STAFF AND INSTRUCTORS
The Faculty include highly esteemed individuals working in this field

David A. Gibson

David Gibson is the Founder and Director of Globe Institute. David began as a Professional Recording Engineer.  He has now been teaching, engineering and producing groups in major studios since 1982. He has been studying esoteric systems of sound healing for over 15 years and has an in-depth understanding of the underlying physics of sound. David is also the author of the best selling book, “The Art of Mixing” that uses visuals to explain and show every style of mix in the world, which makes complex structures of mixes easily understandable. His second book, “The Art of Producing,” uses the visual framework for displaying sounds to explain Music Theory. Gibson is also the inventor of the Patented, “Virtual Mixer,” which uses 3D visuals of the mix to control mixing consoles and computerized mixers. He is currently working on a Virtual Reality system where you can step into an image of your own body and be able to place visuals of sounds inside the body in 3D.  The visuals will then move sounds up and down in a Sound Table so you feel the sounds inside the body exactly where  you are seeing  the  visuals.

Karl Maret
Karl Maret, MD, M.Eng. is a holistic health practitioner with 20 years of experience working in alternative health care. He is clinic director at the Tree of Health clinic in Aptos, California. He is a medical doctor who specializes in complementary and alternative medicine, nutritional and orthomolecular medicine as well as the practice of Energy Medicine with special emphasis on Sound Healing modalities. Dr. Maret received his B.Sc. with Honors in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University in Canada, and holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering and Doctor of Medicine both from the University of Toronto in Canada. He completed a four year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California in San Diego. He has privately undertaken extensive training in complementary and energy medical approaches in Europe and the United States. He also serves as president of the nonprofit Dove Health Alliance located in Aptos, California.

Dove Health Alliance is a California nonprofit private operating foundation with the vision of encouraging greater awareness and practice of Energy Medicine including healing with sound and acoustical modalities. The foundation is proud to co-sponsor the first International Sound Symposium in San Jose and encourages innovation and excellence in the field of Sound Healing. The Dove Health Alliance is committed to researching, developing new technologies and methodologies for monitoring and treating the state of health of the human body. The foundation is also committed to education, publishing and general dissemination of this information for the benefit of all.

Randy Masters
Randy Masters has been a musician and educator about the science of music for many years. He has a unique understanding of harmonic mathematics, and teaches about the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras and esoteric teachings. Randy Masters is a composer, publisher, and multi-talented musician specializing in world music composition and performance. He taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was on the Music Faculty and Artist in Residence for 10 years. He also taught seven years at San Jose State University. Randy has performed and arranged for many internationally known recording artists such as Tito Puente, Charlie Byrd, Hedzoleh Soundz, Lou Harrison, and Solar Plexus.





Maestro Curtis
Maestro Curtis, MALS has a strong background in Jazz and Classical music and has three Bachelors Degrees: 1) Piano and Vocal Music, 2) Radio and TV Communications, and 3) Speech and Theatre; and, two Masters Degrees: 1) Music Theory/Orchestration and Arranging, and 2) Philosophy; and a Ph.D pending in Human and Organizational development (The Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California). Maestro has worked in the recording industry for over 30 years and has performed with such artist as Peabo Bryson, The Ojay‚s, George Benson, Phyllis Hyman and Lenny Williams and has played with The Count Basie Orchestra to name a few. He has produced Albums with Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire and is currently finishing his second album with his Jazz group Xpression under the Kalimba records label. He is also CEO of "Jazzy Boo" records where he is currently developing and producing artists in the area of, jazz, blues, Neo-Soul (R&B), new age, hip hop, rock, reggae, and gospel with emphasis on the San Francisco sound. Maestro has also developed and implemented a complete and comprehensive music therapy program funded by United Way for the elderly who suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia. A college professor for over twenty years he now runs a private practice helping to inspire and cultivate young music thinkers.

