Hashish has lengthy been related to heightened sensory notion. It’s no secret that being excessive could make music sound richer and extra profound, opening new portals for listeners and enabling them to expertise deeper emotional connections that may be therapeutic for the thoughts, physique and soul.
Musicians and sound healers Seth Misterka and Jenny Deveau are passionate in regards to the plant and its potentialities to strengthen the sound therapeutic expertise. “Hashish is an ideal complement for sound baths,” Misterka says. “Because it enhances your senses and your sense of leisure, it’s excellent to expertise this audio, inside journey form of expertise that you’ve got throughout a sound tub.”
Deveau and Misterka are the inventive couple behind Dynasty Electrik, a music and sound therapeutic duo that mixes historical knowledge with their respective musical expertise. They describe it as a bridge between the traditional custom of sound therapeutic and modern artistry mixed with nature’s therapeutic vegetation. The distinctive sound encourages listeners to replicate deeply, guiding them on a private journey of progress and rejuvenation.
Misterka says that the duo’s discovery of mixing hashish and sound therapeutic was pure. “We had been already utilizing hashish for its enjoyable and spiritually uplifting qualities earlier than we began training sound therapeutic,” he says. “Hashish is medication and sound is medication, so collectively they’ll actually amplify one another. The enjoyable and sensory enhancing results of hashish are an exquisite complement to a sound therapeutic journey.”
The couple met at an opportunity encounter in a New York bar within the early 2000s and developed into an digital musical act. Nevertheless, in 2012, their path took an sudden and transformative flip to sound therapeutic, an historical custom that makes use of the precept that particular sound frequencies can carry our our bodies again into concord. They started working with Lisa Ishvara Murphy, an power medication healer based mostly in Fairhaven, MA.
“Sound therapeutic is a significant a part of her observe,” Misterka says. “We started working and finding out along with her after seeing the superb outcomes she was getting when working with folks with supposedly “incurable” circumstances.” Murphy despatched them to the small, artsy mountain city of Brevard, NC. There, they “ived in somewhat cabin within the woods for six months. They spent their days making music and visiting waterfalls whereas finding out power and sound therapeutic medicines. They discovered to play the singing bowls, historical devices used for therapeutic and transformation.
“It was such a magical and great time,” Misterka recollects.
With a need to carry onto that magic and share it with others, Misterka and Deveau dove deeper into shamanic sound therapeutic, opening profound dimensions that enriched their artistry as musicians and guides. They determined to go west and opened their first sanctuary, Mile Excessive Retreat, in Southern California in 2018.
“We wished a spot the place we may retreat into nature and have that peace and serenity to discover our creativity, sound therapeutic and power therapeutic,” Misterka says.
Throughout their time in California, Dynasty Electrik was additionally the resident sound healer on the famend Mystic Journey Crystal Gallery in Venice, CA, the place they hosted many celebrities and huge corporations throughout these sound baths, together with Usher, Snapchat and Marvel Studios. “Each week, we cultivated an incredible neighborhood, which offered out for 2 and a half years,” Deveau says. “We did a variety of collaborations, significantly with CBD corporations. CBD is a good medication in its personal proper, particularly for those who don’t like the results of THC.”
Misterka and Deveau then relocated to a distant seaside city in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2022 they established Seal Harbour Sanctuary, a sound therapeutic retreat heart on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. In response to Misterka, the area has lengthy held a magnetism for them. “Lisa Ishvara Murphy had a spot in Nova Scotia and all the time talked fondly of the magical high quality up right here,” he says. “And Jenny’s great-grandfather is from Nova Scotia, so it all the time held a spot in our creativeness. It’s a chance to dwell right here on the ocean, exploring form of our ancestral roots in a panorama of magic and thriller.”
Seal Harbour Sanctuary hosts three-day immersive boutique retreats which indulge within the profound connection between your self, the Earth and the cosmos throughout the serenity of a surprising pure setting. It’s a sacred area the place shared energies allow company to transcend beliefs, patterns and fears. “Hashish is totally authorized in all places in Canada, which creates an much more tolerant atmosphere than within the US—Nova Scotia is especially hashish pleasant,” Misterka says. “And Seal Harbour Retreat is a protected area to take pleasure in hashish in all its types.” Nonetheless producing music alongside their in-person sound baths, in August 2023, Dynasty Elektrik launched a brand new, mesmerizing sound-healing album referred to as Journey to Tranquility. The album’s 12 tracks provide a charming fusion of cosmic frequencies, binaural beats and ethereal vocals, guiding listeners to a serene haven of leisure and meditation as they soften into their our bodies and faucet into that mind-body connection.
