The Center of Light
Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies
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The Illumination of Consciousness series for personal growth and Spiritual Development
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The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies, provides training in the art of sound healing as a therapeutic practice, studies and in depth experiential practice through its shamanic Earth Mysteries School, personal workshops incorporating esoteric studies and meditation practices with the deeply moving and transformative power of Sacred Sound Transmissions, and private healing therapies utilizing Sacred Sound, spiritual counseling, and shamanic practice.   Our workshops and individual therapies and studies are designed to draw us to our own innate wisdom and personal power, develop intuitive guidance and authenticity, deepening relationship with that we hold as sacred, awakening the core of our being, and enlivening us to pursue our personal destiny.  We are located in Ascutney, Vermont, amidst the rich tapestries and beauty of the Green Mountains.

The Center is a non-residential study and therapeutic center.  We are situated on pristine land which incorporates deciduous and evergreen forests, meadows, a peaceful river, falls, springs, and gorge.  We often incorporate work with the beauty and power of the Earth, and the elements of the Earth, in our programs, in single and multiple day journeys.

Utilizing the power of Sacred Sound as a vehicle for transformational exploration, we come into personal attunements, and initiations into the Great Mystery.

Sacred sound is one way of defining the nature of whom we are as vibrational beings.  Sound is the nature of Creation, as spoken through so many cultures, from Aboriginal to Biblical to Hindu.  When we attune to our own sacred nature, and voice this in resonance with clarity and trust, we come into contact with our very essence.  Zacciah uses sound coupled with sacred intention to invoke the essence of higher being.  This allows us each to enter more readily into a Sacred Space, more ready to explore the deeper nature of ourselves, and relationship to that which we personally hold as Sacred.  Integrating esoteric practices of shamanic and alchemical traditions, Zacciah creates the groundwork which assists us in walking through a rich tapestry of unfolding experiential insights into our essence.  He also works with Sacred Earth Sites, assisting us through ceremony and simple practices, to attune to earth energies and essences, again to deepen relationship, and awaken personal revelation of the Nature of Place.

Sacred Sound has the power to move us beyond all normal realms of perception, of understanding, and comprehension.  It has the ability to synchronize us with the mystical attributes of the Great Creation, the Here and Now, with the ebb and flow of Earth and Heaven.  It can allow us to enter the Great Mystery with direct perception, bypassing the common cognitive method of experiencing and understanding, entering the Gnosis, knowing by experiencing.
It is Sacred Sound which then instills us with wonder at the Mystery and Beauty of All That Is, experiencing the Vastness and Oneness of which we are a part.  It can part the veils of perception, that we might see, feel, and understand the Cosmos, its Wholeness, and our place in it.

Sacred Sound also holds the potency of Creation, able to mold and form that we hold with pure intention, into a greater visceral knowing, with the ability to emerge into creative manifestation in our lives, and world.

With tenderness, knowing, humor, warmth, and efficacy, Zacciah guides us into this place of Wonder and embracing who we are.

(See Articles for much more information on sacred sound and sacred sound initiations and transmissions,
as well as additional information on the nature of sound healing, see:  What is Sound Healing?  (And additional articles).)

Workshops are single day, 2 and 3 day weekend, 5-14 day retreats, sacred journeys, and other longer events, offered regionally, nationally, and internationally.   Our professional Sound Healers Practitioners Trainings incorporate multiple weekend and weeklong programs, which can be taken singularly or in multiple weekends.

Therapies and private studies are offered in at the Center in VT, and, when possible, while traveling.  Hours and days are flexible.
See here for information on therapies.

Zacciah Blackburn is Director of the Center of Light, and its primary teacher and therapist.  He is a sound healer trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures.  He began a conscious journey to self awakening in 1969, and was soon guided to develop understanding in intuitive healing, in sacred sound cultures, and in the making of musical instruments of sacred sound cultures.  His studies exposed him to the sacred music, sound healing traditions, and master teachers of numerous cultures.  Since 1985, he has used his knowledge and experience in creating studies and a healing practice to share with others.  He utilizes sound coupled with sacred intention as a therapeutic tool, in shamanic style settings, for personal healing and transformation.  He has offered numerous programs on the nature of self transformation through the use of esoteric and alchemical practices and exercises, invoking sacred sound streams in his work, which he calls Sacred Sound Transmissions.  Zacciah  brings with him a warmth and radiance that he exudes through his work.  He invites conscious energies of various sacred cultures to assist us in the work.

   For additional information on Zacciah's background, experience, and studies

 An Interview with Zacciah:
Learn about Zacciah's early pathway to discovery of the many principals he teaches in his work.
An interview by Connection Spirit of Germany.

Also, listen to an audio interview at Planetary-Spirit.
                         

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Glenn and Cameron Broughton will be our tour guides and hosts in our Sacred Sites, Sacred Sounds tour of Great Britain, April 26 - May 7, 2006.
Through Sacred Britain Tours they have led hundreds of people on journeys of discovery and transformation to England’s sacred sites. They also organize an annual crop circle conference in Vermont.  Zacciah will be presenting at the conference in Oct, 2008.
Watch for possible 2009 Tours with Zacciah.

Dinah Arosa Marker is an accomplished vocalist, certified Health Practitioner (Acupuncture/Chinese Medicine), and sound healer.
She is our principal program co-ordinator in Germany and Austria.  She often serves as translator, and co-teachers some programs with Zacciah.

  


Andean Priest and Mystic Juan Nunez del Prado, an internationally respected teacher and paqo (initiate in Peruvian mysticism.)
Juan guides us in tours in Peru, and in initiations into ancient practices of the Andean peoples, descendants of the Incan culture.

Programs are offered at the Center of Light in Ascutney, VT, and worldwide, facilitated by Zacciah Blackburn, and internationally renowned guest teachers.  Contact us for inclusion in our monthly newsletter with listings of upcoming programs, daily thoughts, occasional articles and peace prayers (and, information on world healing events.) You may also contact us for information on programs which have been offered which you would like to see repeated, or if you would like to know of programs in your area, or partner with us to bring programs to your area.

See also our partner company: Sunreed World Musical Instruments
  Sound Healing tools:  Crystal Bowls, Tibetan Bowls, Tingshas, Shangs
  Shamanic Drums, African Drums, Flutes, Shakuhachi
  Native American Flutes & Drums, Powwow Drums,
Classical Indian instruments (sitar, tabla, tamboura, mirdang, etc.,)
Authentic Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoos, music, books, healing CD's,
Tuning Forks, and much more