MICHAEL DEMARIA

Musically, Michael is an award winning composer and Grammy nominated recording artist who from the age of 7 has been keenly interested in how sound can induce deep states of relaxation, altered states of consciousness and healing. He is an avid student of world music exploring and playing indigenous percussion and aerophones from the Native American Flute and African Djembe to the Australian Didgeridoo. He also plays piano and a wide array of keyboards and synthesizers. He has been the featured musician for renowned poets Robert Bly and David Whyte and has played with Grammy winning and internationally known artists such as Mary Youngblood, Bill Miller, David Darling, Carlos Nakai, as well as Coyote Oldman, Peter Phippen, Jeff Ball and Ash Dargan. He has composed 3 CD’s of original music, two in the Healing Sound Project Series - The River (2003) and Ocean (2009) as well as the award winning soundtrack, Siyotanka (2009). You can find out more about Michael’s music and read reviews and endorsements of his music at www.ontosmusic.com.

As a playwright, Michael’s first full length play, Café Mezzo opened to rave reviews in 2007 and was chosen as the best play of the year for the Loblolly Theatre. His second full length play, co-written with Stephen Lott, Siyotanka also opened to exceptional reviews and garnered 7 Crystal Awards including Michael receiving a Crystal Award for his original musical score and live performance of the soundtrack. Michael’s first collection of poetry, Moments was published in 2008 and he is also a regular contributor to the contemporary art gallery, Artel with his original abstract acrylic paintings.

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"Michael DeMaria is a rare, loving wisdom teacher who has befriended the human psyche and traveled to its depths. He knows how to extract the psyche's sacred treasures that lead to our full awakening as spiritual beings in human bodies."
-Jacquelyn Small
Founder and Director Eupsychia
Speaker, and Author of Becoming Naturally Therapeutic

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