SOUND BATHS
Book Group Sound baths under the "Classes" tab on Schedulicity.
24 hours' cancellation required for refund or you can move your registration to another date. Be sure to "Join Waiting List" if the date is full - in case of cancellations. Doors open 15 minutes before start time. NO late entries will be allowed to honor each person's schedule. The door is locked 1 minute before start time. Please arrive no later than 5 minutes (preferably 10-15 minutes) before start time so you can be settled on your mat ready to start on time. Thanks SO much for your understanding. Other dates may be added. Schedulicity online shows most up-to-date schedule.
There are currently no group sound bath dates.
However, private or semi-private sound baths may be scheduled.
Stay tuned for group sound baths in the future.
NOTE: The yoga and sound studio opening has been delayed due to red tape, etc required by the City. We hope to be able to open by the end of the year ..... keep sending your positive vibes our way.
The massage studio IS open and you can schedule sessions online now. (it's a separate building and regulated separately)
However, private or semi-private sound baths may be scheduled.
Stay tuned for group sound baths in the future.
NOTE: The yoga and sound studio opening has been delayed due to red tape, etc required by the City. We hope to be able to open by the end of the year ..... keep sending your positive vibes our way.
The massage studio IS open and you can schedule sessions online now. (it's a separate building and regulated separately)
Can't make any of the group dates or you'd rather book a private or semi-private session on your schedule with just your group of friends at a convenient time within your schedule with Deborah? Private, semi-private. and add-on sound baths under the "Services" tab on Schedulicity with Deborah. Want to add on a 15-Minute Private Sound Bath session before or after your scheduled massage/bodywork session? Schedule under "Services" online.
Prices for private or semi-private sound baths are as follows. Amount shown is the total charge for the group size.
1 person $ 100; 2 people $ 120; 3 people $ 140; 4 people $ 160; 5 people $ 180; 6 people $ 200; 7 people $ 220; 8 people $ 240; 9 people $ 260; 10 people $ 280; 11 people $ 300; 12 people $ 320; 13 people $ 340; 14 people $ 360; 15 people $ 380; 16 people $ 400; 17 people $420; 18 people $ 440; 19 people $ 460; or 20 people $ 480.
Prices for private or semi-private sound baths are as follows. Amount shown is the total charge for the group size.
1 person $ 100; 2 people $ 120; 3 people $ 140; 4 people $ 160; 5 people $ 180; 6 people $ 200; 7 people $ 220; 8 people $ 240; 9 people $ 260; 10 people $ 280; 11 people $ 300; 12 people $ 320; 13 people $ 340; 14 people $ 360; 15 people $ 380; 16 people $ 400; 17 people $420; 18 people $ 440; 19 people $ 460; or 20 people $ 480.
Deborah's sound bath currently includes: 11 crystal singing bowls tuned to the 7 chakras - including 2 binaural beats bowls, 12" and 8" Crystal Pyramid, 15 Himalayan (Tibetan) metal bowls, 36" Paiste Symphonic Gong, 38" Chau Gong, 22" Taoist Moonlight Gong, 22" Chinese Wind Gong, 14" Buddha Wave Engraved Mother Tesla Gong, 14" Chocolate Drop Chau Gong, 12" Wind Gong, 2 Rain Sticks, Wooden Shell Waterfall Chime, 20" Infinity Rain Disk, 17 1/2" Thunder Drum, Wind Wand (sounds similar to an Australian bullroarer), Handpan, Ocean Drum, 6" Tongue Drum, " Tongue Drum; 12" Tongue Drum, 13" Tongue Drum, Meinl Buffalo Drum, 5 Zaphir Chimes, 6" and 9" Wooden Frogs, Kyzee chime, 24-Bar and 36-Bar Metal Bar Chimes, Tingsha Bells, Buddha Sacred Bell, Meinl Handheld 4 1/2" Cowbell (think Christopher Walken!), four Meinl Percussion Set of 4 Egg Shakers, Maracas, African Tribal Style Nut Bracelet, Natural Cacho Seed Pod Shell Nut Shaker/Rattle, 15" Juju Chacha Pangi Pala (Seed Shaker), 6" Steel Triangle, and 3-Tone Zen Energy Chime. All of these instruments are played in a way to produce a sound bath that is designed to provide relaxation, transformation and healing during your session. No two sound baths are the same.
24 hours' cancellation required for refund or you can move your registration to another date. Be sure to "Join Waiting List" if the date is full - in case of cancellations. Doors open 15 minutes before start time. NO late entries will be allowed to honor each person's schedule. The door is locked 1 minute before start time. Please arrive no later than 5 minutes (preferably 10-15 minutes) before start time so you can be settled on your mat ready to start on time. Thanks SO much for your understanding. Other dates may be added. Schedulicity online shows most up-to-date schedule.
