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ArtSELF | Music for Healing

ArtSELF | Music For Healing
Saturday, February 28
Led by skilled Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation Teaching Artist María Albán, this workshop offers an interactive experience exploring various world instruments and sounds, such as singing bowls, tuning forks, chimes, steel drums, world percussion, and voice.
The program is conducted in three phases:
1. Educate participants about the principles of sound therapy, its benefits, and how to integrate sound healing into daily life—discovering their why.
2. Healing Sound Bath allows the participants to experience meditation and a relaxing environment. (Facilitator plays the instruments)
3. Allow the participants to play the instrument, recognizing their synchronization with the energy and compatibility of the instruments.
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About Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation
The Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation’s mission is to create and sustain a vibrant performing arts center, advance education, and enrich communities by inspiring minds through the power of the arts. Since 1987, the Foundation has partnered with the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall to bring arts education to more than 40,000 students annually across five counties. Today, the Foundation continues this commitment while leading the vision for a new Sarasota Performing Arts Center in partnership with the City of Sarasota, the Bay Park Conservancy, and the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. To learn more about the Foundation, click here.
Know Before You Go:
- The Sarasota Garden Club address is 1131 Blvd of the Arts, Sarasota FL 34236
- Free parking is located around the site and all parking lots remain open — along Blvd of the Arts and in front of the Van Wezel, Municipal Auditorium and Blue Pagoda. Please avoid parking in designated Sarasota Orchestra parking areas.
- Construction of the new Town Square (located between the Municipal Auditorium and Art Center) is underway and affects pedestrian routes between the parking lot along N. Tamiami Trail and venues west of Van Wezel Way (incl. The Bay park, Van Wezel, and Holley Hall). Signs are posted to direct you between these locations. Please allow extra time to walk from and to your vehicle. Click here to view recommended pedestrian routes. Click here to learn more about Phase 2 of The Bay.
- All pets must be non-aggressive and on a leash at all times. Owners are expected to pick up after their pets.
- Please report any risky or unsafe behavior to the Sarasota Non-Emergency Police 24 hours a day (941) 316-1199.








