SOUND HEALING
“Pythagoras firmly believed that music is not only mathematics and harmony
but can be applied as medicine.”
BENEFITS
- Higher quality of sleep
- Creative insights
- Reduced stress
- Improved focus
- Mental clarity
- Relief from anxiety
- Released emotional blockages
- Profound physical restoration
- Experience of deep peace
SOUND HEALING
INSTRUMENTS
- Venus Paiste planet gong
- Crystal sound bowls
- Tibetan singing bowls
- Tunning forks
- Koshi & swinging chimes
- Shruti
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In our session, we will work with various sound instruments, guided meditation and breathwork (pranayama) to synchronize brain waves to achieve profound states of relaxation, helping to restore the normal vibratory frequencies of the cells in our bodies. Sound healing is the use of sacred instruments to release energy blockages, inducing a state of ease and harmony in the body. Varying on the session or client, we can focus on any area with a corresponding frequency to promote healing benefits. (Example: a client is hoping to attract more love into their lives- 639 Hz is the perfect frequency to activate their heart chakra and receive the benefits of its resonance.)
SCIENCE
Sound healing therapy helps to restore harmony and balance to the body’s biological rhythms and processes, re-establishing correct functioning of the Endocrine system (the glands) which releases powerful healing hormones such as endorphins, serotonin, and melatonin into the body.
In general, we are accustomed to being in the Beta brain rhythm. The Beta brainwave patterns is the default and dominant brainwave that we are in most of the time. When we are in a Beta brainwave pattern, we are consciously alert. It is also common to feel agitated, tense, hurried, pressured, afraid and stressed. When we alter our brain rhythm to Alpha, we are slowing our brainwaves down. The benefit of this is that we put ourselves in the ideal brain state for optimal performance and super learning.
Some forms of meditation, relaxation exercises, and activities that enable a sense of calm, also naturally create this Alpha state. According to neuroscientists, the effect of decreasing the brain rhythm from Beta to Alpha via deep relaxation techniques, sound therapy, and the use of binaural beats entrainment, changes the levels of certain beneficial brain chemicals.
HISTORY
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. Among the legacy of mathematics, Pythagoras, taught his students to use sound and music to soothe the spirit, release worry, fear and anger and enhance joy and happiness. He explained how each atom produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having its own function and character, contribute to the whole. As our own body is a microcosm of that celestial symphony, ancient cultures looked upon disease as a musical issue; therefore, music and sound were the natural treatment, restoring harmony to the body, mind, and spirit.
The ancient Egyptians used vowel sound chants in healing because they believed 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.”