Jeralyn Glass is a talented singer and musician whose artistic journey began on the Peninsula and has led her to become a pioneer in the field of Sound Healing and Music Medicine. After experiencing the unimaginable loss of her only child in 2015, she was led to blend her musical training with instruments developed in the year 2000, alchemy crystal singing bowls, to guide her through her profound grief. Jeralyn had been playing the singing bowls for 9 years, and inspired by her angel son, she discovered a new purpose of helping others using these instruments to quiet their mind and safely feel buried emotions, trauma and pain as part of their healing process.
Jeralyn moved to Palos Verdes when she was 8 years old. Not long after, at the age of eleven, she participated in choir at Margate Intermediate School and discovered she had a natural talent for singing. Her parents took her to neighbors Annette Warren and Paul Smith who were well known musicians. Annette was a voice teacher who sang for Ava Gardner in the movie Show Boat, while Paul was a jazz pianist who played with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. Their instruction gave Jeralyn a rich background in classical music, Broadway songs and jazzstandards. During these years, she sang at the Easter Sunrise services at the Wayfarers Chapel, at St. Peter’s by the Sea and in recitals at the Palos Verdes Library.
At the age of sixteen, Jeralyn sang her first role as Maria in “The Sound of Music” with the PV Players. A few years later, she opened the Norris Theatre’s inaugural concert performing that shows title song, “The hills are alive…” She remembers the excitement and getting to wear a costume from The Carol Burnett Show provided by producer Bob Wright. Broadway called and her dream came true as she was cast in the 25th Anniversary revival of My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison which had a three-month run at the Pantages Theatre in LA. After her Broadway debut, sheattended Juilliard and pursued a classical singing career beginning at the Zurich Opera Studio in Switzerland. She lived in Europe for 20 years, returning to California to see her family, guest teach at Chapman University and perform concerts. Jeralyn followed her parents example to give back to the community, and so during some of her visits, she sang benefit concerts for Trinity Care Hospice and the Cancer Support Community South Bay at local venues such as The Norris Theatre, and the James Armstrong Theater.
It was also during one of these return visits that she first heard Crystal Tones Singing Bowls at a demonstration and was fascinated by their sounds. She purchased seven, took them back to Europe and began playing them for herself, her family, and with her voice students. She found they relieved stress and enhanced freedom of expression. Her son who sang and played the piano, also loved the sounds of the bowls. When he was thirteen, he entered a national singing contest in Germany, making it to the semi-finals. Just days before the contest, his voice began to drop, which Jeralyn explains was really challenging. She guided him using one of the bowls, a G-note Citrine alchemy singing bowl, which helped him stay calm and sing with his new adult voice.
Sadly, just six years later, Jeralyn’s life changed forever with the death of her son. She had the first of what she calls “miraculous signs” the night he died. She and a friend were walking on the beach in Torrance when they both saw a shooting star which seemed to begin over her parents’ home on the Peninsula and cross the sky to land in the mountains of Los Angeles. She heard her son’s voice say, “Mom, I’m home, I‘m with God”. The months that followed were difficult and Jeralyn was shaken to her core. She recalls sitting in her kitchen and again hearing her son’s voice, but this time he said, “Mom, call the bowl dudes.” At first, she ignored the message, but she kept hearing it until she finally called and purchased eleven more bowls, which she began playing intensely. The sounds allowed her to cry and groan in her grief. “Their exquisite, grounding yet ethereal tones soothed my brokenness, allowed me to move through the intense emotions and brought acceptance, hope and transmutation.”
Today, Jeralyn is bringing this same healing to others through her Crystal Cadence ® studio recognizing that “music has been a balm in every culture throughout history. The singing bowls are being integrated in new ways by mainstream artists, in classical music and meditative sound baths, and we are passionately exploring the science behind them.” Today, Jeralyn is helping create a Music, Health and Wellness Research Laboratory at San Francisco’s Minerva University and she offers soundbaths for cancer and hospice patients, veterans, children and everyone. She recently appeared on National TV on the Kelly Clarkson show (which donated $1000 to the Cancer Support Community South Bay) and presented at the prestigious conference Music as Medicine sponsored by the NIH and the Kennedy Center. She has a new book published by Hay House, Sacred Vibrations: The Transformative Power of Crystalline Sound and Music, a Crystal Sound Healing Oracle Card Deck, a unique mobile app Source-Be Inspired, and a new album! She also is planning an in-person Healing Retreat in August at St. Peter’s by the Sea in Palos Verdes. For more information visit her website www.crystalcadence.com or www.jeralynglass.com
