Sound Healing

SOUND HEALING

"In sound, we are born. In sound, we are healed.”
~ Mehtab Benton

What is Sound Healing?

Sound healing is an ancient practice that uses different musical instruments (including the voice) to create healing vibrations that can help improve a person's physical health and emotional well-being. Most ancient cultures used the power of sound and vibration to assist in religious, ceremonial, and healing practices. Gongs have been used as sacred instruments from 4,000 B.C. to as far back as 16,000 B.C. Singing bowls have been used throughout Asia for healing, meditation, and ritual purposes since the 12th century.

Sound healing activates the parasympathetic nervous system while helping to calm the mind, breathing, and heart rate. It also shifts our brainwave states into Theta (4-8 Hz), where deep relaxation and heightened states of creative and spiritual consciousness reside. Deep healing can occur when the body's vibratory frequency merges with specific sound frequencies and rhythms (and is combined with healing intentions).

How Does It Work?

Sound healing penetrates a person's mind, emotions, and body to help bring them to states of deep relaxation. Our bodies consist of nearly 80% water, which is an excellent medium for vibration. As sound frequencies are played over a person with healing intentions, their body (including organs) is entrained into ease and balance.

If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, depression, or grief, this modality can help you release and restore. Sound healing is also a wonderful way to treat yourself to a beautiful experience where you are bathed in drones, musical instruments, vocal toning, and vibrational frequencies known for their restorative qualities.

Check out my upcoming Chakra Healing Practitioner's One-Day Course on Nov. 10th.

ABOUT MY SOUND HEALING SESSIONS:

I started my sound healing training in 2008 in Thailand at the Pyramid Yoga Centre, then trained with Johnathan Goldman in 2009 in Colorado. I continued to study sound healing techniques with Gary Diggins from 2015 to 2022 and Darren Austin Hall (2023). I have been practising and offering solo and group sound healing journeys for 15 years.

I offer hour-long sound sessions to individuals (and small groups) where people lie down comfortably and receive a deep, restorative, and meditative sound bath. A session usually begins with a discussion of what the individual is experiencing in their life and what kind of sounding they would like to have. From there, I create a sound experience most appropriate for their needs.

I offer monthly sound healing events to small groups (6 people maximum) at my home studio in Guelph, Ontario. These unique events are constantly being updated- Workshops and Events.

Cost $40 per person.

I offer private and semi-private sound healing sessions tailored to your specific needs. Expect to be here for approx. 1.5 hours.

Cost $120 (private), $150 (semi-private/two friends share the sound bed and the cost)

Create your custom, group sound journey with your family or friends (minimum of 4 people, maximum of 6 people). Expect to be here for approx. 2 hours.

Cost $50 per person.

Individual mattresses, blankets, bolsters, pillows, and mind-folds are provided. Please avoid wearing perfume or cologne.

What musical instruments do I use in my sessions?

I have Paiste gongs, crystal singing bowls, Koshi chimes, tuning forks, mbiras, and many other ethereal-sounding instruments to help uplift your energy into the ethers. I also have didgeridoos, a Native hand drum, an Auracle hand pan drum, a RAV tongue drum, rain sticks, and rattles to help stabilize and ground your body into the earth.

“Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?"~Leonardo da Vinci

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." ~Nikola Tesla

"We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music."~Albert Einstein

"The one who sings prays twice."
~Saint Augustine.

Benefits of Sound Healing:

Neurological studies have proven that listening to certain types of music makes us more productive and creative. It can relieve stress, improve our moods, and flood our brains with dopamine — the happy chemical. Music also releases oxytocin; a natural painkiller and hormone that allows us to feel more joyful, balanced, and calm.

The sounds from various musical instruments influence our brain wave frequencies and can help bring the brain to a theta state within minutes. This is the state that occurs when one experiences profound relaxation. Seasoned meditation practitioners often experience this state while meditating.

Benefits of music therapy and sound healing include:

Reduced stress
Fewer mood swings
Lower blood pressure
Lower cholesterol levels
Better pain management
Reduced risk of strokes and coronary artery disease
Improved sleep

Check out this beautiful sound healing chanting recording that I co-created.

TYPES OF SOUND SESSIONS OFFERED:

Chakra Balancing Sound Journey:

This sound journey balances the body's 7 energetic centres known as the chakras. We will start with the root chakra (our feet) and work our way up to the crown (top of the head).

In this sound journey, expect to experience profound physical and mental relaxation, rejuvenation, and integration of the chakras. Sometimes people feel a vibration in each centre and see colours infusing their bodies. This particular sound session is a wonderful introduction to sound healing and is appropriate for anyone seeking balance in their life.

Tree of Life Sound Journey:

This sound journey uses the metaphor of the Tree of Life which is often a symbol of death, life, and immortality. The ancient Celts believed that trees were their ancestors and gatekeepers to the other worlds. The roots of the tree anchor us deep into the earth and connect us to the wisdom of the underworld. The trunk of the tree is stable and strong and serves as the connection between death and eternal life. The branches and leaves of the tree reach out and upward connecting us to the cosmos and eternity.

In this sound journey, expect to feel grounded, relaxed, balanced, energized, and connected to the higher realms.

The Calling Sound Journey:

This sound journey involves 4 separate sections. It begins by getting grounded in the safety of your body, then moving into the watery, reminiscence of the womb experience, then connecting to Gaia and planet Earth's resonating frequency of C#, and then ending with a blissful expansion into the realms of angelic beings and expanding consciousness.

In this sound journey, expect to relax and be vibrated by the most complex and rich sound vibrations and harmonics generated by some of the most pristine musical instruments in the world.

528 Hz Solfeggio Healing Sound Journey:

528 Hz is known as the frequency of health and longevity. This vibration lifts and tunes your heart in harmony with all creation and nature. There is a very close link between nature and 528 Hz. For instance, the 528 Hz vibrations are utilized by chlorophyll, thereby allowing plants to draw energy from natural light which gives the leaves their green colour. Bees pollinate the flowers by buzzing at a 528 Hz frequency. Oxygen is a carrier of the 528 Hz resonating electrons.

In this sound journey, expect to feel calm and to heal your grieving heart while vibrating your cells and DNA into cleansing states of harmony and balance.

Watch this video on the Ancient Solfeggio Scale

Paiste Gong, Crystal Singing Bowl, and Sacred Mantra Sound Journey:

This sound journey involves 3 separate sections. It starts with a grounding and stabilizing gong bath, transitions into an uplifting and expansive crystal singing bowl bath, and finally unfolds into a beautiful expression of vocal toning and mantra singing.

In this sound journey, expect to be grounded, relaxed, and deeply transported to the physical and ethereal realms. After the session, you may need to rest in complete stillness.

Custom Sound Session:

You can request and create the type of sound healing session you prefer. Just let me know and we can take it from there. Contact me at breathetrue@gmail.com

Please check out my blog page on this site to read more about the power of sacred sound.

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