Coming sometime in the future for Deborah's sound bath sessions.......online Zoom sessions will be available to experience the sound bath from the comfort of your home (great if you live far away) - the best experience comes with wearing headphones. More details soon.
Coming sometime in the future for Deborah's sound bath sessions.......online Zoom sessions will be available to experience the sound bath from the comfort of your home (great if you live far away) - the best experience comes with wearing headphones. More details soon.
Sound Healing: An Ancient Art The ancient practice of sound healing has many modern benefits and is a great technique to relieve anxiety in today's stressful society. Sound can have many healing properties, and sound therapy is a great way to boost a person's mood, relieve stress, improve energy, and help regulate and enhance sleep. A Sound Bath is an acoustic meditative healing journey that relaxes the body, clears the subconscious, calms the mind, and activates your body's natural healing systems.
How It Works Sound healing relaxes the body and counters the stress response by activating the parasympathetic nervous system that helps to slow down the heart rate, reduces blood pressure, and activates healing in the body. Sound Baths use a wide variety of ancient sound healing instruments including gongs, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, and more to create a sound healing experience that will vibrate and activate every cell in your body, leaving you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Sound Healing is so effective because it influences our emotional bodies as well as our physical bodies. Different sound vibrations interact with our physical and energetic bodies in beneficial ways.
Some Possible Healing Benefits
- Activates Higher States of Consciousness
- Unlocks Blocked Emotions
- Relieves Anxiety and Stress
- Induces Relaxation
- Promotes Deep Meditation
- Heightens Clarity
- Improves Ability to Concentrate
- Relieves Insomnia
- Decreases Depression
- Normalizes Blood Pressure
- Relives Physical Pain
- Releases Emotional Trauma
Keep Reading Below If You Want MUCH
More Detailed Info on Sound Baths
What Is a Sound Bath? Sound bath is an ancient sound-healing practice whereby the practitioner leads the clients into a relaxed, reclining position - often supported in savasana (corpse pose) - and allows the healing sounds of instruments to bathe the client. The sound is typically generated by such instruments and methods as singing bowls, gongs, drumming, tuning forks and/or chanting.
Sound bath is an ancient practice dating back more than 2,000 years with roots in Tibet. It has gained popularity in the West as a relaxation technique in conjunction with yoga and meditation.
In the West, the sound bath is most associated with singing bowls. In addition to relaxing the body and mind, a sound bath can balance the chakras by utilizing specific sound vibrations and frequencies.
A "Sound Bath Meditation" is all about energy, frequency and vibration. It is a very therapeutic form of meditation because you're literally being "bathed" in sound waves. As these sound waves wash over your body, they can take you into an alpha & theta brainwave state.
Basically, this means that the sound vibrations help to shift your brain into a calmer state and make it easier for you to experience a deeper meditation. This deep meditative state leads to profound relaxation & healing.
Sound meditation is wonderful for all types of meditators but it is especially good for beginners because if you're every attempted to meditate, you'll know that the second you try not to think about stuff, is when your brain decides to think about EVERYTHING!
However, in a Sound Bath Meditation, the tones & frequencies give the mind something to hold onto. And the sounds of the bowls, instruments, etc. helps the mental chatter quiet down a bit. Another thing is, these specific tones are the frequencies at which the body's 7 major energy centers (chakras) should be resonating at. And therefore, these vibrations help to bring the energetic body back into alignment and balance.
So come join me in the calm, relaxing candlelit environment which will wash away your stress and fill you will inner peace and joy! This experience is sure to leave your body/mind/spirit feeling renewed and rejuvenated. And if you have never experienced a sound meditation, this is sure to be an event you will not want to miss!
More Detailed Info on Sound Baths
What Is a Sound Bath? Sound bath is an ancient sound-healing practice whereby the practitioner leads the clients into a relaxed, reclining position - often supported in savasana (corpse pose) - and allows the healing sounds of instruments to bathe the client. The sound is typically generated by such instruments and methods as singing bowls, gongs, drumming, tuning forks and/or chanting.
Sound bath is an ancient practice dating back more than 2,000 years with roots in Tibet. It has gained popularity in the West as a relaxation technique in conjunction with yoga and meditation.
In the West, the sound bath is most associated with singing bowls. In addition to relaxing the body and mind, a sound bath can balance the chakras by utilizing specific sound vibrations and frequencies.
A "Sound Bath Meditation" is all about energy, frequency and vibration. It is a very therapeutic form of meditation because you're literally being "bathed" in sound waves. As these sound waves wash over your body, they can take you into an alpha & theta brainwave state.
Basically, this means that the sound vibrations help to shift your brain into a calmer state and make it easier for you to experience a deeper meditation. This deep meditative state leads to profound relaxation & healing.
Sound meditation is wonderful for all types of meditators but it is especially good for beginners because if you're every attempted to meditate, you'll know that the second you try not to think about stuff, is when your brain decides to think about EVERYTHING!
