APRIL 6 2021 OPEN ZOOM CHAT COPY:

ADVANCED GONG MASTERY TOPICS

WITH DON CONREAUX

SPRING SESSION 2021

00:32:00 Yaelle Shaphir: DON: THE GONG IS THE GURU - some people have more than one!

00:32:40 Yaelle Shaphir: It’s always nice to meet each other this way!

00:33:05 Alena: Yaelle, for how long is this meeting planned?

00:33:10 Yaelle Shaphir: We are all important - the gongs are more iimportant.

00:33:20 Yaelle Shaphir: Have your gong behind you during our Zooms.

00:33:38 Caron: I don’t have a gong and I don’t know a thing about them. A friend sent the link to me so I could discover gongs. Is it ok to join?

00:33:52 Yaelle Shaphir: Caron - absolutely!!!!!

00:34:13 Cheryl: I am in Mukilteo WA and I have Mercury and Neptune.

00:34:42 Yaelle Shaphir: Participants in: Mexico! U.S.!

00:35:15 Yaelle Shaphir: France!

00:35:29 Carrie-Anne Bridel: Carrie. UK. 😊

00:35:49 Yaelle Shaphir: The Dream Gong of Tone of Life

00:37:33 Annette: Bristol uk

00:38:22 Yaelle Shaphir: Don: we’d like to play our Gongs at the same time.

00:38:32 Yaelle Shaphir: First Have Gong. Introduce gongs.

00:39:26 Yaelle Shaphir: How many have Bowls? They are ready and available. Striking wand and rimmiing wand ready next time.

00:42:08 Rasa Bruzgiene: Hello all .I am Rasa from Lithuania ,I have Paiste Symphonic gong .but on the moment I have just Shruty box with me. Nice to be there💖 Thank you so much

00:45:11 Headzic: Hi, this is John Shapter (Headzic) in UK. I`m loving being in connection, however, my battery is getting VERY low, may disappear! Blessing to everyone.

00:47:43 Yaelle Shaphir: The Saturn Gong - Hexagon Shape Gongmaker Sean

00:48:12 Yaelle Shaphir: Images of Saturn in space - a hexagon shape

00:48:30 Yaelle Shaphir: Rhode Island

00:48:33 Yaelle Shaphir: USA

00:48:38 Yaelle Shaphir: Copenhagen, Denmark

00:48:41 Yaelle Shaphir: France

00:49:47 Yaelle Shaphir: 2 Kinds of moon gong.

00:49:53 Yaelle Shaphir: The popular one and the one that is higher

00:50:26 Yaelle Shaphir: Sideral Moon Gong Syndoic moon gong

00:50:35 Yaelle Shaphir: Synodic - sexual chakra

00:50:47 Yaelle Shaphir: Sidereal for upper 3rd eye - angel guru center.

00:51:21 nikki: Cool!

00:52:14 Alessandra Montana: We sometimes get calls from people asking for the New Moon Gong or the Full Moon Gong. These are terms you may hear in various circles, and we have found different circles refer to each gong differently. Paiste does not label either as Full or New. 

The Sidereal month is how long the Moon takes to make one full revolution around the Earth -- with respect to the background stars. Returning to its same place in relation to the sky! 

But because the Earth is constantly moving as it orbits our Sun, the Moon travels slightly more than a full circle (360 degrees) to get from new moon to new moon. (That is the Synodic Moon Gong.) 

Hence, the synodic month (a.k.a. lunar month) is longer than the sidereal. Sidereal = 27.322 days. Synodic month = 29.531 days.

00:52:28 Alessandra Montana: sidereal

00:52:54 Yaelle Shaphir: 2 MOON GONGS - SYNODIC (AS IT GOES AROUND THE EARTH) SIDEREAL (AS MOON REACHES A FIXED STAR IN THE HEAVENS)

00:54:11 Yaelle Shaphir: SLOVAKI

00:54:14 Suki Lee: Suki from Vancouver

00:54:45 Yaelle Shaphir: MOZAMBIQUE AFRICA

00:54:47 Suki Lee: 24” flower of life gong

00:55:17 Yaelle Shaphir: DUBAI

00:55:50 Pauline Speirs: Hi from the West of Scotland, UK

00:57:25 Yaelle Shaphir: DON: WE HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT DON’T WE?

