The Tibetan Bell Experience

  Karma Moffett has developed, over a period of 44 years, an exceptional

program of music, which is presented to the community as a Wish-Bestowing

Ceremony. He uses his unique collection of Tibetan Instruments, featuring 

antique Tibetan Bells. Bowls Tingshas, Long Horn, and Conch Shells. 

Karma begins by playing Native American Flutes to fly the audience to the Tibetan Plateau. Then Long Horns escorting his audience into the monastery.

There follows a journey through singing Bowls from low tones to the high using

Varying patterns creating different harmonics amongst the attuned and paired sets of bowls. Next resound the higher vibrations of the Hand Bells. The journey

Upwards culminates in the higher-pitched tones of the Tingshas and the Conch Shells resonate victory for the audiences most precious wishes. Gently Karma reverses the pattern back down thru the Bells and Bowls which dissolve into the stillness of the Great Mystery.

   There is another aspect to the ceremony. It is becoming widely accepted that

Pure sound tones and harmonics have a positive and penetrating impact upon a person’s natural healing system. Karma has developed his collection of instruments and his ceremony with this understanding as his guide. When the ceremony is in an intimate setting one really feels the Long Horn, Bowls and Bells move energy thru your Chakras. Thus, the journey to the highlands is also a journey through the chakras.

   One of the outstanding qualities of Karma’s Bell Set is it’s harmonic attainment. Karma has sifted thru hundreds of bowls over a period of forty

Years to build his set. These were selected for their purity  and clarity of sound,

Sustained resonance, and harmonic blending or pairing with other bowls within the set. When the bowls stick rung or maleted as pairs, their harmonics penetrate the physical and subtle bodies of the listener. The audience easily relaxes into a natural state of meditation.

Karma's mastery of circular breathing, which he applies to the Longhorn, Native American Flute, and Conch Shells, allows him to bring the pure tones of each instrument to the listener in an unbroken stream of sound for twenty or more minuets. When he plays the Longhorn at fairs and expos, people are drawn from all corners of the grounds, as metal is drawn to the magnet, to experience the power and variety of tones, which Karma achieves. In an enclosed setting, the sound is even more remarkable.

Karma plays background music for celebrations, birthdays, weddings, Yoga, massage, births, and rites of passage. He's been invited to play for the Kalachakra Mandala installation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, as background for a Tibetan exhibit in the Crocker Museum in Georgia, as background for meditations, whole life expos, and numerous benefits. And, his music is extensively used as background for meditation, yoga, t'ai chi, massage, and births.

  Artist of harmonious sounds through Tibetan bowls, bells, longhorns, and conch shells, Karma has played locally at: Labyrinth Walk at Grace Cathedral SF, Yoga Works Larkspur landing, Miwok Valley Elementary School Petaluma, Manasha Garcia Christmas Birthday gathering, Yoga of Sausalito, Solstice Mind Body Spa Sausalito, Harmonia Sausalito, Earth Day Civic Center SF, Himalayan Fair in Berkeley, Wisdom 2.0 Pre party, Globe Sound Institute

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Karma Moffett

Is a self taught Artist

He has been an artist from his early childhood. His father was a 

printer and would bring home boxes of paper left over from paper cutting. 

Karma would draw sailing ships, Later he would draw monsters

 driving race cars and would sell them in school for 50 cents. 

At 18 years of age he was drafted into the Army and was sent to 

Vietnam and given the job as an illustrator for propaganda.

Upon returning to the East Coast he found himself at The Woodstock 

Concert and became a surrealist artist. He spent 3 years as 

portrait artist in Malls and Boardwalks.

In 1973 he hitch hiked to California from Washington DC and 

landed in San Francisco homeless with no funds. He sat in front of 

Macys showing his drawings with a sign saying “Artist Needs Glasses” 

 He made enough to buy a bamboo flute and played on

 the street in the morning to earn enough to buy coffee 

in coffee shops throughout the city.

He spent his days into the evenings in coffee shops completing many 

surreal images which he felt connected him to a spiritual self.

He evolved from Grafite, Pen & Ink, Colored Pencils, 

Water Color, & Oil Painting.

He also worked in Wood, Silver, Copper, Glass, & Bronze.

He is a father of four and delivered his first three children.

His paintings are meant to be non objective ( no object ) so that the

viewer can empty ones mind while meditating on the image. 

His paintings of landscapes focus is on the pure land 

untouched by the materialization and shine the light 

of essence on the viewer. 

He has also spent the last 44 years creating 

The Tibetan Bell Experience