Christine Tulis
Christine Tulis has a gift for creating music and healing sessions that open the heart and foster inner peace. Christine found her calling as a healing artist and contemplative harpist while living in northern California, and has spent the last 20 years following her muse.
Inspired by the beauty of the Celtic harp, she composes and performs original, sacred music intended to deepen the awareness of our Divine Essence. All of her vocal pieces feature spiritually uplifting lyrics originating from her own experiences or the poetry of Rumi, 13th century mystic saint.
She has performed in various settings all over the world including the United Nations in New York City and Chartres Cathedral, France. She has also performed at the International Symposium on Spirituality and Business, Babson College, Harvard University, Lesley University, Naropa University, and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
Among her many musical accomplishments, she was selected to perform with the stellar cast and musicians of the ground breaking rock opera "Magdalene, Woman of Light," which premiered in Denver, CO in October of 2008.
She has also played for the Evenings with Extraordinary People series featuring Caroline Myss, collaborated with yogini Shiva Rea as part of the E2 Evolutionary Edge Tour, performed with gifted Kirtan singer Dave Stringer. as well as at numerous churches, yoga studios, and healing centers.
She is also an award winning spiritual music composer and recording artist who received the prestigious Gaia Award at the Moondance International Film Festival for her CD "Portal."
In addition to her musical pursuits, Christine is an extraordinary healing arts practitioner who combines 10 different healing modalities. During the early years of her healing practice as a massage therapist she worked in Lenox, MA at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, two of the premier holistic healing centers in the U.S.
A Massachusetts native, she currently lives in Boulder, CO and is founder and director of Sound Temple Music and Healing Arts, her multi-faceted business and recording label.
A leader in her field pioneering powerful combinations of healing arts, music, and sacred performance, she delights in bringing her unique blend of offerings all over the world.
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Offerings:
Sound Temple:
Sound brings us into harmony with our essential nature. The purpose of the Sound Temple is to transform consciousness by immersing the listener in a sacred, devotional space created with Celtic harp, voice, and other sound healing instruments infused with the ecstatic poetry of Rumi.
Developed by harpist, singer, sacred musician and sound healer Christine Tulis, the Sound Temple is a pioneering new format for experiencing music and sacred verse as a healing art.
Sound Temples are a haven for the spirit. They create a doorway to an inner realm where Soul can remember Its luminous origins and be nourished at a level beyond words - the level of being.
Your imagination will be carried aloft by the exquisite spiritual imagery of Rumi's verse and Christine's original songs which express a deep love for the Divine. Crafted from a combination of composed and improvised music, Sound Temples are intended to bring forth deepened awareness of our sacred nature, and provide a means to strengthen that awareness so that it may positively impact our daily lives.
Christine is often joined by Kem Stralka and other outstanding musicians to create these profoundly beautiful events.
Please see Calendar for upcoming Sound Temples.
Labyrinth Walks:
Walking the Labyrinth is an ancient, 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. All walks are accompanied by live, Celtic harp.
Please see Calendar for upcoming Labyrinth walks.
CD's:
Sea of Dreams: Currently in production! The mystic verses of Rumi set to music along with original songs celebrating divine love.
Portal: Instrumental music for the healing arts, yoga and contemplation. Features Celtic harp, piano, keyboard, cello, cystal bowls and atmospheric vocals. Co-produced by Kem Stralka. Winner of the 2008 Gaia Award for Spiritual Music from the Moondance International Film Festival.
Circle of Trees: A guided journey through the elements with Eric Lindemer. Harp by Christine.
Please see Music and Purchase pages for more info about CD's and to hear music clips.
Healing Sessions:
Peace, well-being and deep relaxation are qualities that characterize Christine's sessions.
She combines the pure sound of the harp with Acutonics (a Sound Healing modality with roots in Acupuncture, Vibrational Medicine and Unified Field Theory using specially calibrated tuning forks), her voice and other instruments, Reiki and Bodywork (Swedish and Kripalu Massage, Deep-tissue Work, and Myofascial Release).
She masterfully blends these elements to serve the current needs of each individual she works with. Her work is contemplative, intuitive, transformational and profoundly relaxing. She is also highly adept at relieving pain. She also offers long distance Reiki sessions.
~ Harmonic Touch
Sound healing and energy work session. Deeply nourishing and restorative.
