Christine Tulis is a harpist, singer, award-winning composer, and multi-modality healing artist. Her music is inspired by a deep love of the healing qualities of the harp and its archetypal role as a link between heaven and earth. She is devoted to creating musical experiences that open inner gateways and support spiritual awakening. Christine began playing the harp after a life changing inner experience the first time she heard the instrument live.
She has played internationally including two United Nations events, Chartres Cathedral, France, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, as well as numerous sacred spaces in the U.S. and Canada. Her music has been featured on television and radio and is played in healing centers across the nation. She has musically contributed to the work of fellow leaders in the fields of spirituality and consciousness such as Caroline Myss, Andrew Harvey, yogini Shiva Rea, Kirtan artist Dave Stringer and sacred music artists Snatam Kaur and Guru Ganesha Singh.
In addition to her musical pursuits, Christine is an extraordinary healing arts practitioner who combines massage therapy, energy and sound healing, harp and holy oils. To learn more about this aspect of her work please see the Healing Sessions page.
The harp has been used throughout the centuries to facilitate healing, access spiritual vision and travel inwardly to celestial realms. Christine is one of the finest contemporary artists continuing this ancient, sacred lineage.
Christine has produced two CD's enjoyed internationally for their heart opening effects. Her songs feature spiritually uplifting lyrics originating from her inner experiences or inspired by the poetry of Rumi and other mystic saints.
She has forged a musical partnership with multi-percussionist Kem Stone based on a mutual love of sacred music. Kem is a composer, recording artist and musical yogi who creates soundscapes for the soul using a variety of exotic world instruments.
Christine's debut CD, PORTAL, created with Kem, won the Moondance International Film Festival Gaia Award for Spiritual Music. This award is presented to those who seek to elucidate and improve the spiritual quality of all life on the planet and contribute to the betterment of the world spirit.
She is also a Veriditas trained Labyrinth facilitator. Walking the Labyrinth is a contemplative practice held sacred by numerous cultures east and west. A walking meditation, it is an opportunity to let go, listen deeply and traverse your inner landscape.
Christine is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the founder of Sound Temple Music and Healing Arts through which she creates sacred music events, produces CD's and offers healing sessions, workshops and retreats.
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Offerings from Sound Temple Music and Healing Arts:
Sound Temple:
Sound Temples feature the music of Christine Tulis and Kem Stone in a
seamless flow of composed and improvised music that sparkles with
shimmering delicacy. Blending Celtic harp, Christine's crystalline voice,
keyboard and Kem's world percussion mastery this music will take you on a
journey to the sacred realms within.
A Sound Temple offers an opportunity to rest, meditate and be in sacred
time and space. Inspired by the mystic poet Rumi, St. Teresa of Avila and her personal experiences with the sacred, Christine is a celestial muse creating a doorway to the remembrance of our Divine origins.
Benefits of a Sound Temple.......
* Supports contemplative states of being.
* Fosters peace and spiritual awakening.
* Inspires the heart to feel the Divine moving through us and our lives.
* Creates a vibrational container for healing and visioning.
Healing Temple Day for Women:
A healing session of your choice for you and two friends in the comfort of your own home. Deep nourishment for body, heart, mind and soul. Let go into total peace through touch, holy oils, celestial harp and sound.
Luxuriate in your personal private sanctuary and recharge your core energy.
Rates by location and type of session.
For more information and to book a date please contact Christine at 303-304-0837 or
christine@christinetulis.com
Labyrinth Walks:
The Labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path. The Labyrinth represents a journey to our own center and back again out into the world. Labyrinths have long been used as tools for prayer, meditation and healing.
A labyrinth is an archetype with which we can have a direct experience. It's spiraling, winding path is a metaphor for our journey through life. It is a symbol that creates a sacred space and connects us to our inner landscape. Accompanied by Christine's contemplative harp music these walks are meditative opportunities to commune with the sacred Presence within. Some walks include Kem Stralka playing keyboard and percussion.
Please see Calendar for all upcoming events.
CD's:
Sea of Dreams: The mystic verses of Rumi and St. Teresa of Avila set to music along with songs featuring Christine's original lyrics celebrating the Divine.
Portal: Winner of the 2008 Gaia Award for Spiritual Music from the Moondance International Film Festival. Instrumental music for the healing arts, yoga and contemplation. Features Celtic harp, piano, keyboard, cello, crystal bowls and atmospheric vocals. Co-produced by Kem Stralka.
