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Sound Bath Meditation for Individuals & Groups
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What is a sound bath? It is a mindful practice that dates back centuries. Think of it as a guided meditation without the words. The facilitator plays a variety of instruments as participants listen, and often they relax deeply, clear their minds, and may even meditate. Sound baths can be used to kick-start brain-storming sessions, collaborations, or conflict resolution.
Instruments used in our sound bath: Tibetan singing bowls, crystal singing bowls, stone chimes, metal chimes, Indian Shruti box, Yidaki, gongs, ocean drums, and other percussion.
What is more memorable at a professional retreat? Is it the 'two truths and a lie' ice-breaker activity? Or perhaps it's a peaceful break that allows your team to quiet their minds, reflect, and grow?
We suggest sharing a meaningful, mindful sound bath at your next team meeting, conference, or annual retreat. Give your team an activity that can enhance their state of mind and their work lives.
Everyday Mindfulness Keynote/Workshop
Bowl Training + Sound Bath
Sound Bath Session
Sound Bath
Recurring Events
Student Fund-Raising Events
Individual Session
Friends & Family Session
Monthly Sound Bath
The session begins with each participant comfortably seated or lying down on a mat, with covered eyes. After a brief period of deep, intentional breathing, the sound experience begins to fill. Various sounds, tones, harmonies, and frequencies are introduced in measured succession. The sounds are created by a variety of instruments;
Tibetan, quartz crystal, and enamel singing bowls
Crystal, metal, and bamboo chimes
Ocean drums and other percussion
Brass bells, gongs, and zills
Didgeridoo or Yidaki
When you experience a sound bath, your breathing naturally deepens and slows, and you mentally shift from an active to a more relaxed state. Participants have described it as: "meditative" "deeply relaxing", and "feeling true clarity." You emerge from the hour-long session clear-headed, open to creativity and creative thinking, and re-energized.
Learn more about "The Effect of Singing Bowl Meditation on Mood, Tension, and Well-Being", from recent research from the National Institutes of Health.
In truth, the responses are almost a varied as the people you may meet in a day, numerous. I have facilitated group sound baths where each person has had a different experience or response to the hour-long session:
one person may fall asleep and dream,
another feels deep relaxation but is aware of every sound,
another drifts into meditation and becomes unaware of the percussive sounds,
another sees swirling colors behind their closed eyelids that change with each tone,
another is overcome with laughter, and
another is filled with strong emotion and weeps,
and much more.
Each sound bath experience is unique to each person, and different each time.” The responses vary. Clients have reported even more responses, and others are well documented.
Simone Jenifer was born in the British Virgin Islands. She now resides in Central New York and travels to bring her style of sound healing to others is the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean.
She began playing Tibetan Singing Bowls over two decades ago. In those early years she taught others to play singing bowls to enhance their own meditative practice. She began facilitating sound bath meditations over six years ago.
She has earned professional certifications in instructional design, digital accessibility for education, the neuroscience of learning, and sound healing:
Master of Arts in Integrated Design
Certifications: End of life Specialist, Sound Healing , Instructional Design, Digital Accessibility for Educators
Artist and Educator
Learned spinning and percussive technique for meditation over two decades ago at A People United in Maryland. Taught others to incorporate hand-held bowls in their personal meditation practice.
Immersive sound experience for individuals and groups, that is designed to lessen tension and introduce clarity.
Sessions usually last about 60 minutes, and virtual sessions between 15 and 60 minutes.
Taught at both the undergrad and graduate levels. Designed, developed, and facilitated professional development workshops for faculty, staff, and administrators. Facilitated multiple university-based sound session for students and staff.
A well-researched benefit of using Tibetan Singing bowls is a reduction is stress. Listening to tones and frequencies produced in a sound session is proven to reduce stress, increase feelings of well being, and allow participants to temporarily let go of anxiety and worry.
Sound baths and sound meditations are but one way to relax and be mindful. They represent part of hundreds of tools to help us cope with stress, anxiety, rumination, and feeling overwhelmed. Regular practice of everyday mindfulness can offer mental and physical health benefits. While we'd love to see everyone have a regularly scheduled hour-long sound session with us, there are ways to take a mindful break, unaided, in minutes each day.
In professional settings it may be difficult to take a mindful break from the demands of deadlines and productivity. Sound bath offers an opportunity to reset creativity and productivity, be mindful, and refocus. These are contribute to problem-solving and insight.
In our group sound bath practice, we've found that groups of colleagues and strangers are open to conversation, discussion, and discourse directly after a sound bath. Group members share their thoughts and brainstorm ideas freely.
Professional Development Workshop: Everyday Mindfulness
What is Mindfulness
Simply put, mindfulness is being aware of the present moment. Many of us may worry about the future (anxiety) or linger on moments past (rumination). Often while our bodies exist in the present, our minds are ruminating on past events or contemplating things that occur in the future. It is rare that both mind and body are present together. Mindfulness means making the effort to be present in mind and body. Besides the intentionally planned ritual of a sound bath, there are multiple opportunities to ground ourselves in the present quickly and easily.
Everyday Opportunities for Mindful Breaks
Several are grounded in psychology or wellness practices. 5-4-3-2-1 is a rapid way to manage anxiety, and even slow heart-rate and pulse throughout the day (this video is created by the Partnership in Education):
Why is this a big deal?
Anxiety, rumination, and making judgments can be detrimental to us physically. These activities can increasing stress, which increases the flow of associated hormones and neurotransmitters in our bodies. Hormones that increase heart rate, blood pressure, and tension on blood vessels. Living in constant states of anxiety, worry, ruminations, and stress have been shown to damage the body. While this intro is an over-simplification, extensive research exists that informs this claim.
What does mindfulness do?
Taking mindful breaks during the day has multiple benefits. They help build a practice that can become routine, reset the mind, clears the mind, and lessens mental fatigue. This can alleviates stress and even allow greater opportunities for insight.
Other Techniques:
Box Breath
Mindful Eating
Play your singing bowl
Stop and stretch
Guided imagery
and many more