~ Sound Temple Bodywork
Profoundly relaxing and healing blend of massage, sound healing and energy work.
~ Long Distance Reiki
Gentle yet powerful energy healing sessions. Includes a phone consultation, scheduled relaxation time at home during energy work and follow up call to discuss results, insights and next steps.
Rates:
Private sessions in Boulder
1 Hour ~ $80
1.5 Hours ~ $120
2 Hours ~ $150
Wellness Series ~ Purchase 3, 4 or 5, 90 minute sessions and save!
$100 each session.
3 Sessions ~ $300 (save $60)
4 Sessions ~ $400 (save $80)
5 Sessions ~ $500 (save $100)
Long Distance Reiki
1 Hour ~ $80
Your session will be a unique creation and can focus on any aspect of your health from the physical to the spiritual. In a co-creative partnership with Christine you will be invited to bring forth an intention, the presence of divine love, the ultimate healer, is invited in and your session begins.
She has been a Certified Massage Therapist since 1989, is a Reiki Master Practitioner, a current member of the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals, a founding member of the New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI - now known as The Sound Healing Network), a current member of the Sound Healers Association and the Healing Music Organization.
She is a graduate of the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in Worcester, MA. She began her practice in 1989 and today continues sharing her gifts and expanding her studies in healing with sound, energy and touch.
She has spent a lifetime developing a deep, inner relationship with the Divine and sees all of life as a reflection of that relationship. Her contemplative practices have gifted her with a deep state of stillness which she is able to transmit directly to others through her touch and her music, opening their own portals of connection to their core essence.
Healing Session Testamonials:
"Christine is hands down the most extraordinary bodywork and sound healing practitioner I have worked with, and I have received years of multi-modality bodywork. There is no one that takes me to the still point in the way Christine does. She is a healing artist of rare caliber".
D.F. Musician
"One of her unique gifts is the humble yet powerful presence she generates. From this heart centered focus, she consistently crafts my treatment in the moment, each time with such refined attunement that it reaches the deepest vestiges of my deeply held stresses. They never escape under her care and where her hands and energy work don't reach, the sound healing forks and harp beautifully do".
C.E. Photographer
"I have come to rely on her sessions as a powerful healing tool which rounds out my self care. I am so fortunate to be able to work with her on a regular basis. She is a tremendous blessing to our community. Thank you Christine for your extraordinary work!"
C.B. Project Manager Biotech
"Christine's work has a spaciousness and depth to it. She creates a sense of reverence in her touch. I left the session feeling as if I had traveled to another plane of deep bliss and serene peace."
M.R. Acupuncturist
"I have been a professional in the healing arts since 1982. I came to see Christine for a recurring injury expecting perhaps some relief for what can take 12 weeks to heal. I came away after just one Acutonics session pain free and after 2 weeks I remain pain free."
A.M. Artist and Bodyworker
"Christine has a gift for creating a deep state of relaxation. Her work is profoundly meditative and left me feeling as if I'd received a sacred anointing."
L.M. Psychotherapist
Celtic Harp for Rites of Passage:
Christine is delighted to share the uplifting and healing qualities of the harp during the following times of celebration or deep opening and transformation. She has years of experience contributing to each of these passages and is happy to discuss how she can serve you and your loved ones.
~ Births
~ Weddings
~ Joyous Events
~ Illness (Healing at bedside)
~ Transition from Earth
Harp Lessons:
Cultivate your own relationship with this magical instrument. Christine loves to teach children and adults. You will learn how to develop your musicianship, play by ear/memory, note reading, improvisation and about the healing qualities of the harp. See links page for harp rental info.
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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. 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 the gifts of 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 Stralka 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, theatres, yoga studios, healing centers, hospitals, universities, museums, sacred groves and mountaintops.
She has been a guest artist on numerous radio shows, Toronto morning television and the popular New England TV news program, Chronicle.
Presently:
Christine resides along the majestic edge of the Rockies in Boulder, CO, a mermaid in the mountains.
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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 businesswoman who heads 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), Gail Byrnes (Sound healer, Acutonics teacher), Douglas Brady (Psycho-Somatic Counselor, Healer), Andrew Harvey (mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, 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, booking and rates.
~ Celebrating the Sacred through Music and the Healing Arts.