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Sharon Carne
About Sharon Carne
Sharon Carne’s passion for healing sound has its foundation in a successful 30-year career performing and teaching the classical guitar. The combination of her expertise in music and sound, spiritual transformation and her inner guidance has led Sharon to her soul work. In her workshops people learn how to dissolve stress and experience how sound heals. Her CDs offer support for those who are removing negativity and old patterns of thought and behaviour from their lives. She has studied with healing sound pioneers, Jonathan Goldman and Tom Kenyon and is a reiki master.
A Musical Journey Through Life with Sound as Your Companion
My love of the classical guitar and its music began in my teens while attending high school in Red Deer, Alberta. After a successful year and a half of lessons, this love was placed on the “back burner” as I went off to university and Teacher’s College in Ontario. It is interesting how your soul finds ways to steer you back to what you are really supposed to be doing. While teaching public school for four years in a small town in northern Ontario, I continued to pursue my musical interests by being active in the Village Choristers and earning the lead role in two musical theatre productions. A summer music course at Queen’s University in Ontario lit a fire in me and within two years was accepted into the Bachelor of Music program at Queen’s. My music education continued at the University of Minnesota, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in guitar performance.
Mount Royal College Guitar faculty recital
After graduation, I returned to Alberta and began teaching guitar and theory at Red Deer College. Marriage and a transfer took us to the United States for about three years. Upon returning to Calgary, I was asked to join the faculty of The Conservatory at Mount Royal College and rediscovered a passion for teaching children. For the past 20 years, my reputation has grown as one of Calgary’s most respected teachers of classical guitar for children. A special joy has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician in and around Calgary for recitals and a variety of events and being invited to several local, national and international conferences to speak about music theory and teaching music to children. For the past 12 years, I have been delighted to adjudicate young guitar students at music festivals around Alberta.
A Spiritual Journey of Adventure and Learning
Again, the soul has a way of steering you towards what you are really supposed to be doing.
My feet were set firmly upon a spiritual and mystical path with a near death experience I had at 10 months old. My mother didn’t tell me about this incident until I was an adult, but I finally understood how this subconscious memory of “home” has influenced and shaped my spiritual development all my life. I have always been drawn to esoteric literature, enjoying books about chakras, energy, astral travel, meditation, crystals, yoga, etc. Reading about these subjects always felt like a review, that I had always known these things. If my attention happened to wander from these subjects, invariably, a friend or acquaintance would show up with a book they thought I might be interested in.
Eagle at Mount Rose
When my children were young, I learned therapeutic touch to help them with their childhood illnesses. Later, this developed into taking classes in Reiki, studying “A Course in Miracles” and further honing my sensitivity to energy and healing. One day, while reading about, and exploring some chakra meditations, I ran across a meditation on how to find your animal spirit guide. This guide turned out to be a golden eagle. I was amazed, had no idea what to do next and promptly got involved back into “everyday” life. The eagle had other plans.
About a month later, I received the first of a series of visions. The eagle appeared in a tree in front of me, screeching at me, rather angrily, it seemed. As it flew off over my head, it dropped an egg, which I caught. It was large, heavy like a rock and a beautiful turquoise color. Holding the egg to my heart centre, it dissolved into me. Feeling it in every cell, I wrote down the vision and the date.
I was curious and, the next day, discovered that it took an average of 45 days for a golden eagle’s egg to hatch. On the 47th day after the vision, while walking my dog, a real golden eagle flew right over my head. It was January and golden eagles are supposed to migrate from Calgary for the winter. I was blown away. Spirit had transformed from something in my imagination to something very real. What a wake up call.
This event sparked a definite acceleration in my spiritual growth and development. I read voraciously, registered in a self-development program with the Institute for Contemporary Shamanic Studies and attended Brooke Medicine Eagle’s Wakantia.
As I connected more deeply with my own spirit, there were things I was beginning to notice about my performing. What I was thinking was transported on the sound waves of the music. This led to experimenting with sending out specific thoughts and feelings. My astonishment over how well these were mirrored back to me by my listeners led me to a whole new level of responsibility about what I choose to send out on the sound.
Clarke and Carne flute and guitar duo
Again, the soul has a way of steering you towards what you are really supposed to be doing.
A gift from my husband of a digital audio workstation and a file folder of Cindy Waites’ beautiful, spiritual poetry along with my growing interest in the power of sound to heal, birthed a CD of music to accompany Cindy’s poetry called “Cool on my Skin.” The music appeared so easily and quickly, I knew that it was coming through me, not from me. Sacred space was created in my studio within which to record and 12 quartz crystals were placed in a circle around the recording area to amplify the healing intentions added to the sound.
As my interest in healing sound grew, I registered in Jonathan Goldman’s Healing Sound Intensive in Colorado. The same day I registered for this course, a visitor appeared to me during a meditation. The most beautiful golden light appeared in my mind’s eye. As it drew closer to me this light turned into the most beautiful being I had ever seen. He/she sat down beside me and said, “I am Gabriel. I have come to help you with your next CD. It is to be called Transmutation and its intent is to transmute negative thought form energy.” I was amazed and deeply honored to be given this task.
For about a year after this meditation, lessons on negative energy just appeared in my life and helped me to form and hold the intentions to be sent out on the sound for this CD. “Transmutation” was recorded during the summer of 2006 and released in November. My interest in healing sound was further expanded by attending Tom Kenyon’s Sound Healers’ Training.
It is my understanding, at the moment, that “Cool on my Skin” and “Transmutation” are
the first two CDs in a set of three. The third is called “Windwalker” and,
if divine timing allows, will be recorded in 2007. It is thrilling to
be doing what I came here
to do.