00:57:30 nikki: Have the gongs accessible

00:57:41 Yaelle Shaphir: Our assignment - if you. Have a bowl, gong or bell - have them around you

00:57:45 Yaelle Shaphir: So you are ready to fly

00:58:28 Yaelle Shaphir: SLOVENIA

00:58:55 Yaelle Shaphir: SIDEREAL - REVOLUTION ON A FIXED STAR In case your students ask you.

00:59:05 Yaelle Shaphir: PORTUGAL

00:59:49 Yaelle Shaphir: NIBIRU GONG PLEASE TELL US ABOUT IT

01:00:04 Yaelle Shaphir: Sonia - ready about the combination of these two gongs.

01:00:12 Yaelle Shaphir: NIBIRU - TRANSITION release fear

01:00:17 Yaelle Shaphir: URANUS - NEW ENERGY

01:00:40 Yaelle Shaphir: This combination was meaningful to me: RELEASE FREE - BREAK HABITS MAKE TRANSITION AND NEW ENERGY OF AQUARIUS

01:01:47 Yaelle Shaphir: URANUS - ruler of the Age we are entering in

01:01:57 Yaelle Shaphir: NIBIRU - take away fear.

01:02:03 Yaelle Shaphir: Like a homeopathic way of working

01:02:20 Yaelle Shaphir: Do you know the notes of the gong? The fundamental of the gong?

01:02:27 Yaelle Shaphir: E Nibiru fundamental.

01:02:38 Yaelle Shaphir: Uranus - G#

01:03:45 Yaelle Shaphir: There is a chord of music between the E gong and G# gong - is a relationship between Nibiru and Uranus - symbolic match - this combination is a chord of music. The question would be (this is a part of our lesson) - what is this chord?

01:05:25 Yaelle Shaphir: PERFECT 5TH

01:05:30 Yaelle Shaphir: Go together very well

01:05:32 Yaelle Shaphir: 8 1/2 steps

01:05:59 Yaelle Shaphir: The progeny of each gong combine together and begin to reproduce the overtones and different relationships emphasize different overtones.

01:06:07 Yaelle Shaphir: As the recipient listens - they soak up

01:06:11 Yaelle Shaphir: Prasadum (food)

01:06:25 Yaelle Shaphir: If you need something - you absorb this nutrient prasadum

01:07:10 Yaelle Shaphir: INDIA

01:08:12 ANA LUCIA ROBLEDA: Love it there, definitely worth a visit!!

01:08:43 Mary Ann S: Me too! I’m in Halrem and I am trying to figure out which gongs to get, eternal gratitude for this call

01:10:47 Mary Ann S: I heard about you from Michael Jay,

01:10:59 Maja Kristan: Ignore my hand, I already intruduce myself

01:11:06 Yaelle Shaphir: LET’S INCLUDE THE CONCH SHELL

01:11:16 Yaelle Shaphir: Witches need a bell, book and candle

01:11:26 Yaelle Shaphir: To be a sound master - a conch a bowl a bell and a gong!

01:11:35 Tea Smonker: Tea Smonker, slovenija, mercury and sound creation gong

01:12:01 Thea Lanzisero: How do we find out how to set our audio for zoom for the correct sound experience?

01:12:01 Yaelle Shaphir: HEALING AT A DISTANCE

01:12:19 Yaelle Shaphir: It’s important for you to have mirror on your gong stand.

01:12:36 Yaelle Shaphir: Whenever we play the gong and improvise - we are unconciously hitting the gong in certain patterns

01:12:45 Yaelle Shaphir: We are releasing certain energies.

01:12:56 Yaelle Shaphir: The enneaphone - we dive deeper into the mystical part of the gong.

