Sound healing is smooth, it uses vibrations to guide you in a quest where you will reach a meditative state, to truly relax your mind and body. Using different musical and sound instruments, the sound artists creates waves of sound around you to facilitate healing.
As much as it may seem a fully passive experience, it is a participatory practice as well. Yes, you do lay down through the course of the journey, but the purpose of this is to become a receiver of the sounds, so you are still responsive. Within this mood of calmness and flow, it’s the receiver that enhances the practice by being both mindful and open to let the sounds lead you into meditation, which is the point that births recognition, healing, and transformation.
The tools used to create the harmonies are often voice, drums, tuning forks, gongs, Himalayan singing bowls, crystal singing bowls and didgeridoos. It’s so special because much more than other styles of energetic healing its strongest element is creating an atmosphere, the space of safety, balance, and cordiality it holds, is what the experience is all about. Sound healing is full immersion that is highlighted by the hearing sense but felt much deeper than that.
This is a great option for you if:
- You are looking for a relaxing practice
- You are new to mindfulness
- Easing into healing in a gentle way, without strong shocks is your preference
- You love sensorial experiences
- Music is a passion or object of curiosity for you
- You want to discover the way stillness can serve your way of living
Anyone can practice sound healing. It is simple and requires no physical fitness or special preparedness. It simply asks you to be open-hearted and let yourself receive what comes up at the moment.
Among many proven benefits, sound healing can improve sleep, lessen chronic pains, lower blood pressure, and reduce cholesterol and risk of heart diseases. Many of these are facilitated by the fact that the vibrations are wonderful tools to heal on an emotional level, it allows for balance and clearing of stagnant energies that can lead to stress and anxiety.
A renewed sense of well-being can be felt after just one session, as deep relaxation is the most prominent and automatic effect of this style of sound discipline. It’s also common for opening and clearance of the chakras to happen as they become sensitive to releasing what doesn’t serve us. Some people have described it as an “energetic deep tissue massage” and we can agree! You can expect to feel deep calm after a session.
Sound healing has been a practice that blossomed all over the planet from way back. It is believed in ancient Greece it was used to cure mental disorders, 40,000 years ago indigenous Australians used didgeridoos for healing, there were sound chambers in the pyramids in old Egypt, Tibetan bowls, shamanic drums, there are endless examples of how sound healing is an intuitive inclination of humans, to rebirth through the power of sound.
