Santa Ratna Shakya

Santa Ratna Shakya is few of singing bowl players of his generation. He learned playing singing bowl from his father Mr. Kul Ratna Shakya in 1986. In 1989, he won an award in Pakistan during South-Asian Handicraft competition. He made several tours to Europe, Asia and the United States after his performance with singing bowls and cymbals at Scotland and England in the 2000 Millennium Year Festival.

Tours

• The Path: 19 May - 4 June, 2000. Glen Lyon Mountain, Scotland. Recorded Live.

• Sound of Silence: 24 May, 2003. DBS Arts Centre, Singapore.

• The Hidden Garden: 21-23 June, 2003. Glasgow, Scotland.

• Singing Bowl Meditation Concert: 28 June, 2003. London, England.

• Klangschalen-Konzerte: September, 2003. Several concerts in Sent Otto Church in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

• Singing Bowl Meditation Sound: October, 2003. Kunthaus and My Red Home in Bregenz, Austria.

• Singing Bowl and Meditation Concert: 5 - 8 October, 2003. Karmaling

• Monastery in Paris and Dezone, France.

• Singing Bowl Concert: October 2003. Barcelona and Mallorca, Spain

• Singing Bowl Concert for Yoga. November 2003. Milan, Italy.

• Klangschalen-Konzerte: March 2003. Munich and Herzogenaurach, Germany.

• Holistic Living Festival: 16 October, 2004. Fort Canning Park, Singapore.

• Singing Bowl Concert for UNISEF: July, 2005. Mallorca, Spain.

• Singing Bowl Concert - Image de Nepal: November, 2005. Barcelona, Spain.

• Meditation Sound with Singing Bowl. November, 2005. Tow Choew Building, Singapore.

• Singing Bowl Concert for Therapy and Massage: 27 - 29 May, 2006. Fort Canning Park, Singapore.

• Singing Bowl Concert: September, 2006. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Audio CDs

• 1998 Dhyana Aman: Studio Recording in Kathmandu, Nepal

• 2000 The Path:         Live on Glen Lyon Mountain, Scotland

• 2001 Clear Light:      Studio Recording in Boudha Stupa, Nepal

• 2002 Open Mind:     OPS Studio Recording in Kathmandu, Nepal

• 2003 Bhougolic Awaz (Sounds of Element): Studio Recording in Germany

• 2004 Dhyana (For Yoga and Chigong):      Studio Recording in Germany and Nepal.

• 2005 Vision of Third Eye (Special for Chakras): Studio Recording in Boudha Stupa, Nepal.

Shree Krishna Shahi

Shree Krishna Shahi was the first person in the Kathmandu valley of  Nepal to work with singing bowls. He learned about singing bowls from his adopted Tibetan grandfather, a Lama who came to Nepal for several years during the early 80s.

Shree's first encounter with Tashi Lama occurred in 1981. The elder monk spent his winters at Swoyambhu Stupa, where he rested for several months before returning to Tibet. At the time of they first met, Tashi Lama was carrying five Tibetan Singing Bowls. He showed Shree the bowls and taught him how to play, meditate and relax with them. Shree was fascinated and bought the bowls, and practiced with them.

The Lama was and expert at treating typical body ailments such as backache, headache, muscular and knee problems, etc. He recognized Shree's talent and adopted him as his grandson, teaching him all he knew about the bowls. Over the winters, Shree learned the Traditional secrets of Singing Bowl Therapy & Sound Healing from him.

Through his sound studies, Shree began to understand the interconnections of the chakras, planets, metals, colors and tones. He learned how to arrange the singing bowls on the body and to use tingshaw (Tibetan high pitched cymbals) with them. The Lama taught Shree how to work with sets of four and seven singing bowls as CHAKRA meditation, tuning and balancing SETS.

Teaching Singing Bowl Therapy & Sound Healing has been Shree's work for more than 20 years. He has taught worldwide and with Santa Ratna Shakya has formed Tibetan Singing Bowl centers in Germany, U.S.A., Kathmandu, and other countries in Asia.  Peter Hess and Hans de Back are both Shree's former students.

Since his first encounter with his grandfather in 1981, Shree has been dedicating to Tibetan Singing Bowls - touring, teaching, giving sound therapy, and performing concerts. He believes that the sound of Tibetan Singing Bowls is the best determined by the feeling and ear of the player rather than by electronic devices. He offers Meditation and Relaxation massages, and teaches his own method of Tibetan Singing Bowls to students throughout the world.