Richard Feather Anderson
Richard Feather Anderson is one of the longest practicing geomancers in America, with over thirty years’ experience. He founded the first cross-cultural geomancy school in 1985. He has integrated his training in architecture, environmental psychology, Feng Shui, ecology, sacred geometry and ancient philosophies. Introduced to geomantic wisdom in childhood, he continued his studies in Feng Shui with Professor Lin Yun, in sacred architecture with Dr. Keith Critchlow, and in Earth Mysteries with the world’s leading experts. He employed sacred geometry to design the Chartres labyrinth replicas for San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and is the geomancy-feng shui consultant for Esalen Institute’s long range planning.


Jan Cercone
Jan Cercone MA,RN, PHN., Certified Music Practitioner, has been singing since she was 12. Jan sings Opera, sacred, classics, torch songs, inspirational music and sang a solo cabaret show in SF and Sonoma County. Her training in the Uncovering the Voice method has brought a new form of healing singing that she shares with local community events and groups, and private students. She is a leader for the Music Care program at Palm Drive Hospital, provides bedside healing music for hospice patients, and gives inspirational workshops nationally about how music can be healing in institutional and private environments. Checkout Musicforjoyandhealing.com

Dr. Jeffrey D. Thompson, D.C., B.F.A., C.N.S.T.
Diplomate is a physician, scientist, educator, musician, composer, and visionary. He is Director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research in California, a world-class Center for cutting-edge research into the effects of sound in healing and consciousness. His pleasant, non-invasive, holistic modality - Bio-Tuning® - is a global tri-body healing, personal transformation, and awakening consciousness force. His 60+ audio programs on CDs are used and sold globally, healing and transforming lives wherever used. Visit www.neuroacoustic.org for more information.

Don Estes
is the inventor of VibraSound‘ music therapy systems and founder of InnerSense, Inc., a company dedicated to the research and development of transformational technologies. Don is also an author, lecturer, music therapist, and sensory resonance engineer. He has also come up with a system for putting sound into water, and is currently producing Virtual Reality consciousness raising entertainment. www.vibrasound.com

Silvina Vergara
Passionately dedicated to the healing arts, Silvina specializes in sound work and movement.  She is holistic counselor, conscious guide, educator, singer, minister, dance instructor, and she incorporates dance, drama and movement composition to her training. She plays the singing crystal bowls and brings more than twenty years of experience in the areas of energy work, self development, movement and voice.
Silvina  has had extensive training in performing arts, creative movement and metaphysics. Silvina holds a certification in sound healing and has completed a training in Sahuka, a synthesis on high Egyptian Alchemy, Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently a radio hostess in self awareness and spiritual growth for the Hispanic community. She is also working as a facilitator in stress management for San Francisco General Hospital for a special program for cancer patients. In her sessions she incorporates past life work, vibrational healing massage, breath and emotional work in order to facilitate a greater awareness of oneself, enhancing vitality and sense of well being. “Integrating these healing modalities is a reflection of my Healing Process, bringing a profound connection to my heart.”


Steven Halpern
Steven is an internationally-acclaimed composer, master musician, producer, author and pioneering sound healer. His award-winning recordings radiate energies of relaxation, joy and peace that assist us in attuning to the quantum field of universal consciousness. Millions worldwide have experienced the blessings of benefits of sound healing simply by listening.

 Since l975,  Steven has been a recognized authority in the field and a passionate voice bringing the concept of sound healing to the mainstream through his recordings,writings and national major market media appearances. He is a founding father of New Age/ ambient music who has sold more (over 6 million) relaxing, meditative and healing albums than any other living composer


After being intitiated into a non-denominational 'ministry of healing music' in l969, Steven was encouraged by Dr. John Lilly, Dr. Stanley Krippner and others to scientifically valate the extraordinary effects of his music. His landmark research explored the connections between sound, higher consciousness and healing were the first to employ sophisticated new technologies involving subtle energies, brainwave biofeedback and Kirlian (aura) photography. Halpern was mentored and assisted by a who's who of the world's leading scientists, including Dr. Marcel Vogel, Itzhak Bentov, Dr. Maxwell Cade and Dr. Peter Guy Manners.

The respected industry magazine KEYBOARD named him 'one of the 30 most influential keyboard artists of the last 50 years (2005) who launched a 'quet revolution' in contemporary instrumental music. His recordings combine ancient sound healing traditions, modern technology and the soul of a sensitive artist; his music is used worldwide.As a producer, he has recorded with leading musicians including Paul Horn, Paul McCandless, Iasos and Fabien Maman. Halpern's music has been heard on "Ghost Whisperer," 48 HOURS, 20 /20 and PBS series with John Bradshaw.

