FULL MOON SOUNDING SOAK: A monthly Beacon Community Sound Bath + Meditation

Local Beacon Sound Facilitator Joule L’Adara hosts a monthly immersive sound experience to delight your senses and invite inner reflection amplified by the power of the Full Moon. Lay down and close your eyes to “soak” in the meditative sounds of ethereal vocals with therapeutic instruments including monochord, handpan, sansula, singing bowls, gong, tongue drums, rattles and more. Through a process known as entrainment, you may experience deep relaxation and flow states, allowing you to access deeply creative parts of your mind and offering inner space for reflection. Participants emerge with a feeling of renewal and expanded awareness that may then be expressed through their art - or the art of life. Each month Joule will be joined by different sound artists of the Hudson Valley so that every Sounding Soak will be completely unique.

Ticket Options:

$48 for general admission on Eventbrite (Including fees)

$35 when you purchase a package for 3 Soaks (see link to Valley Spirit below for more details)

Free to attend if you join our volunteer helper team (you'll need to arrive one hour early to help with setup and say after for breakdown - spaces limited each month)

For more event Information visit the hosting venue:

Valley Spirit Acupuncture & Internal Arts

Each Full Moon Sounding Soak event will include:

6:00 - 6:45 Opening Reception: Enjoy Meade from Reserva Wine Bar and Non-Alcoholic Cider outside on the balcony by the waterfall and play with Intuitive Instruments in the "Instrument Petting Zoo” inside the space

6:45-7:00 Gathering: An introduction to the evening’s performers and how to “travel" to sound

7:00 - 8:15 Sounding Soak Meditative Journey (Sound Bath plus facilitated Vocal Flow Sounding)

8:15-8:30 Post-processing and integration with sharing & optional mandala making

**You’re highly encouraged to bring yoga mats, pillows, blankets, and eye masks (or anything that helps you feel comfy lying on our wood floor). We will have some limited supplies available for use for those who do not have them, but recommend you bring your own support items if possible for your ideal comfort.

October's Special Guest Artist is: Basia Blonska

Basia is a classically trained flutist and has been a professional musician for over 20 years, with an MA in music performance. Her passion for music expanded beyond performing and teaching, as she developed a profound interest in learning about healing and the transformational effects of sound and music.

Basia is very passionate and committed to bringing sound and its therapeutic effects to a broader audience. She is also a Reiki practitioner. Collaborations include Rubin Museum and Yoga and Life Magazine, Open Center, Big Quiet, Conscious Campus, bringing sound work to college students in form of lectures and direct sound experience, facilitating sound meditation at Mindful Harlem, working with cancer survivors trough You can Thrive organization, Fashion Institute of Technology- series of creative enhancement workshops among others.

Basia has studied different modalities of sound healing with teachers such as Grammy nominated Silvia Nakkach, renowned sound theorist Dr. John Beaulieu, and the Great Gong Master Don Conreaux, earning a sound practitioner certification from New York's Open Center.

She has her private practice in NYC, was a long time Sound Practitioner at the NY OPEN CENTER Wellness, and a meditation teacher at MNDFL - New York’s premier meditation studio.

Thursday, September 28th - Harvest Moon: Joule L’Adara & Ben Brown

Saturday, October 28th - Hunter’s Moon: Joule L’Adara & Basia Blonska

Monday, November 27th - Frost Moon: Joule L’Adara, Katie Down & Francesca Genco

Thursday, December 21st - Winter Solstice: Joule L’Adara with Vinny + Onome & Edwin Torres

Thursday, January 25th - Wolf Moon: Katie Down & Elana Bell

Saturday, February 24th - Snow Moon: Joule L’Adara & Lisa Knowles

Monday, March 25th - Full Moon Spring: Joule L’Adara, Onome & Gwen Laster

Tuesday, April 23rd - Pink Moon: Joule L’Adara + Guests TBD

Thursday, May 23rd - Flower Moon: Joule L’Adara + Artists TBD

The Sounding Soak is created and hosted byJoule L'Adara

Joule L’adara, MFA is an experimental vocalist, holistic vocal coach, and sound facilitator now based in Beacon, New York.

She's the founder of Sounding Circles: a group facilitation vocal method bringing people into resonance through sound. Since 2009, Joule has led sound healing workshops, trainings, and retreats nationally at the New York Open Center, Integral Yoga Institute, Donna Karan’s Urban Zen, Unplug Meditation, The Green Spa (Brooklyn), Naturopathica, The Dorot Institute (NYC), New York City’s Community Healthcare Network, The WOOM Center (NYC), The Big Quiet, and MediClub (NYC), Barbara Biziou’s Vision Retreats (NYC), The Samadhi Center for Yoga and Meditation (Denver), The Globe Institute (San Francisco), Community Arts Partnership (CAP) (Los Angeles), and at Kalani Oceanside Retreat (Hawaii) amongst many other venues.

Joule has enjoyed a 10+ year artist partnership with The feeltone Company: an instrument builder in Germany producing beautiful handmade Monochords - a dronal instrument with strings designed to be played on the body so you may “feel the tone”. She’s the official licensed feeltone US trainer offering online and in-person instruction on monochord for sound meditation and sound therapy. She also currently serves as the Creative & Community Director of WE PLAY WELL TOGETHER: A Certified Woman-owned business based in Northern California that distributes beautiful hand-made instruments by artisan instrument builders which can all be played intuitively by anyone.

Joule has also worked as a professional singer having performed with The Metropolitan Opera and as a soloist in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. She was featured as a Main Stage keynote speaker at the Globe Sound Healing Conference in Oakland, California has appeared on television locally with NY1 and nationally on The Today Show. She holds an MFA in Music from CalArts, a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts, is a Fellow of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a graduate of the New York Open Center’s Sound and Music Practitioner Training, and is a Reiki Master.

For six years Joule produced the Sound Soak NYC Concert Series - a monthly immersive Sound Bath+ at the New York Open Center (between 2012-2017), in addition to being on the Open Center’s teaching faculty and offering personal sound healing sessions in their Wellness Spa. She’s honored to now host the Sounding Soak Concept as a monthly event in Beacon in partnership with Valley Spirit Acupuncture and Internal Arts (VSAIA).

Host or Publisher Joule L'Adara