However, in a Sound Bath Meditation, the tones & frequencies give the mind something to hold onto. And the sounds of the bowls, instruments, etc. helps the mental chatter quiet down a bit. Another thing is, these specific tones are the frequencies at which the body's 7 major energy centers (chakras) should be resonating at. And therefore, these vibrations help to bring the energetic body back into alignment and balance.
So come join me in the calm, relaxing candlelit environment which will wash away your stress and fill you will inner peace and joy! This experience is sure to leave your body/mind/spirit feeling renewed and rejuvenated. And if you have never experienced a sound meditation, this is sure to be an event you will not want to miss!
Sound healing is based on the scientific principles that all matter, and most importantly, the cells in your body, vibrate to a precise frequency when healthy and to a dissonant frequency when in dis-ease. Resonant vibration, rhythms and tones can balance brain hemispheres, stress levels, and even tension in body tissues and cells that have fallen into dis-ease or dis-harmony. The use of tuned, deep-vibration instruments such as crystal bowls during healing and meditation can balance these dissonant frequencies and bring them back into harmony. Music and chanting have been used for thousands of years to heal and energize the body, mind, and emotions.
"If we accept that sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being, then we understand that sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. One reason sound heals on a physical level is because it so deeply touches and transforms us on the emotional and spiritual planes. Sounds can redress imbalances on every level of physiological functioning and can play a positive role in the treatment of virtually any medical disorder."
- Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Medicine, the Cornell Cancer Prevention Center in New York
- Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Medicine, the Cornell Cancer Prevention Center in New York
Dr. Gaynor has been using sound, including Tibetan Singing Bowls, and chanting in work with cancer patients for many years. The medical director of the Deepak Chopra center in California, Dr. David Simon, found that the sound from Tibetan Singing Bowls as well as chanting are chemically metabolized into 'endogenous opiates', that act on the body as internal painkillers and healing agents.
Internal Massage When a singing bowl is struck, an individual can feel that the air around the bowl also vibrates. These powerful vibrations spread throughout our bodies, and this results in a very delicate internal massage of all the cells. Our bodies consist of almost 80% water, and water is an excellent medium to carry vibration. The human body is a living entity of vibrations and wavelengths. A healthy organ is well tuned, meaning that it vibrates only at its own frequency, while the frequency of a sick organ is disturbed. Our language still uses the phrase "to be of sound mind and body." Singing bowls recreate the original harmonic frequency, and stimulate the body to rediscover its own harmonic frequency. By making the body vibrate to the frequency of the bowl, when it is synchronized, it can vibrate independently. By placing singing bowls onto the body directly over organs or tissue parts, and then sounding the bowls, vibration is "sent" into the body and internal massage is created. Bowls can be placed on Chakra points to open or "attenuate" them through a sympathetic resonance of sound and vibration. They can be placed around or along the body including the head, to bath the body or tone it in a "sound bath."
In the words of Nikola Tesla, "If you want to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."
think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES of SOUND HEALING:
Therapy "believe that our bodies contain 'energy frequencies' and that sonic frequencies can be used to reattune these energies when they go off key. All you have to do is lie down and bask in the tuneful beauty of 'pure' sound.
Sound has been a tool for promoting the physical and emotional health of the body for as long as history can account for, deeply rooted in ancient cultures and civilizations. The ancient Egyptians used vowel sound chants in healing because they believe vowels were sacred. Tibetan monks take advantage of singing bowls, which they believe to be a "symbol of the unknowable" whose "vibrations have been described as the sound of the universe manifesting." Also, when some American Indian medicine men and women were called upon to heal an ailing tribes member, they would fast in order to receive a song in dream or vision instructing them in how to carry out the treatment of their patient.
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of the perception of sound, and it has fueled researchers' paths to better understand how it can be used as medicine. To understand the fundamentals of sound in healing, we must first understand our brain waves. The nucleus of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, is the communication between neurons. Brain waves are generated by way of electrical impulses working in unison from masses of neurons interacting with one another. Brain waves are divided into five different bandwidths that are thought to form a spectrum of human consciousness. The slowest are delta waves (0.5 to 3 Hz), which are the slowest brain waves and occur mostly during our deepest state of sleep. The fastest of the waves are gamma waves (25 to 100 Hz) occur when the brain is daydreaming or consciously practicing mindfulness or meditation.
Therapy "believe that our bodies contain 'energy frequencies' and that sonic frequencies can be used to reattune these energies when they go off key. All you have to do is lie down and bask in the tuneful beauty of 'pure' sound.
Sound has been a tool for promoting the physical and emotional health of the body for as long as history can account for, deeply rooted in ancient cultures and civilizations. The ancient Egyptians used vowel sound chants in healing because they believe vowels were sacred. Tibetan monks take advantage of singing bowls, which they believe to be a "symbol of the unknowable" whose "vibrations have been described as the sound of the universe manifesting." Also, when some American Indian medicine men and women were called upon to heal an ailing tribes member, they would fast in order to receive a song in dream or vision instructing them in how to carry out the treatment of their patient.
