Monthly Beacon Community Sound Bath Meditation Concert + Sound Healing Circle

$45 with pre-registration / $50 at the door

$35 with a Package of 3 Soaks

Email to purchase a package (use for your preferred dates through May 2024)

Free Tickets are available for those in financial need who volunteer to help setup and breakdown: Join the Volunteer List Here

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!

Evening Schedule

* Doors open at 6pm. Event starts at 6:45pm with no entry after 7pm *

6:00-6:45 | Opening Reception: Enjoy beverages outside on the balcony by the waterfall and play with Intuitive Instruments in the "Instrument Petting Zoo” inside the space. This month’s Opening Reception will feature Cider and Meade from ReservaBeacon

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

7:00-8:15 | Sounding Soak Meditative Journey: Experience the full moon Sound Bath plus facilitated therapeutic Vocal Flow Sounding

8:15-8:30 | Post-processing and integration

**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). Comfy 4” bed cushion mats are available for rental: simply select as add-on at registration.We will have some limited additional supplies available for use for those who do not have them, but recommend you bring support items as needed for your ideal comfort.

Register here

This month’s Special Guests: Gwen Laster & Onome

Gwen Laster is an adventurous composer, arranger and orchestrator. A classically-trained artist with a deep appreciation for America's musical history, and a scholar of African- American musical heritage. A socially conscious activist and educator who understands the power of music to reach and touch everyday people.

She is a nationally acclaimed musician who has been the recipient of awards by the National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, MPower
Sphinx, Jubilation Foundation, Puffin Foundation, United States Artist and Mutual Mentorship for Musicians and Arts Mid Hudson. She began her love for improvising and composing because of her parents' love of jazz, blues, soul and classical music played endlessly on the record player and her progressive jazz music educators from Detroit's public schools.

Her playing is poignant, descriptive and always relevant. Perhaps that's why she has recorded and performed with the world's most influential artists. The list reads like a “who's who” of modern masters: Andrea Bocelli, David Foster, Alicia Keys, Rhianna, Shaggy, Aretha Franklin, Solange, Mark Anthony, J Lo, Shakira, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Anthony Braxton, Nona Hendryx, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, Danny Elfman, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tyler, the Creator, Jon Baptiste, Emeline Michel and Andrew Baba Lamb. Her talents also extend to Broadway (Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Carousel, Wicked, Porgy and Bess, The King and I, Notre Dame de Paris).

As the founder of the Creative Strings Improvisers Ensemble (CSIE), she has created programs which promote self-expression through improvisation. Her sensitivity to global music informs her workshops and master classes across the U.S. She also teaches violin in Jazz at Bard College.

A native of Detroit, she holds two degrees in music from the University of Michigan School of Music and has lived in New York for many years. Her newest recording "Blue Lotus" is performed by New MUSE4tet, an improvisational string quartet whose original works embrace social activism. Learn more about Gwen here.

Onome designs and leads experiential workshops for a wide variety of audiences internationally at colleges, corporations, cultural centers, and retreats. She guides groups to confidently wield the power of their imaginations, and foster creative fellowship with each other through mindfulness practices, relational games, and vocal play.

As a vocalist and educator, Onome incorporates improvisation into her practice as a tool for creative fulfillment and personal development.

She brings over twenty years of experience in expressive arts facilitation, across a diverse range of programs for both youth and adults. She has shared her curriculum design skills with several organizations, such as United Nations, Madison Youth Choirs, Grace Episcopal Church, Teachers College-Columbia University, Juilliard, Música do Círculo in Brazil, Teatro Portapotese in Italy, and Bobby McFerrin's CircleSongs retreat at Omega Institute.

She is a partner artist at Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, where she contributes her performances and trainings across their vast educational programming spectrum.
Her immersive group vocal rituals include singing circles, concerts, poetry readings, panel discussions, experimental theater, and sound installations. She has led improvisational vocal gatherings at hundreds of venues, created vocal film scores, and recorded soundscapes for podcasts and guided meditations. As a member of the activist choir Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, she opened for Neil Young during his tour, The Monsanto Years.

She has an MFA in Performance Studies from Pratt Institute, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Liberal Arts, and is a graduate of the New York Open Center’s Sound and Music Practitioner Training. Learn more about Onome

The Sounding Soak is created and hosted by Joule 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 been leading sound therapy workshops, trainings, and retreats. She's enjoyed a 12+ year artist partnership with The feeltone Company: an instrument builder in Germany producing Monochords - a dronal instrument with strings designed to be played on the body so you may “feel the tone”. Joule is the 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 worked as a professional singer having performed with The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and as a soloist in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. 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.