Transformations

Join acclaimed vibraphonist Chris Dingman, whose work was described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing”, for Transformations, a free online program featuring Chris’s exquisite sounds.

Chris plays the vibraphone - a unique and beautiful instrument - in a singular, virtuosic way using the waves and layers of sound along with his voice, guiding a journey that is unique and attuned to each session and group.

These evocative soundscapes tend to bring listeners into heightened meditative states where healing, connection, visions, and inspiration can occur. It’s a form of sound healing unlike any other - a trance-channeled vibraphone and vocal music journey.

The session includes an optional journal prompt from creative writing specialist and co-host Dr. Debra Bronkema. It’s a gentle yet powerful combination of modalities that opens up self-exploration in often unexpected ways and enables transformation to take place at the soul level.

After the journey, there is optional time and space for processing and integrating the experience through community sharing. Debbie and Chris hold the space gently and kindly.

Transformations takes place twice per month, free of charge for participants.

Join us and see what it’s all about!

Session breakdown

• Sessions are free and take place on Zoom
• After a welcome, brief check-in via chat - Chris Dingman prompts the group to share a few words in the chat, creating a dialogue with the music
• Writing prompt: Debbie Bronkema shares an optional prompt for journal exploration
• 45-min vibraphone + voice journey - feel free to listen, journal, move, create, or anything you feel drawn to do (just be sure to stay muted to keep the sounds clear for all)
• Optional sharing and integration: after the music, we hold space for about 15 minutes after the hour, for participants to share or hear about the experience in a safe and supportive community setting

Things to know

• You can participate with video on or off
• Headphones or speaker recommended, laptop speakers are usually ok too
• Believe it or not, the music/sound is still quite impactful on Zoom - to get a sense, check out what others have said about their experiences, below

Here’s what participants have shared about their Transformations experiences:

“I’ve had a lot of different amazing experiences journeying with Chris(’s music), but I would say the constant theme is beauty, and love, and hope… and this sense of universal support on a very deep level. That’s what really comes through his music, and it’s what really comes through his spirit as well."
- A.

“I’ve been attending transformations for 2 years and look forward to these bi-monthly meetings. Chris’s amazing talents and music always gives me exactly what I need. It brings me great, peace, harmony, and balance. I am very grateful to Chris and Debbie.”
- K.

“I find there to be immense somatic benefit from your work. I benefit on numerous levels. As a therapist, I help hold the stories of wounded people. Your music creates a space for me to process these stories and emotions. It also helps me somatically interact with my own soul and psyche. Some of the healing that is generated is difficult to describe in words, but the felt sense of movement is but subtle and profound. You get at things that cannot be gotten to via language.”
- Paula

“Transformations has helped provide Peace in my mind, body and soul! The love that comes from Transformations has been a welcome warmth on this journey through life. For me, the music seems to suspend time, allowing my body and mind to BE present and represent me.”
- Michael

“I look forward to each session of Transformations! Chris Dingman has a gentle and unique way of tuning into the emotional needs of each participant while at the same time activating our listening skills and healing capacities. Multi-modal healing, a meditative hour at noontime and the elevation of consciousness through beautiful music – what more could any seeker hope for?”
- Monique

“Chris Dingman’s “Transformations” programs have become a highlight of my month, a place of respite from the everyday with a dose of gentle, healing sound. An hour passes…and I feel renewed, positive, refreshed. It amazes me how soothing it is to spend time with this music.”
- Will

“An hour of healing that transports with inspiration that transforms… I always emerge from the hour knowing I am calmer; solutions present themselves with clarity and effortlessness; a peacefulness settles in that carries through the day. An hour that is generous and open to all, but allows us to make it our own and create peace in body, mind and soul”
- Cheryl

“Time stops when Chris begins to play and stress converts to a wonderful energy to pay forward with the world.”
- Mary Beth

“Chris’s transformation series is aptly named! It is truly something to experience and I found it to be immediately energizing and healing on a physical, emotional and spiritual level.”
- Helen

About Chris Dingman

An acclaimed musician of many genres, Chris Dingman has been performing on the vibraphone for 25+ years, including with celebrated masters Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and many others. He brings together this background with a host of studies and influences from around the world, in service of taking listeners on a journey to a transcendent place.

Working in the fields of jazz, experimental, and world music for decades, Chris’s trajectory changed when, in 2018, his father entered hospice. Chris played and recorded meditative music as an act of care for him in his final months of life. This music became the 5-hour extended album Peace.

Since then, Chris has brought his special brand of healing music journeys far and wide, from live sessions at Omega Institute and The Rubin Museum of Art to his regular online series Transformations and Transformations for Grief, his work with the Psychedelic Sangha, music for mediumship, and much more. His critically acclaimed albums Journeys vol. 1 and vol. 2, are described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing,” and by Jazz at Lincoln Center as “absolutely beautiful.”

Chris has presented talks and performances at the Gold Foundation Conference on Humanism in Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC), the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA), and written for the Johns Hopkins Medicine blog. He has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.

More at chrisdingman.com