01:13:05 Yaelle Shaphir: Developing a computer language through mathematics

01:13:14 Yaelle Shaphir: This feeds the higher centers of the cerebral cortex.

01:13:23 Yaelle Shaphir: Become more aware of our awareness.

01:13:31 Yaelle Shaphir: Getting messages developing intuition

01:13:46 Caterina: Dear Don , its wonderful see you thank you for your invitation I send you and your daughter so much love and gratitude (Caterina from Italy)

01:13:54 Yaelle Shaphir: Receiving and passing on Gong Conciousness

01:14:14 Yaelle Shaphir: I would like to talk about the power of the Shruti and incorporating it into our Gong pracitce.

01:14:42 Yaelle Shaphir: The Shruti - is a magic box - finding a chord to resonate with voice, activate throat chakra.

01:14:48 Yaelle Shaphir: Before playing the gong.

01:15:00 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti - gives me wings to activate the universal stage of creativity

01:15:06 Yaelle Shaphir: The gong and shruti go together

01:15:12 Yaelle Shaphir: Healing activation instrument

01:15:33 Tea Smonker: Thank you dear Don for invitation.

01:15:37 Yaelle Shaphir: During gong baths with lots of people - with shruti - we can walk among the people an activate energy an healing

01:15:46 Stephanie Marisca: Wonderful to be here with you today! Resonant Blessing to you dear Don, Yaelle and the global gong family. Look forward to playing with you all next time. I must leave now at the top of the hour.

01:15:47 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti - magic box to give wings to our voice

01:15:54 Yaelle Shaphir: So we can connect to the guru within the gong

01:16:02 Yaelle Shaphir: Don: wonderful opener for people

01:16:06 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti - Revelation

01:16:15 Yaelle Shaphir: In this age - we have to free the 5th chakra

01:16:21 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti has come along just in time.

01:16:26 Yaelle Shaphir: Everyone is a singer and a hummer

01:16:35 Yaelle Shaphir: A shruti song is like singing a lullaby to a new baby.

01:16:54 Yaelle Shaphir: Using the shruti you connect right to the target the inner child within the recipient.

01:16:57 Yaelle Shaphir: We can also use bowls.

01:17:23 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti - uses reoccurring chord

01:17:30 Yaelle Shaphir: Can you explain what the chords are?

01:17:39 Yaelle Shaphir: Count the open hole - 1,2,3,4,5

01:17:51 Yaelle Shaphir: Actually 6 is a perfect 4th

01:17:59 Yaelle Shaphir: The chord of the nature kingdom.

01:18:01 Yaelle Shaphir: On the bottom

01:18:09 Yaelle Shaphir: The perfect fifth the human kingdom is on top

01:18:11 Yaelle Shaphir: 5 and 8

01:18:18 Yaelle Shaphir: There are 13 notes on the shruti box

01:18:22 Yaelle Shaphir: Holistic octave

01:18:29 Yaelle Shaphir: Regular octave 12 notes

01:18:34 Yaelle Shaphir: Holistic octave has 13 notes

01:18:45 Yaelle Shaphir: Each shruti has a fundamental ex. C shruti box.

01:20:14 Yaelle Shaphir: You can change the this

01:20:21 Yaelle Shaphir: Now you have 5th on the bottom and 4th on the top

01:20:25 Yaelle Shaphir: Usually how people play it

01:20:40 Yaelle Shaphir: Major third is 5

01:20:55 Yaelle Shaphir: Now major 3rd and minor third

01:21:00 Yaelle Shaphir: Giving a full bouquet

01:21:56 Yaelle Shaphir: Don: what happens when we play the shruti box - the valves want to go through the higher holes first and Lower ones last - you want to balance the chord by closing some holes more and others wider - you can change the feeling tones of the chord as they come out of the box.

01:22:00 Yaelle Shaphir: You can fool around with that.

01:22:14 Stephanie Baker: Can anyone recommend a good brand and place to purchase a shruti?

