Eckhard Sueltemeyer and Matthias Graf have released a CD of their music for guitar and bass entitled Musik zur Balance ("Music to Balance" in English, approximately).
This short selection from the piece September is a sample of the 12 tracks intended to reflect the practice and the result of balancing both rocks and the self for health.
QuickTime audio file : 1.3 min / 564 Kb
This musical reflection of balance is the product of deep experience. Eckhard Sueltemeyer is a coach and trainer who works every winter at a "very special place" (his phrase) - at Vierordtbad in Karlsruhe, Germany. There, his balances (shown below in his images) and his balancing activities contribute to the wellness of all who participate ("Wasser, Warme, Wohlbefinden"). And they help inspire the thoughtful, gentle, and melodious music he makes with Matthias Graf. About his other balances, "I specially work in the water," he writes. "Mostly in the river near by."
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Eckhard's personal site includes not only a full Gallery of images of his balances, but links to his writings including a poem (in German) about balance, which we hope to soon offer here both in the original and in translation.
Bill Dan,
Sausalito, CA 2007