Sound Bath for Peace with Ben Brown

About this event

Join us for an extraordinary sound bath after the garden closes to other visitors. This ancient therapeutic practice uses sound and deep listening to foster connection and healing. Incorporating various musical instruments and the sounds and resonance of the place itself, sound practitioner Ben Brown will create an immersive sound environment wherein participants lie down or sit and simply focus on listening to reach a relaxed state, heighten awareness, and elevate the consciousness. No prior experience with meditation or yoga is required. Participants should bring a yoga mat, blanket, or folding chair and water. We urge participants to arrive before 5 pm to allow enough time to check in, walk to the sound bath location, and get settled. In the event of wet weather, the rain date for this event will be Saturday, September 5th. This gathering is held in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace as part of the continent-wide Gardens for Peace (G4P) program launched by the North American Japanese Garden Association. Architect Charles Moore wrote that his friend, frequent collaborator, and Innisfree's landscape architect Lester Collins addressed a question most designers forget, "how do we shape the human environment to foster the good things shared by people of all cultures—peace, awareness, beauty?" In this spirit, we offer Innisfree and our sound bath as opportunities to strengthen connections to nature and community and consider (even experience) what peace means today. Ben Brown is a sound practitioner, visual artist, and New York State-licensed massage therapist whose work resides at the intersection of art, healing, and ancestral resonance. Blending vibrational sound, visual expression, and conscious experiences, Ben creates immersive offerings that provide refuge from social-emotional isolation and invite the mind and body into deeper states of presence, spaciousness, and awareness. Guided by the belief that sound art unites inner wisdom and…

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