01:22:52 Yaelle Shaphir: Hulum Hookum

01:22:54 Yaelle Shaphir: Shruti 87

01:22:56 Yaelle Shaphir: My religion

01:23:01 Yaelle Shaphir: My religion is very simple

01:23:06 Yaelle Shaphir: My religion is kindness.

01:23:10 Yaelle Shaphir: -dali lama

01:23:19 Yaelle Shaphir: NOW I PUT HTIS ON MY SHRUTI BOX AND SING IT

01:25:34 Yaelle Shaphir: GURU DEV SINGH - passed on Sunday - practiced the art of learning in silence.

01:25:58 Yaelle Shaphir: YB gave him instruction to meditate and listen (not ask so many questions). Developed a special way of healing.

01:27:00 Yaelle Shaphir: You go into silence and feeling - feeling the subtle changes Satnam Rasayam.

01:27:23 Yaelle Shaphir: I took this and transliterated it for use of all Gong Players. How to play for other peoples needs.

01:27:34 Yaelle Shaphir: Being Neutral or in Turiya - higher neutral state.

01:27:42 Yaelle Shaphir: Which is how we are when we play the gongs.

01:28:05 Yaelle Shaphir: We add this in - so everyone sees how brilliant those instructions

01:28:11 Yaelle Shaphir: MY RELIGION IS VERY SIMPLE

01:28:15 Yaelle Shaphir: MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS

01:28:21 Yaelle Shaphir: Then we will do the AKAL

01:33:21 Yaelle Shaphir: G shruti is for men or lower tones voices

01:33:27 Yaelle Shaphir: I have the c shruti box.

01:33:34 Yaelle Shaphir: HOW DO WE TUNE THESE TWO TOGETHER?

01:34:34 Yaelle Shaphir: QUESTION: GO OVER THE NOTES

01:34:43 Yaelle Shaphir: DON: This shruti begins on a C

01:34:50 Yaelle Shaphir: It has 1/2 steps

01:34:59 Yaelle Shaphir: C and G are a perfect fifth

01:35:05 Yaelle Shaphir: G and C is a perfect fourth

01:35:20 Yaelle Shaphir: Morgan is in a different note he is in a G shruti

01:35:30 Yaelle Shaphir: I. Have to adjust and open up a G on my C shruti

01:35:55 Yaelle Shaphir: I have my G open

01:36:32 Yaelle Shaphir: And he’s tuned his G to a C

01:39:49 Yaelle Shaphir: Quick lesson - it is an enticer.

01:40:00 Yaelle Shaphir: 4th ray of the 7th ray - the ray of humanity and balance.

01:40:07 Yaelle Shaphir: The world is still reptilian and territorial.

01:40:13 Yaelle Shaphir: The world is still trying to dominate

01:40:35 Yaelle Shaphir: In order to move to the higher level of wisom

01:40:52 Yaelle Shaphir: Organic tone on piano or organ - hold down the pedal.

01:40:57 Yaelle Shaphir: We are tone alchemists

01:41:01 Yaelle Shaphir: We combine tones together

01:41:02 Yaelle Shaphir: We listen

01:41:09 Yaelle Shaphir: We listen to the higher and lower tones together.

01:41:23 Yaelle Shaphir: The gong fills the space very quickly with tones and tone progeny.

01:41:56 Yaelle Shaphir: Listen to this shruti here:

01:42:02 Yaelle Shaphir: I’ve known you

01:42:11 Yaelle Shaphir: For so many lifetimes

01:42:15 Yaelle Shaphir: So lifetimes

01:42:19 Yaelle Shaphir: So many lifetimes

01:42:23 Yaelle Shaphir: I’ve been with you

01:42:29 Yaelle Shaphir: I’ve as mother and father

01:42:33 Yaelle Shaphir: My sister and brother

01:42:40 Yaelle Shaphir: My lover beloved

01:42:46 Yaelle Shaphir: Oh I’ve known you

01:42:50 Yaelle Shaphir: ohmm

01:42:54 Alessandra Montana: what’s an enticer ?

