by Jarvus Ricardo Hester, Editor-in-Chief, Mood Magazine NYC
Before I ever ran a magazine, I sang.
My name is Jarvus Ricardo Hester, and I’m a classically trained opera singer. I studied the breath. I studied control. I sang in languages I didn’t speak, on stages that didn’t always see me. But no one ever taught me what to do with the sound trapped in my chest—the kind born from grief, survival, and generational silence.
No one ever told me music could heal me.
Years later—after heartbreak, homelessness, and holy rebuilding—I found my voice again. Not just the trained one. The true one. The one that trembles when you tell the truth. The one that breaks and rebuilds in a single note. The one that doesn’t need an audience—just a safe place to land.
That’s the voice I bring into the room now.
And that’s why I created Resonance Sessions—a live, in-person sound healing experience every Tuesday and Thursday at Harlem Collective. Not a performance. Not a spectacle. But a space for you to breathe, release, and return to yourself.
Because Harlem doesn’t need more shows.
We need restoration.
What to Expect at Resonance Sessions
– Operatic and choral tones used as vibrational healing tools
– Guided breathing and vocal release
– Stillness, story, and sacred sound
– Room for tears, laughter, and everything in between
This isn’t therapy.
It’s remembrance.
This is a nervous system sanctuary where sound becomes soul medicine.
Come Join Me
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Harlem Collective Theater
2023 First Avenue Suite C New York, NY 10029
We begin August 1. Bring a yoga mat, a journal, and your whole self.
You don’t need to know music. You just need to be ready to listen.
I’ll also be talking more about this on my Wednesday podcast,
Black Wall Street: The Revival, available on Spotify and iTunes.
Because our healing is our economy. And our sound is our inheritance.
See you in the stillness.
See you in the sound.
– Jarvus Ricardo Hester
