Sound influences the way your brain processes. As you settle into the sound, your brain responds to the rhythms, frequencies, and vibrations around you. Emerging EEG research has observed shifts in brain-wave activity during sound practices, associated with deeper states of rest and meditation.
Studies of singing-bowl meditation have reported reductions in tension, anxiety, and other measures of distress. When we're not continually responding to external demands, the body has more opportunity for its own restorative processes.
Sound is vibration moving through matter, and we don't experience it only through our ears. Lower frequencies can also be felt physically, making sound an embodied experience. The resonance of bowls, gongs, drums, and other instruments can bring awareness into areas of tension, sensation, and holding.
As vibration meets the body, people may experience changes in breathing, muscular tension, sensation, emotion, and awareness. Sound practice creates space for the body to soften and for patterns of holding to be noticed, and sometimes released, without requiring us to think our way through the experience.
Healing isn't something sound does to you. The body already contains extraordinary systems of regulation, repair, and adaptation. Sound, frequency, vibration, stillness, and attentive listening can create conditions that support those processes, and give us space to reconnect with our own power to heal.
Private sound sessions, movement practices, and other gatherings can be created for your group or occasion. If you have something in mind, or aren’t quite sure what you’re looking for, reach out and we can create an experience that fits.
