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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we’ve put the finishing touches on our sparkling Healing Harp holiday tree at Bucks County Visitor’s Center, 3207 Street Road, Bensalem, PA.  Please stop by to see our masterpiece and cast your vote in our direction!  (Psst…You can take a peek at our tree on our FaceBook page.)

Thinking about that perfect gift for your Self? Start out the new year with an 8-week Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class, the most widely researched program of its kind. This Feburary Edie Elkan, MA and Joseph Wieliczko, Psy.D. begin a new MBSR class at Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton’s Fitness and Wellness Center, Mercerville, NJ. For

Four awesome mentors-in-training begin Unit 3 of our Teacher Training Certification on October 23, 2013. The focus of this unique training program is on teaching the small folk harp as an instrument of self healing and empowerment. Students learn how to teach harp technique, music fundamentals, playing by ear and improvising while freeing themselves from

It’s official—our Spring 2014 Harp Therapy certification modules will be presented over consecutive weekends,rather than mid-week. Students traveling from a distance will be able to use the week in-between to play in one of our host hospitals, shadow a mastery level grad as she does her rounds, have one-on-one mentorship and/or schedule a private lesson

Our Spring ‘14 Harp Therapy Certification program weekend dates have been set: Module I: “To Soothe The Savage Breast” Saturday March 15, Sunday March 16 9AM-5:30 PM; Friday March 21 9AM to 5:30 PM, Saturday March 22: 2PM to 9PM, Sunday March 23: 9AM-5PM.  40 classroom hours.  Optional Music Session: Saturday March 29 2:00-5:00 pm.

See Stash, blind since birth, and Shay skate to Edie’s, “A Song for Wayne” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMo4TsALVHQNow, just a year since Wayne Isaac’s death, Stash and Shay worked out a skating routine to the music Edie wrote for Wayne as she played at his bedside.  “A Song for Wayne”  is available through Bedside Harp as sheet music

One week more to pack our bags, load up our van and head to the great Somerset Folk Harp Festival.  Edie teaches three of her most popular hands-on workshops for harpists of all levels: “Pachelbel Boot Camp” (Friday 1:30 PM), “The Midas Touch: Turning Your Melodies into Pure Liquid Gold” (Saturday 1:30 PM) and “I

Learn and explore more about how sounds and vibrations affect us with Edie Elkan at Bucks County Community College, from 9AM to Noon on Saturday April 20, 2013.  We’ll begin this workshop/experiential with a slide presentation on and discussion of the effect of sounds and vibration on our bodies, minds and spirits.  Participants will learn

We are just thrilled that Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey has just become the seventh hospital to host our Bedside Harp program. Visit their website at http://stjosephshealth.org/st-josephs-regional-medical-center to learn more about their comprehensive, specialized services and their state-of-the-art facility.

Congratulations and all best wishes to our nine harp therapists who will be officially conferred on Sunday August 12th.  You shall truly be a blessing!

$1.99 plus tax and shipping.  A simple but lovely melody written for both right and left hands as well as the chord designations so even if you cannot read the bass clef you will be able to accompany yourself. 100% of proceeds go to the Wayne Isaacs Memorial Scholarship fund.  Call our offices M-F 10-2:30

Edie Elkan’s (Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know Aboutis now available as an e-book on this website!  Just click on “Store” and follow the prompts.