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of the perception of sound, and it has fueled researchers' paths to better understand how it can be used as medicine. To understand the fundamentals of sound in healing, we must first understand our brain waves. The nucleus of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, is the communication between neurons. Brain waves are generated by way of electrical impulses working in unison from masses of neurons interacting with one another. Brain waves are divided into five different bandwidths that are thought to form a spectrum of human consciousness. The slowest are delta waves (0.5 to 3 Hz), which are the slowest brain waves and occur mostly during our deepest state of sleep. The fastest of the waves are gamma waves (25 to 100 Hz) occur when the brain is daydreaming or consciously practicing mindfulness or meditation.
According to Dr. Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., a speech-language pathologist:
Research shows that different frequencies presented to each ear through stereo headphones...create a different tone (or binaural beat) as the brain puts together the two tones it actually hears. Through EEG monitoring the difference tone is identified by a change in the electrical pattern produced by the brain. For example, frequencies of 200 Hz and 210 Hz produce a binaural beat frequency of 10 Hz (The difference in 210 Hz and 200 Hz is 10 Hz). Monitoring of the brain's electricity (EEG) shows that the brain produces increased 10 Hz activity with equal frequency and amplitude of the wave form in both hemispheres of the brain (left and right hemisphere).
Research shows that different frequencies presented to each ear through stereo headphones...create a different tone (or binaural beat) as the brain puts together the two tones it actually hears. Through EEG monitoring the difference tone is identified by a change in the electrical pattern produced by the brain. For example, frequencies of 200 Hz and 210 Hz produce a binaural beat frequency of 10 Hz (The difference in 210 Hz and 200 Hz is 10 Hz). Monitoring of the brain's electricity (EEG) shows that the brain produces increased 10 Hz activity with equal frequency and amplitude of the wave form in both hemispheres of the brain (left and right hemisphere).
A series of experiments conducted by neuro-electric therapy engineer Dr. Margaret Patterson and Dr. Ifor Capel, revealed how alpha brainwaves boosted the production of serotonin. Dr. Capel explained:
As far as we can tell, each brain center generates impulses at a specific frequency based on the predominant neurotransmitter it secretes. In other words, the brain's internal communication system -- its language, is based on frequency...Presumably, when we send in waves of electrical energy at, say, 10 Hz, certain cells in the lower brain stem will respond because they normally fire within that frequency range.
It's very intriguing to think that something as simple as sound, as music, which we have come to treat as utterly pleasurable entertainment, has not only been used to promote healing and well-being, but has proven to work through research as well.
If your mental health is of concern, try listening to a binaural beat to generate alpha waves between 8 and 14 Hz to produce more serotonin. Another option is to take advantage of music that promotes a relaxed alpha state in the brain such as classical music.
Another interesting study utilized a different method of sound therapy (Himalayan singing bowls, transitioning to Gongs, transitioning to crystal singing bowls, transitioning to therapeutic percussion). It was delivered in two ways -- by a live sound bath, where subjects lay on the floor and received around 35 minutes of sound, and by a recording of the same which was available online. The focus of this research was to answer the following questions:
If your mental health is of concern, try listening to a binaural beat to generate alpha waves between 8 and 14 Hz to produce more serotonin. Another option is to take advantage of music that promotes a relaxed alpha state in the brain such as classical music.
Another interesting study utilized a different method of sound therapy (Himalayan singing bowls, transitioning to Gongs, transitioning to crystal singing bowls, transitioning to therapeutic percussion). It was delivered in two ways -- by a live sound bath, where subjects lay on the floor and received around 35 minutes of sound, and by a recording of the same which was available online. The focus of this research was to answer the following questions:
- Is live sound more or less effective than digitally recorded and delivered sound and across what domains?
- What are the consciousness altering effects of this method and to what degree are the domains effected?
- What are the therapeutic benefits of sound induced ASC?
Definitions: Vibration
Have you ever sat in a concert hall - hearing the orchestra tune up? After a few minutes, the musicians became silent, but the air seems to still be humming and vibrating. The same thing happens, when you are going about your day-to-day business: you are actually in the midst of vibration and energy. As chemistry professor Donald Hatch Andrews writes, "The universe is more like music than matter."
In the same way that music is made up of vibrations calibrated to a certain frequency which becomes sound, you are made up of vibrations calibrated to a certain frequency. In face, everything in the universe -- from Earth itself to the natural world to the objects around us -- is made up of energy and vibrations.
In the words of Nikola Tesla," If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."
