Gong Baths of 2018 and News from The Gong Lab

2018 will be an exciting year for the Gong Lab as we redouble our focus on bringing the power of The Gong and the gong bath experience to as many people in our community as possible.

We are part of a global community of Gong Masters trained under Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux and are change-agents with goals no less lofty than the very transition of our species on its evolutionary path from Homo Sapiens to "Homo Luminous"!

In practical terms, this means that we will increase our availability and activity and do our best to be open to new events, collaborations, and one-on-one sessions like an open parent doing its best to never say 'no' when the motivation is born of curiosity and a desire to explore.

Use our contact info below to stay in touch or reach out to us with questions or ideas for future collaboration, bookings, or event calendars.

Follow us or message us on Facebook:
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Call Jim and leave a message for bookings and private sessions in Saratoga Springs:
[gv] 518 290 0271


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Event Notes, January and February 2018:

Lululemon Athletica, Gong Meditation; Albany, NY

Video below of Jim with the priceless "Walter" gong made by master gong maker Walter Meyer at the end of his life and long career.




We just finished an amazing early morning event at the Lulu Lemon Athletica in Albany at Crossgates. Some of the more self-identified purist seekers might protest that a retail 'store' may not be the best place for a meditation, but this was amazing! Special thanks to Adam Galarneau of Lululemon, Lisa O'brien from LifeYum, and Katie Colins Yoga for integrating us into this amazing event. It was an inspiration to empty the store and create such a unique space so quickly for more than 60 people participate in an experiment that was assuredly a sight-to-see for the friendly 'mall walkers' who stopped to peer through the windows of the shop! Thanks to Hayley from Saratoga Tea & Honey for sending us all on our way with gifts of her custom Gen Mai Chocolate.

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Latham Experimental Gong Bath; New Gongs in Latham, NY

Wow! Special thanks to Grammy nominated David Macejka for turning us on with 3 new gongs, including the massive Paiste Sound Creation and two vintage Paiste Symphonic gongs as well as 3 of the vintage Paiste circle stands made famous by Pink Floyd live at Pompeii.  These gongs are gorgeous and we are happy to have them join our ensemble. Our monthly experimental lab in Latham was their first appearance and we were so fortunate to be joined by fellow Gong Master Deb Segal of Segal Violins in Troy this special night.

Follow us on Facebook for details on our next Latham event.


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Private Gong Baths and Sound Healing Sessions are now available in Saratoga Springs in the Gong Cave at Bodyworks Professionals. 

I wrote about this last week in a post HERE and we have a had a great month of training and private sessions. Please call Jim for details or evening appointments at [gv] 518 290 0271 or email us at GongBrothers@gmail.com.

We are so excited for the Gongs to rest in this beautiful space:

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Coming Soon! Gong Baths at Hot Yoga Queensbury!

We are so glad to be coming back to our sessions at Hot Yoga Queensbury; Please follow us on Facebook for details (coming soon).

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New "Double Sessions" in Troy at Heartspace Yoga with Diane Simpson

We are excited to announce another pair of "Every Other 1st Saturday" events in Troy. To accommodate guests and keep the room from feeling crowded we will now be offering a 2nd sessions in Troy. Reservations are required through the Troy Heartspace MindBody and we are happy to announce the continued collaboration between the Gong Brothers and Diane Simpson with her collection of crystal bowls and her recent acquisition of our entire chakra gong collection. The look on her face says it all!

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Gong Brother Jim has returned to Saratoga full time!

I am excited to be back in town and eager to discussion questions and ideas. If you are a studio, event planner, or would like to propose cooperation or please feel free to reach out directly:

Follow us or message us on Facebook:
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Call Jim and leave a message for bookings and private sessions in Saratoga Springs:
[gv] 518 290 0271

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See you soon!

Let's take part of this journey together!

Private Gong Baths now available in Saratoga Springs at Bodywork Professionals!

Private Gong Baths now available in The Gong Room at Bodywork Professionals in Saratoga Springs, NY!

The Gong Lab is now accommodating private Gong Bath and Sound Healing sessions in The Gong Room that you have heard Nick and I talking about during our public events. This is where we’ve initiated the practice and experimentation that has been manifested over the years in a group setting and is now available for customized, one on one sessions offering a level of control, guidance, and interaction not available in a group setting.

