Pamela Martinez guiding participants in a sound bath
Free with RSVP, limited seating available: https://www.motherlingsa.com/events
Join us at the Upstairs Studio on Saturday, March 19 at noon for an hour-long sound bath led by Pamela Martinez. After the sound bath, guests are welcome to explore the solo exhibition by Elena Caballero curated by Motherling.
Sound Bath takes us on a restorative journey through sound. This group meditation utilizes the vibrational power of sound to hold space for a time to tune into our higher selves while allowing the body to rest and digest. When we come together the field of gentle convalescence magnifies as we build a community that heals together and creates together.
Participants of the Sound Bath can expect to be lulled into deep relaxation using the sounds of singing bowls, gong, tuning forks, vocals, and other sound sources to provide a meditative and healing environment while seated in a chair or more traditionally lying down on the ground. (Seats and Blankets for lying down will be provided.)
As founder and leader of the Teletextile Ritual Arts Ensemble, Pamela Martinez comes from a background of music, performance and immersive theater to highlight the artfulness of the meditative state also known as the creative state where the inner and the outer worlds oscillate in our consciousness. Pamela Martinez is also co-founder of Southtown Music Studio, an online and in person music lessons and wellness studio in the Southtown Arts District of San Antonio, TX located inside Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space.
Sound Bath Benefits:
The body needs time to relax and rejuvenate. Research has confirmed that even listening to certain music can effectively and rapidly elicit the relaxation response and bring about chemical, hormonal, and cellular change that actively promotes healing. When our parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated [via our vagus nerve] by soothing sounds, we are sending a message of calm and relaxation to every part of our body. So when we say that something is “music to our ears,” it’s actually so much more. It’s a massage for every organ in the body. (Silvia Nakkach, Free Your Voice)
The human body is an orchestra. When the natural biorhythm of the body becomes disturbed we fall out of key. The conscious use of sound can bring you back to your most natural state, happiness. (Jarrod Meyer, The Architecture of Sound)
About the artist & musician: Pamela Martinez
Pamela Martinez is a reiki master, educator, multi-instrumentalist and composer who creates music and immersive experiences under the moniker Teletextile. Her “Bjork-like" sound (The Boston Globe) moves from vocal layering and “electronic wizardry” (Metronome Magazine) to “dense, stormy guitar, piano and electronics" (Time Out New York). Martinez has toured extensively in the US, Europe, the UK and Asia. As a genre-hopping performer and musician, Martinez has performed violin at Carnegie Hall with a Carnatic Indian music ensemble, sang in San Francisco's historic Fillmore Theater and takes part in performance art happenings in New York City. Her recent directing and performing credits include Whisperlodge. The New York Times dubbed Whisperlodge “an unusual mix of theater and therapy” and has been featured in BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Netflix, Vice and more with acclaim. Martinez creates new work with the Teletextile Ritual Arts Ensemble a group of rotating collaborators that weave together a tapestry of music, movement, reiki and other healing rituals to create a mixture of performance and spiritual practice. Martinez holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Berklee College of Music in Boston and specializes in creating works of deep listening, sound baths and sonic expressions and passes on the craft of music and wellbeing by teaching and leading workshops most recently as faculty at Brooklyn Music School, sound bath practitioner at Maha Rose Center for Healing (NYC) and Teletextile Studio (SATX) located at Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space. www.teletextile.org