01:43:19 Yaelle Shaphir: Difficulty is getting off the monotone and to begin to go up the natural harmonic series that it is within the chord

01:43:26 Yaelle Shaphir: I’ve known you….

01:43:45 Yaelle Shaphir: Discover the open spaces of the natural harmonic system

01:43:54 Yaelle Shaphir: This is what we use the shruti box.

01:44:02 Yaelle Shaphir: We can put in a rhythm with it as well.

01:44:07 Yaelle Shaphir: Whatever you’d like to do.

01:44:15 Yaelle Shaphir: Go ahead and find more ways to use your shruti.

01:44:27 Yaelle Shaphir: Tantric yoga and sound - beginning and end are very important.

01:44:36 Yaelle Shaphir: Going off into silence.

01:44:36 Yaelle Shaphir: ah

01:44:44 Yaelle Shaphir: I love my shruti box. We play with alot of love.

01:44:47 Yaelle Shaphir: You can speak with it.

01:45:03 Yaelle Shaphir: If you have a block in singing. You can just speak

01:45:11 Yaelle Shaphir: Speak in the voice of the lover and beloved

01:45:15 Yaelle Shaphir: As if speaking to a babe.

01:45:25 Yaelle Shaphir: Take as much license as you want

01:45:29 Yaelle Shaphir: Break down the confinements

01:45:36 Yaelle Shaphir: Then I put my shruti voice overtones.

01:45:42 Yaelle Shaphir: Diphthong

01:45:47 Yaelle Shaphir: Oh-oo

01:45:49 Yaelle Shaphir: Ah-ay

01:45:53 Yaelle Shaphir: ay-ee

01:45:59 Yaelle Shaphir: All in mastering the shruti box.

01:46:08 Yaelle Shaphir: The one I haven’t played is the regular shruti box.

01:46:17 Yaelle Shaphir: Fundamental note C G G3 or A#.

01:46:26 Yaelle Shaphir: A# is a compromise between C and G#

01:46:32 Yaelle Shaphir: This shruti is mine

01:46:40 Yaelle Shaphir: May the long time sun

01:46:44 Yaelle Shaphir: Shine upon you

01:46:45 Yaelle Shaphir: mmm

01:46:50 Yaelle Shaphir: All love

01:46:55 Yaelle Shaphir: All love surround you

01:47:04 Yaelle Shaphir: Lesson: don’t get stuck in a rut.

01:47:14 Yaelle Shaphir: We were taught to do a mantra 400 times in the same way

01:47:27 Yaelle Shaphir: The aquarian way - sudden enlightenment.

01:47:33 Yaelle Shaphir: Idea is not to get caught in any patterns

01:47:47 Yaelle Shaphir: Become the ruler of patterns to be free to change the pattern

01:47:51 Yaelle Shaphir: Does that make sense?

01:47:54 Yaelle Shaphir: We will work on that.

01:49:02 Yaelle Shaphir: Why Masked Gong Theater

01:49:09 Yaelle Shaphir: To break the barriers and explore more

01:49:26 Yaelle Shaphir: Clear Mirror Tantra - using mirrors

01:49:31 Yaelle Shaphir: White tantra - you use another person

01:49:37 Yaelle Shaphir: Clear mirror - you do with yourself

01:51:08 Yaelle Shaphir: With the face - The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

01:51:33 Yaelle Shaphir: Can also use this with placing a photograph on your gong stand - you are playing and establishing a communication/rapport

01:51:52 Yaelle Shaphir: Through the use of photo/picture/visual for clear mirror tantric gonging.

01:52:06 Yaelle Shaphir: This technique works with you as gong masters of ceremonies.

01:52:28 Yaelle Shaphir: You might also try a neutral mask as well.

01:52:57 Yaelle Shaphir: Don likes to use the mask of Yoda - a vessel or channelling - try these techniques they are very powerful

01:54:08 Caron: What is the Facebook group?

01:54:23 nikki: Blessings! Thank you!

01:54:49 Bhaktiveda Dhaul: THANK YOU SO MUCH. It was lovely being here