Classes and Speaking Engagements

MEDITATIVE MOVEMENT FOR PEACE, LONGEVITY AND JOY
LA CONNER SENIOR CENTER
104 COMMERCIAL STREET
10:45-11:45 February 6th, 2025-March 27th, 2025

​Learn the ancient Chinese longevity practice called Qi Gong for a strong, still and supple mind and body. With 8 simple meditative movements we will feel our mind clearing as we tone and nurture our body for long life, inner peace and happiness. 
Class is on a free-will offering basis.
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​MEMORY IMPROVEMENT CLASS WITH RST
LA CONNER SENIOR CENTER
104 COMMERCIAL STREET
10:45-11:45 AM- March 6th, 2025-April 24th, 2025. 

With calming sounds we enter a comforting and restful silent time together and experience deep healing peacefulness and bliss.

This class is for anyone wishing to improve their memory. Scientific studies show that in silence, the brain grows new neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus. So, to help our brain and improve our memory we need silence. Resonant Silence Technique (RST) ® provides a path into silence through subtle sound and breathing. With simple RST exercises, we quiet our mind and improve our memory. 

This class is also for those who are caring for a loved one with dementia, Parkinson’s and related conditions. Caregivers will learn to quiet their minds so that they can help their loved ones find the healing stillness within themselves. 

Class is on a free-will offering basis.

​SING AND SMILE
LA CONNER SENIOR CENTER
104 COMMERCIAL STREET
10:45-11:45 AM- May 1st, 2025-June 26th, 2025. 

In this group we will sing folk to rock to reggae songs to musicals to old English, Irish and Scottish to old standards like Blue Skies and Summertime from 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. Come sing and smile!
Miriam Fein will accompany all songs on guitar. 
Class is on a free-will offering basis. 

RESONANT SILENCE THERAPEUTIC (RST) GROUP SESSIONS 
RST group sessions at your facility in Mount Vernon, WA and surrounding areas. Miriam offers a free first session to demonstrate RST and to show you how I work with your residents.
Subsequent sessions are $80 per session.

PRIVATE RST SESSIONS
Private sessions in Mount Vernon, WA and surrounding areas or on-line using RST with individuals with dementia, Parkinson's, and other neurological and cognitive conditions.

Fee for 1-hour private session: $75. 

FAMILY CAREGIVERS FOR THOSE WITH DEMENTIA

Training to nurture a quietude within oneself with exercises that those you care for to find the stillness within themselves for healing and transformation.

DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS IN SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, MEMORY CARE CENTERS, ADULT FAMILY HOMES ETC. 

​Simple exercises for caregivers in facilities in order to share the stillness of RST to those they care for. 

ADMINISTRATORS OF MEMORY CARE CENTERS, SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, ADULT FAMILY HOMES, HOSPITALS ETC. 

This training prepares administrators to introduce to their caregivers, therapists, nurses and doctors the healing silence that RST provides.

HOSPICE DOCTORS, NURSES, GRIEF COUNSELORS, MASSAGE THERAPISTS, CLINICAL MUSICIANS, OTHER THERAPISTS AND STAFF

​This training prepares Hospice clinical staff to share RST with those in their care. 

CERTIFIED RESONANT SILENCE PRACTITIONER (CRSP)  
In order to practice RST in a professional clinical setting, it is necessary to become a Certified Resonant Silence Practitioner (CRSP) by successfully completing the training offered by Miriam Fein. The training is an 8 hour online or in person course that can be completed on a weekend.

CLASS AVAILABLE IN PERSON OR ONLINE

Taught by Miriam Fein~ Creator of RST

COURSE OUTLINE

FIRST CLASS

Nurturing an awareness of the presence of stillness within ourselves and preparing our minds to receive and appreciate silence. Learning to listen to silence.

RST 1~ The First Resonant Silence Technique Exercise                                                                                           

RST 2~ The Second RST exercise RST 2                 

Sitting for a moment or two after doing an RST exercise in order to allow the slight shifts in consciousness and the beneficial changes from the RST meditations to fully integrate into our mind and body.

When sharing RST in professional settings, emphasizing the importance of selecting quiet rooms for our RST Therapeutic sessions with a door that can be closed for privacy and added stillness. For optimum RST effectiveness it is vital for the RST session not to be interrupted by nursing visits and other intrusions.     

SECOND CLASS

The sonic research of Rabbi/physicist Aryeh Kaplan which partly led to the development of RST.

The energetics of sound or how sound feels to us and how sound affects us.                                                 

RST 3~ Third RST exercise.

THIRD CLASS

Teaching one of the three exercises of RST 1, 2 and 3 to the Class.                                                                     

Learning the simplified RST 1, 2 and 3 instructions for those with Dementia and other conditions           

Sharing poetry therapeutically

Ocean Poem

Sh goes the ocean Sh goes the wind Sh goes the ocean

And now we can begin to live (love) again

FOURTH CLASS

The Science Behind Silence~ The scientific studies about the benefits of silence from my scientific paper published in 2018.

Learning to play the Zenergy ® One Tone Chime and listening to the sound it creates.                               

Learning and experiencing how the two types of sound called vibrato and harmonics slow our brain waves and nurture our consciousness of quiet.

FIFTH CLASS

Practice the Zenergy ® One Tone Chime                                                                                                                 

Learning to remain separate and objective when we share RST and enter silence with others. Remaining separate allows us to continue to be aware of our client/patient’s responses so that we can be aware when they need help. When we loose ourselves in our own meditation, we stop paying attention to our patients and then we can’t help them which is what we are there for.

Going Behind Our Thoughts into our Witness

SIXTH CLASS

The TRT (Thought Retrieval Technique)                    

Review of all the elements of RST that have learned

SEVENTH CLASS

Demonstrate an RST program flow chart

Discuss why this program works

Design our own RST program to lead our client/patients in silence using all our RST knowledge, instrument and exercises.

EIGHTH CLASS

Share our RST Program to demonstrate our consciousness of quiet and our RST skills.

Share the relevant research on the benefits of silence.

Why RST uses vibrato and harmonics.

Why the RST Practitioner (CRSP) nurtures a quietness in their own mind.

Why RST nurtures a quiet mind for those with dementia.

RESTFUL DEMENTIA RELIEF SESSIONS STARTING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH, 2024

Therapeutic Dementia Relief Group Sessions begin on Monday, November 4th, 2024 at 11 am at the La Conner United Methodist Church, 601 S. Second St. Weekly sessions are on a free-will offering basis. Caregivers, please accompany those with dementia. For more information please call Miriam at 206-939-2124 or email her at miriamfein8@gmail.com. 

CLINICAL MUSICIAN, HOSPICE OF THE NORTHWEST
Using the principles and practices of Resonant Silence Technique (RST) to provide silence, breathing, sound, music and poetry support for individuals in their dying process.

RESONANT SILENCE and ENERGY HYGIENE
Trainings for staff and volunteers hosted by Hospice of the Northwest
2020

FEATURED SPEAKER: EXPLAINING and DEMONSTRATING RESONANT SILENCE TECHNIQUE
at the Zoom Conference on Healthy Aging, New Delhi, India 
2022

FEATURED SPEAKER: RESONANT SILENCE TECHNIQUE AT THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA
Nov. 2019, Frankfurt, Germany