“Utterly blissed out”
– The Financial Times
For the first time, London-based pianist and founder Christina McMaster brings Lie Down and Listen — the blissful Tibetan bowl sound healing and lying-down classical concert experience — to Kilkenny, Ireland, within the striking and expansive surroundings of Saint Canice’s Cathedral.
As you enter the cathedral, the beauty and stillness of the space surrounds you. A sense of awe may wash over you before you are gently guided to your place on soft mattresses, cushions and blankets.
From here, Christina guides you into deep relaxation and deep listening, allowing you to feel the pure and resonant vibrations of Tibetan bowl sound healing followed by live classical music with emotional rhythm and harmonies of live classical piano.
You won’t just hear the music, you’ll feel it.
At the heart of the experience is Philip Glass’s Metamorphosis — the transformative five-movement work. Hypnotic and deeply moving, the music captures a life experience, with the inner movements generating energetic and rhythmic drive, passion and at times relentlessness, before settling into the stillness and reflective state of the fifth and final movement.
You’ll leave feeling rested, connected and perhaps even transformed.
When you attend a *Lie Down and Listen* experience, you open yourself to the possibility of inner peace, freedom and light.
"De-stress and get your culture fix all in one"
Evening Standard Magazine
"Utterly blissed out"
Financial Times
When you attend a Lie Down and Listen session, you open yourself to the possibility of inner peace, freedom and light.
Location
Saint Canice's Cathedral, Jame's St. Gardens, Kilkenny, Ireland
Sessions Times
Wednesday 8 July
5.45pm - 7.15pm
8pm - 9.30pm
SOLD OUT
Thursday 9 July
5.45pm - 7.15pm
8pm - 9.30pm
SOLD OUT
NEW DATE ADDED!
Friday 10 July
5.45pm - 7.15pm
8pm - 9.30pm
Tickets
£50
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Includes the 90mins experience,
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Mattresses, cushions, blankets provided
Meet Your Host: Christina McMaster
Classical pianist, sound healer and founder of Lie Down and Listen
“One of the most talked about concerts of our festival.” Alistair MacGowan, Artistic Director of Ludlow Piano Festival
“She is an incredibly sensitive intuitive player who brings out the mystery and beauty of these pieces”
Sarah Walker BBC Radio 3
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.
Find out more about Christina here.
"Powerful healing experience. Body tingling all over with energy moving and incredible feeling of lightness"
"Total immersion and resonance"
"I felt so relaxed and was made aware of a lot going on in my body and space"
"Blessed to share these moments with people who love and let love in"
The sound bath element cleared so much from my mind. I felt connected at that point on a different level - it was other worldly"
Lie Down and Listen was founded by pianist and composer Christina McMaster and has partnered with extraordinary heritage spaces across the UK, including Highgrove — His Majesty The King’s Highgrove Gardens, The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, and the unique Dulwich Picture Gallery. These remarkable spaces become part of the experience, inviting guests to dwell deeply in music while surrounded by beauty and history.