Sharon Carne
About Sharon Carne
Sharon Carne has transformed a successful 30-year career of teaching and performing the classical guitar to teaching others about how sound can help create wellness. She is asked to speak for numerous groups on the power of healing sound to reduce stress, create deeper meditations, ease emotional release, create focus and concentration and ease the symptoms of illness and disease.
Sharon has a Bachelor of Music, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and a Master of Fine Arts (Music) degree, University of Minnesota. She has been on faculty and branch faculty of The Conservatory, Mount Royal College for the past 20 years
Mount Royal College Guitar faculty recital
Sharon has performed throughout Alberta both as a soloist and as a chamber musician with Clarke and Carne, a flute and guitar duo. She has presented at the Guitar Foundation of America International Convention and Competition and at the Northwest Guitar Festival. She has adjudicated at music festivals throughout Alberta for the past fifteen years.
Since 2006, as her knowledge and experience in Sound Therapy has grown, Sharon has been asked to appear as guest speaker for many diverse groups including:
- the Integrative, Contemporary and Alternative Medicine Fair for first year medical students at the University of Calgary, 2007 and 2008
- the Manitoba Health Region, Sagkeeng Child and Family Services
- Calgary Health Region, Mental Health Division
- City of Calgary Wellness Fair
- Spontaneous Combustion Retreat
- Spiritual Solutions, Inc.
- Mount Royal College teambuilding session with Tibetan singing bowls.
- The Initiate School of the Rocky Mountains
- Health, Work, and Wellness Conference, Gatineau, Que.
Sharon’s interest in Sound Therapy began unexpectedly about fifteen years ago as a practical experiment to help nervous adult students develop confidence in performing. Unexpected results from these experiments demonstrated how thought was carried on the sound. This realization led to an intense curiosity and personal research and eventually led to sound healing training with two of the field’s pioneers, Jonathan Goldman and Tom Kenyon.
Sharon has recorded and produced two CDs in the Psychoacoustic genre, “Cool on my Skin” (2004) and “Transmutation, shed the negative” (2006).
Eagle at Mount Rose
At the same time as her stage fright experiments, her discovery of empathic ability led her along a more esoteric path. She read voraciously, including the works of Carl Jung, studied “A Course in Miracles”, became a reiki master, undertook shamanic training and courses on crystal healing. She also grew deeply connected to her spiritual essence. More recently, Sharon has begun training in Acutonics.
As a dedicated volunteer, Sharon has honed her organization, communication and people skills through the executive committees of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association, local and provincial, The Classical Guitar Society of Calgary, The Mount Royal College Branch Teachers’ Association and Music Coterie/Piano Workshop. In 2005, she was registrar for the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations National Convention in Calgary and in 1992 was chair of the Canadian National Guitar Competition in Calgary.