About Lisa
Lisa Rafel is a composer, playwright, poet, chantress, spiritual teacher and sound and energy healer. Lisa helps people to become more aware of their choices and capacities to heal. She is a key-note presenter and workshop leader for conferences, healing centers, and educational institutions. Lisa is also a grandmother of 7, who is deeply concerned about the health and well being of future generations.
Lisa’s artistic career includes performance poetry, (she was a core member of the infamous Poetry in Motion in Los Angeles), actress, songwriter, music producer and vocal coach. Her poetry can be heard on New Alliance Records and Rhino Records spoken word anthologies; Hollyword, Jazzspeak, and Disclosure, and on the High Performance anthology, The Verdict and the Violence. Her poetry has been featured in many magazines and anthologies including Journal of the Gulf War – Poetry From Home, The Hollywood Review and Venice Magazine. Lisa recorded and performed her spoken words to the accompaniment of many musicians including Ray Manzerak and John Densmore (of The Doors). She has performed her poetry in prisons, homeless organizations, clubs, galleries and colleges, and has been broadcast on radio and television including KCRW, KPFK, KXLU, ABC Television and London O1.
As a multi-media artist, she wrote and performed her one-woman play based on her book, It Began In Kathmandu for the LA Arts Festival.
“Lisa Rafel is a poet who has found a way to share her journey with us, and this book should be read by all of us, even those who totally dismiss “spiritual” matters, because of the beauty and power of the poems.” (Late) Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit To Brooklyn
As an actress, Lisa has appeared in theater, film and guest-starred on television. She wrote and performed her one-woman poetry play, It’s All Right To Be Naked in Los Angeles and in New York.
“…a truly inspired poetic drama, in language at once so precise and so richly imagistic that it is like Shakespeare writing as a modern American woman.” Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe, a biography of Jack Kerouac.
Fueled by her own revelation about the importance of bonding, her award winning book/CD set, Safe In The Arms of Love, Deepening The Essential Bond With Your Baby, inspires and educates about the importance of bonding. The clinically tested music, co-written with Emmy Award winning composer and producer Gary Malkin, uses the science of psycho-acoustically designed music to entrain the listener into a heart-felt connected and de-stressed state of awareness.
Lisa’s new musical Dramedy, Can You Hear Me Baby? (music co-written with Gary Malkin) has been performed in Stockbridge, MA and in Binghamton, New York.
Lisa has sung in sacred sites all over the world including Chartres Cathedral in France, The Great Pyramid in Egypt, and the Sakya Monastery in Tibet.
Her singing weaves harmonic overtones through the melodies of sacred prayers. Described as “music that comes from before the languages divided”, Lisa’s chants integrate the healing elements of sacred sounds, seed syllable mantras, and ancient and indigenous intonations, leaving one with a deep and abiding experience of peace. Lisa performs in concerts, for rituals, large gatherings, conferences and church services. She often accompanies her chants with crystal and Tibetan bowls. Her Musical CD’s Ancient Prayers Of Alia, Soul Songs of the Labyrinth and Space/Time Phenomena include sacred prayers.
“From time to time a musical genius appears of such inner truth, soulfulness, power and grace that it uplifts and ennobles an entire generation. Lisa Rafel, whose healing chants transcend earlier genres, is such a talent.” Jeffrey Mishlove Ph.D., President, Intuitive Network, Author, The Roots of Consciousness
Lisa works with individuals, groups and couples in Oakland, CA.