Sunday 28 June
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Morning session 10.00am -12.30pm
Afternoon session 2.00pm – 4.30pm
"De-stress and get your culture fix all in one"
Evening Standard Magazine
"Utterly blissed out"
Financial Times
Lie Down and Listen at Highgrove
Morning session 10.00am -12.30pm
Afternoon session 2.00pm – 4.30pm
This June, you’re warmly welcomed to Lie Down and Listen at Highgrove.
Experience the blissful benefits of Tibetan bowl sound healing and a lying down classical piano concert amidst the beautiful and peaceful surroundings.
You’ll be welcomed with refreshing herbal teas, hot Cacao and biscuits etc. as you settle in.
Founder and pianist Christina McMaster will welcome you into the space and guide you through a deep relaxation and also demonstrate how sounds, vibrations and the frequencies of both the Tibetan bowls and music work with the body and your energy field.
You’ll have the opportunity to create sounds with the bowls.
You’ll then be welcomed to lie down on soft mattresses as you absorb the frequency shifting sounds. In a deeply relaxed state you’ll feel the vibrations and sounds of live classical music resonating through your entire being.
So thirsty of his voice is he,
For all to hear and all to know
That he is joy, awake, aglow,
~ George Meredith
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Lie Down and Listen morning session
10.00am- Guests Arrival and registration in the Orchard room.
Warm welcome and refreshments served in the Anteroom.
10.30am ‘The Lark Ascends’ Lie Down and Listen Workshop - Christina leads an introduction to the session and Christina’s use of music to explore the healing power of resonance and mindfulness.
You’ll then be guided through a deep relaxation, deep listening as you lay down and receive the blissful vibrations of Tibetan bowl sound healing and live classical piano concert experience.
12.30pm Closing words and offer of drinks and answering any questions.
All mattresses, cushions and blankets provided for your comfort and to fully immerse yourself in the music.
Lie Down and Listen afternoon session
2:00 PM: Welcome Reception - Guests are greeted with refreshing herbal drinks and Cacao, biscuits, fruit etc.
2:30 PM: ‘The Lark Ascends’ Lie Down and Listen Workshop - Christina leads an introduction to the session and Christina’s use of music to explore the healing power of resonance and mindfulness.
You’ll then be guided through a deep relaxation, deep listening as you lay down and receive the blissful vibrations of Tibetan bowl sound healing and live classical piano concert experience.
4:30 PM: Closing words and offer of drinks and answering any questions.
Guests prepare to leave the estate.
All mattresses, cushions and blankets provided for your comfort and to fully immerse yourself in the music.
Join for the Lie Down and Listen: Lark Ascends experience on Sunday 29 June at Highgrove House.
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.