Please see Music and Buy CD's & Sessions pages for more info about CD's and to hear music clips.
Healing Sessions: Please see Healing Sessions page for more information.
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Biography:
Beginnings:
Raised in the rolling hills of Massachusetts, Christine was greatly influenced by the gentle beauty of its landscape, revolutionary history and the spiritual and artistic cultures she encountered in Western MA, the Berkshire hills, Northampton and the Cambridge area.
Her childhood days spent by the ocean in Gloucester, a coastal town north of Boston, inspired a lifelong connection to the deep, mystical aspects of the sea and its relationship to the inner realms. She feels a kinship with mermaids, mythical beings, saints, spiritual practices and world mythologies which inspire us to create our lives as works of art and beauty grounded in love and service.
She moved to the redwood-forested coast of northern California in 1986 and found there and through her travels, the golden threads her life was destined to be woven from - the harp, the healing arts and the awareness of Soul as our core essence.
She discovered the Celtic harp at a healer's gathering held at Trillium Farm in southern Oregon during the Summer of 1987, over the Harmonic Convergence weekend. She was profoundly moved by seeing and hearing the harp for the first time. The purity of the sound drew her into a deep state of contemplation through which came a recognition of the harp as a major part of her life's work. She had an inner experience of Divine Light and Sound and felt called to play the harp as a means of helping others access the Divine Presence in their own hearts. This one event stands out as the turning point of a lifetime.
A few months later she discovered the ecstatic poetry of Rumi, 13th century mystic, while at a gathering one snowy night in the mountains of Taos, New Mexico, and again felt a deep sense of recognition and purpose. She realized another piece of her life's work was to perform and sing Rumi's sacred text with original music on the harp.
During her time living in California she also discovered massage therapy and energy work and was propelled into a life devoted to the healing and contemplative arts.
More gifts:
In 2000 she was introduced to the Labyrinth and found yet another setting to play music in which facilitated people's cultivation of their connection to the Divine. She developed a beautiful partnership with the Labyrinth Guild of New England in which she played for monthly Labyrinth walks and accompanied them on pilgrimage to France in 2003 to play for walks at Chartres Cathedral.
Delving into collaborative musical co-creation, Christine was the creative director of Bluegate, a healing music ensemble, composed of violist/vocalist/sound healer Michelle Herrera Foster, guitarist/composer Benyamin Sheppard and percussionist/keyboardist/vocalist Kem Stone from 2002-2004.
In October of 2004 Bluegate was invited to play with an international group of musicians at the United Nations in New York as part of a Concert for Peace. Christine had previously played for the U.N. sponsored "Symposium on the Unity and Diversity of the World's Religions" which took place in Los Angeles in 1995.
Her passion for sharing her music has led her to play all over the United States, Canada and France in churches, temples, cathedrals, chapels, performing arts centers, theaters, yoga studios, healing centers, hospitals, universities, museums, sacred groves and mountaintops.
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Teachers and Influences:
The stars, moon, earth and sun, sound and silence, the delicate beauty of flowers, acts of kindness I've witnessed, received or given. Many people have touched my heart and informed my spirit. The following have been major influences. Kim Robertson (Celtic harpist extraordinaire), Christina Tourin (Harpist and pioneer in the field of harp and healing. Founder of the International Harp Therapy Program - also introduced me to the Labyrinth and the work of Kay Gardner), Loreena McKennitt (Singer, harpist, composer and head of her own internationally renowned record label, Quinlan Road), Kay Gardner (1940-2002, Sound healer, composer, musician, teacher - supported me to start my first sound healing circle in the Boston area in 2001). Sarah Saruah Benson (1935-2007, Pioneering Sound Healer and Musician), Douglas Brady (1952-2012, Psycho-Somatic Counselor, Healer), Andrew Harvey (mystical scholar, Rumi translator, poet, author, spiritual teacher and architect of Sacred Activism), Coleman Barks (Author, poet, translator and champion of the poetry of Rumi). Rumi, Shams, Wah Z, the many saints, mystics and lovers of God throughout the ages and current times who point the way.
Please contact Christine at 303-304-0837 or christine@christinetulis.com for more information about any of her offerings.
~ Celebrating the Sacred through Music and the Healing Arts.