Your very own thoughts, emotions and feelings are vibrating, sending their unique energetic currents out into the Universe. In order to create the life you want, you need to learn how to tune in to the vibrations of your own thoughts and feelings, the people around you, and the world we live in, and then tune up your personal vibrations to create a more harmonious life. And to do that, it's important to understand some basic facts about how the Universe works.
Over the past forty or fifty years, there have been countless popular books, as well as several films, that try to explain and interpret the different theories about life, consciousness, God, and you and me. But no explanation is more elegant and complete than what is now known as "quantum science." This doesn't mean that quantum science is simplistic but ...what this theory alludes to is simply this.
Have you ever sat in a concert hall - hearing the orchestra tune up? After a few minutes, the musicians became silent, but the air seems to still be humming and vibrating. The same thing happens, when you are going about your day-to-day business: you are actually in the midst of vibration and energy. As chemistry professor Donald Hatch Andrews writes, "The universe is more like music than matter."
In the same way that music is made up of vibrations calibrated to a certain frequency which becomes sound, you are made up of vibrations calibrated to a certain frequency. In face, everything in the universe -- from Earth itself to the natural world to the objects around us -- is made up of energy and vibrations.
In the words of Nikola Tesla," If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."
Your very own thoughts, emotions and feelings are vibrating, sending their unique energetic currents out into the Universe. In order to create the life you want, you need to learn how to tune in to the vibrations of your own thoughts and feelings, the people around you, and the world we live in, and then tune up your personal vibrations to create a more harmonious life. And to do that, it's important to understand some basic facts about how the Universe works.
Over the past forty or fifty years, there have been countless popular books, as well as several films, that try to explain and interpret the different theories about life, consciousness, God, and you and me. But no explanation is more elegant and complete than what is now known as "quantum science." This doesn't mean that quantum science is simplistic but ...what this theory alludes to is simply this.
What is the Law of Vibration?
The Law of Vibration states that everything in the Universe moves and vibrates - everything is vibrating at one speed or another. Nothing rests. Everything you see around you is vibrating at one frequency or another, and so are you. However, your frequency is different from other things in the Universe and that's why it seems like you are separated from what you see around you - people, animals, plants, trees and so on.
In truth you are not separated - you are in fact living in an ocean of energy - as we all are. We are all connected in this field of energy.
Everything has its own vibrational frequency - the table - the car - the picture frame - the ocean - even our thoughts and feelings. It is all governed by The Law of Vibration.
A table may look solid and still, but within the table are millions of subatomic particles "running around" and "popping" with energy. The table is pure energy and movement. Everything in this universe has its own vibrational frequency. It's The Law of Vibration in action. However, we can't see it, so it appears separate and solid to us. It's actually an illusion.
The Law of Vibration is real. Even if you can't see it and just because you can't see something it doesn't mean it's not true.
The Law of Vibration states that everything in the Universe moves and vibrates - everything is vibrating at one speed or another. Nothing rests. Everything you see around you is vibrating at one frequency or another, and so are you. However, your frequency is different from other things in the Universe and that's why it seems like you are separated from what you see around you - people, animals, plants, trees and so on.
In truth you are not separated - you are in fact living in an ocean of energy - as we all are. We are all connected in this field of energy.
Everything has its own vibrational frequency - the table - the car - the picture frame - the ocean - even our thoughts and feelings. It is all governed by The Law of Vibration.
A table may look solid and still, but within the table are millions of subatomic particles "running around" and "popping" with energy. The table is pure energy and movement. Everything in this universe has its own vibrational frequency. It's The Law of Vibration in action. However, we can't see it, so it appears separate and solid to us. It's actually an illusion.
The Law of Vibration is real. Even if you can't see it and just because you can't see something it doesn't mean it's not true.
BRAIN WAVE ENTRAINMENT:
It can be said that illness is a manifestation of dis-harmony within the body - an imbalance in the cells or a given organ. Since all matter is energy vibrating at different rates, by altering the rate of vibration we can change the structure of matter. Sound from healing instruments entrain the brain to move into the Theta brain wave frequencies that include deep meditative and peaceful states, clarity of mind, and intuition. The sound vibrations impact our nervous system, engaging our relaxation reflex and inhibiting the stress of pain response.
When experiencing a sound bath session, one's internal dialogue, the 'inner critic' is quieted. The sound synchronizes brain waves and enhances awareness of the mind/body connection. All parts of your body possess a different resonant frequency. When an organ, or other part of the body, is vibrating "out of tune" or non-harmoniously, it is called "dis-ease" A body is in a healthy state when each cell and each organ resonate in harmony with the whole being.
Using sound for healing is based on the idea that all illness or disease is characterized by a hindrance to the flow of energy in the body. When energy flow is hindered, the organ or tissue in question stops vibrating at a healthy frequency, and thus is results in some kind of weakness or illness. The sound frequencies in a sound session restore and optimize the flow of energy in the parts of the body where this is required.
