Healing Sounds of the
Abrahamic Faiths

Yuval Ron is an award-winning composer who has been involved in the world of music therapy since a commission in 1990 from researcher Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute for hemi sync music composition using binaural beats. He has collaborated with neuroscientists Mark Waldman,and Dr. Andrew Newburg, psychotherapist Dr Sanjay Manchanda, pioneer healers Dr. Richard Gold and Gail Lynn, Sufis, Kabbalists and Ayurvedic healers and is the founding director of the record label Metta Mindfulness Music which produces quality intentional healing music for use in clinics and treatments centers worldwide.

Yuval was invited to perform meditative music for the Dalai Lama, the Sufi Sheikh Sidi Muhammad, collaborated with the Sufi leaders Pir Zia Inayat Khan and Pir Shabdah Khan, with numerous master musicians including Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Estrella Morente and Deva Premal, and with the Zen Buddhist priest and master artist Hirokazu Kosaka. Yuval has been invited to speak at numerous schools including: Yale, John Hopkins University, UCLA, Middlebury College, MIT, Berklee College of Music, University of Chicago, and has given keynote addresses at the Pacific conference of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, and at the Quantum Institute, in New Delhi, India. Yuval’s book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom won Gold Medal Award for Best book in Spirituality Category in the Indie Book Award 2015.

He has composed scores for the Oscar winning film West Bank Story, PBS Nova documentaries such as Breaking the Maya Code, art house films such as Proteus, and scores for site-specific installations at the Getty Museum, Japan America Center, LAX, and more. He is the founder and executive director of the charity non-profit organization Inspired Sound Initiative, dedicated to providing free-of-charge educational performance arts programming to under-served communities and youth-at-risk worldwide.

Laila Brady Walzer, M.Div., has studied and taught music, sound, and healing for decades. She has personally healed from chronic illness, and opened to a life of joy and fulfillment through Sufi-based healing, Qu’ran recitation, and herbs; and ultimately through opening her heart to Divine Love. She holds the rank of Muqaddim Mirrabi-Rouhi in the Shadhuliyya Sufi tariqa brought by Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal.

She has a B.A. from Swarthmore College in both Music and Sociolinguistics and a Master’s in Divinity from the University for Spiritual Healing and Sufism (now the University of Sufism) She has explored various healing and spiritual growth disciplines, including Quakerism, The Pathwork of Self-Transformation, and Polarity Therapy, to name a few. She’s a graduate of Grammy Award-winning David Darling’s Music for People improvisation facilitation training, and has studied with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, and John McCutcheon, among others. She has lived in Africa, Ireland, and Germany, actively engaging in musical pursuits in each place.

Laila feels enriched by her cross-cultural exposure over the years and is actively engaged in interfaith work. She loves to reflect on the mirror of divine Truth in the beauties of nature.

She rejoices in using her love and experience of God, her Sufi Islamic training, her varied musical background, and her joy of life, to celebrate and honor the unfolding of the first Holy Word; and to guide people into deep healing and inner wholeness.