The Complementary Health Education Organization will present a free educational meeting, Music for Healing, on Sunday, July 17 from 2-4 p.m. at Nutritional World Speakers Room. The guest speaker will be Robin Burk.
Ms. Burk is a multi-instrumentalist living in Chattanooga. Her instruments include Native American style flute, handpan, reverie harp, ethno fusion flutes, metal tongue drums, and a variety of world instruments.
Ms. Burk is a certified music practitioner intern providing live therapeutic music at the bedside of the ill and dying. "She is trained through the Music for Healing and Transition Program and has studied with sound pioneers. She believes music opens the heart to release anxiety and tension in the body and mind and has the potential to bring us to a place of wholeness. Robin facilitates workshops for musicians and non-musicians who wish to deepen their experience of self and sound. Robin also provides vibroacoustic therapy and traditional sound healing modalities in private practice at Purple Sky Healing Arts," officials said.
The August meeting, Homesteading Skills for Real Life, will be held on Sunday, Aug. 21 from 2-4 p.m. at the Nutrition World Speaker Room. The guest speaker will be Katherine Merryfield of Merryfields Farm.
"At Merryfield Farms, west of Chattanooga near the Sequatchie/Marion County line, they live a simple lifestyle, and teach homesteading classes from their home in a concentric yurt (portable round tent-like home). Canning. Soap-making. Herbal Medicine Making. These are some of the homestead skills they teach so that anyone who wants to have the knowledge to live more simply will have the ability to do so. They raise cows, pigs and chickens. They live homesteading and at our meeting, Katherine Merryfield will provide basics on all these skills. Plan to attend and connect with a real off-the-grid homesteading community," organizers said.
CHEO meetings are free and the public is invited.