"De-stress and get your culture fix all in one"
Evening Standard Magazine
"Utterly blissed out"
Financial Times
Sunday 18 May
12pm/3pm/5pm
Duration: 90mins
Halle St Peters, 40 Blossom Street, Manchester, M4 6BF
You’re invited to soar with Angels in this Lie Down and Listen experience at Halle St Peter’s. This sound journey embodies the course of angels as it moves through moments of flow, stillness, soaring as well as deeper reflective moments.
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You’ll be guided into a deeply relaxed state through meditation and yoga nidra, then receive angelic and healing sounds of Tibetan Bowls and koshi chimes.
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As you’re lying down on soft mattresses you’ll hear stunningly beautiful music played by Philippa Mo on violin and piano by Christina including Bach, Baroque Composer Biber and Marcus Paus' ‘The Wounded Angel’ which tells the story of how angels need their rest and to be uplifted and supported by humanity when they tire.
Meet Your Host: Christina McMaster
Classical pianist, sound healer and founder of Lie Down and Listen
“She is an incredibly sensitive intuitive player who brings out the mystery and beauty of these pieces”
Sarah Walker BBC Radio 3
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“One of the most talked about concerts of our festival.” Alistair MacGowan, Artistic Director of Ludlow Piano Festival
Founder and Classical Pianist Christina McMaster noticed that it wasn't only the rituals of classical music concert halls that led to a disconnected listening experience, but in daily life, we are experiencing more disconnection than ever, leading to loneliness, anxiety, stress, sense of emptiness etc.
Lie down & Listen began after a chance meeting with Prof. Sir John Strang and a series of events at Kings College London to recreate the wellbeing benefits of a hallucinogenic experience without hallucinogenics- but simply using a certain combination of music in a lying down concert experience as they did in the 1960’s in downtown New York loft apartments where music of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Steve Reich - also known as the New York Hypnotic School. After training in sound healing, Christina then evolved the meditation, sound healing and lying down concert experience of today which creates space for deep relaxation and for listeners to reconnect within.
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Find out more about Christina here.