Join acclaimed vibraphonist Chris Dingman, whose work was described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing”, for a trance healing music journey in the beautifully resonant space of The Angel Nyack!

Chris plays the vibraphone - a unique and beautiful instrument - in a singular, virtuosic way using the waves and layers of sound along with his voice to bring listeners into a heightened meditative state where healing, connection, visions, and inspiration can occur.

For this edition of the Dreaming Place, special guest interdisciplinary sound artist and ritualist Zaneta will be leading the creation of an altar for visioning and creativity. All will be invited to join us for blue lotus tea, and to write down dreams and visions for the future, to be included on the altar. Zaneta will then guide a meditation to open us to creativity and visioning, leading into Chris’s music journey.

In this dream-like experience you will be invited to call in and open to your own intuitive highest guidance and creative visions to come through. Projected visuals enhance this sonically rich and expansive journey.

The setting for this experience is the Pitkin Room at The Angel, an exciting arts & event space set in a beautiful, historic church in the heart of the charming village of Nyack - an ideal space to stretch out and be immersed.

Dream with us in this beautiful and supportive community setting. All are welcome!

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a Sound Bath style experience, most participants will be lying on the floor. Bring a mat, cushion, pillow and/or anything else you need to be comfortable lying down on the wood floor for an hour. Some chairs will be provided around the sides and back of the room for those who prefer to sit.

IMPORTANT TIMING NOTE: Doors will be locked after the event starts. Please arrive no later than 7:30pm to ensure you can enter the space and get situated.

What to expect from this experience:

A warm welcome
Pre-journey blue lotus tea
A place to sit or lie down
Zaneta will guide grounding and intention setting for the journey
Starting the journey, Zaneta will guide a creativity and visioning meditation, with music accompaniment from Chris
Chris will play an immersive channeled journey on vibraphone and vocals
As the journey comes to a close, you will be gently brought back into physical awareness and invited to reflect on the experience, noting new perspectives, guidance, or anything else that comes up
There is an optional brief sharing/integration time after and thank you

Schedule
7:00pm Doors, blue lotus tea
7:30pm Grounding & guided intention setting with Zaneta
Doors will be locked after this time
8:00pm Vibraphone & vocal journey with Chris Dingman
9:15pm Journey ends, optional sharing and integration at the back of the room

About Chris Dingman
An acclaimed musician of many genres, Chris Dingman has been performing on the vibraphone for 25+ years, including with celebrated masters Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and many others. He brings together this background with a host of studies and influences from around the world, in service of taking listeners on a journey to a transcendent place.

Working in the fields of jazz, experimental, and world music for decades, Chris’s trajectory changed when, in 2018, his father entered hospice. Chris played and recorded meditative music as an act of care for him in his final months of life. This music became the 5-hour extended album Peace.

Since then, Chris has brought his special brand of healing music journeys far and wide, from live sessions at Omega Institute and The Rubin Museum of Art to his regular online series Transformations and Transformations for Grief, his work with the Psychedelic Sangha, music for mediumship, and much more. His critically acclaimed albums Journeys vol. 1 and vol. 2, are described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing,” and by Jazz at Lincoln Center as “absolutely beautiful.”

Chris has presented talks and performances at the Gold Foundation Conference on Humanism in Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC), and written for the Johns Hopkins Medicine blog. He has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.

Check out his music, videos and more at chrisdingman.com

About Zaneta

Zaneta (they/them) is an interdisciplinary sound artist and spirit medium whose work addresses climate care through the sacred, internal, and local experience.

Drawing inspiration from the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, Zaneta’s work invites communities to connect with the sacred in their local wilderness, and explore the diverse and unique ways we can personally express care for our home ecology.

Weaving local field recordings, environmental studies, sound art, community story gathering, and channeled sound, Zaneta creates experiences of deep communion with local wilderness, that build into deeper explorations of ecological belonging and personal stewardship through ongoing community exchanges between land and people.

Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston. Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants.

Currently, they serve as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY.

Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods, was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and will be released as an album and book in fall of 2026.

Learn more about their work at www.soundartmagic.com or follow them on Instagram @soundartmagic

About The Angel

The Angel is an exciting arts & event space taking flight in the heart of the village of Nyack, NY. Join us as we breathe new life into a beautiful, historic church.

The Angel is at the heart of the charming village of Nyack, where unique restaurants, shops and a large municipal parking lot are within steps. And so is the Hudson River!

More at theangelnyack.com

For those in financial need

A limited number of reduced-rate and free tickets are available for those who would not be able to attend otherwise. If you need one of these options please email us at info@inner-arts.org, and we’ll do our best to support you.

The Dreaming Place: a trance healing music journey

The Dreaming Place: a trance healing music journey