Thank you for this class and your beautiful explanation and consideration for every level of learner and player. 💜 My biggest takeaway this week is to create a set list. I found this so helpful when I'm practicing, one because there are patterns that just happen that I want to happen again and writing it down helps me remember that feeling I got when I discovered it. Two having a set start can lead to an unexpected end. Three when playing for others, for me personally anyways, I feel I have something I can refer to if I'm feeling overwhelmed. Which I hope doesn't happen! ❤️ Since this is part of a my personal journey, giving the ok to trust your intuitive side really is reassuring that this is my path. I have not always went with my intuitive feelings and I'm finally at a place where I feel "safe" to trust it. It's always been strong but I haven't tapped into it. 🧡The explanation of passive and activating playing I think is very important. What is your goal when playing, how do you want to feel after a session? These are important as the facilitor to know. When you discribe being in bliss, is this a meditative state you find yourself in? Thank you for all you have openly shared.

I'm going to be re-creating the about page. This is the page that people look at before they decide to come into the group. When it was a free group, it was easy people just come in. What do I have to lose? It's free however, it is a paid membership currently and I'd love to get your input so that people who are thinking about it know it's the right community for them. If you have a moment, please take a look at the about page and let me know what benefits that I can talk about that. Would assist people to know they're in the right place. I'm not very good at promoting myself and my creative projects. So, if you have some time, I'd be very open to your input! Even if you wrote a couple sentences about what you got out of being here and from the courses to people who are thinking of joining, that would be 🤩.

There are many important points in this week, but I only mention here what points are personally important to me at this moment in time. Takeaway #1: Use Passive technique to play bowls with Simple Melodies and in a Musical Flow because: • Simple themes help the brain relax and feel safe. • Musicality comes from patterns and repetition. • Slow, long sustains sounds will help clients get into the lower brainwaves (delta/theta) for calming and get healing in that state. Takeaway #2: The set list! Write a detailed set list and practice the set list daily! Call me paranoid but I put everything that I might forget on the set list 😅 Actually I created 3: - Packing items before heading to the venue - My introduction speech - The REAL set list for the actual playing I do it this way to calm my chatty brain 😅

This was such a rich class full of so much rich information that I needed to listen to this several times. • Biggest Takeaway #1: This confirms to me that this is a start of a long rich journey and made me feel comfortable with the idea that I do not need to rush to get there but enjoy every moment along the way. At least now I have landmarks to focus on. • Biggest Takeaway #2: The idea of having set lists with overall chord progressions for us to improvise upon helps me a lot. Having a map of the journey with a designated path to follow is definitely anchoring and will make me feel stable, thus making it much easier to get into deeper presence into every moment, kind of like smelling the roses along the hike instead of having the feeling of being lost and not sure where to go. The idea of repetition and small patterns is great and more along the lines of where i came from but in a bliss state I tend to forget what I just played. LOL • Biggest Takeaway #3: There are many more things to consider such as the surroundings around the bowl set up as well as the materials of the objects in the room which I did not expect to think about even though as a pianist I knew that. I played my bowl while placed on the tablecloth and then I played it without it and observed the huge difference so now I know why you suggested ear plugs in a previous session. I love that seat bolster you use. Thank you for sharing your years of experience.

Week 3 was amazing for me and I want to share on a personal note that I had a beautiful synchronicity in this class. 💫 A few days before the class I did an EFT tapping session where I had a big breakthrough in realizing that I am afraid to make mistakes and this fear keeps me feeling frozen and stuck. Every time I made a mistake as a little girl it was always a big deal to my mom and my stepmom and my grandparents. Even if it was the smallest thing like putting my cup too close to the edge of the counter where it might spill. I would shut down and be really hard on myself. And I developed this habit of not even trying or giving myself a chance. This was such a big realization for me that I sat with it for a few days. And then in our meditation in class, Kalee said there are no mistakes. 🥹🔥 And wow did my heart just open right up in that meditation. It was exactly what I needed to hear. 💗💕 I felt so light and bright! ☀️ My biggest takeaway from the class was it is all about the space you play in that can carry the sound best. Learning that wood resonates really well with singing bowls inspires me to play in a cozy log cabin. ✨ I have been keeping up with the meditation daily to develop my state of being and frequency. I also changed the room I play in, my living room has a vaulted ceiling so once I learned high ceilings allow the sound to flow, I now play in there and I love it. 🦋🌺 Thank you Kalee for facilitating healing 🌟💙