Powerfully Playful Poetic Performances
Bernie's Recess for the Soul performances are funny,
profound, interactive and deeply compelling. His surprisingly
original
story/poems describing imaginary playground games, equipment
and players, provide meditative, contemplative, mind- and soul-expanding
entertainment.
Recess for the Soul teaches you a playful, creative
relaxation technique
that helps bring together all the various aspects
of your personality, to explore and expand your consciousness,
to exercise your playfulness and imagination.
Book a performance: contact Bernie directly.
Recordings:
- Listen here to
selections from the first public performance of Recess for
the Soul.
- Here to
a performance of some of the material from Playgrounds
for the Soul.
- Here are a few shorter excerpts that were also published as
a FunCast:
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CDs
Buy Bernie's spoken-word CD with uniquely
playful, healing exercises for making the heart whole.
Mastered and edited by Emmy Award-winning musician
and composer, Daoud
Shaw
With personalized, autographed instructions
Or from:
Amazon.com
CDBaby
New-Leaf Distrubutors
Now available from iTunes
Sample tracks from the CD:
"The CD is clever and charming, with a light touch of humor
and irony, a brilliant little set-piece that has the ability to
just
slightly alter your perception and make you offkilter enough to
look at how you get through your day, and how you interact with
what psychologists increasingly recognize as multiple selves in
everyone, neurotic or not." - Download
PDF. (Reprinted from the
February/March AHP Perspective magazine, published by the Association
for Humanistic
Psychology, ahpweb.org).
"...a
tool of incomparable effectiveness whether for personal growth
or in process with others " - Jay
Beckwith
"...an approach to mind-expansion through the imagery of
childhood play " - Dr. Adam Blatner
"...completely original and quite profound" - Matt
Weinstein
"...a remarkable vehicle for self healing." - Dr.
Jeanne Segal
"I really liked it, Bernie. Very zen. Thought provoking AND
un-thought provoking. Like a straigtforward lesson in insight meditation." -
Howard Rheingold "...although his pretending exercises may be disguised
as "play" I recognize Bernie's role as a compassionate
healer." - Phylameana lila Desy
"My inner playground was getting pretty interesting when
I realized that gravity, scale, color and sound -- --and whatever
else -- could be controlled by me in an instant." - Bob
Gregson, artist
"Bernie DeKoven’s Recess for the Soul is
an amazing feat of consciousness - a gift of deep playfulness,
joy and lightheartedness. Learning to meditate and contemplate
in Bernie's Inner Playground leads listeners to expansions and
expansions of awareness. Learning new games to play with one's
Inner Players reveals a path to inner peace and psychological health.” - Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
"This is a CD written and spoken by Bernie.
It isn’t
a novel, though Bernie’s voice makes it feel at times like
you are listening to an Audio book. It isn’t quite inspirational,
though it gives you much to think about. It isn’t quite comedy,
but I found myself laughing out loud more than once. While it isn’t
any of those things exactly, it is some of each of them. Listening
to this 40 minute CD will help you think about how you can use your
beautiful brain to be
more reflective and playful.
It includes thought provoking commentary and real-life fun exercises
that you can do to make your mind a place you want to spend more
time with. The production values are fantastic and I promise
you won’t
find another product quite like this anywhere." - Kevin
Eikenberry
Even if the listener is unable to find the state of mind to meditate,
the exercises are, on the surface, entertaining and very funny
- yet invite relaxation and self-exploration. Recess for the
Soul is very mindfully composed and artfully presented. -
Katherine Morales, cyclist |