In the words of the great Tibetan master/Bodhisattva Gwalwa Karmapa, the Singing Bowls of Tibet emit the "sound of the Void", the sound of the universe manifesting. They are a symbol of the 'unknowable' and as an alloy, date back to the Buddha, Shakyamni (560 - 480 B.C.). Their origins and detailed histories are shrouded in the distant past and are surely a gift from the shamanistic 'Bon' religion which precedes Buddhism in Tibet by centuries. For centuries they have been utilized for healing and consciousness transformation. We are now discovering the science behind this powerful ancient modality which is so effective for healing today. Modern medicine can now measure and thus confirm the practice of sound as a means to heal.
Sound helps to facilitate shifts in our brainwave state by using entrainment. Entrainment synchronizes our fluctuating brainwaves by providing a stable frequency which the brainwave can attune to.
By using rhythm and frequency, we can entrain our brainwaves and it then becomes possible to down-shift our normal beta state (normal waking consciousness) to alpha (relaxed consciousness), and even reach theta (meditative state) and delta (sleep; where internal healing can occur).
This same concept is utilized in meditation by regulating the breath, but with sound it is the frequency that is the agent which influences the shift. Entrainment is defined as the patterning of body processes and movements to the rhythm of music.
Creating a stronger wave to bring harmony and balance.
It can be said that illness is a manifestation of dis-harmony within the body - an imbalance in the cells or a given organ. Since all matter is energy vibrating at different rates, by altering the rate of vibration we can change the structure of matter. Sound from healing instruments entrain the brain to move into the Theta brain wave frequencies that include deep meditative and peaceful states, clarity of mind, and intuition. The sound vibrations impact our nervous system, engaging our relaxation reflex and inhibiting the stress of pain response.
When experiencing a sound bath session, one's internal dialogue, the 'inner critic' is quieted. The sound synchronizes brain waves and enhances awareness of the mind/body connection. All parts of your body possess a different resonant frequency. When an organ, or other part of the body, is vibrating "out of tune" or non-harmoniously, it is called "dis-ease" A body is in a healthy state when each cell and each organ resonate in harmony with the whole being.
Using sound for healing is based on the idea that all illness or disease is characterized by a hindrance to the flow of energy in the body. When energy flow is hindered, the organ or tissue in question stops vibrating at a healthy frequency, and thus is results in some kind of weakness or illness. The sound frequencies in a sound session restore and optimize the flow of energy in the parts of the body where this is required.
In the words of the great Tibetan master/Bodhisattva Gwalwa Karmapa, the Singing Bowls of Tibet emit the "sound of the Void", the sound of the universe manifesting. They are a symbol of the 'unknowable' and as an alloy, date back to the Buddha, Shakyamni (560 - 480 B.C.). Their origins and detailed histories are shrouded in the distant past and are surely a gift from the shamanistic 'Bon' religion which precedes Buddhism in Tibet by centuries. For centuries they have been utilized for healing and consciousness transformation. We are now discovering the science behind this powerful ancient modality which is so effective for healing today. Modern medicine can now measure and thus confirm the practice of sound as a means to heal.
Sound helps to facilitate shifts in our brainwave state by using entrainment. Entrainment synchronizes our fluctuating brainwaves by providing a stable frequency which the brainwave can attune to.
By using rhythm and frequency, we can entrain our brainwaves and it then becomes possible to down-shift our normal beta state (normal waking consciousness) to alpha (relaxed consciousness), and even reach theta (meditative state) and delta (sleep; where internal healing can occur).
This same concept is utilized in meditation by regulating the breath, but with sound it is the frequency that is the agent which influences the shift. Entrainment is defined as the patterning of body processes and movements to the rhythm of music.
Creating a stronger wave to bring harmony and balance.
How Do We Hear?
Hearing is an amazing ability inherent in the entire body. Yes, I did say the entire body. Although they are the most important and most sensitive instrument of hearing, the ears are just one of the ways we hear. Sound is a relatively slow vibrational wavelength. It hits the body in such a way that we perceive it as sound and actually feel its reverberations in our body cavities and ear canals as it bounces around.
Take a moment and picture the entire energy field and the twelve levels of consciousness in the human aura. Now imagine a sound wave coming out of a speaker's mouth or a crystal bowl toward the body. As sound hits the aura, it ripples through the field like a wave in a pond; all of the levels are moved by it. The 5th Chakra is the most susceptible to it because it operates at the level of sound and runs the ears, mouth, and voice, all which are open chambers perfectly designed for the transmission and reception of sound waves.
