A“Inspired by John Cage’s experience, I sat in an anechoic chamber for five hundred hours over a period of two years and listened to the sounds of my own body. I began to correlate different states of consciousness with the different sounds of my nervous system. Being a trained musician, I noticed that the high-pitched sounds of my nervous system consisted of several sounds in different intervals. Then one day I brought two tuning forks and tapped them. Immediately I observed that the sound of my nervous system came into resonance with the sound of the tuning forks. It was then I realized that people can be tuned like musical instruments!”
Dr. Beaulieu’s career spans thirty years of arts, healing arts, and martial arts. He is a graduate of Purdue University (B.A. 1970), Indiana University (M.S., Ph.D.(d) 1973), International College of Naturopathic Medicine / Santa Fe College of Natural Healing(1977), and Westbrook University, (Ph.D. 1994). He is a NYS licensed psychotherapist, Board Certified Naturopathic Physician, and a board certified Polarity Practitioner.
Dr. Beaulieu held the position Supervisor of Activity Therapy at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City and Staff Therapist at Richmond State Psychiatric Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. He was responsible for the creative arts therapies, recreational therapies, and researching and developing community transition programs for adult psychiatric patients. He specialized in adolescent and child psychiatry.
After leaving hospital service, John worked as an Associate Professor at the City University of New York and Fareligh Dickenson University. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in activity therapy, counseling, psychology, and research as well as serving as a graduate thesis advisor. He also worked as a mentor for Empire State College of New York, one of the first accredited universities without walls.
Artistically John studied formalized mathematical music composition with Innas Xenakis and experimental music composition with Franz Kamin and Concrete Poetry with Mary Ellen at Indiana University. In New York City, John performed with Jackson MacLow, John Cage, and Charlotte Morman and many others. His music compositions and poems have been performed around the world and are available through the medium of CD’s, books, and scores. John is a classically trained pianist and a student of the piano since he was four years old.
Dr. Beaulieu currently lives and practices in Stone Ridge, New York. He lives with his wife Thea and their twin sons, Danial and Lukas. He is a six-handicap golfer and at every opportunity loves to get away, relax, and play a good round of golf.
