Eric Archer

Eric Archer Condevaux Dahlberg is a multi-instrumentalist musician, artist, and poet who draws inspiration from nature and its bounty. His musical collaborations range across contemporary classical, americana, trip-hop, kirtan, folk, meditative, celtic, ambient, and Indian-classical. He continues to collaborate with Prema Mayi on mantra music fusions and accompanies Biff Mithoefer's Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings, pairing music with those meditative and educational settings. He is a tabla student of Sri Suryaksha Deshpande of the Farrukhabad Gharana and a bansuri flute student of Grammy-Award winner Steve Gorn.

Eric has taught and played music at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies as Bard/Musician-in-Residence and as a staff instructor, and he has been core faculty there teaching meditation since 2016. He was also one of the Innkeepers of the historic Sunnybank Inn in Hot Springs, NC, a focal point of Southern balladry, Appalachian roots music, and Scotch-Irish folk songs. He has piloted programs in mindfulness and music at the Millbrook School and the Finger Lakes School of Massage, and co-produced and hosted Everyday Expert, a lecture and storytelling series in the Hudson Valley.

As a woodcarver and painter, Eric makes wall sculptures from natural, found, and reclaimed materials, letting organic shapes and processes guide the work. His ecstatic spoken word poetry grew out of teaching meditation and asks where guided meditation ends and spoken word poetry begins. He is Creative Director of Hudson Valley InterArts in Patterson, NY, an interdisciplinary art center and community.