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Three Bridges to Wholeness: A Heart/Mind/Body Approach to Spirituality

Three Bridges to Wholeness: A Heart/Mind/Body approach to Spirituality - A workshop with Danny Ellis

Using Meditation, Mindfulness and Sound, Danny will help you find integration and serenity within the sometimes conflicting aspects of our being. Behind the confusion and stress of everyday demands, the Heart of Hearts remains still in blissful awareness of it's own fullness. Learn the ancient tools to access your own innate wisdom and peace.

"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part." Nisargadatta.

Bio:
Music has been the main driving force in Danny Ellis' life almost since he was born. Born in a time and place where everyone sang, his mother would sing for the family every night by the fire before bedtime; "her voice so filled with emotion, that sometimes she'd almost scare us." Danny's songs are startlingly personal, exploring waters seldom plumbed by other writers and are gauged to "crack your heart wide open". His writing is tapestried with a rare emotional depth and acute understanding of human naturegarnered on an orphanage playground with 800 wild kids. "In that tough orphanage, every kind of personality, even the most guarded, revealed its secrets over time. Hopefully my writing holds some of the insights and healing that has blessed my own life. I write a lot about relationships because they are a metaphor for an indefinable inner journey, expressed in everyday terms. You might say I'm obsessed with trying to express the inexpressible, to touch the invisible."

Danny was born in the destitute but colorful slums of Dublin City. His family fell apart when he was eight after his father left to find work in America. His sisters and infant twin brothers were placed in separate orphanages and Danny was interred in Artane Industrial School, the most notoriously brutal of Irish orphanages. There he learned trombone in the school band which would launch him on a life-long career in music. The story of these early years make up the material for his award winning CD, "800 Voices" and his subsequent memoir which reached #2 in the non-fiction book charts in Ireland: "The Boy at the Gate".

Danny Ellis shows us how "... to find a more heartfelt perspective and a better appreciation for all that is possible in music." DAVID WILCOX