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Lisa Rafel has two major themes in her work. In her teaching, she is the director of Resonate With The Soul, a teaching and healing organization that encourages people to develop their capacity for courage and compassion, and to make creative choices in their lives that promote well-being and joy. Lisa teaches internationally her vocal sound techniques, as well as traditional and non-traditional forms of healing.
As a musician and producer, Lisa is President of Resonant Sounds, LLC, a company dedicated to promoting well-being for parents, children and new-borns. Using beautiful music, heart connecting lyrics, guided imagery and psycho-acoustically designed sound, the listener is entrained into a calming, de-stressing, and relationship supportive environment.
In her capacity as a singer/songwriter and performer, Lisa has been able to open the hearts and minds of people all over the world. Her latest project is, Safe In The Arms of Love, a CD/book set, with music and lyrics by Lisa Rafel and produced by Gary Malkin, in partnership with Wisdom of the World, Inc. Safe In The Arms Of Love promotes and enhances the bonding relationship between new parents and their babies. It will be released in 2008.
Lisa’s singing includes a unique, harmonic style of singing that weaves overtones through the melodies of sacred prayers so fluidly that it could be angels ringing little bells and not a human sound. Inspired from the roots of chant and prayer, Lisa integrates the healing elements of sacred sounds, seed syllable mantras, and ancient and indigenous intonations with modern melodic forms. She began singing this way in 1993, and now performs in concerts, for rituals, large gatherings, conferences and church services. Her chants and musical interpretations leave one with a deep and abiding experience of peace.
“When beauty breaks the heart, it is Light that shines through. Lisa Rafel’s exquisite sounds are heart-breaking and heart-healing in just this way.” Jason Shulman, author of, How to Know God, and Kabbalistic Healing.
Lisa’s artistic life has included guest-starring on television, performance poetry, (she was a core member of the infamous Poetry in Motion in Los Angeles), songwriter, music producer and vocal coach (including coaching Leonardo de Caprio in Basketball Diaries). Her music has been used on videos and in documentaries. She is a published poet in many anthologies. Her poems can be heard on Rhino Records, and New Alliance Records in the spoken word anthologies, “Hollyword” and “Jazzspeak.” Lisa has recorded and performed her spoken words to the accompaniment of many musicians including Ray Manzerak and John Densmore (of The Doors.) She has performed her poetry in prisons, homeless organizations, clubs, galleries and colleges, and been broadcast on radio and television including KCRW, KPFK, KXLU, ABC Television and London O1.
As a multi-media artist, Lisa performed for the LA Arts Festival in a play based on her book, It Began In Kathmandu. She developed her one-woman play “It’s All Right To Be Naked” in Los Angeles and opened The Womankind IV Festival in New York in 1994.
“…a truly inspired poetic drama, in language at once so precise and so richly imagistic that it is like Shakespeare writing as a modern American woman.” Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe, a biography of Jack Kerouac.
“Lisa Rafel is a poet who has found a way to share her journey with us, and this book should be read by all of us, even those who totally dismiss "spiritual" matters, because of the beauty and power of the poems."
the late Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit To Brooklyn
"From time to time a musical genius appears of such inner truth, soulfulness, power and grace that it uplifts and ennobles an entire generation. Lisa Rafel, whose healing chants transcend earlier genres, is such a talent."
Jeffrey Mishlove Ph.D., President, Intuitive Network,
Author, The Roots of Consciousness
Host, Thinking Allowed, national public television series
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