Phoenix Rising Concert 2009

Admission: $35, 20. Donations Gratefully Accepted

Yuan Miao performs mystical and unique mantric singing that takes you on a journey of the heart. Her vibrant voice creates a magical atmosphere of transcendent joy. Miao draws from her spiritual training in ancient mantric voice practices, as learned from her Tibetan grandmother, a recognized spiritual master. Every performance by Yuan Miao is spontaneous --- at times powerful, at times serene and always profound and beautiful.
The Phoenix is a mythical bird that flew into a fire -
burning itself to ashes and rose from ashes to live again.
Many cultures from the East and West speak of the phoenix, a legendary bird that rises from its own ashes. Like the phoenix, each human being is capable of rising above the pain of their own personal suffering and experiencing a joy that knows no bounds. The experience of this transcendental reality of pure joy is possible for
each of us and, in fact, constantly beckons us homeward.

Phoenix Rising is a powerful and transformational concert series that feature the mantric voice of NCF founder, Yuan Miao and the support of world class musicians.

Through the radiant heart of a very spiritual, talented and accomplished young woman from China comes a new voice to heal the collective suffering of humankind. Taught the powers of mantras by her Tibetan grandmother, a spiritual master, growing up in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, Yuan Miao had two very different lives; a secret life and a public life. In her secret life, she was trained from infancy by her enlightened Tibetan grandmother whose father was a high Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche.


Yuan Miao does not consider herself to be a spiritual teacher but rather a transmitter of joy. Although her spiritual roots are in Tibetan Buddhism, Yuan Miao's approach is not Tibetan Buddhist but rather a universal wisdom that embraces people of all faiths as well as those who are not religious. Many people, after hearing Yuan Miao's vocal sounds, report profound transformative and healing experiences. Some experience dramatic physical, emotional and spiritual healing. She offers these gifts to all in the hope of reminding people of the essential value of life and awakening within them the awareness of their own ... inner nature.