Wellness sells: Four sound meditation practitioners explain what it’s like to heal for a living

SAN FRANCISCO — Sound meditation is becoming a lucrative business in the San Francisco Bay Area. The practice consists of therapeutic concerts performed with ancient, tribal instruments such as Tibetan or crystal singing bowls, planetary gongs, flutes, chimes and didgeridoos.

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On the front lines of mental crisis: Dealing with mentally ill a growing challenge for SFPD

SAN FRANCISCO — When Sean Moore, a 43-year-old with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was shot twice by a San Francisco police officer on Jan. 6, it triggered a police department investigation, a town hall meeting and months of headlines, as well as serious medical problems and criminal charges for Moore. The middle-of-the-night confrontation, which took place on the stairway leading to Moore’s front door, was the San Francisco Police Department’s first officer-involved shooting of 2017 and the first ever to be filmed on body cameras.

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