The Gong Bath Room at Bodywork Professionals in Saratoga Springs, NY

What’s different?

The most noticeable difference between a group gong event and a private session is the amount of focus and customization on and for your needs and goals specifically. Although Nick and I always establish and maintain an intention in our public events; the private event allows us to construct a custom intention and path, with your optional guidance, specifically designed to maximize the healing events engendered by this vibration.

There is no wrong way to do it and the intention is limitless!

You may simply lie down silently and take a true ‘power nap’, or use the option to talk and explore physical, spiritual, or emotional healing goals in every aspect of new-life, life-change, and end-of-life anxieties.

What to expect?

-Consultation, planned interaction levels and methods

-Establishing private Intention / Goals (discussion and orientation)

-Custom pacing and intensity with re-entry options

-Optional participation, path or method creation for longer-term journeys

Contact us now to book an evening Gong Bath session in Saratoga Springs!

[t] (518) 290 0271

The Gong Lab is Jim and Nick Pavoldi

Email: GongBrothers@gmail.com 

http://www.Facebook.com/thegonglab

gonglab.com

bodyworkprofessionals.com

Event calendar:
http://www.gonglab.com/p/gong-bath-event-calendar.html

There is no wrong way to receive this vibration!

Gong Bath Relaxtion

Gong Bath Meditation

Gong Yoga

Gong Bath Event Photos in Albany, Latham, Troy, and New York, NY.

We have been fortunate this year to host dozens of Gong Bath events in Upstate New York with our gongs making it to Albany, Latham, Troy, Woodstock, Monroe, and back home to Saratoga Springs, New York. 

 People often ask after our gong baths if there's any special meaning to the seeming odd and crudely assembled images I use to promote each gong bath on Facebook. 

Sometimes I am inspired by a theme but I am almost always quick to google a specific term for the theme and determined to stay committed even if the final image seems a little silly.

Here are a few of my favorites from 2017 featuring some of our own tuned Paiste planet gongs!

Dreams of Baby Ophelia hearing our Temple Gong

Baby Nefeli Singing Bowl before the Gong Bath

Gong Bath Holidays Dare, Tibetan Chakra Gong

Gong Bath Cuttlefish with Tuned Paiste Neptune Gong

Gong Bath Galileo with Paiste Symphonic Gong

Gong Bath Tuned Paiste Moon Gong

Gong Bath Saturn, Tuned Paiste Planet Gong

Gong Bath Winter Solstice with Tuned Paiste Sun Gong and Gong Lab Logo

Gong Bath Thanksgiving with Sun Gong

Gong Bath, Double Session with Sun Gong and Saturn

Gong Bath, Christmas

Gong Bath, Saint Patrick's Day with Don Conreaux Gong

Some of our less creative gong bath event pages use less creative themes from (un)creative commons but that start with a googled theme:

October 2016... Training as Journeymen Gong Masters with Don Conreaux

Nick and I are fresh off a 4 day weekend at the Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New York where we had the honor or training under Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux.

It's exciting to see such a full room of seekers quickly realizing what a unique experience they had fallen into...

Don has been around the world several times since the last time we saw him, and got some exceptional coverage in an article in the Financial Times titled "Masterclass: Gong playing with Don Conreaux" and I highly advise reading the article here

“We don’t call the gong a musical instrument. It’s a power tool,” says Don Conreaux, one of the world’s most respected gong teachers. “In learning to play the gong, the musician sees it more as an engine.”

Please read the entire article at the link below:
https://www.ft.com/content/2ba4dcd4-5f46-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93

Albany, NY Area Gong Baths, Sound Healing, Kirtan, and Drumming Events

The Gong Brothers, James and Nick Pavoldi are happy to have had the Gong Lab's upcoming events featured in a great article by author Erin Lehn Floresca titled "Good Vibrations, Sound Healing for the Soul" in the Albany, New York edition of "Natural Awakenings":

Sound Healing and Gong Baths events in New York

You can read Erin's entire article by clicking on the link HERE (pages 31 and 32)

The core of the article includes interviews and thoughts from Psychotherapist Meredith McFadden, Master Crystal Singing Bowl Artist "Ashana", filmaker Michael Stillwater, founder of Inner Harmony and Music without Borders, and Kitzie Stern, of the New World Kirtan Podcast.

