Meet your Facilitator
Simone Jenifer, M.A.
Certified Sound Healer, Instructional Designer, Educator
Simone Jenifer, M.A.
Certified Sound Healer, Instructional Designer, Educator
Singing Bowls & Mindfulness
Workshops introducing Everyday Mindfulness to professional teams and departments, singing bowl training, and sound baths.
Immersive sound experience for individuals and groups, that is designed to lessen tension and introduce clarity.
Sessions usually last about 60 minutes, and virtual sessions between 15 and 60 minutes.
These are sound bath sessions designed to produce a meditative state in participants.
Singing bowls are played in a note-sequence, volume, and tempo that is conducive to deepest relaxation.
Simone Jenifer was born in the British Virgin Islands. As a child her family traveled throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America visiting family, and sampling the various cultures. They eventually moved to the United States. SimoneJenifer moved to the mid-Atlantic for school, and eventually settled there after intermittent travel around the States.
She began playing Tibetan Singing Bowls over two decades ago. In those early years she taught others to play singing bowls to enhance their own meditative practice. She began facilitating sound bath meditations over six years ago. She holds degrees in Corporate Communications and Integrated Design, and is currently studying Speech-Language Pathology. She has earned professional certifications in instructional design, digital accessibility for education, the neuroscience of learning, sound healing, and others. Between sound sessions, academics, and community engagement, she studies American Sign language, and is working on a certification in working with deaf individuals in clinical settings.
Teaching at the undergrad and graduate level, and developing professional development workshops for faculty, staff, and administrators.
Learned spinning and percussive technique for meditation over two decades ago at A People United in Maryland. Taught others to incorporate hand-held bowls in their personal meditation practice.
Skilled in curriculum development, research, design, and assessment. Over a decade of experience in creating course content, multimedia, and evaluations. A talented trainer of adult learners at all levels, from novice to expert.
Simply put, mindfulness is being aware of the present moment.
Often while our bodies exist in the present, our minds are ruminating on past events or contemplating things that occur in the future. It is rare that both mind and body are present together. Mindfulness means making the effort to be present in mind and body.
Why is this a big deal? Anxiety, rumination, and judgment can have detrimental effects on the body. Increasing stress, which increases the associated hormones and neurotransmitters. This may increase heart rate, blood pressure, and tension on blood vessels. This can be detrimental to mental and physical health, if it's a constant state. We are oversimplifying it here, but there is extensive research that outlines the science of this claim.
What does mindfulness do? Making time for mindful breaks during the day has multiple benefits. It helps to build a practice that can become routine, resets and clears the mind, lessening mental fatigue, , and alleviates stress and allows greater opportunities for insight.
Samples & Examples
Breathe out slowly, releasing all the air from your lungs. Breathe in through your nose as you slowly count to four in your head. ... Hold your breath for a count of four. Exhale for another count of four. Hold your breath again for a count of four. Repeat for three to four rounds.
Savor the food you eat. Notice the texture, flavor, and the way it breaks down as you chew. Swallow and pause before taking the next bite.
Count your steps as you walk a familiar route. Notice the different count from day-to-day
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