The Musical Body: Vitalizer

THE ISON METHOD
“In 1980 I was in a serious car accident. Left unable to walk, I drew upon my experience as a musician and energy practitioner to explore how I could use breath, meditation, and sound to heal myself. To my doctor’s amazement, I quickly made a full recovery. Wanting to share my experience with others, I refined what I had discovered and created a new kind of music, and I also developed a new way of using music, which I call The Ison Method™.

Interested in my work, The National Institutes of Health funded a three-year study that demonstrated my music’s ability to elicit ’the relaxation response.’ Since that time the NIH has used this music with more than half a million of their patients with great results.” —David Ison

THE MUSICAL BODY: VITALIZER—EXPERIENCE YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF
This transformational music uses The Ison Method™ to align your mind, body, and spirit with the Universal Life Force, the boundless, life-giving energy that surrounds us all. As you listen, cascading waves of subtle energy descend from the crown of your head to the base of your spine.
Like flowers blooming, each chakra awakens, leading you on a journey of discovery and inspiration, and opening the doorway to your truest, Essential Self.

How to use The Musical Body: Vitalizer
The Musical Body: Vitalizer utilizes transformational music, breath, and meditation techniques to create a state of deep, grounded receptivity and to awaken your Essential Self.

This CD contains two programs. In the first, you will hear a spoken overview of The IsonMethod™ and a brief introduction to the Essential Self and the essence of Universal Life Energy. Then, before each musical segment, there is a short, spoken introduction that explains how that piece of music relates to a different aspect of consciousness. Following each introduction is music composed to resonate with that chakra, or energy center. As we move down the ladder of consciousness, from the crown to the root chakra, your breath will entrain to the music’s rising and falling chords, creating a state of deep relaxation. The combination of relaxation and chakra awakening will enliven your entire energetic system, allowing you to receive Universal Life Energy and creating an opening for your Essential Self to come forward.

The second program provides just the music for an uninterrupted journey through your energetic body. The musical section for each chakra segues to the next using carefully crafted “harmonic modulation” specially designed for this recording. Listen to the overview and spoken chakra introductions as many times as needed to familiarize yourself with The Ison Method™, and consult the chart included on the back of this CD to understand where the chakras are located in your body.

David Ison
A musician, composer, recording artist, and teacher for more than 30 years, David Ison’s music has been used by hospitals, healthcare practitioners, and individuals worldwide. His music has been played for patients in such esteemed health centers as Bethesda Naval Hospital, Scripps Center of Integrative Medicine, and Children’s Hospital in San Diego. A three-year study by the National Institutes of Health found that Ison’s music effectively induces the relaxation response, and relieves many symptoms of anxiety and stress.

The Ison Method™ resulted from David Ison’s own healing experience after a serious car accident left him unable to walk. Not wanting to rely on surgery and medication, he drew upon his expertise as a musician, longtime meditator, and an energy practitioner to explore how sound, breath, and meditation could help him heal, and eventually enjoyed a full recovery. Along the way he learned powerful lessons about how to tap into his own life force energy, sometimes referred to as qi or prana, to facilitate healing on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. He later refined these techniques into a unique program of transformational healing music with special meditation, breathing, and listening techniques that can help anyone connect to their own wellspring of healing potential and unlock the life-force within.

David continues to explore the effectiveness of sound and music, creating new compositions with his longtime collaborator Paul Wegmann. David regularly lectures and conducts training workshops on The Ison Method™ at conferences and medical centers around the country.