Those same sound waves that we are very aware of in the ears and head are actually vibrating throughout the entire body. To really hear something is to experience the vibration from head to toe. Even the bones and organs feel the tone and intensity of sounds. They send the information via the nervous system to the brain of what the words feel like no matter what they are supposed to mean. The actual ear takes sound waves that vibrate at a specific frequency and transmutes that vibration in the inner ear to an electrical vibration, a liquid medium that stimulates brain reactions, that is assessed until there is a rhythm or pattern found that the brain understands. The vibration of conscious awakening then transmutes that vibration in the endocrine glands and nervous system to trigger the body's voice and muscles. Those muscles translate the vibration with a face that smiles and a voice that says, "Yes I would love some cake," and the process goes on and on.
Hearing is a full body function at the physical level. It is also a full-body function at the spiritual level. Although spiritual information is just a higher level of vibration, it still hits the aura and the body and runs through the same channels to be interpreted, processed, and acted on. When someone receives some guidance, it should come from the whole body and not just from the mind or the visual cortex.
When you "hear" a crystal bowl, you will feel it as much as you hear it. The sound is so pure and visceral that it begins to train your body in how to hear information throughout your body not just in your ears. Learning to listen with your entire body is transformational. Each part of you body hears and speaks to your brain. Once you learn how to do this, you get so much more information about what is happening in the moment. To know your life purpose in each moment, you will need to be able to feel information through your entire body. There is no need to remember your life purpose, just by feeling what you are drawn to or want to get away from guides you from within.
Hearing the haunting sound of the crystal bowls seems to awaken an ancient remembering, touching the essence of the soul. How can we explain what it is? Is it the crystal from which the bowls are made? Is it a refrain from the ethers? Is it our connection with the source of our creation?
Let's explore a few questions. Undoubtedly, more questions will arise for you, inspiring you into your own study of sound and vibrational healing.
What is Music?
Music is organized into sound. Virtually all cultures have used the powers of music therapeutically. For several hundred years, the role of music became one of entrainment. Only recently has the use of sound and music reappeared as a valuable healing mode in our western culture. Some of the most powerful music does not have a particularly pleasing melody. The goal of music therapy is to reduce stress and pain, promote deep relaxation, develop self-awareness and creativity, improve learning, and clarify personal values.
What is Color?
"There is more energy released in Sunrise and Sunset and times of rainbows than perhaps in any other way." Ronald P. Beesley, Creative Ethers
Sound and color are both forms of energy which vibrate. As the vibration of sound becomes higher and lighter, the sound is transmuted into color. Steven Halpern gave a graphic example of the sound/color relationship:
Hearing is an amazing ability inherent in the entire body. Yes, I did say the entire body. Although they are the most important and most sensitive instrument of hearing, the ears are just one of the ways we hear. Sound is a relatively slow vibrational wavelength. It hits the body in such a way that we perceive it as sound and actually feel its reverberations in our body cavities and ear canals as it bounces around.
Take a moment and picture the entire energy field and the twelve levels of consciousness in the human aura. Now imagine a sound wave coming out of a speaker's mouth or a crystal bowl toward the body. As sound hits the aura, it ripples through the field like a wave in a pond; all of the levels are moved by it. The 5th Chakra is the most susceptible to it because it operates at the level of sound and runs the ears, mouth, and voice, all which are open chambers perfectly designed for the transmission and reception of sound waves.
Those same sound waves that we are very aware of in the ears and head are actually vibrating throughout the entire body. To really hear something is to experience the vibration from head to toe. Even the bones and organs feel the tone and intensity of sounds. They send the information via the nervous system to the brain of what the words feel like no matter what they are supposed to mean. The actual ear takes sound waves that vibrate at a specific frequency and transmutes that vibration in the inner ear to an electrical vibration, a liquid medium that stimulates brain reactions, that is assessed until there is a rhythm or pattern found that the brain understands. The vibration of conscious awakening then transmutes that vibration in the endocrine glands and nervous system to trigger the body's voice and muscles. Those muscles translate the vibration with a face that smiles and a voice that says, "Yes I would love some cake," and the process goes on and on.
Hearing is a full body function at the physical level. It is also a full-body function at the spiritual level. Although spiritual information is just a higher level of vibration, it still hits the aura and the body and runs through the same channels to be interpreted, processed, and acted on. When someone receives some guidance, it should come from the whole body and not just from the mind or the visual cortex.
When you "hear" a crystal bowl, you will feel it as much as you hear it. The sound is so pure and visceral that it begins to train your body in how to hear information throughout your body not just in your ears. Learning to listen with your entire body is transformational. Each part of you body hears and speaks to your brain. Once you learn how to do this, you get so much more information about what is happening in the moment. To know your life purpose in each moment, you will need to be able to feel information through your entire body. There is no need to remember your life purpose, just by feeling what you are drawn to or want to get away from guides you from within.
Hearing the haunting sound of the crystal bowls seems to awaken an ancient remembering, touching the essence of the soul. How can we explain what it is? Is it the crystal from which the bowls are made? Is it a refrain from the ethers? Is it our connection with the source of our creation?