The local features included Cheryl Beckmann and Daniel Roy of All Energy Yoga, psychotherapist and sound healer Maria Sunukjian, Pamela and Reinaldo Medina, Meditative drummer Zelda Hotaling, and David and Shannon Ciucevich.

The Gong Bath to Support Coesa and Roosevelt II in Saratoga Springs!

Sometimes being a gong master means getting to do really awesome things. This past Sunday we had an event to raise money for Coesa at the Roosevelt II bathhouse in Saratoga Springs, NY. Coesa has made it their mission to bring the Roosevelt II bath back to life. Roosevelt II a cool old Victorian age Greek revival bath house in the heart of the Saratoga Springs State Park. The bathhouse has been empty, unused and neglected for 30 years until this wonderful non-profit group has made it their mission to bring it back to life.

The setting was simply awesome. An old brooding building, rusting and worn with magic in it’s bones. The healing history built around the stone columns of this Greek revival building made this feel like we were part of something special, part of history. The gongs dovetailed nicely in the setting and we had an awesome, inquisitive crowd.

Each Gong event is different and this one was energetic and revitalizing.The Gong Lab is not a formal non-profit but Gong brother Jim and I do not take a profit from of efforts. We simply roll all the income directly back into buying more gongs. Doing a fundraising event for Coesa, who has the great mission of bringing the Roosevelt II back to life was an honor and felt much more important than just accumulating more gongs.

This is more than a hobby, it’s a shared labor of bliss. We have a home in the gongs, and a place where we can be gong geeks. Our own little weird place in the world, and everybody is invited.

Thanks again for all those who took part, and for Coesa for bringing breaking life, vitality and healing into our lives.

Each of the publications below has a gallery of the event

Schenectady Gazette
http://dailygazette.com/photos/galleries/2015/aug/23/coesa-holistic-wellness-center-fundraiser/

Grid Saratoga
 https://www.gridsaratoga.com/gong-bath-sunday-raise-funds-holistic-wellness-center-saratoga-spa-state-park/ 

Paul Chesare
https://www.flickr.com/photos/general-atomic/

The Albany Times Union:
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Bathed-in-sound-waves-6461120.php

If you have your own photos to share please join us on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/thegonglab 

NP

Gong Masters in the New York Times!

Wow, we woke up this morning to a great article in the New York Times about Gong Baths making the move from "Metaphysical to Mainstream"

This is such a great affirmation of our beliefs as we've been hosting Gong Baths for years and it's always refreshing to see that we're not alone in the Gong Universe!

Gong Masters Nick and Jim Pavoldi, Saratoga Springs, NY Roosevelt II Spa

Excerpts from Sohpia's Kercher's New York Times Article 

(please read the entire article by clicking HERE)

Once found only at New Age retreats or the white-domed Integratron in the Mojave Desert, sound baths are now offered all over Southern California. Celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr., Charlize Theron, Laurence Fishburne and Robert Trujillo of Metallica have participated. Sound healers, sometimes called “sounders,” say the vibrations can relax brain-wave patterns, lower heart rate, reduce stress and pain, relieve anxiety and sometimes help with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine at U.C.L.A., and a Kundalini yoga instructor, has practiced sound meditation for 11 years, using it for older adults with memory problems, among others.

She said that participants will often fall into a state of profound relaxation and wake up refreshed. “Deep mental and physical relaxation would decrease sympathetic and will increase parasympathetic autonomic nervous system tone and response, thus decreasing stress response,”

The article mentions the Integration, Temple of Intuition, and Jamie Ford of The Sound Space.

It's exciting to see Gong Bath's going mainstream, especially considering some of our recent decisions to house a number of our Gong's at Nick's new Bodywork Professionals office on Spring Street in downtown Saratoga Springs. We've dedicated an entire room to massage and Structural Integration simultaneously with the Gongs.

Gong Lab at Bodywork Professionals massage in Saratoga Springs, NY

We are preparing now for a Gong Bath in the Saratoga Springs Spa State Park at the Roosevelt II baths.  This amazing building has the potential to be destination for sound healing events in New York and is being rehabilitated by the Coesa crew who is dedicating their energy to rehabilitate this wonderful building. We went for a visit last weekend to prepare for a fundraiser on August 23rd at 10am.

Jamie Rock, of JRockVision got some video of our rehearsal last weekend:

See you soon!

JP