Phoenix Rising Concerts
Upcoming Phoenix Rising Concerts
Phoenix Rising is a powerful and transformational concert series featuring the voice of NCF founder, Yuan Miao, and the support of world class musicians. Yuan Miao’s mystical mantric singing offers a unique journey into the heart. Miao draws from her spiritual training in ancient mantric vocal practices, learnt from her Tibetan grandmother, Yeshe Tsuomu, herself a recognized spiritual master and daughter of a Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche. Every performance by Yuan Miao is spontaneous; at times powerful, at times serene, and always profoundly poignant.
Yuan Miao does not consider herself to be a spiritual teacher but rather a transmitter of joy. She is not a trained singer nor does she sing songs. The sublime sounds that spontaneously emerge from within her are, for the most part, of no known language, and yet they evoke our universal wellspring of wisdom and happiness.
Although her spiritual roots are in Tibetan Buddhism, Yuan Miao’s approach is not Buddhistic, but universal, and embraces people of all faiths as well as those who are not religious. Many people, after hearing Yuan Miao’s vocal sounds, report life-changing transformative and healing experiences, and deep, physical, emotional and spiritual shifts. She offers these gifts to all in the hope of reminding people of the essential value of life and awakening within them the awareness of their infinite Inner Nature.
Many cultures from both East and West speak of the phoenix, the legendary bird that rises reborn from its own ashes. Like the phoenix, each human being is capable of transcending their personal suffering in order to experience boundless joy. This reservoir of pure joy exists within each one of us and constantly beckons us homeward.
Testimonials
“Having listened to Miao's two gorgeous CDs in no way prepared me for the extraordinary experience of being in her luminous presence, and hearing the transformative power of her voice live. It’s a life-affirming and -altering event!”
- Mark Goldberg
“Yuan Miao's mantric singing transcends any simple auditory experience. The beauty, resonance, and energy that she creates permeates every cell in your body. You can actually feel the love and compassion that comes from within the divine vibration of her music. Indeed, it’s a rare and extraordinary experience not to be missed!”
- Sara Dawson
“An uplifting experience into the spirit world, it rejuvenates our being and awakens the passion in us all for living life consciously, compassionately and purposefully.”
- Sean Morris
Her mantric singing
rings so pure and fine
it beckons
the Bodhisattvas
who show up in droves
to offer their healing graces
through her voice
Her gaze
Her tender touch
She brings
The blessings of Kuan Yin,
reaching out
with a thousand arms
to embrace
the pains of the world
melting the hard ice of suffering
with the white-hot blaze
of her selfless heart
The fierce compassion of her song
tenderly enters the silence
from which it came
and to where it shall return
-Wendy Hilson-Bernard