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Sound Healing is a noninvasive but impactful, relaxing and healing practice. Certified and experienced facilitators utilize the power of frequencies and vibrations through the use of chimes, singing bowls, gongs, drums, harps and more to create a chamber of sound waves. These techniques have been proven to open and expand minds, relax the body, induce a healing response that enables, clarity and new perspectives.

As a very young child, Alice demonstrated the ability to learn complex melodies by ear. Her parents, who were both startled and amazed, acquired a piano teacher from the Julliard School of Music when she was 4. During her childhood/youth, she played cello, guitar, harp, sang in choirs and studied classical piano for 12 years. The rich musical climate in southern New York State during those years exposed her to an innovative community of composers where her musical instincts flourished. When she was 17, she chose the flute and began to sing, in public, while traveling around the world. She dedicated many years to serving vulnerable communities in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia with an interdenominational faith-driven community. Throughout those years, she practiced a form of Music Therapy for traumatized youth. She also performed publicly and helped to arrange unedited compositions written by her Argentinian husband. Her foundation, Healing Colombia, has served 3000 vulnerable youth and distributed $3.000.000 worth of humanitarian aid to displaced families in Colombia, SA.

Convinced that successful language learning comes from direct interaction and listening rather than book-learning, she created a method for teaching English as a Second Language that relies strongly on using the ears, positioning the tongue and lips, and music. Her language academy, English Voices International, is still active in Bogota, Colombia.

In New York, Alice has been able to pursue her dreams by continuing her musical education at the Integrative Institute of Sound and Music – Open Center Manhattan, NY, where she graduated as a Sound Practitioner, and the Performance Wellness Program where she studied under the late Louise Montello, Founder of PW at the New School, Manhattan. Sound and Music Therapy have enriched the workshops Alice designed for drug and crime prevention, gender reconciliation, motivational and self-empowerment for youth, and mindfulness for all ages. She has two adult children and four wonderful granddaughters from Colombia.

Idy Martin was born on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, South America, in a jungle region called Choco that was originally populated by marooned slaves and indigenous tribes. His cultural inheritance goes directly back to Africa. Because these proud people had to survive without the help of the white man, their resilience and survival instincts blossomed. During his childhood, he participated in musical gatherings where rhythm and harmonies characteristic of the ancestors were part of everyday life. Swimming in the unpredictable waters of the abundant river networks, fishing, climbing trees and running races made him into a dexterous and skillful sportsman. At an early age, he was discovered by basketball talent-seekers and trained to reach the highest level of Colombian professional basketball.

He holds a title in Physical Education and Sports applied to Medicine, a scientific technique in humanistic, social and investigative matters within the field of Physical Education. His interests include psychological aspects that promote the development of team-work in any field, inner healing, integral health, well-being, nutrition, time-management and sports for quality of life. He directed the Sports and Recreation Department for 30 government centers attending kids coming off the streets in Bogota, Colombia, and designed the first sports championship to include this sector. He volunteered with the Healing Colombia Foundation Music Therapy and Sports Program for Vulnerable Youth. Currently, he is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Owner of the GVSolutions Interpreting and Translating Agency in Colombia, and USA. During his years managing sound equipment, the installment of sound-proof booths for conference interpreting and logistics, he learned the importance of calibrating sound for professional purposes.

His ongoing interest in percussion and music have accompanied him throughout his professional and private life. When he became aware of Sound Healing, it was a natural step towards a new horizon where he immediately felt that all of his previous experience working with people, training teams, leading groups, imparting values and managing sound, could be expressed through Sound Therapy.

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