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. He is also the founder and Conference Coordinator of the World Sound Healing Conferences (now Globe Sound Healing Conference) and has put on 3 International Conferences. 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. He is currently finishing a book called, "The Sound of Love - Using Sound for Health, Healing, Life Enhancement, and Connecting to Spirit."

David 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.

David's mission is to bring Sound and Energy Healing into the mainstream (and hospitals). In order to do this he has setup the Sound Healing Research Foundation, and has also created plays and movies to help educate the general public.

David began as a Professional Recording Engineer.  He has been teaching, engineering and producing groups in major studios since 1982. 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.

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.


Lisa Rafel
Lisa Rafel helps people to change their lives. She is a sound and energy educator, spiritual counselor, gifted intuitive, singer, harmonic overtone chanter, shamanic healer and a practitioner of Integrated Kabbalistic Healing. Her chanting, rooted in the tradition of vowels as the sacred language of God, has been called “music from before the languages divided” and engages the listener at the deepest levels. Lisa’s international teaching program, “Resonate with the Soul”, encourages development of the psychic senses as well as personal transformation. Utilizing sound, body awareness and ancient wisdom, the classes teach multiple levels of self-awareness, and deepen one’s relationship to courage and compassion.
Lisa guest lectures and performs at conferences and in concert. Events include: Deepak Chopra's Alliance for a New Humanity, Puerto Rico; The Gather the Women Congress, SF; The State of the World Forum, New York; San Francisco State University; the Collective Heritage Institute; The Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Jonathan Goldman's Healing Sounds Intensive. She has performed at The World Festival of Sacred Music, Los Angeles in honor of HH the Dalai Lama; in Chartres Cathedral in France, Sakya Monastery in Tibet, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, ancient stone circles in England, and many temples in Egypt including The Great Pyramid in Giza.

Craig Godfrey
Music has been a lifelong passion for Craig Godfrey.  His earliest memories are dancing to his parents’ records, discovering piano and feeling the rhythms of New Orleans and Brazil coursing through his body.  All through his teens and twenties he played in bands and wrote music while concentrating his efforts on developing as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and performer. 

Eventually his passion led him from performing in Austin, TX to California to study and develop a career.  He attended the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, CA where he graduated with honors in the Professional Guitar track as well as in the Recording Artist Program.  Following a few years of gigging around LA, recording and creating music, Craig discovered the Globe Institute in San Francisco and became certified in Psychoacoustics as well. Having fallen in love with his parents’ psychoacoustic tapes from the late 70’s, the Institute provided an opportunity to satisfy a deep curiosity and truly expand his perspective and tool set.  After three years of providing one-on-one sound treatments and continued production and performance of music he has returned to the Institute to share his accumulated knowledge with hungry minds while growing and expanding himself.

Lis Addison
Lis Addison is an award winning composer, songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist, hand drummer and dancer.  She specializes in innovative forms of music and movement that incorporate ancient wisdom and promote healing. Addison holds an MFA in electronic music and a BA in music composition and environmental science from Mills College.   She has written music for film, video, bands, solo performance and the concert stage and has been a student of Nada Yoga (the Yoga of Sound Vibration) & Shamanism for over 3 decades.  She is a certified Yoga, Nia & Zumba Instructor.

Addison is the creator of VoCHeTTM (Vocal Chakra Healing Tones) designed to clear and activate the energy centers of the body.  These are recorded on her CD “The Song of the Tree” which is playing Internationally and on XM Satellite, Sirius Radio and Soundscapes TV Radio.  The CD blends her unique vocal tones and ambient music with world and contemporary rhythms ideal for Yoga, Dance, Meditation, Healing & Vocal Toning. Ms. Addison is also the originator of KiVoTM.  Short for “The Kinetic Voice,” KiVo combines  tribal dance & healing chants.  By sending sound vibration created by the voice, through various body parts and energetic centers housed in the body, one is able to clear emotional and energetic blockages as well as isolate muscle groups and joints in a new way.  Such an approach allows the participant to work with the voice and body in an integrated fashion that utilizes resonance, created through sound and movement, for a positive healing effect.  Her work is dedicated to cleansing the physical and energetic bodies in order to be more available to receive and radiate the Light of the Divine.

For more information, go to www.lisaddison.com or www.kivodance.com

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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
Don Estes is a professionally trained neuroscientist who has lectured worldwide on sensory science and vibrational medicine.  He is founding CEO of InnerSense Inc., and inventor of VibraSound®, Sensory Resonance™ and other transformational technologies which have been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, ET, Beyond 2000, Next Step, Science Frontiers, and many other national and international media.  In addition, he has created a next generation biometric based on breath that can optimize a person's resonance.  This supercomputer software is also used to power a futuristic alembic that makes a vapor, which has survived the experience of transformation rather than being charged from an outside source like lasers, coils, crystals, magnets, etc.  This new paradigm of healing enhances what's right rather than fixes what's wrong and represents the state of the art in transformational technologies.  Recent publication of his book, "Harmonic Law: The Science of Vibration," and its master illustration, "The Absolute Scale of Relative Cosmic Reality," are the basis for this class.  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 initiated into a non-denominational 'ministry of healing music' in l969, Steven was encouraged by Dr. John Lilly, Dr. Stanley Krippner and others to scientifically validate 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 'quiet 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.










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.