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Music is a Healing Art
"You are a being of Light, Love and Joy."
Rahel is a compassionate, insightful and sensitive musician who has been trained to play therapeutic music for healing and transition at bedside, in medical, clinical and hospice environments, and at memorials and funerals.
Rahel provides individually-tailored and appropriate repertoire that is holistic in intention and supports patient care and can also assist the patient's family, friends and health care team.
"LIVE" music at bedside eases pain, enhances the healing process, refreshes and renews, reduces blood pressure, relieves anxiety, stress and tension, helps to release and express emotions, provides companionship and a segue for grieving, aids the birthing process, provides time for contemplation, facilitates comfort and relaxation, nurtures mind, body and spirit, and facilitates the life-death transition.
** Rebbe Nachman on MUSIC
"Thank you for sharing your gifts with my sister. She was blessed to have you come into her life. You had such an enormous impact on her in helping her find how Judaism fit into her life. You filled a void in her life that no-one else could, not just as a teacher, but as a compassionate bearer of peace, comfort, faith, spirit and friendship. After your visits she was always happier and genuinely uplifted. She loved when you sang and she repeatedly played your CD. You were a significant help to her peace of mind. People like you are rare." (M, sister to A who succumbed to cancer)
Music is a Healing Art |
The Living Room Sessions |
Tikkun: Music of the Heart, Prayer of the Soul
Rahel's CD inspires health and wellness and enhances the healing process. Singing the psalms in their original Hebrew, Rahel affirms the wisdom of the sages who taught that the Hebrew letters, when spoken aloud as in prayer or song, lead to profound inner healing.
This 3-disc CD features a compelling and diverse collection of 21 beautiful songs and meditations inspired by and based on the ten psalms comprising the Tikkun HaKlali. Rahel takes the listener on a musical healing journey of heart, soul and revelation.
Instrumental arrangements by Aaron Tyne (Oud and Sitar) and Greg Reinauer (Fretless Bass).
"The music beckons, invites you to sit down, listen a while, let your thoughts float." - Phyllis Thomas, Nashua Telegraph
"The music is so beautiful, powerful at times, and awakening at others. It organically connects my mind/body to the experience and helps give myself permisson to move, breathe, fell in a very visceral way." - Stacey
"Rahel's music was new to me and I had to consciously set aside my old thinking and expectations to really listen. Now, I can't stop listening to it and thinking about it." - Peggy Woods
"Rahel brings a new twist to traditional Jewish philosophy and spiritual trends. Inspired lyrics in both Hebrew and English reach deeply into the Psalms and Mosaic wisdom for both poetry and enlightenment. - Ming Yuan, Spirit of Change
"I love it. It's the echo effect, the chanting and repeating of the same few lines in a sort of a round. It's hypnotic." - Kris Garnjost, Jam Music Magazine
This 3-disc CD features a compelling and diverse collection of 21 beautiful songs and meditations inspired by and based on the ten psalms comprising the Tikkun HaKlali. Rahel takes the listener on a musical healing journey of heart, soul and revelation.
Instrumental arrangements by Aaron Tyne (Oud and Sitar) and Greg Reinauer (Fretless Bass).
"The music beckons, invites you to sit down, listen a while, let your thoughts float." - Phyllis Thomas, Nashua Telegraph
"The music is so beautiful, powerful at times, and awakening at others. It organically connects my mind/body to the experience and helps give myself permisson to move, breathe, fell in a very visceral way." - Stacey
"Rahel's music was new to me and I had to consciously set aside my old thinking and expectations to really listen. Now, I can't stop listening to it and thinking about it." - Peggy Woods
"Rahel brings a new twist to traditional Jewish philosophy and spiritual trends. Inspired lyrics in both Hebrew and English reach deeply into the Psalms and Mosaic wisdom for both poetry and enlightenment. - Ming Yuan, Spirit of Change
"I love it. It's the echo effect, the chanting and repeating of the same few lines in a sort of a round. It's hypnotic." - Kris Garnjost, Jam Music Magazine
Time Passes By (Review by Victoria Arico)
I am not afraid when life turns me around, sings Rahel in Where I'm Bound, and that sentiment reflects the tone of this whole collection of songs. Many express a sense of wandering lost, yet there is an everpresent underlying courage and hope that the journey is purposeful and worthwhile despite the trials. The songs share a common spirit, as if Rahel was on the cusp of a sad ending and a hopeful new beginning. I can hear the empowerment of a woman starting over. I enjoyed the powerful harmonies and sparkling mandolin in Time Passes By and Hey Love. I liked the unusual strumming pattern Rahel used to punctuate the beat in Hey Love - wow, what a song of joy! Clearly Rahel is a woman of great faith, and she can cover many emotional bases through the language of music alone. Although I don't understand Hebrew, the beautiful chord progressions and quiet vocals in Babylon tenderly express hope rising out of sorrow. Rahel's singing style is like Suzanne Vega's in that she sounds like she's speaking in tones; there is no vibrato (except for the very first sound in Pierrot). I like the quiet softness of her singing in Pierrot (a lovely song) better than the hard-drivin' style vocals in Straight in the Eye, but on the other hand, I really love the hard-drivin' harmonies. Golden sun, rainbow colored skies surround you as you go. Move forward arms open wide, you've nothing to do but grow: That's Rahel's joyful philosophy of life, in 3/4 time from Whenever You're You. A gifted, soulful songwriter, she has a lot to say, and she says it well with this beautiful, diverse, collection of songs.
