Sound Healing
Experiencing Sound mindfully
Sound healing involves truly experiencing sound by letting it wash over you, noticing how it makes you feel, and allowing it to guide your thoughts. Sound in a therapeutic setting can help you relax and feel at peace, as well as being able to aid you in releasing troubling emotions.
I offer sound baths to clients in groups, as well as hosting sound circles. See what group sessions are coming up and reserve a place!
Sound Healing and Sound Baths – What is the Difference?
Sound baths are a type of sound healing! Sound healing is an umbrella term of sorts, as it includes both active forms of sound healing like group singing circles and chanting groups (as examples), and more passive forms of sound healing like sound baths. In a sound bath, you usually just need to listen and be quiet, you don’t tend to contribute to them as a client. However, you’d be expected to join in as a participant for singing circles, voice activation sessions, and other types of active sound healing.
My Approach to Sound Healing
I personally like to bring a sense of ritual to my sound healing and sound bath sessions, immersing my clients in an atmosphere where they can calmly allow their states of mind to shift and receive clarity. I use a range of instruments and techniques, including koshi chimes, the handpan, shamanic drums, singing, the Native American flute, and gongs. I strive for my clients to feel welcomed and free to be themselves. Clients need to have the chance to think over and integrate their experiences and talk after their sessions.
A Sense of Ritual
Participants can be introduced to their sound journey through chant, prayer, meditation, or intention-setting. Tools may be used like candles or incense to bring about a sense of ritual.
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Calming the Mind
Partaking in a guided meditation as the sound begins to be played eases clients into a state of relaxation and calm. Clients do some controlled breathwork and visualisations to prepare them.
Experiencing Sound
Clients can allow their minds and bodies to feel the impact of the sound’s vibrations around them. They may enter trance states and temporarily experience life differently.
Grounding and Integration
Clients are slowly eased out of their altered states of mind through a gradual change in sound. The session may finish with meditation, or deep breathing, and an opportunity to talk.
Why Sound Healing Could Benefit You
Maybe you’re a busy person with only a handful of hours a week to spare to dedicate to self-care – sound healing might be something you’d enjoy! Most sessions are under an hour, especially sound baths. You get the chance to process and recuperate in a very short amount of time.
If you’re someone looking for a deeper sense of community, sound circles could be suited to you! After all, music is a language without words, and it can allow you to feel like you belong. Making music with others can also empower you and help to reduce low-self esteem.
Do you want to meditate more, but find the silence and stillness too difficult to face? Sound baths and other forms of sound healing facilitate mindfulness, reflection, and focus without pressure. You’re guided and supported all the way! Meditation doesn’t have to be in total silence without movement or thoughts.
Sound Baths are Effortless – the Only Thing You Have to Do is Be Present!
To reap the benefits of sound baths, you simply have to be there. You don’t necessarily have to sit or lie in a certain position (although most people prefer to get as comfortable as they can), passively experiencing the sounds around you still has an impact! Sounds produced by instruments like gongs and drums can alter your brainwave state to help you feel relaxed without you even trying, and the frequency of sound interacts with your being on an atomic molecular level – incredible, right? Of course, there are ways to maximise what you gain from the sessions you attend, but all you actually have to do is show up.
Sound Circles – Where Everyone Can Make Some Noise!
Unlike a sound bath, sound circles encourage participants to get involved and make sounds too, rather than just the host. You can bring a drum, your maracas, drag along your guitar, or just come along with your lovely singing voice! It only matters that you take part and express yourself freely through music or you could move and dance if you feel like it.
Where singing circles focus on the voice, and drumming circles on drum rhythms, sound circles invite participants to make whatever sounds they feel called to. Sound circles aim to foster community and a sense of belonging, and they can help to improve your overall confidence.
What You Need to Know Before Coming to a Session
Sound healing isn’t exclusionary! Everyone is welcome and able to benefit from it, no matter your background. Some sound healers may use chants or techniques that reflect their own spiritual path, while others just focus on sound alone. Each sound healer is different, and so are the styles of services they provide.
It’s best to be comfortable, so bring cushions, blankets, yoga mats, or whatever you need to feel relaxed, safe, and warm.
You need to be as silent as possible during sound baths! You can become very aware of all sounds during sound baths, not necessarily just the instruments.
It’s okay to fall asleep in sound baths, but try to avoid snoring. If you do snore, don’t worry, it’ll just become part of the session (or someone may gently wake you).
What About After?
How to take the benefits of sound healing home with you
Ground Yourself
Make sure you’re in your usual state of mind before you go home, especially if you drive! It’s important that you feel anchored in your body and that you’re in the right frame of mind to go home. Chat with people before you go, talk about the mystical or the mundane. Make sure to drink plenty of water and maybe have a nourishing snack afterwards!
Integrate Your Experience
It may be worthwhile to contemplate what you felt, saw, or learnt from your sound healing session. It may even be useful to write down or journal! Think about how your body felt, how your mind felt, during your altered states of consciousness. Think about if the experience brought something new to you, you might realise days later rather than during the session itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
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do i have to be spiritual to do sound healing?
No! You don’t have to have any particular beliefs to be a part of a sound bath or sound circle. Sound healing has physical and mental benefits too, it helps to alter your state of mind and calm you down, as well as reducing your blood pressure, heart rate, and cortisol levels.
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WHAT IF I'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE?
It’s okay!
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