About Alana Woods - Sound Vistas

I express my deepest gratitude to God for inspiring me, guiding me, bringing teachers to me and resources, and helping me to follow my life work through the arts and healing.

I would like to thank all people (my teachers, students, friends, clients and others I know not) who were brave enough to follow their hearts and take action, dare to live their lives according to their highest vision in spite of obstacles, never allowing anyone to extinguish the dream but honoring above all else, the inner voice that always says, “I can do almost anything if I really want to” and “all things are possible with God" and “follow your passion”.
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Alana Woods has studied the arts from a very early age with private teachers: art as a college major, piano as a child and harp as an adult. Some of her later teachers were Dr. Helen Bonny, Tom Kenyon, Dr. Joan Kellogg, Gregg Furth, Ned Herrmann, David Darling, Sitar Master Roop Verma, Kay Gardner, Dr. Arthur Harvey, Dr. Robert Weiss, Dr. Paul Maudaule, Barbara Brennan, Sufi Saraswati O’Neil, Leslie Temple-Thurston, Amy Skezis, Pat Moffit Cook, Byron Katie, Jennie Strompkins, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Mitchell Gibson, and Sri Bhagavan.

Alana’s professional background is as versatile as her interests. Besides art and music,she studied psychology, psycho acoustics, and brain dominance. She was a professional artist for 20 years, and an ordained Unity Minister. A certified Clinical Aromatherapist, student of Ayurveda, she attended several spiritual healing schools, and developed her own work in Sound Healing. She is an independent researcher in sound and music. Due to a prime interest in the medicine of music (prescriptive sound) she has worked as a sound researcher and consultant. She is a teacher of music,performer and storyteller on harp. Author of a book and several booklets, she produced several music recordings and a video. Her love of travel and other cultures led her to journey in Bali, Ireland, Greece and India for special music learning and teaching her courses. She created workshops and presented them throughout the US, Greece and Ireland.

In her spare time, Alana loves to hike in the mountains of the Southwest and forests and oceans everywhere, snorkel and swim with Dolphins in warm Atlantic oceans, play harp with other musicians improvisationally.

She has a passion for learning , growing and expanding her knowledge and skills. She loves to meet new/old people and animals everywhere, never meets a “stranger”. Alana’s life is governed by following the flow of beauty and truth, in service to mankind. Alana has a life long interest in pre-and perinatal psychology,alternative healing, yoga and and herbal remedies. She has been a lifetime meditator and student of spiritual studies.

Alana sees music as an aspect who we are. Her goal to to help people understand the meaning of sound and music in their life. One of her favorite quotes is from Whitman: “Music is what awakens in us when reminded by the instruments”. The purpose of her programs and website is to help people establish a connection with themselves on deep levels.

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