Announcing a One-Day Program Sponsored by the 

Milwaukee Area Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.:

The Healing and Connecting Power of Music

with Kathryn Rambo & Julie Thomson, Doug Esty and friends

An Immersive Experience with Kathryn Rambo

DATE:  April 27, 2024

TIME:  9:30 am – 4:00 pm CST  (doors open at 9am)

LOCATION:  Unity Center – 1717 N 73 St - Wauwatosa, WI

ADMISSION:  $50 pre-registered - $55 at door - Zoom Only - $40

    (Lunch will be provided.)

A zoom recording of this program will be provided to all who register. You need not attend the day of the program.

Join us for a day of music. Music has healing properties and singing in a group can connect us to our souls and to others in a way that few other things can equal.

Our program opens with Tibetan healing bowls as Kathryn Rambo both educates and transports us with sound. The afternoon will feature some musical practice and theory and a group sing-a-long lead by the incomparable Julie Anne Lovely Thompson

Morning 9 am – 12 noon:  Tibetan Singing Bowls Immersive Experience with Kathryn Rambo

Sound healing is an effective and proven modality that uses vibrational sound to help reduce stress, alter consciousness and create a deep sense of peace and well-being and as a result foster better health. Tibetan singing bowls have been used for centuries in meditation and spiritual practices. Now new research shows that they also help accelerate the body’s innate healing process.

The bowls, which are seated bells, generate a clear fundamental tone as well as multiple harmonic overtones that bring about left/right brain synchronization and the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system. The goal of sound healing is to create a condition in the body that allows the body to do what it is designed to do: heal itself, to bring one’s whole being back into a state of at-tune-ment, harmony and balance.

The morning will begin with a short history of the singing bowls, how they are made, how the sounds are produced and how they are played. Then you will have an immersive experience in the sounds of the bowls. Supported by unique soundscapes, tones and frequencies we will travel outside of time to relax, regroup, release and recover your Self. Floating onward on a calming sea of sound you have the opportunity to travel to the Source of your Healing Energy to reawaken, rejuvenate and realize the Highest and Best parts of your Self. 

About Our Speaker:  Kathryn Rambo has 49 years of experience using sound as a pathway to healing. She is a retired board-certified music therapist.  She is also a meditation instructor, reiki master, and singing bowl practitioner, and has been teaching wellness and spirituality classes locally since 1995.

Kathryn is trained in a wide variety of approaches: music therapy, gestalt therapy, humanistic psychology, Reiki, meditation, sound and healing, shamanic drumming, Ericksonian hypnotherapy and trance induction as well as the indigenous healing traditions of the people of the high Peruvian Andes.

Afternoon 1 pm – 4 pm:  Julie Thompson and Doug Esty lead us in a sing-a-long

Singing in a group can be a mystical connecting experience. Please make  plans to experience it!

About Our Presenter:  Julie Thompson has opened for The Kingston Trio, sung in the back-up chorus for the rock group Foreigner, and has appeared on CMN and TNN in TJ Booker’s music video Wine into Water. 

Besides publishing songs, she is an internationally published author (Charlesbridge Publishing) and narrator of several children’s books.  Having studied voice in high school and college in her native state of Maine, Julie's classical training is her foundation for her folk and jazz work.   

Ten years on the road with Brownie Macintosh (founding the touring act "Julie & Brownie") brought her to nearly every library, Recreation department, school, festival and fair in New England and parts of the East Coast.   Currently residing and performing in the Midwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she enjoys regularly scheduled performances there, as well as frequent sojourns to New England and Florida for special events.  For more information on Julie visit https://julievoice.com/home

To Register complete the online form below. 

Or by Mail: (In Person only)

Send a check for $50.00 made payable to "ARE Volunteer Affiliates" and send it to

Sally Yakel • 2918 Brookridge Ct N • Waukesha, WI  53188

For mailing questions, contact Sally at:  262-442-5834  or  [email protected]

Please include your name, the title of this program, and a way to contact you. (Email preferred)

If registering for more than one person, include all names.