Nisargam,
Swiss-born, originally trained as a pattern maker and worked in large engineering/
foundry companies in Switzerland for several years. On his arrival to Australia
21 years ago he set up a business creating fine furniture and designing
timber kitchens for many Perth households. Feeling somewhat limited and
restricted in this work he yearned for some area of self-expression, using
wood as a medium, that would explore and extend his own creativity.
An opportunity presented itself to him a few years later that commenced
this process. Being a parent at the Perth Waldorf School, he was approached
by teachers and parents to create a new form to the traditional wooden
Box Lyre commonly played by students in Waldorf schools. This initiated
a series of workshops where Nisargam taught many parents over several
years how to make these instruments.
Then an inner change occurred that led Nisargam to Italy to undertake
training in Tibetan Pulsing. He discovered and experienced that there
is a direct link between sound/vibration and healing.
The
Tibetan monks for 1000’s of years had known that sound vibration
resonating in different organs in the body create balance and healing
to the body.
This fascinated Nisargam and he returned to his workshop with renewed
inspiration and awareness for his work, especially toward the soft, calming
resonate sounds of the lyre- likening the playing and creating of this
music to a meditative and healing process.
“Pulse Art Studio” was born and with it a new way of working
with wood, which included the creation of the Dreamharp, a lyre carved
and formed completely out of one piece of wood.
This process enables the creators, unaided by power tools, to sculpt
and form their musical instrument from beginning to end through their
will and relationship to the wood in their hands.
The final detail of sanding, oiling, stringing and tuning their instrument
and then playing it, is the sweet reward of the effort of the will to
carve a form from the raw material.
Nisargam
currently holds regular workshops leading people through this creative
journey that the process of lyre making provides, and continues to work
with his exploration of sound/vibration, healing and meditation. |