music from the High Plains of Venezuela where she grow up. One of the few women in the world that plays the bandola professionally, she is an innovator of the instrument and the first woman to play the electric version. She is the recipient of grants and residencies like Audiofemme and Giant Steps where she participated in the Music Action Lab Women, an innovative music residency with the intention of advocating for women in the music industry. In 2020 she won the OneBeat Accelerator grant for the creation of Latínica (Latin Female Music Industry Conference), an international online conference where she gathered together more than 200 self-identified Latina artists to discuss issues affecting them in the music industry and beyond. She studied in El Sistema, performing as a violinist for seven years. She created and produce Piripis Nights, the first established Joropo series in NYC, where she brings together Venezuelan musicians and immigrants in order to celebrate their oral traditions in an urban context. She is a Teaching artist of The Lullaby Project at Carnegie Hall, a program that hold spaces for the caregivers in vulnerable situations by
creating song for their kids in the five borough of NY www.maferbandola.com
April Centrone is a multi-instrumentalist, teacher, composer and film producer based in New York City. She is a Carnegie Hall World Explorer musician and educator, Paul Simon-Carnegie Hall Music Residency Fellow, MidAtlantic Arts Grant recipient, founder and CEO of 10PRL Creative Studios & Event Space in New Jersey, and co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra, non-profit organization specializing in the performance and education of Arabic music.
April specializes in the teaching and performance of the riqq (Arabic tambourine), darbuka (Middle Eastern goblet drum), frame drum, drumset, and the oud (Arabic lute). As a drummer and percussionist, she has toured with Arab icons including Ziad Rahbani (son of Fairouz), Marcel Khalife, and Bassam Saba (Sting, Alicia Keys, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Yo-Yo Ma), and experimental/rock/jazz groups including Secret Chiefs 3 (Mr. Bungle) and Eyvind Kang (Bill Frisell). She recorded and contributed to the percussion composition for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, to be release in October 2023.
As a youth educator, April worked closely with inner-city schools throughout NYC’s boroughs, teaching Arabic music and percussion and coordinating world music projects through Musicians For Harmony and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Connect. She led Music Therapy Tour of Malaysia under the U.S. Embassy, which included workshops at Rohingya refugee youth centers and safe houses for young Malaysian women. She held Arabic music workshops for Syrian and Palestinian refugee youth through her project, Juthoor, founded with Nisreen Nasser, during her residence in Lebanon from 2013 to 2016.
A.J. Alvarez is a meditation and breathwork teaching, reiki healing, creative psychology researching, Frida Kahlo-looking, disco-obsessed queer who is “making it happen!” A.J. is passionate about the integration of creative practices and the holistic arts. From a Tejano family of artists and healers and coming from an Toltec indigenous point of view, A.J. is excited to share ancient and holistic medicine practices, particularly for high performers. A.J. believes in our individual birthrights as makers, magicians, and healers and he hopes that by using the breath and curiosity, we can co-create a world with more magic and color… and, like, cooler people!
Karen Ortiz found her way to Traditional Chinese Medicine by way of an injury 20 years ago. Her initial course of treatment allowed her to learn the benefits of acupuncture. This experience piqued her curiosity. Through this curiosity her passion arose, and she decided to further explore the realm of Traditional Chinese Medicine. With a background in respiratory therapy, Karen breathes new life into Traditional treatments and healing modalities. Through her studies and clinical training, Karen blends her background in Western Medicine along with Traditional Chinese Medicine to provide an expanded treatment model for her patients which results in comprehensive, well-rounded care.
Karen has been in practice for 18 years and focuses on mental and emotional disorders, psychosomatic pain, and pain management. Not only does she treat the mind and body she also believes that treating the spirit is as important. She seamlessly brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit through balancing the chakras by way of Esoteric Acupuncture. Guided to dive deeper into a holistic healing approach, she received her Reiki Level 1&2 Certifications in 2010. She was recently certified in Breath Work by David Elliott. Karen looks forward to assisting you in the healing of your mind, body, and spirit.