For massage, "Halpern's music is in a class by itself!" (Massage magazine). His music is heard in leading destination/medical spas, yoga and complementary/ integrative healing centers worldwide, and has been praised by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Andrew Weil. Steven serves as the Therapeutic Music Director of MedCalm (R), the leading audio video wellness provider for hospitals, hospice and other caregiving environments.

He has written over 55 articles and a syndicated monthly column(now ezine) for over 20 years. Visit him at www.innerpeacemusic.com to experience the music, read his ezine, and book concerts and workshops.

Stuart Grace Greene
Stuart Grace Greene is a biophysicist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally trained in physics, his passion has always been the exploration of human consciousness. In the 1970s, before the fusion of science and spirituality became popular in our culture, Stuart lived and trained in a Zen Buddhist community - believing that the study of science and the distillation of the spirit were convergent paths towards the same essential unity.  Stuart also ran a school where he taught an in-depth program of "Visionary Healing" combining subtle manual therapies with biological, bioenergetic, and psycho-spiritual healing work.

After years of exploring subtle energy phenomena, Stuart discovered a similarly subtle level of biology in the research of Antoine Béchamp, Günther Enderlein, Royal Rife, and others. He was inspired by these great scientists, but mindful of the fact that their theories (which reached as far back as the mid-1800s) needed to be revised in light of modern understanding of molecular, cellular, genetic, and evolutionary biology. The resulting synthesis of ideas forms the core of the new science of health called EcoBiotics.

Janis Arch
Janis Arch has been a practitioner in Bodywork, Massage Therapy and the Healing Arts for over thirty years. She is a BioAcoustic Research Associate with Sharry Edwards using Vocal Analysis and Frequency Presentation to clear harmonic faults in the bodies processing and she holds two Certificates in Sound Healing. She is also Certified in Hypnotherapy and Bioenergy Balancing. Janis has led workshops on chant, and the healing power of trance drumming.

James Page Word
James Word is a natural instructor, with a deep respect for the human spirit. His classes are an interplay of knowledge and experience, classroom-labratories where students are invited to discover for themselves the profoundly healing nature of rhythm and sound. A Zen Buddhist, James resided at Kanzeon Zen Center and trained with Zen Master Genpo Roshi, founder of the Big Mind process. He obtained his degree in Psychology from the University of California Berkeley, where he focused on Buddhist psychology, dreamwork, and musical perception. He is a regular guest lecturer for the UC Berkeley course, "Perspectives on Internal Happiness." His deep understanding of rhythm is a result of many years of intensive training with S. Kwaku Daddy, a 27th generation master drummer, and with Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler, founders of TaKeTiNa -- a participatory musical process that facilitates the evolution of individual and collective consciousness. Most recently, he founded Rhythm In Action, an organization that provides rhythm meditation classes and retreats.

Shanta Bulkin

Shanta Bulkin became a disciple of Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati in 1972 and was appointed president of the Board of Directors of the Yoga Society of San Francisco in 1974. Shanta teaches beginning Sanskrit classes year round in both private and group settings. He is also studying with Dr. Sharma.

Indira Devi
Indira Devi began her intensive study of the Sanskrit language and literature with Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati in 1972. She continued her studies at the University of California at Berkeley, earning an undergraduate degree in Sanskrit while taking graduate level classes. She has taught Sanskrit since the 1970s and is continuing her studies with Dr. Ram Karan Sharma, a world-renowned Sanskritist and visiting professor at Berkeley.

Amber Leiv

Amber Leiv HHC,CMT - A practitioner in the holistic healing arts for over 10 years, Amber has extensive bodywork training including, cranial sacral balancing, vibrational massage, rebirthing and intuitive energy work. She holds certifications as a professional sound and voice teacher from the International Kaleo Sound Foundation. She is also certified in Bio-Tuning which was originated at the Neuroacoustic Research Foundation in Encinitas, California by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. Amber has a private practice in the Northern Bay Area.