Let's explore a few questions. Undoubtedly, more questions will arise for you, inspiring you into your own study of sound and vibrational healing.
What is Music?
Music is organized into sound. Virtually all cultures have used the powers of music therapeutically. For several hundred years, the role of music became one of entrainment. Only recently has the use of sound and music reappeared as a valuable healing mode in our western culture. Some of the most powerful music does not have a particularly pleasing melody. The goal of music therapy is to reduce stress and pain, promote deep relaxation, develop self-awareness and creativity, improve learning, and clarify personal values.
What is Color?
"There is more energy released in Sunrise and Sunset and times of rainbows than perhaps in any other way." Ronald P. Beesley, Creative Ethers
Sound and color are both forms of energy which vibrate. As the vibration of sound becomes higher and lighter, the sound is transmuted into color. Steven Halpern gave a graphic example of the sound/color relationship:
"Vibrations at 1000 cycles per second are easily audible If you double the vibrations to 2000 cycles per second, that is one octave higher. If you double it again to 4000 cycles per second, that is another octave. A normal piano spans a bit more than seven octaves. If, hypothetically, we could extend the piano keyboard another 35 to 50 octaves higher, the keys at the higher end would produce colors, rather than audible sounds, when played." (Sound Health - The Music and Sound That Makes Us Whole, p. 182-183).
An interesting side note is that if we were playing this keyboard 35 or so octaves below audible sound, we would be playing Chi, life force energy!
Authenticity - uncover your true self
Individual Vibration and Authenticity
At the heart of each of us is a unique, complex system of wave forms and resonances that define everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have the potential to be. No two sets of fingerprints, voice prints or retinal scans are the same, so why should the essential vibration of our lives be any different.
We are all made of the same basic elements, and we all have almost identical genetic patterns. This is true at the vibrational level as well; we all resonate the same tones, but each of us creates our symphony of tones in a different way, different than anyone else on the plant. And each of us will use one primary note as the tone that we harmonize all other tones around. Our authentic resonance.
Investigating this unique vibratory tone becomes a direct connection to understanding your soul and your life purpose. When you can experience your core vibration, you will always be able to know when you are living from your soul and life purpose and when you are playing the wrong tone. When you live from your individual tone, ou not only live your life purpose but simultaneously, you come into sympathetic resonance within the universe. And the universe needs all beings to hold their pure tone so that all of the universe comes into wholeness and consciousness.
We each holographically represent the universal principle of wholeness through our individual subtle vibrations that are part of the whole. This works at every level: our atoms are working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the planets creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on. But each sub-form, which is a part of a whole, can support only the whole by living its unique life purpose.
By learning to know and honor our unique tone and subtle vibration through our individual bodies, we can know our individual life purpose in a visceral way, thus allowing us to be able to heal ourselves by coming back to our truth over and over again. And when we do, we also feel our universal life purpose lining up. By living our individual life purpose, we are doing our part to support the whole, and we call all those around us to come back into their own resonance and support the larger levels of consciousness that we are all part of.
This is the definition of Oneness. As each of us is willing to hold our unique tone and light, we not only transform our personal experience but also become a beacon of light for others to do the same.
One strong, pure vibration heals at every level in the universe.
At the heart of each of us is a unique, complex system of wave forms and resonances that define everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have the potential to be. No two sets of fingerprints, voice prints or retinal scans are the same, so why should the essential vibration of our lives be any different.
We are all made of the same basic elements, and we all have almost identical genetic patterns. This is true at the vibrational level as well; we all resonate the same tones, but each of us creates our symphony of tones in a different way, different than anyone else on the plant. And each of us will use one primary note as the tone that we harmonize all other tones around. Our authentic resonance.
Investigating this unique vibratory tone becomes a direct connection to understanding your soul and your life purpose. When you can experience your core vibration, you will always be able to know when you are living from your soul and life purpose and when you are playing the wrong tone. When you live from your individual tone, ou not only live your life purpose but simultaneously, you come into sympathetic resonance within the universe. And the universe needs all beings to hold their pure tone so that all of the universe comes into wholeness and consciousness.
We each holographically represent the universal principle of wholeness through our individual subtle vibrations that are part of the whole. This works at every level: our atoms are working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the planets creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on. But each sub-form, which is a part of a whole, can support only the whole by living its unique life purpose.
By learning to know and honor our unique tone and subtle vibration through our individual bodies, we can know our individual life purpose in a visceral way, thus allowing us to be able to heal ourselves by coming back to our truth over and over again. And when we do, we also feel our universal life purpose lining up. By living our individual life purpose, we are doing our part to support the whole, and we call all those around us to come back into their own resonance and support the larger levels of consciousness that we are all part of.
This is the definition of Oneness. As each of us is willing to hold our unique tone and light, we not only transform our personal experience but also become a beacon of light for others to do the same.
One strong, pure vibration heals at every level in the universe.